Matt Williams

Author's details

Name: Matt Williams
Date registered: August 9, 2008
URL: http://matt@matthewkwilliams.com

Biography

Matt Williams lives in Columbus, OH, in a house filled with computers, cats, books and fiber. Pursuing the goal of being a modern Renaissance person, he plays with his daughter, cooks, roasts coffee, reads, weaves, studies, and hacks, including crazy ideas like a Cloud in a Box. Docker has been an especial passion since June of 2013.

Latest posts

  1. Weaving with Light Pt. 1 — August 31, 2016
  2. Abusing HAProxy: Stupid Simple Easy Dashboards — June 24, 2016
  3. Rules for Operations — April 25, 2016
  4. DevOps Creed (Work in Progress) — April 24, 2016
  5. I am not a Mindreader: a mini-saga — April 11, 2016

Most commented posts

  1. Swarming Raspberry Pi – Part 1 — 13 comments
  2. Docker, Cgroups, Memory Constraints, and Java: A Cautionary Tale, or Here be Reapers (sometimes) — 9 comments
  3. Shrinking Docker Images — 7 comments
  4. Rails & JRuby in a Jar — 7 comments
  5. rspec, restful_authentication, and login_required — 6 comments

Author's posts listings

Dec 03

Why Good Algorithms Matter

It might be self evident, but I realized something today — the real reason behind choosing good algorithms to solve a problem is that the good ones either break the problem into smaller problems or are myopic; focusing only on the steps needed to reach an answer. All else is superfluous.

Nov 30

JVM Choice Matters (a lot!)

I’m one of the lucky folk who was able to obtain a Raspberry Pi Zero for $5. Originally this was going to be an article reviewing the Pi Zero to see how much of a difference the overclocking really makes. That and my impressions of the Zero will be in a later post. TL;DR: The …

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Nov 24

20 Slides

20 Slides is a new site for Ignite style talks and articles consisting of twenty slides. Some will have video talks, some not. The first, The Three ‘R’s of DevOps was presented at DevOps Days Ohio.

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Infrastructure as Code

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The essence of infrastructure as code is to treat the configuration of systems the same way that software code is treated — Kief Morris

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Without Repeatability… Automation is Meaningless

Without Repeatability, Automation is Meaningless

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Sketchnote: Beginning the DevOps Journey

#DevOpsDaysOhio 2015

#DevOpsDaysOhio 2015 @krlooney

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Sketchnote: DevOps Days Ohio Ignite Talks (Day 1)

#DevOpsDaysOhio 2015

#DevOpsDaysOhio 2015

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Sketchnote: Humans By the Hundreds

#DevOpsDaysOhio 2015

#DevOpsDaysOhio 2015 @fredhatfull

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Sketchnote: Cloud AntiPatterns

#DevOpsDaysOhio 2015 @cloudfoundryart

#DevOpsDaysOhio 2015 @cloudfoundryart

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Sketchnote: Container Orchestration Security

#DevOpsDaysOhio @mortman

#DevOpsDaysOhio @mortman

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