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

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

Author's posts listings

Sep 01

Design Patterns are a Distraction (a Mini Saga)

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mini sagas, philosophy, rants

by Matt Williams

Design patterns should emerge like leviathan. Software is not bonsai or a square watermelon; don’t try to force it to a shape. The GoF are not prophets. There is no One True Way. Return to the basics. Grok your data and how it flows; a watershed leading to the sea.

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Aug 31

DevOps Isn’t…. (A Mini Saga)

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devops, mini sagas

by Matt Williams

Young couple doing Martial Arts exercise in nature

DevOps isn’t a tool or a project. It’s a practice. Like any other practice it improves with… practice. There is no recipe. No roadmap. There is no certificate or trophy. The journey starts with recognizing there is a problem and wanting to change. And practicing until you get it right.

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Aug 28

Friday Punday

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fun, silliness

by Matt Williams

Happy Friday! Here’s some silliness for the day…. I claim full responsibility for the following. Q: How did Western Civilization develop? A: Occidentally Q: Why is Orff’s Carmina Burana a cat’s favorite music? A: [sing]”O, For Tuna!”[/sing] Q: Why can’t a melon run away and get married? A: Because they canteloupe. Finally one my daughter …

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Aug 28

Mini Sagas Revisited

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Headology, mini sagas, philosophy

by Matt Williams

A long time ago I encountered mini sagas. Even wrote some. I think it’s high time for some more…. It’s been said that constraints foster creativity. I have, sitting in a little box, far more computing power than NASA did for Apollo, using far less electricity. Yet, by today’s standards, I feel constrained and need …

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Aug 27

The Three ‘R’s of DevOps

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devops, philosophy

by Matt Williams

School days, school days Dear old Golden Rule days ‘Reading and ‘riting and ‘rithmetic Taught to the tune of the hick’ry stick — School Days by Will Cobb and Gus Edwards It’s that time of year again… back to school. Just like in school where we learned ‘Reading and ‘riting and ‘rithmetic, DevOps has its …

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Aug 27

Hacking Haiku

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fun, haiku

by Matt Williams

It’s late. Not tired. So… I’ll hack some Haiku. Not saying they’ll be good Haiku at this late hour, but they’ll do for Haiku.

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Aug 27

Stronger Faster Algorithms

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algorithms, cheminformatics, Raspberry Pi

by Matt Williams

Oft times all thoughts of algorithms are left behind with school. If they’re not, it can be too easy to get caught up in spending too much time trying to do something the “most efficient” way at the expense of spending two weeks coding to save a few milliseconds, but still there is a lot …

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Aug 15

“Well, I’m back,” he said.

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Meatspace, Uncategorized

by Matt Williams

When last we saw our intrepid hero, he was busily working with Raspberry Pi. With but a couple days notice, he was swept off to a knee surgeon. The surgery, itself, went well. However, I developed a secondary infection which threw me for a loop. I’m feeling better and finally getting back to it. Kudos …

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May 07