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 choice of JVM makes an enormous difference in how code runs on a machine. Oracle Java outperforms OpenJDK by a considerable margin in the following test.
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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

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Sketchnote: DevOps Days Ohio Ignite Talks (Day 1)

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Sketchnote: Humans By the Hundreds

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Sketchnote: Cloud AntiPatterns

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Sketchnote: Container Orchestration Security

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