Article Review: Containers will not fix your broken culture (and other hard truths)

First things first, if you do not know what is ACM Queue (or even worse, do not know what ACM is), click on the links provided. ACM relatively recently has reformed and now presents articles by industry experts, especially in the Queue magazine (you get an article from Queue with every Communications of the ACM… Continue reading Article Review: Containers will not fix your broken culture (and other hard truths)

Book Review: The Practice Of Cloud System Administration Volume 2 – Designing And Operating Large Distributed Systems

Hello everyone with another book review. This time, I will be reviewing a book that I consider a classic. As always, let’s start with the list of contents: Part I Design: Building it Designing in a distributed world Designing for Operations Selecting a Service Platform Application Architectures Design Patterns for Scaling Design Patterns for Resiliency… Continue reading Book Review: The Practice Of Cloud System Administration Volume 2 – Designing And Operating Large Distributed Systems

So you wanna be a programmer?

This (almost lost in time by now) article reflects my opinion towards the whole “Become an engineer in 3 months/weeks/whatever” bootcamps and whatnot. While the article has an infosec focus and the list of books is semi-outdated by now, you get the gist … PS. Obviously I am not ${tenex}

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Hello world! (for the 3rd time)

Hope you enjoyed Commodity, and Cyberpunk as a Commodity before that, plus a number of personal blogs that thankfully are now presumed lost. Welcome back!

Conference review: Distributed Matters Berlin 2015

“Kept you waiting, huh?” – to start the post with a pop culture reference. Yesterday, I was privileged enough to attend Distributed Matters Berlin 2015. The focus of the conference is, you guessed it, distributed systems, often within a NoSQL context. It was hosted at the awesome KulturBrauerei, a refurbished brewery. The format of the… Continue reading Conference review: Distributed Matters Berlin 2015

Book Review: PostgreSQL Replication

So for my series of System Engineering books, I will proceed with a short review of PostgreSQL Replication by Packt. The reason this book came to be a part of my collection is that while there is a lot of information regarding PostgreSQL replication out there, a lot of it is out of date, given… Continue reading Book Review: PostgreSQL Replication

Book Review: Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time

For my kickoff of systems engineering book reviews I have chosen this book. While not being technical in the strict sense of the term (if you are looking for code snippets or ready-to-use architecture ideas, look elsewhere), this collection of 17 essays provides a birds-eye view of the relatively new principle of Web Operations. As… Continue reading Book Review: Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time