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Black Friday cloud nudge
I’ve been trying to migrate over some content from LinkedIn posts to my blog; this is an old one but still relevant as Black Friday looms. (Or “Black November,” as many UK retailers have taken to calling it!) Don’t let your workload get taken down by lack of preparation during this chaotic land grab for… Continue reading Black Friday cloud nudge
Major cloud outages
The whole time I’ve been a cloud and AI technical trainer, it has been funded somehow by a given hyperscale cloud provider. I always get interesting questions from my students about various multi-cloud scenarios, and I’m always interested in learning more and helping customers learn more – but the training content never accounts for the… Continue reading Major cloud outages
Remember when the Hollow Knight sequel crashed all of the game storefronts?
The new Hollow Knight game crashed the digital storefront of every major game portal it’s offered on! Hundreds of thousands if not millions of people trying to eagerly download it right on launch day. Exciting! Embarrassing? Sometimes disappointing? It can be all of these things! And also an opportunity to talk about scalable architecture and… Continue reading Remember when the Hollow Knight sequel crashed all of the game storefronts?
Black Friday cloud scaling
Friendly reminder to everyone who has important stuff deployed in the cloud – Black Friday/Cyber Monday is coming! Do you have any reservations in place that guarantee sufficient compute capability for your mission-critical IaaS apps? Do you have auto-scaling configured (both metrics-based and scheduled per historical traffic) enough to handle a potentially unexpected spike in… Continue reading Black Friday cloud scaling
Name Your Thing!
I spoke at AltConference 2017 about how to name things. Last year when I spoke at AltConf 2016, things went really well… and I was invited to speak again in 2017 on the spot! (And I accepted on the spot, haha.) I actually started brainstorming this talk right then and there, so I had an… Continue reading Name Your Thing!
My AltConf 2016 talk: Sell Out and Save the World!
Woohoo! I’m so excited! Last year I spoke at AltConf in San Francisco during Apple’s WWDC week. I’m really proud of the talk I gave I had refined it a bunch, tested it in front of different audiences, and poured a lot of my soul into it. (And yes, a lot of emojis.) It’s a… Continue reading My AltConf 2016 talk: Sell Out and Save the World!
My top Grace Hopper session takeaways
I just wrote up a trip report for my team at Microsoft, highlighting at least one takeaway from each session I attended at Grace Hopper 2016. It occurs to me that I should share that with the rest of the world, too. Here they are! Growth and comfort never coexist.” “Ginni Rometty, Chairwoman, President… Continue reading My top Grace Hopper session takeaways
After Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper Celebration was a fantastic experience. I learned so much and met so many fascinating people, and when you get in that conference groove mindset you really connect! There’s something about a female-centric space that’s so special and supportive in its energy–it’s something I realize now that I didn’t fully appreciate while I was… Continue reading After Grace Hopper
Before Grace Hopper
I’m on my way to Grace Hopper right now, which I’ve never been to before. My employer is actually paying to send me. Paying for my hotel and my flight (and the Wi-Fi which allows me to write this post) and paying me for the time I spend enriching myself here. I’m so honored and… Continue reading Before Grace Hopper