Kunagi
If you're looking for a lightweight solution to help manage the Agile/Scrum process because you can't use Rally, Jira, etc you may want to take a look at:http://kunagi.org/It worked rather well for us...
View ArticlePerformance Tuning pointers for Java/Linux
A couple of tips you may find handy if you're doing some performance tuning/troubleshooting on Java/Linux:invest in decent APM for collecting trend data and mining it (A customer used New Relic for...
View ArticleDocker
I'd highly recommend checking out docker as the next cool tech to get your geek on. Vagrant and Boot2Docker are two options if you're not on Linux.During a talk I gave recently, the topic of whether...
View ArticleGreat Docker meet-up for Dec
Hosted the local Docker meet-up in Dec: http://www.meetup.com/Docker-Seattle/We heard from folks from Microsoft talking about their plans and a developer on http://panamax.io/ from CenturyLink about...
View ArticleDocker! Docker! Docker!
Cold, rainy weather in Seattle - check!Hot software ecosystem and cloud computing - check!150+ attendees for a packed house, grub and a professional videographer - check!Bryan Cantrill speaking about...
View ArticleSeaJUG 2015
The Seattle Java User's Group kicks off 2015 with a talk on Java and Performance. I've got a bunch of great talks lined up for the next few months - possibly Olivier Gaudin of SonarQube, Will Iverson,...
View ArticleWhy we do the things we do
Great set of TED talks. I really enjoyed the one on 'The puzzle of motivation'https://www.ted.com/playlists/301/why_we_do_the_things_we_do
View Articleinstall Java in your home folder on a mac
I've been a longtime linux user (early 90s :) but all the cool kids have been using the mac these days. Apple sure knows how to make superb hardware and the UI isn't quite all that bad either though I...
View ArticleDocker meet-up on 10/13
We had a great docker meetup on 10/13 - lots of great talks and a very engaging audience. Folks from DataDog, Azure, core Windows and Sumo Logic gave some great presentations.Thanks to Will and George...
View ArticleCanada has a new Defence Minister
and he's one of my peeps - super awesome :)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1fWSq0mnXMA history of sikhs in...
View ArticleSeaJUG and Docker 2016
SeaJUG kicks off it's ~20th year with a talk on Apache Geode followed by talks on Web Components/Polymer, JVM language shoot-out, APM/Performance, etc. The schedule is booked out to pretty much...
View ArticleDocker meet-up (June)
Hosted the Docker meet-up in June over at Disney in downtown Seattle with presentations:from logz.io showing the ELK stack on Docker containerson Aerospikeand resin.io talking about IoT and...
View ArticleEvents in November
Man oh man, where did the year go?! I like to joke that now with a couple of kids my wife and I have learned the fine art of manufacturing time :)Anyways, hosting a couple of events this month in case...
View ArticleDocker meet-up (Nov)
Hosted the Docker meet-up at Nordstrom's offices in downtown Seattle. Amazing hosts - drinks and tons of pagliacci pizza. A really cool meeting space too. Ran into some issues with trying to hook-up...
View ArticleSetting up a new mac
Though Linux continues to be my platform of choice since it keeps my chakras in balance straight outta the gate, I did setup a Mac recently. Thought I'd list my current choice of free/open source...
View ArticleDocker meet-up (Dec)
I hosted a Docker meet-up in December at Google in Fremont. Tiffany Jernigan spoke about metrics collection in Docker containers and Tsvi Korren spoke about securing Docker...
View ArticleSeminar on Successfully Navigating the SDLC
Your's truly talking about successfully navigating the SDLC :)https://vimeo.com/200384923
View ArticleEvents I am hosting in Feb
I am hosting a couple of events in February:SeaJUG meeting by Brian Benz from Azure on how "Microsoft learned to love Java" at Smartsheet in downtown Bellevue on 2/15 Docker meet-up on Ansible+Docker...
View ArticleAWS Fargate && k8s on Oracle Cloud
I am hosting a Docker meet-up on 2/13, 5.30-7.30pm in downtown Seattle (4th and Madison, 4th floor) where some very smart software engineering ladies will be talking about the new AWS Fargate service...
View ArticleShort talks on Containers, k8s, etc
Lots of really good, short talks on modern infrastructure technologies like Containers, orchestration technologies, etchttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdkGV51Nu0unDNT58bHt9bgor you can watch your's...
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