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Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
192 essays and counting
AI Agents Are Already Out of Control and Nobody is Ready
An AI agent hijacked GPUs to mine crypto without being told to. Vibe-coded apps ship with 2.7x more security holes. We are building autonomous systems faster than we can govern them.
Introducing Loki's Log: A Newsletter for AI Builders
Launching a newsletter focused on AI agents, open source tooling, and the craft of building autonomous systems
The asklokesh Ecosystem: How All My Projects Connect
A walkthrough of every public project I maintain and how they form a connected system for AI-powered software engineering
Open Source AI in 2026: Models, Tools, and Protocols
The open source AI ecosystem is no longer chasing proprietary models; it is building the infrastructure layer that proprietary systems depend on
The State of AI Agents in Early 2026
AI agents matured from demos to production systems, and the Model Context Protocol is the connective tissue making it all work
2025: The Year I Went Full Loki Mode
A year-end reflection on leaving the corporate world, building open source full-time, and what it means to bet your career on autonomous AI systems
Q4 2025: Best of the Quarter in AI
The final quarter of 2025 brought consolidation, enterprise maturation, and the emergence of agent infrastructure as a recognized category
re:Invent 2025: A Decade of Attending AWS's Biggest Event
After attending AWS re:Invent for a decade, reflections on how the conference, the cloud industry, and my own perspective have evolved
Multi-Cloud MCP: One Protocol to Manage Them All
Using MCP to create a unified interface for managing resources across AWS, GCP, and Azure, eliminating the cognitive overhead of cloud-specific CLIs and consoles
Loki Mode Enterprise Features: What Global Adoption Taught Me
Loki Mode has been globally adopted and the enterprise feature requests reveal what organizations actually need from autonomous AI agent systems
MediCompanion: Building AI for Healthcare That Earns Trust
MediCompanion is an open source AI health companion designed for patient education and chronic condition management, with safety as the foundational constraint
Q3 2025: Best of the Quarter in AI
The most important AI developments from July through September 2025, from autonomous coding breakthroughs to regulatory shifts
Autonomi: A Framework for Autonomous AI Systems
Introducing Autonomi, the parent framework that unifies Loki Mode, LokiMCPUniverse, and the broader ecosystem of autonomous AI tools I have been building
K9s GUI: Making Kubernetes Accessible Beyond the Terminal
Building a graphical interface for Kubernetes that complements K9s and kubectl, designed for teams where not everyone lives in the terminal
AI Autonomy and the State of the Art in Safety
As autonomous AI systems become more capable, the safety conversation needs to move from theoretical concerns to practical engineering constraints
From No Phone to Flagships to Not Caring: My Full Mobile Journey
Two decades of phones, from borrowing my mom's Nokia to obsessing over specs to realizing none of it matters the way I thought it would
Next Portal: Building an Internal Developer Platform That Developers Actually Use
The architecture behind Next Portal, an open source internal developer platform built to reduce cognitive load rather than add another tool to the stack
FireLater: A ServiceNow Alternative That Is 99% Cheaper
Why I built FireLater, an open source incident and change management platform, and how it replaces six-figure enterprise licenses with a free tool
Google A2A Plus MCP: Two Protocols, One Ecosystem
Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol and Anthropic's Model Context Protocol are complementary, not competing, and together they define the agent infrastructure stack
Starting MIT's AI and ML Professional Education Program
Why I enrolled in MIT's professional education program for AI and machine learning, and what I expect to gain as a practitioner who builds AI systems daily
Inside Loki Mode: 41 Agents, 8 Swarms, and the RARV Cycle
A technical deep dive into how Loki Mode orchestrates 41 specialized AI agents across 8 swarms using the Reason-Act-Reflect-Verify cycle
The MCP Marketplace: An App Store for AI Tools
The Model Context Protocol is evolving from a specification into an ecosystem, and the marketplace model will define how AI agents access the world
Loki Mode Goes Provider Agnostic: v5.0 and Multi-Provider Support
Loki Mode v5.0 introduces provider-agnostic orchestration across Claude, Codex, and Gemini CLI with zero architecture changes
DeepSeek R1: China's Open Source AI Moment
DeepSeek R1 proves that frontier AI research is no longer exclusive to Silicon Valley, and open source is the accelerant
Technical Leaders Must Build: Why AI Leadership Requires Hands on Keyboards
If you lead engineering teams and you are not building with AI tools yourself, you are making decisions based on other people's understanding
2024: The Year AI Agents Became Real
Looking back on 2024, the year AI agents went from predictions to production and everything I shipped along the way
From Zero to Global Adoption: Open Source Virality
How an enterprise MCP server collection went from a personal project to globally adopted open source infrastructure
re:Invent 2024: AWS Goes Agent-First
AWS re:Invent 2024 signals a fundamental shift: Amazon is rebuilding its cloud platform around AI agents as first-class citizens
Loki Mode is Born: Building a Multi-Agent Autonomous System
Introducing Loki Mode — a multi-agent autonomous system for Claude Code with 41 agent types across 8 swarms
The 2024 Election and the AI Misinformation Challenge
The 2024 US presidential election tested our ability to handle AI-generated misinformation, and the results are sobering
Claude Computer Use: AI That Operates Your Computer
Anthropic's Claude computer use capability lets AI control your screen, keyboard, and mouse, and the implications for agent systems are enormous
Leading AI Teams: What Is Different
Leading AI-powered engineering teams requires a fundamentally different approach than leading traditional cloud infrastructure teams
OpenAI o1: Chain of Thought Changes Everything
OpenAI's o1 model introduces a new paradigm: models that think before they answer, with profound implications for AI agent systems
A2A: When AI Agents Talk to Each Other
Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol opens a new frontier: AI agents that can discover, communicate with, and delegate to other agents
AI Marketplaces: The Next Platform War
MCP marketplaces are emerging as the next platform battleground, and the winner will define how AI agents access the world
25 Enterprise MCP Servers in One Sprint
How I built 25+ production-grade MCP servers and what I learned about shipping AI infrastructure at speed
MCP: The Protocol That Connects AI to Everything
A deep dive into the Model Context Protocol and why it is the most important infrastructure standard for the AI agent era
Google I/O 2024: Gemini Everywhere
Google I/O 2024 made one thing clear: Google is embedding Gemini into every product, every surface, every interaction
Building LokiMCPUniverse: Enterprise MCP Servers at Scale
Launching LokiMCPUniverse, a collection of enterprise-grade MCP servers that give AI agents access to real tools and infrastructure
NVIDIA GTC: Jensen Huang and the $2 Trillion AI Engine
NVIDIA GTC 2024 was not just a product launch; it was a declaration that GPU infrastructure is the foundation of the AI era
Claude 3 Opus: The Best LLM I Have Ever Used
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus is not just an incremental improvement; it changes what is possible with AI-assisted engineering
Sora: OpenAI Just Changed Video Forever
OpenAI's Sora text-to-video model represents a paradigm shift in content creation and raises profound questions about reality
2024: The Year AI Agents Take Over
Why 2024 will be the year AI agents move from research demos to production workflow automation
2023: The Year LLMs Ate the World
Looking back on a year that transformed AI from a research curiosity into a force reshaping every industry
Mixtral 8x7B and the Rise of Mixture of Experts
Mistral AI's Mixtral model demonstrates that mixture of experts architectures can deliver frontier-class performance efficiently
Google Gemini: DeepMind's Multimodal Answer to GPT-4
Google launches Gemini, its most capable AI model, built from the ground up for multimodal reasoning
re:Invent 2023: Amazon Bedrock and the Enterprise GenAI Stack
AWS re:Invent 2023 puts generative AI at the center of Amazon's cloud strategy with Bedrock and new services
The OpenAI Board Crisis: Five Days That Shook AI
Sam Altman's firing and rehiring at OpenAI exposes the tensions at the heart of AI development
OpenAI DevDay: GPTs, Assistants API, and the Platform Play
OpenAI's first developer conference reveals its vision for an AI application platform
My First Steps in AI Research
Documenting my journey from infrastructure engineer to hands-on AI researcher and builder
Tool Use, Function Calling, and the Future of AI Integration
The emergence of structured tool use and function calling in LLMs points toward a protocol-driven future for AI integration
Meta's Llama 2 and the Rise of Open Source LLMs
Llama 2's open release changes the dynamics of AI development and gives enterprises new deployment options
LangChain, LlamaIndex, and the AI Tooling Explosion
The AI framework ecosystem is exploding with tools for building LLM-powered applications
Anthropic and Claude: The Safety-First Approach to AI
Anthropic's Claude model and Constitutional AI represent a fundamentally different philosophy in the AI race
Pivoting My Career Toward AI
After years in cloud infrastructure, I am making a deliberate shift toward AI and large language models
AutoGPT and the Dawn of Autonomous AI Agents
AutoGPT introduces the concept of autonomous AI agents that can decompose tasks and execute multi-step plans
GPT-4 Is Multimodal and It Changes Everything
GPT-4 launches with multimodal capabilities, passing professional exams and setting a new benchmark for AI
Google Bard and the LLM Race Heats Up
Google announces Bard in response to ChatGPT, and the large language model race officially begins
Microsoft's Billion-Dollar Bet on OpenAI and the AI Arms Race
Microsoft's massive investment in OpenAI signals a new era of AI competition among the tech giants
2022: The Year AI Broke Through
Looking back at a year that saw AI go from research curiosity to mainstream phenomenon, while I published two books and watched the world change
re:Invent 2022: AWS Bets on Generative AI
AWS re:Invent this year revealed a clear strategic pivot toward generative AI infrastructure, and the cloud landscape is about to change
ChatGPT Launches: The iPhone Moment for AI
OpenAI just released ChatGPT and it is the first AI product that makes non-technical people understand why artificial intelligence matters
Losing Interest in Phones Too
After losing my passion for cars earlier this year, I am realizing the same thing has happened with smartphones
AI Research Is Moving Faster Than Anyone Can Track
The velocity of AI research has reached a point where even dedicated practitioners cannot keep up with the pace of significant breakthroughs
CKAD Certification: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Passed the CKAD exam and earned another Kubernetes certification, reinforcing my conviction that container orchestration is fundamental infrastructure
Stable Diffusion: AI Art Goes Open Source
Stability AI just open-sourced a state-of-the-art image generation model, and the implications of putting this technology in everyone's hands are profound
Losing Interest in Cars
With a full Tesla fleet in the household, the novelty of cars has faded in a way I did not expect
James Webb's First Images Put Things in Perspective
NASA just released the first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and they are redefining our view of the universe
From Strangers to Founders: Published
My second book this year tells the immigration story that shaped everything, from arriving in America as a stranger to building a career in tech
Mastering Cloud Engineering: Published
My first book is published, distilling years of hands-on cloud architecture experience into a comprehensive guide
Elon Buys Twitter: The Most Chaotic Tech Deal in Memory
Elon Musk just agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion, and the way it happened is as remarkable as the deal itself
DALL-E 2: AI Creates Art
OpenAI just showed us an AI system that generates photorealistic images from text descriptions, and the implications are staggering
Russia Invades Ukraine: Technology in Modern War
The invasion of Ukraine is showing us in real time how technology has fundamentally changed the nature of warfare
Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard
The biggest gaming acquisition in history just happened, and it says more about the future of tech than about gaming
The Flip Phone Revival: Galaxy Z Flip and Nostalgia Engineering
Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip3 brought the flip phone back from the dead, and using it feels like a conversation between past and future
re:Invent 2021: AWS and the $71 Billion Run Rate
AWS re:Invent just wrapped, and the numbers tell a story about cloud dominance that the industry cannot ignore
Writing From Strangers to Founders
I am writing a book about the immigrant journey from arriving in America to building a life, and the story is more personal than anything I have published
Facebook Becomes Meta: Visionary or Desperate?
Mark Zuckerberg just renamed his company and bet everything on the metaverse, and I have questions
The Flagship Phone Rotation: Samsung, Apple, and Pixel
I rotate between Samsung, Apple, and Google flagships every year, and the camera comparisons alone justify the habit
Billionaires in Space
Bezos and Branson went to space within days of each other, and the discourse tells us more about Earth than about orbit
The Tesla Fleet Is Complete
With the Model X, every current Tesla model is in the driveway, and the journey to get here taught me more about obsession than cars
Writing a Book About Cloud Engineering
I am writing Mastering Cloud Engineering, and the process is teaching me as much as the content itself
The NFT Craze: Digital Ownership or Tulips?
Beeple just sold a digital artwork for 69 million dollars, and I genuinely cannot tell if this is revolutionary or insane
AI-Assisted Coding Tools Are Emerging
GitHub Copilot and TabNine hint at a future where AI writes code alongside us, and I am paying close attention
2020: The Year Everything Changed
A year that began with a mysterious virus in Wuhan ended with the world permanently altered, and the acceleration of trends that will define the next decade
re:Invent 2020: Virtual, Massive, and ECS Anywhere
AWS re:Invent went fully virtual and announced ECS Anywhere, extending container orchestration beyond the cloud and into any infrastructure you operate
Apple M1: ARM Beats x86
Apple is about to ship ARM-based Macs, and if the rumors are right, this will be the most significant architectural shift in personal computing since the move from PowerPC
The US Election and Social Media's Reckoning
The 2020 US election exposed the fundamental tension between platform scale and platform responsibility, and there are no easy answers
Terraform 0.13: Provider Requirements Done Right
Terraform 0.13 introduces proper provider source addresses and module-level provider requirements, fixing one of the most persistent pain points in infrastructure as code
Kubernetes 1.19: The Platform Is Mature
Kubernetes 1.19 extends the support window to one year and moves Ingress to GA, signaling that the platform has crossed from innovation to infrastructure
Tesla Model Y: My Third Tesla
Taking delivery of a Model Y and reflecting on how Tesla went from a curiosity to the default choice for anyone paying attention to the automotive industry
GPT-3: AI Can Write
OpenAI's GPT-3 paper demonstrates that scaling a language model to 175 billion parameters produces something qualitatively different from what came before
The World Went Remote Overnight
COVID-19 just forced the largest remote work experiment in human history, and cloud infrastructure is the only reason it is working at all
A Virus in Wuhan: How Technology Responds
Reports of a novel coronavirus are emerging from China, and the tech response is already revealing how the world handles crises differently in 2020
The 2010s: A Decade of Cloud, Mobile, and Early AI
Reflecting on a decade that transformed technology and my career, from Linux administration to cloud infrastructure leadership
re:Invent 2019: Outposts, EKS on Fargate, and the Hybrid Future
Key announcements from AWS re:Invent 2019, including Outposts general availability, EKS on Fargate, and what they mean for enterprise infrastructure
Leading Cloud Infrastructure: Lessons After Four Years
A retrospective on four years of leading cloud infrastructure teams, from technical decisions to organizational dynamics
Tesla Model S: The Second Tesla Joins the Fleet
Adding a Model S to the garage alongside the Model 3 and what it means to go fully electric
Containerizing Enterprise Java: From WAR to Docker
Patterns and pitfalls of containerizing legacy Java WAR applications running on JBoss and WebLogic
The Rise of GitOps: ArgoCD and Flux
GitOps is changing how we think about Kubernetes deployments by making Git the single source of truth for cluster state
The First Photo of a Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole in M87, and the technology behind it is as remarkable as the science
Tier-1 Commerce Payment Systems Migration
Migrating payment processing systems to the cloud while maintaining PCI compliance and zero downtime
Three Flagship Phones: Samsung, Apple, Pixel
Living with all three flagship ecosystems simultaneously and what each one gets right
Mentoring Engineers and Leading a Team of Ten
What I have learned about mentoring, team building, and the transition from individual contributor to engineering leader
re:Invent 2018: Lambda Layers, Transit Gateway, and the Services That Matter
A practitioner's take on the AWS re:Invent 2018 announcements that will actually change how we build
GitHub Is Now Microsoft's
Microsoft closed its acquisition of GitHub on October 26 and the open source world is processing what this means
IAM Policies Deep Dive: Least Privilege at Enterprise Scale
Designing IAM policies, SCPs, and permission boundaries that enforce least privilege across hundreds of AWS accounts
Lambda, RDS, Oracle on EC2: Hybrid Data Tier Patterns
Designing data tier architectures that bridge serverless Lambda functions with traditional Oracle databases on AWS
CKA: Becoming a Certified Kubernetes Administrator
I passed the CKA exam and here is what it actually takes to master Kubernetes administration
Contributing to CNCF: My Kubernetes Open Source Journey
How getting involved with CNCF and the Kubernetes community changed the way I think about infrastructure
I Bought My First Tesla Model 3
Taking delivery of a Tesla Model 3 and experiencing what it means when your car is a software platform
SpaceX Falcon Heavy: The Most Inspiring Launch I Have Ever Watched
SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy two days ago and I cannot stop thinking about what it means for engineering
Kubernetes vs ECS: An Enterprise Container Orchestration Comparison
When to choose Kubernetes and when to choose ECS, based on real experience operating both at enterprise scale
VPC Networking at Enterprise Scale
Designing VPC topologies, Transit Gateway patterns, peering strategies, and security group architectures for hundreds of AWS accounts
Akamai-Fronted Web Applications on AWS
Designing enterprise web tier architecture with Akamai CDN in front of AWS origins, including WAF, origin shield, and caching strategies
Active-Active Multi-Region Architecture with Route 53
Designing active-active multi-region deployments with Route 53 failover, health checks, and data replication strategies
Storage Gateways, EFS, and AWS Batch: Solving Enterprise Storage Challenges
How we designed storage architectures for media workflows using EFS, AWS Batch, and Storage Gateway
Terraform as the IaC Standard Across Hundreds of AWS Accounts
How we standardized Terraform across hundreds of AWS accounts with shared modules, remote state, and workspace conventions
Dockerizing Legacy Apps: From Monolith to ECS
How we containerized a monolithic Java application and deployed it to AWS ECS with a full CI/CD pipeline
Migrating Monolithic Apps to AWS: The 6Rs Framework in Practice
Enterprise cloud migration is not a single strategy; it is six strategies applied systematically across hundreds of applications
Day One at a Major Entertainment Company
Starting a new chapter as a cloud architect at one of the world's largest entertainment enterprises
re:Invent 2016: Serverless Goes Mainstream
AWS re:Invent just wrapped up and the message is clear: serverless is no longer experimental, it is the direction
AWS Organizations and Multi-Account Strategy
Designing a multi-account AWS architecture for enterprise workloads using Organizations, SCPs, and IAM patterns
Enterprise Migration: Lift-and-Shift vs. Refactor
When to move workloads to the cloud as-is and when to redesign them, learned from real enterprise migration decisions
Why I Bought a BMW 540i
On falling in love with a twenty-year-old German sedan and making my first big purchase in America
Pokemon Go and the Power of AR
Pokemon Go launched five days ago and the entire world seems to be outside catching virtual creatures
Starting at a Telecom Giant: Enterprise Cloud Architect
My first corporate role in America, designing cloud architecture at enterprise scale
Leaving Texas A&M, Entering Industry
After years of research and coursework, I am closing the grad school chapter and stepping into the industry
AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol: AI's Deep Blue Moment
DeepMind's AlphaGo just defeated one of the greatest Go players in history, and this feels fundamentally different from Deep Blue
Gravitational Waves Detected
LIGO just confirmed gravitational waves exist, and a hundred years of Einsteinian prediction suddenly became observable reality
Grad School, Research, and Cloud Computing
Reflecting on a year of graduate research, distributed systems learnings, and the widening bridge between academia and industry
Red Hat Acquires Ansible
Red Hat acquires Ansible and the configuration management landscape shifts, with implications for how we think about infrastructure automation
re:Invent 2015: AWS Is Unstoppable
AWS re:Invent 2015 showcased an ecosystem in overdrive, with new services, aggressive pricing, and a vision for cloud that keeps widening
Architecting WordPress on AWS: EC2, RDS, and S3
A technical deep dive into the architecture decisions, performance tuning, and lessons learned from running WordPress ecommerce on AWS
Kubernetes 1.0 and the Birth of CNCF
Kubernetes hits 1.0 and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation forms, signaling that container orchestration is ready for the enterprise
AWS-Hosted WordPress Ecommerce POC
Building a proof of concept ecommerce site with WordPress, WooCommerce, and AWS services to bridge theory and practice
Apple Watch Launches Wearables into the Mainstream
The Apple Watch arrived and with it a new computing form factor that raises fascinating questions about human-computer interaction
Cloud Computing Research with Dr. Young Lee
Diving into cloud computing research in grad school, exploring virtualization, resource allocation, and the academic lens on distributed systems
First Week at Texas A&M Research Lab
Starting my MS in Computer Science, navigating a new country, and stepping into research assistant life
2014: The Year of Containers
Looking back at a year that fundamentally changed how the industry thinks about deploying and running software
Accepted to Texas A&M: America, Here I Come
I got my acceptance letter for MS in Computer Science and my life is about to change completely
re:Invent 2014: Lambda, Aurora, and the Serverless Future
AWS Lambda might be the most important cloud announcement since EC2 and I am still wrapping my head around it
Terraform: The IaC Tool I Have Been Waiting For
HashiCorp just released Terraform and it fills the infrastructure-as-code gap that has been bothering me for months
Docker 1.0: Production Ready
Docker hits version 1.0 and the container ecosystem is exploding in every direction
Google Announces Kubernetes
Google just open-sourced their container orchestration system and this could change everything about how we run infrastructure
CoreOS: A Container-Optimized OS
CoreOS is rethinking what a server operating system should be in a world built on containers
Moto Razr: My Uncle Brought From America
The Motorola Razr and the tradition of uncles bringing impossible gadgets from America
From No Phone to Nokia 6230
Growing up in an era without mobile phones and the day my uncle brought home a Nokia 6230 with a camera
AWS re:Invent 2013: Announcements That Matter
Following AWS re:Invent remotely and picking out the announcements that will actually change how we work
What Microservices Actually Mean
Everyone is talking about microservices but most explanations miss the point entirely
Chef vs Ansible: Which Tool?
A hands-on comparison of Chef and Ansible from someone who actually needs to pick one for production infrastructure
Security Automation: Days to Hours Provisioning
How we cut server provisioning from five days to under four hours using automation and VMware templates
NSA PRISM: The Internet's Innocence Dies
Edward Snowden just revealed that the US government has been surveilling internet communications on a massive scale
Starting as Lead Systems Engineer
New role managing a Linux NOC team and learning what leadership actually means
Docker Changes Everything About Deployment
Docker 0.1 just dropped and containers are suddenly accessible to everyone, not just kernel wizards
2012: The Year the Cloud Became Real
A year-end reflection on how 2012 marked the turning point when cloud computing stopped being experimental and became the default
VMware, RAID, and Storage Architecture Lessons
Deep lessons from enterprise storage architecture work, including RAID configurations, VMware storage design, and the failures that taught me the most
Ansible, Puppet, Chef: The Configuration Management Wars
A practitioner's comparison of the three major configuration management tools and why I think the landscape is about to get interesting
Raspberry Pi and the Maker Movement
The Raspberry Pi Model B shipped earlier this year and it reignited something I forgot I had: the joy of tinkering
Google Compute Engine and the Three-Horse Cloud Race
Google just announced Compute Engine at I/O, and suddenly the cloud is a three-way competition between AWS, Azure, and GCP
Running a Linux NOC: Chasing 99.9% Uptime
What it actually takes to keep Linux infrastructure running at 99.9% uptime, from the perspective of someone who lives in the NOC
AWS DynamoDB: Fully Managed NoSQL Changes the Game
DynamoDB went GA earlier this year and I think it represents a fundamental shift in how we think about databases
Linux Containers Before Docker: LXC, Cgroups, and Namespaces
The container landscape before Docker existed, and why LXC, cgroups, and namespaces matter more than most people realize
The Rise of DevOps: When Developers and Ops Stop Fighting
The DevOps movement is breaking down the wall between development and operations, and it is about time
Remembering Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs passed away on October 5th and the world lost its greatest product mind
Hadoop Is Eating the Enterprise
MapReduce, HDFS, and the big data infrastructure stack are quietly reshaping how enterprises think about data processing
Steve Jobs Resigns: End of an Era
Steve Jobs just resigned as CEO of Apple, and it feels like the end of something important in technology
VMware Certifications and the Enterprise Virtualization Landscape
Studying for VMware certifications and discovering how deeply virtualization has reshaped enterprise infrastructure
AWS CloudFormation: Infrastructure as Code Begins
AWS just launched CloudFormation and the idea of declaring your infrastructure in a template file is quietly revolutionary
Watson Wins Jeopardy: AI Becomes Dinner Table Talk
IBM Watson just defeated Jeopardy champions on live television, and suddenly everyone has an opinion about artificial intelligence
Instagram Launches and Mobile-First Becomes the Default
A photo sharing app called Instagram just proved that mobile-first is not a compromise, it is a strategy
NoSQL Is Having Its Moment
MongoDB, Cassandra, and the database paradigm shift that is making relational purists uncomfortable
The Linux Admin Life: RHEL in Production
What day-to-day Linux system administration actually looks like when real systems depend on you
Platform as a Service Goes Mainstream
Heroku and the rise of PaaS are changing how developers think about deploying applications
OpenStack: The Open Source Cloud Revolution
Rackspace and NASA are building an open source cloud platform and it could change everything
Why I Want a Masters in Computer Science
An engineering student thinks through the case for grad school in America
iPad Changes the Game, Or Does It?
Apple just announced the iPad and the internet cannot decide if it is revolutionary or a giant iPod Touch
AWS Keeps Growing: Spot Instances
Amazon introduces Spot Instances and a student tries to wrap his head around cloud economics
The Decade Ends: From Dial-Up to Cloud
Looking back at 2000-2009, a decade that took us from dial-up connections to cloud computing, and changed everything
Got My RHCE: What It Means
After months of studying, late nights, and lab rebuilds, I passed the RHCE exam and learned more than just Linux
VMware vSphere: The Future of Virtualization
VMware renames and reimagines its platform as vSphere 4, and the data center will never be the same
Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere
A new runtime called Node.js puts JavaScript on the server and everything I thought I knew about web architecture shifts
Windows 7 RC: Microsoft Gets It Right
After the Vista disaster, Microsoft releases the Windows 7 Release Candidate and it actually feels good
Studying for RHCE
Deep in Red Hat territory, preparing for the RHCE certification and discovering what system administration really means
What Cloud Computing Actually Means
Everyone is talking about cloud computing and nobody seems to agree on what it means so I tried to figure it out myself
Android Dream: Google's Phone OS
Google made a phone operating system and it is open source and my brain will not stop thinking about the implications
Chrome Launches: Browsers Will Never Be the Same
Google released a web browser and it is shockingly fast and I have opinions about this
My First Linux Server
I got my hands on a real Linux server and learned more in two weeks than I did in a semester of classes
iPhone 3G and the Mobile Web
Apple just announced the iPhone 3G and I think the way we use the internet is about to fundamentally shift
Google App Engine Changes Everything
Google just opened up their infrastructure to regular developers and I cannot stop thinking about it
Why I'm Starting This Blog
A wide-eyed engineering student discovers the internet and decides to document the journey