There’s another type of get together that I’ve been thinking of that I’m really excited about. This experience, I was fortunate enough to experience a few years ago in New Orleans. To add a little context to this, I lived in New Orleans for a good while and grew up about 45 minutes from the... Continue reading →

This is the 2nd post in a series of posts on OSCON 2019, the first is “OSCON: What it is.“. Happy 5th Birthday to The New Stack I tend to write a lot of articles, documentation, and all sorts of various things. It’s one of the many things I enjoy doing. A while back my... Continue reading →

This past week the O’Reilly Velocity and Software Architecture Conferences took place. I’ve attended both before, the 2nd time for Velocity in San Jose and the 2nd time for Software Architecture, however this time in San Jose and the last I attended was in London. The locations for these conferences dictate much about what is... Continue reading →

This week we just had Ryan Zhang present at the Seattle Scalability Meetup. I did a little short presentation just showing some tools that I’ve been using as of late; DataGrip, and related schema migrations and Docker containers as I work through the schema migrations. It was a solid meetup and excellent conversation after meetup,... Continue reading →

Another flight down to the bay area. Today it was Alaska Air Flight 330 from Seattle to San Jose. It was mostly a clear day at start, with a solid layer of bright cloud cover exiting Washington on the way down to Oregon. As we crossed over that arbitrary human defined line of Oregon and... Continue reading →