Lift and Shift Lessons
I've been doing a lot of work lately on moving to the cloud. A couple of
years ago we started using AWS and our first move was a "lift-and-shift":
we just re-created at AWS the same servers we had previously in our data
center. Two years …
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Posted Sat 07 January 2017
by mcherm
in Programming
Dockercon
I am attending Dockercon and I
thought I would try a little experiment. I will try writing up my
understanding od Docker before the conference and after, and see how
much my view has changed. So, without further ado, here is my "before"
review of Docker:
What is Docker …
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Posted Mon 20 June 2016
by mcherm
in Programming
I don't tend to put a lot of personal content into this blog of mine, but that's exactly
what I have today. You see, yesterday my 4th grader daughter's school held a presentation
for the students and their families on teaching writing to kids, which included some time
for both …
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Posted Fri 06 May 2016
by mcherm
in Personal
This morning's release didn't go so well. There was a problem with account opening -- some unintended interaction due to turning off a feature -- and we had to roll back the release. The problem wasn't in our team's systems; they didn't have an issue (this time) but we will still need …
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Posted Wed 06 April 2016
by mcherm
in Software Development
Cylon
So, this is the second time that I have taken a look at the
programming language Ceylon.
Ceylon is a language which is currently being sponsored by Red Hat.
It fits into the space of languages in the same family with Java,
but attempting to build a mondern strongly-typed …
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Posted Sat 27 February 2016
by mcherm
in Programming