Posted 2 weeks ago
One question I try to ask every interviewee is “what are your core professional principles? What are those deeply held beliefs that might apply whatever you’re working on.”
Here are a few that rank high on my list:
Posted 2 weeks ago
It’s been commonly voiced by practitioners that “security is a process, not a product”. In my work with rapid-growth startups and larger organizations in transition I’ve certainly found security to be, well, “ever-evolving”. Consider the daily reality for the technology professional - exponential data growth, “hacktivism” at an all-time high, complex data and information privacy laws, and more and more public cloud services to integrate. Oww yeah, and the expectation that users have seamless access to everything they need wherever they are! Fun right?
Posted 6 months ago
Congrats AWS! This provides customers additional scale options and regional diversity on the US west coast with a 10% cost reduction. nice.
Posted 8 months ago
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has really taken it on the chin this year with the latest punch coming from the failure of a transformer that led to a power outage in the Dublin datacenter on August 7, 2011.
Posted 1 year ago
Post originally published June, 2009. It’s interesting to note progress since that time:
Posted 1 year ago
A great read for anyone interested in an objective economic assessment of America’s federal government.
Bound copies are available at Amazon.
