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As I write this it is Monday evening and I’m actually in an office. Craig McLuckie and I have been hanging around the Madrona Venture Group offices here in Seattle. We started a new company together named Heptio. We are announcing that we have taken Series A funding from Accel and Madrona . I want to thank Ping and everyone else at Accel for the support through the EIR journey over the past…
Docker logs are a pain to deal with. If you don’t do anything they’ll fill up your disk 1 . In addition logs are easily lost if you need to delete and recreate a container. Google Cloud Platform has a debug log service that has evolved from the (excellent) logging system built in to App Engine. With the acquisition and integration of Stackdriver it looks like this has been…
I’m excited to share that I’m going to be joining Accel as an Entrepreneur in Residence. I’m honored to be invited to work with Accel to explore ideas that will hopefully result in founding a new company. I’m committed to staying in Seattle. While I’ll be traveling down to the Bay Area quite a bit to make the most out of this opportunity with Accel, my heart and family are in Seattle. Seattle has…
(I’m updating this post as folks comment. You can look at the history on github .) I was chatting on an Xoogler message board the other day and Dennis Ordanov ( @daodennis ) was asking about the basic moving parts of a production stack. I just started enumerating them from memory and thought it might be a good blog post 1 . So, here is a mostly stream-of-consciousness dump of the parts a…
I’m not a large enterprise developer. My experiences are at the unique environments of Google and Microsoft 1 . Over my career I’ve helped build platforms and I’ve learned that to build a great developer platform (or any good product at all) requires you to talk to many customers and put yourself in their mindset. This extends from the day to day usability of the product to the…
A lot of exciting things happened at Dockercon 2015 last week. For me the most exciting was the announcement of the Open Container Project foundation. Not only is it great to see the community come together under one banner but also as a chance to entertain new ideas in this space. These are some thoughts on how to improve what we consider a “container image.” I’m looking at both…
Welcome to the new 80% ! I’ve rewritten my ancient blog on top of Hugo using Bootstrap and Google Fonts . The whole thing is hosted on GitHub if you want to check out the source. For headlines, I’m using Economica . I picked it because it is narrow and I tend to write long headlines. The body text is Lora . I like a nice Serif font for the body text and it has a bit of style while…
I haven't updated my blog in forever and I'm probably going to abandon my homebrew static client generated site for something like Mephisto at some point but I haven't had time to make the transition. In the meantime, I'd like to save people some pain and document the steps I have go through to upgrade my Highpoint RocketRaid 2220 on Linux. I installed the driver a while ago and don't remember the…
Miguel de Icaza says 'Avalon marks the end of the American Dream.' He also compares it to J2EE -- apparently implying that it is overly complex and overarchitected. Ouch. While I wouldn't put it that way, I can't disagree. I left Microsoft almost two years ago and Avalon still hasn't shipped. A 5+ year ship cycle for a project can't be seen as anything but a sign that something is horribly wrong.…
Coming in this morning, I heard a segment on NPR covering a unique program that King Country is running to provide rooms for homeless alcoholics in Seattle. The unique and controversial part of this program is that the residents can continue to drink. My wife, Rachel, has first hand experience with this problem from her work at the Harborview ER. Some of these 'frequent fliers' are indeed part of…
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Happy fourth! I just wanted to post a note bragging about my sister, Jill. The Chicago Tribune just ran an article about her and her daughter Ellie. Ellie has what they are calling 'Sensory Integration Disorder.' She is basically really hyper and needs to jump, spin, rock, swing, etc. I think I probably had a touch of something similar when I was small. One of the things that helps Ellie has been…
Scott Ludwig and I have released a new version of his python based backup script, Link-Backup. This new version ignores broken symlinks and has an option to ensure that only one backup at a time is going on. Also with this release is a cgi script (viewlb.cgi) for exploring the backups. This makes it easy to keep tabs on what is going on. Scott wrote this script a while ago and I updated and…
I haven't been posting anything lately because I've been so busy with work and Annie. It is funny how life gets in the way. In any case, she really loves flowers. We try and go on a walk in the Washington Park Arboretum every day. She loves to hold and pick little flowers. Here is a quick photo I snapped of her today: Speaking of the Arboretum, almost every time I go there, I see the official bird…
Between photos of Annie, other photography and music, I have quite a bit of data. Probably over 300GB now and growing fast. Backing up this much data is a challenge. I've set some requirements of for what I needed in a backup system: Automatic . A backup system is useless if you don't actually use it. I know that if I'm required to do anything manually it probably won't get done. Off site . There…