Hopefully useful. Probably not. Perpetual Optimist.
Earlier in August 2023 I changed roles within Red Hat. My new role is “Chief AI/ML Platform Strategist”, and organizationally is part of Red Hat s OpenShift AI product group. I’d been in my previous role for ~5 years, and celebrated my 14th anniversary at Red Hat last month 🫶 . My previous team (Red Hat Continue reading weArIng a different hat (still Red)
It s both exciting and nerve-wracking to develop highly visible production service platforms. Exciting, in that the ideation phase of creating a differentiated offering inspires creatives in the software engineering space to do their best work. Nerve-wracking, in that knowing the details of implementation, and what hit the editing room floor during planning/prioritization exercises, carries with…
I think it s most folks (engineers especially) default approach, when being introduced to a new system, product or idea, to immediately want to understand how something works. This blog is to specifically challenge that default, turn it around, and pose that we default to why something works. Why it has to exist, and why it Continue reading What it s like to be how constrained and becoming a free…
“We often think of movements as starting with a call to action. But movement research suggests that they actually start with emotion — a diffuse dissatisfaction with the status quo and a broad sense that the current institutions and power structures of the society will not address the problem. This brewing discontent turns into a Continue reading Announcing Reliability Nightmares (the SRE coloring…
During my career at Red Hat, I ve had the great pleasure of being a go-to person to bootstrap $things. After a good amount of repetitions, I ve arrived at a bit of a blueprint on how to do it. Each go at it becoming more and more refined and incorporating lessons learned as each $thing presents Continue reading Lessons learned while bootstrapping new $things
The title of this blog is a quote from James Clear s Atomic Habits book. The tl;dr of this book is a set of strategies to get 1% better each day. If that s the case (and I certainly agree), here are some of the recent votes I cast and why. Completed a higher ed management curriculum Continue reading Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become
I wrote this post in July 2017, and I just found it (4 years later) in my Drafts folder. What a great journey down memory lane it was to read this today. Ask 2017 me if he knew what he d be into 4 years on, and yeah. Life moves pretty fast. We have been doing a Continue reading What it s like to work at Red Hat for 8 years
I tried hard to make it work. But I could never get the results I wanted. The crisp video, clean audio, the BOKEH. Herein lies my adventures (full send, some might say) over the past ~2 months in getting a proper home office A/V setup. It s not perfect yet, but I m fairly happy with the Continue reading Going Full Send on my WFH A/V setup
I came really close to making some large purchases to improve my video call situation, and I may still do so, but I did spend some time and found a few quick wins maybe will help others: I use Fedora as my workstation. Won t change it. I have a Logitech C930e. Logitech doesn t publish anything Continue reading Tweaking my webcam setup (Logitech C930e, Fedora Linux, v4l)
Hey all, happy new year! Been a quarter or so since my last post Wanted to share some updates info about the Service Delivery, SRE team at Red Hat for 2020! Some of our top level goals: Improve observability tracing, log analysis Improve reliability load shedding, autoscaling Launch a boatload of features Establish Continue reading Red Hat SRE 2020 Goals and Projects (and Hiring!)