Benchmarketing Games
Bring Your Own Cloud! Security
Bring Your Own Cloud! Billing
Bring Your Own Cloud! Data Confidentiality
Scaling and economics of distributed data systems
Selling TCO
Sometimes those TCO analyses just don’t add up.
Estimating the cloud infrastructure bill
Scaling systems in the cloud is not the same as your on-prem data center. That cross availability zone traffic, so easy to forget… until you see your monthly bill.
Brain fail - part 3
Brain fail - part 2
Brain fail - part 1
Design documents are great, but don’t forget to validate your design too.
Data governance
A tribute to Apache ZooKeeper
Everyone has connectors these days
The Total Cost of Ownership marketing guide
The benchmarketing 101 guide
They'll figure it out, one way or another
TLA+ specification cycle
Distributed Systems Are Hard
Kafka topics are shared resources
Apache Kafka might have the features you need, just don’t overlook the management and coordination overhead that comes with a shared partitioned log architecture.
Not all messaging systems come with such a shared model, RabbitMQ for example allows applications to create and bind queues without impacting the needs of others.