Ouroboros
But today I have something to share. I am leaving Intel.
What if collecting data center telemetry was a snap?
Believe it or not, this is actually the first true big blog post since I announced I was joining Intel. That is 1.5 years of being buried over my head in all the cool things Intel does in the data center. I could write a whole different post just on how much different I see…
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Bad Whiteboarding – How not to explain AWS Lambda
I’d far rather be happy than right any day
2014 was a great year. Hell, 2013 was too. I worked with the best people I have met in my life. Some were friends before I worked with them. Some were friends after. I wrote near a hundred of thousand of lines of code. I argued in front of whiteboards of detail 40 feet long.…
Docker & Vagrant & VMware Fusion bug
I was playing around with my new Mac this week since I started at Intel on Monday. I was starting to play with the Docker provider for Vagrant when I ran into some issues with it. For those that aren’t up to speed – Vagrant now supports Docker as a Provider via plugin. If you are…
Sell, Execute, Grow, Iterate
Sell the vision well and the doors will open. Very few good ideas get to happen without someone selling the idea to someone. It is the vision of it. The story that is told. The belief in something better that greases wheels. As a recent boss loved to say: You can do anything you can justify…
Intel and OpenStack
Intel and OpenStack Interesting new focus from Intel. Seems like something fun to be a part of this year 🙂 .nick
Goodbye Zombies
It has been amazing. That is the only way to describe it. Project Zombie was an experience filled with amazing challenges and people. And for me this season is over. I will be leaving VMware soon to take a position at Intel as a Principal Cloud Architect. I will be focusing on helping them develop some amazing…
The problem with musical chairs
You walk into a room. In that room are your coworkers. Some are good friends. Most are not. You look around the room and see chairs all around. And in the middle is a table with a set of speakers. A person walks in and announces to the whole group that there is a critical…
Effort vs Credit
In life, your effort will be judged by your peers, superiors, and dependents. Sometimes there is effort you can make which is somewhat impossible for your superiors to fully grasp. Maybe it is too technical. Perhaps they are too busy. Or it may just be your inability to communicate the value. But you know why…
The Sustainable Leader 