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Cloud, Platforms & Infrastructure
The platform shifts that reshaped how software gets built and shipped.
How the platform layer evolved, from VMs and bare metal through containers, serverless, and the modern cloud. Built from the ground up.
- STEP 1·Jan 2015Jan 2015·6 min
Virtual Machines vs Bare Metal: Where Performance Still Matters
Everyone around me keeps saying the same thing lately: just spin up a VM, it's easier. And they're not wrong. But I've started noticing something strange, sometimes things feel just a bit slower, and nobody can really explain why.
- STEP 2·Mar 2015Mar 2015·7 min
Docker Changed Everything and Most People Missed It
In early 2015 I watched a colleague containerise an app in twenty minutes that had taken three days to set up on a new server. That was the moment I understood what Docker actually was.
- STEP 3·Jun 2015Jun 2015·6 min
The Rise of DevOps Was Not About Tools
Everyone thought DevOps was about Jenkins and Ansible. The teams that actually succeeded figured out it was about removing the wall between the people who build software and the people who run it.
- STEP 4·Nov 2016Nov 2016·5 min
AWS re:Invent 2016 and the Serverless Moment
At AWS re:Invent 2016, Lambda had been generally available for two years. The conference made it clear that serverless was no longer a curiosity. It was a category.
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