Modern Blogging with Ghost
Over the last 20+ years my personal blogging has been marred with fits and starts, but I've found Ghost to be an excellent option to self-host.…
Hydration of a Chef Server
At Bloomberg [http://jobs.bloomberg.com/search/?q=chef] my team is tasked with supporting infrastructure for all of our consumer and subscription web properties. We have been using Chef to solve some of our problems around configuration management. Most of our recipes were built using Chef Solo and eventually…
Keeping Cool in The Face of Disaster
In Washington, during the peak of Hurricane Sandy, my power went out. The wind outside was howling, the UPS that my MacBook was connected to began to scream, and my Comcast Internet was hosed. We were in the middle of manually failing over our application servers to our New Jersey…