How Kubernetes and Mesos are Solving the future of abstraction – Part 1 of 3

Since the dawn of computing, we have seen some incredible advancements. There have been numerous inflection points along the way. The most significant shift in many years was led be a little startup led by Diane Greene. You may know them as VMware. I can’t tell you when the data center operating system tagline was … Read more

Is Open Source a True Technical Requirement?

What does it really mean to have “must be open source” as a requirement? It’s actually both a requirement and a constraint if you think about it. More than that, is it really a true “requirement”? Let me lead with the fact that I advocate strongly for the use of open source platforms for a … Read more

Manually Deploying a Jekyll Website to Amazon S3

Using Jekyll as web site generator is a very powerful way to make use of some interesting ways to create and deliver content. It’s much simpler than having to create and edit the entire site in raw HTML and CSS yourself. There are lots of templates available online to deploy on a Jekyll framework. What … Read more

Setting up a GitBook for a Custom Domain

If you haven’t already looked at the GitBook platform, you definitely should.  There are a number of very interesting ways that you can use this for creating easy-to-use documentation sites using simple markdown and the hosted platform.  SaaS FTW! Let’s view a simple way to add a custom domain name to an existing GitBook site.  For … Read more