I had the pleasure of sitting down with Brendan Bouffler from #aws High Performance Compute last week to chew over some of the details of our Cloud Native Workload Management Platform. Learn more: https://t.co/lVtTjunCHV #yellowdog #awscloud #hpc
My top 10 – values and practices
Here are the things that matter most to me, values and practices I try to emulate, learn and mentor as an engineering leader. It’s a work in progress . . . 1. Technology is easy, people are far more important. Focus on your team and users first, everything else flows from that. 2. Be honest […]
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Renewed Scooter – Learning to fix things
Our middle son needed a new scooter but had been hanging on to his mini-micro he outgrew 18 months ago because he loved it. We’d suggested a bunch of new ones but didn’t get any uptake. I found an old broken Mongoose sticking out of a ditch on an evening lockdown walk. The front wheel […]
Carbon Neutral Flights, From Home
Christmas 2020, what to get the woman who has . . . . had a year of disappointment and cancelled plans? This was a hard year, lockdowns, home schooling, home working, self-isolation, fear, sickness, we all had a lot to deal with. Like a lot of people we had to cancel a foreign holiday which […]
Cloud Before Cloud
The First Cloud Rendered Production I started at HP Research Labs just after the turn of the new millennium. Since the first computers, enterprises have craved flexibility, scale and agility from their computing investments. This was true in 2000 and it is still true now; it is uncanny how those needs have remained constant over […]
Fear and Loathing in the Playground
A colleague at work told me a few days ago how his son’s primary school had banned trading cards. The students had been taking them in to swap but the school had decided there had been too many arguments and prohibition was the way to solve it. It reminded me of a similar time at […]
Cloud Migration Simulation
In 2012 it had been clear for a long time that the future for IT was the Cloud. Service providers had already started the race to build the next wave of infrastructure, platforms and services. Decision makers in large, more risk averse IT purchasing organisations had seen the early providers and adopters and began to […]
I blog, therefor I am
So I need a place to gather my thoughts. I had a realisation of just how much I have worked on over the past 16 years of my career, both professionally and for fun. Much of this was written down in various places already so this is an attempt to pull things together both for […]
Ham Wall Starling Explosion
We got up in the middle of the night and hiked half an hour in to a reed bed to see these guys this morning. It was worth the ‘boring’ 30 minute wait to see a 4 year old running around a hide screaming STARLINGS! STARLINGS! with delight as half a million birds exploded in […]
Interpreting Agile for Hardware / Software / Firmware Programs
In 2014 HP Labs kicked off a major program called ‘The Machine’. Our mission was to redesign the defacto computer architecture that has been in place since Von Neumann first imagined it in the 1940s. The data explosion has placed this architecture under extreme pressure. We needed to not only think about the fundamental computing […]