Infinidash: AWS’s New Observability Play Has Great Bones and a Terrible Bedside Manner

If multi-cloud is crap, and it is, why are so many people talking about it? The only folks pushing for it are vendors who stand to lose everything if multi-cloud doesn't take off.

The idea of having multiple AWS accounts in your organization broken out not just by team but also by cost center isn't the terrible idea that some people (including me until a year or two ago!) tend to assume it is. Permit me to explain why.

Editor’s note: I was off by an order of magnitude on the cost of this feature; thanks to Ian Littman for pointing this out. The below numbers are now correct to the best of my knowledge. Math is hard… T3 instances launched yesterday, complete with a Jeff Barr blog post. One point that was mentioned […]

An incredible enhancement to S3 has flown largely underneath the radar. It's well worth adjusting your understanding of S3's historical bottlenecks...

For those who are just stumbling upon this blog for the first time with no context, I’m a very loud critic of Amazon Web Services whenever I feel they deserve it (services that are poorly documented, status pages that don’t update, catering options that don’t appeal to my appetite that day, etc.). Today, I was […]

Terribles Ideas in Git – DevOpsDays Rockies 2018 from The Duckbill Group on Vimeo.

Today Randall Hunt posted an “emotional rant about AWS support” chronicling what he’s seen from them over the past ten years, and invited others to chime in with their experiences. Given that I’m arguably one of the four most sarcastic observers of AWS in the world, I figured I’d take him up on that invitation […]

Inventing Yourself: The Musings of an Assistant Regional Thought Manager – DevOpsDays Tel Aviv 2017 from The Duckbill Group on Vimeo.