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Continuous Deployment

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I’ve been working lately trying to implement some of the things Eric Ries talks about. Primarily the idea of continuous …

EC2 Spot instances

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The thing I really like about Amazon’s cloud stuff is they’re constantly undermining themselves with new innovations – spot instances …

Useful commit messages

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I realised that I’m not very good at this when I looked at my last commit for this theme. The …

Stop asking questions.

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I’ve had an ongoing conversation with a few people over the course of a few projects about the questions to …

Scaling up vs scaling out

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Jeff Atwood goes into some calculations about the cost of scaling up vs scaling out and makes an interesting point, …

Open Source for Business

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I didn’t get this posted yesterday because the Internet crapped out in our area. Nothing but excuses, I know.
I’ve been …

Reverse HTTP and the cloud

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I recently read the IETF draft RFC for Reverse HTTP, and it looks like a pretty simple and …

Openness, strength or weakness?

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As I’ve announced here, we’ve recently taken the difficult decision to put development of Citrus in hold, indefinitely (let’s be …

Interfaces first

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Don’t write spec documents, throw away any you have near you, they’re next to useless anyway. It might seem like …

Weekend catchup

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My weekend catchup reading list.

I’m re-reading Getting Real 37 Signals’s excellent online book. Essential reading for almost everyone, I …

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