Kevin Kelly, co-founder and executive editor of Wired magazine, recently turned 70. Happy Birthday!
His birthday gift to us all is “103 bits of unsolicited advice”. Each one brilliant and full of wisdom. And all are free.
The paradox of “free” is that people tend to not value the “free …
When I started blogging in the early 2000s, RSS emerged as an open standard for spreading the news. New post? Blam, everybody interested got a notification in their favorite newsreader.
Back then, building a proper RSS feed was more of an art than an exact science: Crafting proper XML while …
A long time ago (2017), I wrote about modernizing my blog’s infrastructure.
Guess, what: Time to modernize again!
Back then, I migrated from Drupal to a self-written, Jekyll-inspired static site generator written in Python (my current language of choice for most projects). I spent the majority of the time …
A lot has happened since I changed my job more than 5 years ago.
I learned new stuff, met a lot of customers, blogged and podcasted (though on other platforms), and I didn’t get to give this blog much care.
Until my old hoster told me that they’re …
In the last few articles, I shared a few thoughts on how I think the world of IT is changing, which became the context for my good-bye to the world of physical IT altogether.
As of last week, I started working for Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Solutions Architect …
A while ago, I argued that the world of IT is changing, and that change is good. And that as a result of change, many people would need to change their jobs.
Well, I did it. Last Tuesday was my last working day at Oracle.
14.5 years ago, on …
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. (Marcus Aurelius)
If you have a job in IT (and who among my readers hasn’t?), then it is going to fundamentally change soon.
Why?
In my own job, I see the full spectrum from where IT innovation …
Recently, I attended a customer workshop where the customer declared that they standardized on x86, VMware and Linux.
That got me and my colleague thinking about what standardization really means and whether that actually makes sense.
The workshop was actually about defining a PaaS platform for the customer, and early …
First of all: Apologies for not posting for a long time. The reason? I was having too much fun with node.js and the Joyent Cloud :).
What started as a small experimental hack turned quickly into an exciting new pet project involving the good old Mandelbrot Set, as a web …
The year 2011 is almost two weeks old, and by now you’ve probably read every other review/resolutions/plans blog post out there. Now you have time to read this one :).
But first of all: Apologies for not having blogged for weeks. I’ve been moving to a new …
This is the blog of Constantin Gonzalez, a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, with more than 25 years of IT experience.
The views expressed in this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my current or previous employers.