Ethereum: Next Generation Cloud Platform

You can’t turn on the news today and not hear about cryptocurrency or better yet Bitcoin the most popular and most lucrative currency on the market today. While bitcoin is all the buzz most people don’t have the slightest clue how it works or why this technology is so amazing we just know it’s trading

Is DevOps Dead In 2018?

So this might sound like a really odd question coming from me considering most people think I am a DevOps consultant (whatever that means) or that I was running and building DevOps teams before that. The truth is that under the DevOps name I’ve been promoting the idea that, as some have put it “Products

Testing Ansible Roles With KitchenCI

If you are doing any work in the DevOps space you have probably heard about Ansible. Ansible, currently is the fastest growing configuration management and orchestration tool on the market right now. As infrastructure teams move toward infrastructure development teams these teams need to start thinking like standard development teams. As infrastructure development teams start

Is Docker The New VMware

Recently I addended Docker’s MTA (Modernize Traditional Apps) program. My company was the first 4-5 companies that has ever attended this training and it was an honor to be part of such an exclusive group. The biggest take away for me was that Docker is the new VMware. Now, this isn’t the first time I’ve

Why Traditional IT Organizations Don’t Scale

I’ve spent my entire career in operations and or infrastructure related roles, and over the years I’ve come to understand why most operations teams don’t scale and why they become the bottleneck for most companies. Now this isn’t going to be an argument for just using Heroku, or AWS, or CloudFoundy I’m going to explain