May 12, 2014

Ode to Flickr

Over the last 9 years, I’ve had a few things in my life that have benefited me both professionally and personally that have all tied back to Flickr.

In 2003, Canon had released the first sub-$1000 digital SLR camera, the Canon EOS 300D aka the EOS Digital Rebel. The 300D paved the way for entry level consumers to get involved with the world of digital SLRs, previously the cheapest option was the Canon 10D, available at $2,000. You could now learn photography with full control over your camera and have instant feedback without burning through rolls of film.

February 15, 2014

Pager Huety

For a hack week project at Chartbeat, I hooked my Philip’s Hue light bulbs into PagerDuty so whenever I get paged my lights will start flashing. Read about the hack over on the PagerDuty blog

February 15, 2014

Lessons learned tuning TCP and Nginx in EC2 at Chartbeat

I wrote a couple blog posts for work diving into what we learned optimizing our performance in EC2.

You can read both parts over at

http://engineering.chartbeat.com/2014/01/02/part-1-lessons-learned-tuning-tcp-and-nginx-in-ec2/

and

http://engineering.chartbeat.com/2014/02/12/part-2-lessons-learned-tuning-tcp-and-nginx-in-ec2/