This is not a manager README I've had a manager's README for awhile. I have sent it out to people I manage as well as those I've hired. The initial articles I read on why to
Learning for Team Leads I've enjoyed helping a number of team leads grow into this role. When doing this, I've started to have a pattern of steps I take to help out here. I
Replacing an old release I've been caught in jobs dealing with the pain of being on old releases and needing to do an upgrade- the uncertainty of an unknown upgrade path, reading through volumes
New Blog, Old Again I was handling some overdue, routine maintenance on this blog (upgrading to Ghost 0.10, resizing some AWS resources based on actual usage), and I realized I should really say
Scheduled EBS snapshots As part of my Ghost setup on AWS, I wanted to make sure I had backups of EBS in case things go wrong (as they always do, eventually). I couldn't
Highly-available S3 It's possible to raise the availability of S3 through a multi-region setup. Below I'll explain some of the work we've done at Brightcove on this, including a new Node.js
Old posts, new again None of the posts below, from the old version of this site, are likely too interesting to you. They are mostly about ancient history or dead technologies. But I loved
Ghost, nginx, and Node 4.x on AWS When I decided to switch my blog to use Ghost on AWS, I assumed I would find a complete guide for the setup. One may exist, but I didn't find
Welcome! Again! This is the 2015 reboot of the 2005 deitte.com blog. I don't expect to be a regular writer here, but I wanted to have a more modern blog for
