Blog
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2025 Website Refresh and Migration
I’ve had a personal website for nearly 30 years, and a personal blog for nearly 25. For the last 15 years or so I’ve used Wordpress to host both, but for various reasons I decided it was time for a change.
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What is the steady state of LLMs and software development?
Originally posted on my LinkedIn page.
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My GenAI existential crisis
Originally posted on my LinkedIn page.
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Visiting St John, US Virgin Islands
One thing my wife and I like to do every year in the middle of winter is go on vacation somewhere warm and sunny. Because we live on the east coast of the United States we usually go to the Caribbean, which can be easily reached via a 4 hour flight from our home in New York. We’ve been lucky enough to visit a few islands over the years, but the one we keep going back to is St John, in the US Virgin Islands (USVIs). Since I just finished my fifth trip to the island I thought I’d share some thoughts (and some of my photos from over the years) of one of my favorite places on Earth.
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2018 Theatre in review
2018 was quite a year for me for theatre. Starting slowly, it really ramped up. An amazing variety of shows, even though most of what I saw were plays. I feel very lucky to live in New York and to be able to see such great works of creativity.
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Give your Meetup a Code of Conduct
And request one if you're not an organizer
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A Serverless path to abstraction Nirvana
Earlier in the year I wrote an in-depth introduction to Serverless Architectures — defining what they are, weighing pros and cons, etc. One idea that's been on my mind recently is how Serverless solutions have come about via the evolution of other infrastructural advances over the last few years, and where differences are with Serverless vs. other approaches.
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Agile Won
A few weeks ago I attended Amazon's AWS Summit in NYC. It was staggeringly huge, with many thousands of people present. And this isn't even their main yearly event, although it is free to go to. It's also astonishing to me how big the AWS ecosystem has become. Amazon alone are earning more than $10 billion a year from their cloud services, but I can't even begin to think what the total 'GDP' of the AWS-related industry must be.
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Serverless Architectures
I decided to write a longer piece on the new trend of Serverless Architectures. Martin Fowler asked me if I'd be willing to host it on his site, an opportunity I was happy to take. It's an 'evolving publication', as Martin puts it - as I write this I've posted two installments so far and I expect there to be another 4 over the coming days and weeks.
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The Intent Media Engineering Ladders
Cross-posted from Intent Media's tech blog, here.