This is a re-repost of an article on pipe I posted several years ago. Pipe is a very powerful tool, behold: tar -czf - [list of dirs and files] | \ ssh [user]@[server] "cd /path/to/place/files; tar -xzf -" I learned this one from one of my bosses a few jobs…

In 2011, a million simultaneous requests per minute against a central inventory system would have been considered a lot. It would have been a remarkable system to have built in Spring. I was a replacement java architect brought in to cover a departing Java Architect while working as a senior…

Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), why do we use those terms? Is it some fundamental tenant of Cloud Computing? How does it fit with Developer-Operations (DevOps) and why we should care? What do these designations really tell us about…

Summary Modern computing security is constantly fighting an impedance mismatch that is analogous to the Object Relational Impedance Mismatch known colloquially in the Computing and Computer Science communities as “The Vietnam of Computer Science.” I claim that the computing security issues we face regularly in the broader computing community will not…

In my CS degree, 25+ years ago now, I learned how to create a processor’s design mask, building my own 4-bit CPU and assembly language. We would move on to study CISC and RISK designs and assembly languages, then build compilers for them for real and made up languages. …