I’m giving an Ignite talk for the first time at DevOps days Paris. It’s an interesting format: a 5-minute talk with 20 auto-advancing slides, every 15 seconds. I found How to Give a great Ignite Talk by Scott Berkun very useful, including the accompanying video.
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4-year-old’s first aerobatic flight
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via http://kottke.org/15/06/airplane-aerobatics-are-hilarious
What a fun video. Encore!
The log: The lifeblood of your data pipeline - O'Reilly Radar
via http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/04/the-log-the-lifeblood-of-your-data-pipeline.html
Interesting article. I hadn’t heard of Fluentd, looks useful. The old paradigm — machines to humans, and the new — machines to machines. Image courtesy of Kiyoto Tamura. Over the last decade, the primary consumer of log data shifted from humans to machines. Software engineers still read logs, especially when their software behaves in an unexpected manner. However, in terms of “bytes processed,” humans account for a tiny fraction of the total consumption.
Whisky - Matt Gemmell
via http://mattgemmell.com/whisky/
Nice essay.But then, finally, with one last branch hacked from your way, you set eyes upon it, and stand there. Silent and still. Perhaps you raise a hand, feeling time-worn stone beneath your fingertips. A dream, finally made solid. You’ve come so far, and now, at last, you’re here.