Author: Greg Baker

I recently joined Chris Presley for his podcast, Cloudscape, to talk about what’s happening in the world of cloud-related matters. I shared the most recent events surrounding AWS. Topics of discussion included: New T3 instances – burstable, cost-effective performance Aurora…

I recently joined Chris Presley for his podcast, Cloudscape, to talk about what’s happening in the world of cloud-related matters. My focus was to share the most recent events surrounding Amazon Web Services (AWS). Topics of discussion included: Registration is…

I recently joined Chris Presley for his podcast, Cloudscape, to talk about what’s happening in the world of cloud-related matters. My focus was to share the most recent events surrounding Amazon Web Services (AWS). Topics of discussion included: Amazon Elastic…

The 2019 technology forecasts are still a few months away, but some predictions are already a safe bet — especially when it comes to DevOps. New estimates from IDC suggest that the DevOps software market will grow from its 2017…

Today the value of DevOps is well understood, at least by IT professionals. In the IT community, DevOps is almost universally accepted as being superior to traditional software development. By breaking down departmental silos, DevOps unifies development and operations teams…

I recently joined Chris Presley for Episode 5 of his new podcast,Cloudscape, to talk about what’s happening in the world of cloud-related matters. My focus was to share the most recent events surrounding Amazon Web Services (AWS). Some of the…

I recently joined Chris Presley for episode two of his new podcast, Cloudscape, to talk about what’s happening in the world of cloud-related matters. My focus was to share the most recent events surrounding Amazon Web Services (AWS). Topics of…

We all know what it’s like to feel the pressure of competing demands fighting for our time. When faced with fast-approaching deadlines it’s critical that the time we spend be focused on providing value. Anything that can help us move…

Blackbird’s own Chris Lohfink was on-hand at the Minneapolis Cassandra Meetup, on May 5th, to give a lightning talk introducing Cassandra’s thread pool metrics. Monitoring Cassandra clusters can be a monumental task, but Chris’s overview provides a nice start to…

Vlad Fedorkov and the creator of Sphinx Search speaking at Percona Live 2014. They cover the basics of Sphinx, as well as faceted search, auto-correction, searching with ranges, geo spatial search, non-full-text search (filtering, grouping, sorting), and about some of…