Distributed System Complexity: Part 1 – Engineering Abstraction

Cognitive overload is a brute fact of modern life. It is not going to disappear. In almost every facet of our work life, and in more and more of our domestic life, the jobs we need to do and the activity spaces we have in which to perform those jobs are ecologies saturated with overload….

Why I Joined Delphix: Opening up the Opportunity of Data

This week marks my start at Delphix. The world of IT continues to undergo massive change. In my opinion, there are three main forces driving change today: Cloud Adoption Application Modernization AI and Machine Learning As I see these changes – or really, transformations – take hold, begin to mature and adopt at scale in…

Cloud Service Reliability (Part 2): Houston, we have an… outage!

Of all the phrases from movies that have become a part of pop culture – from ‘Luke, I am your Father’, to ‘Play it again, Sam’, none have made it more to daily usability than ‘Houston, we have a problem!’ from the movie Apollo 13. Reminding my son ‘Saransh, I am their father’ does not…