I want to express my gratitude to my colleagues and friends Ricardo Sueiras, Isabel Huerga Ayza, Matt Fitzgerald, Antonio Valle, Aaron Schwam, and Won Huh for their valuable feedback.

In this blog post, I want to look back a little bit because, as Rachel Carson said:

“To understand the living present and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.” — Rachel Carson

For those who don’t know, Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 —…

reInvent 2020 is coming to an end. A lot of new launches have happened since I published Part 1 of this series. Because digesting all the different updates takes time and a lot of coffee, I thought I’d help you out a little.

Following is a curated list of things…

While reInvent just started, the first keynote from Andy Jassy has had a lot of new launches. I know that digesting all the updates takes time and a lot of coffee, so let me help you.

Following is a curated list of things that I found most important; matters related…

I want to express my gratitude to my colleagues and friends Ricardo Sueiras, Matt Fitzerald, and Boaz Ziniman for their valuable feedback.

A list of my operational excellence related blog posts.

Series on Operational Excellence

It takes three interconnecting elements to operate the technology we build successfully. First, you need to have the right culture. Second, you need great tools. And third, you need complete processes.

Part 1 of the series covers the cultural side of…

Large-scale distributed software systems are composed of several individual sub-systems-such as CDNs, load balancers, and databases-and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen turbulent events (for example, a network failure). These events can lead to system-wide failures.

Chaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a…