Since 1998, I’ve written thousands of published features, news stories, reviews, analyses, opinion columns, tutorials, and documentation. Collected here is but a small selection of my work.
Feature Articles
- How serious is Russia’s cybersecurity threat to businesses? (PCMag, 3/4/22)
- Six ways to kickstart local development with Kubernetes (Traefik Labs, 3/9/21)
- How self-service is redefining ops engineering (The New Stack, 9/24/19)
- Introduction to event-driven architecture and Apache Kafka (Pivotal, 7/22/19)
- NIST container standards: What you need to know (TechBeacon, 5/4/18)
- Steve Ballmer’s billion-dollar blunders (The Register, 7/25/15)
- Oracle’s Sun buy, 5 years in: Were the critics right? (The Register, 1/28/15)
- Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities (InfoWorld, 8/29/11)
- Offshoring: Navigating the global IT market (New Architect, 1/10/03)
- Database clustering, under the hood (New Architect, 3/12/02)
- Hidden health risks can upend tech workers’ lives (SFGate.com, 4/10/01)
- The paradoxes of quantum computing (SFGate.com, 8/30/00)
Opinion/Analysis
- Shopping for Business Software? Beware the SSO Tax (PCMag, 7/21/22)
- Mainframes: Walking with the dinosaurs (Pivotal, 4/24/19)
- A multi-cloud future is inevitable—and desirable (Pivotal, 12/3/19)
- Betting on community: Why Pivotal is all-in on open source (Pivotal, 4/10/19)
- Autonomy’s Lynch dishes on poisonous life within HP (The Register, 10/2/15)
- Inside Nano Server, Microsoft’s tiny new cloud OS (The Register, 5/1/15)
- So is HP quitting the public cloud business or isn’t it? (The Register, 4/15/15)
- Satya Nadella, Year One: Rating Microsoft’s new CEO (The Register, 2/5/15)
- Inside Rkt, CoreOS’s Docker container rival (The Register, 12/3/14)
- Docker on Windows: What you need to know (The Register, 10/16/14)
- 7 reasons why Windows RT was DOA (The Register, 01/18/2013)
- Why Oracle will buy Sun Microsystems (InfoWorld.com, 4/9/09)
News Reports
- Microsoft, Google ink treaty to end their patent wars (The Register, 10/1/15)
- Oracle: Even new Android devices infringe copyrights (The Register, 8/7/15)
- Food is finally obsolete: Soylent now comes in bottles (The Register, 8/3/15)
- Microsoft posts record quarter, only in a bad way (The Register, 7/21/15)
- Obituary: Christopher Lee, Hammer’s Count Dracula (The Register, 6/11/15)
- Samsung outpaces Qualcomm with 14nm Exynos (The Register, 2/17/15)
Reviews
- Microsoft’s VR tech: HoloLens or Hollow Lens? (The Register, 5/1/15)
- ZTE Open: Firefox OS phone is a swing and miss (The Register, 9/13/13)
- Acer Iconia W3: The first 8″ Windows 8 Pro tablet (The Register, 7/10/13)
- Hands-on with Ubuntu’s rudimentary mobile OS (The Register, 2/23/13)
- Office 2013 vs Office 365: Is either right for you? (The Register, 1/30/13)
Case Studies
- MD Ally Connects Emergency Services With Telemedicine (PCMag, 2/16/22)
- Mixtroz Links Event Attendees With Valuable Peers (PCMag, 1/13/22)
- Elkjøp Accelerates App Modernization with Kubernetes (Traefik Labs, 2/2/21)
- Rocket.Chat manages unified communications at scale (Traefik Labs, 1/6/21)
- Vaudoise modernizes with microservices (Traefik Labs, 10/27/20)
- Liberty Mutual and its culture of constant education (Pivotal, 11/11/19)
Tutorials/Documentation
- Traefik Open Policy Agent (OPA) user guide
- Traefik Vault Certificate Resolver user guide
- Application Request Tracing with Traefik and Jaeger on Kubernetes (3/3/21)
- Log aggregation for Traefik and Kubernetes with the Elastic Stack (2/16/21)
- Capture Traefik metrics for apps on Kubernetes with Prometheus (2/23/21)
- Getting started with Traefik and the Kubernetes Gateway API (2/9/21)
- Lock down your systems with Traefik Enterprise and HashiCorp Vault (11/17/20)
Books
- Information Security: A Strategic Guide for Business (Pricewaterhouse Coopers, 2003 / Coauthor)