Engineering Manager, Cloud Advocate, hacker, and open source enthusiast.

I’m Brian, and I teach people how to use the Cloud. I’ve been active in Open Source for as long as I’ve been coding — and that’s a long time.

With some friends, I wrote a book about the Go programming language. I’ve given many talks about Go, Distributed Computing, and programming in general.

Poke around and see what I’m up to. It’s all open source, so feel free to contribute.

Scratching Your Own Itches

I love to use Incus for development environments. But I noticed that the version of Incus on my Bluefin workstation was out of date so I invested 15 minutes to fix the problem.

How I Bluefin: Using the ultimate developer Linux

The Bluefin team recently announced the beta of Project Bluefin. I've spent a lot of time over the past year working on the DX - Developer Experience - version of Bluefin. In this article I'll highlight some of the decisions we made, some of the features we included, and show you how you can use Bluefin DX as your daily driver for an amazing development workstation.

Forecast: Cloudy

It is finally convenient to dump localhost development.

Work

  1. Company
    Microsoft
    Role
    Principal Engineering Manager
    Date
  2. Company
    Amazon
    Role
    Principal Developer Advocate
    Date
  3. Company
    Microsoft
    Role
    Principal Cloud Developer Advocate
    Date
  4. Company
    XOR Data Exchange
    Role
    CIO
    Date
  5. Company
    Clarity Services, Inc.
    Role
    COO
    Date
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