Brian is a nominated member of the Docker Captain’s program and a seasoned DevOps engineer specializing in Docker, Cloud Native, DevOps, and Monitoring.
Startup
As I look back on 2014 year in review/2015 Goals post I'm quite happy with what I've accomplished. However not a goal or accomplishment, the birth of our son Flynn was the biggest blessing I could ever imagine. Everything else pales in comparison when looking
Docker
Docker has had their hands full editing hours of amazing video content from DockerCon EU 2015. I'm also catching up on sessions I wasn't able to attend. It gives me great pleasure to announce that my presentation and video are now live. Enjoy the presentation and
Docker
I’m on my flight from Barcelona (goodbye sunshine) to Zurich, decompressing from all the announcements, tech talks, and new connections made during the last 2 days. DockerCon EU delivered on everything they promised. I finally talked to people in person I’ve been following on Twitter or slack page
Docker
I'm currently somewhere in Europe, traveling to DockerCon at warp speed or as fast as this Swiss Airlines Airbus A321 will allow us to fly. I've been preparing for DockerCon for quite some time. I actually used my four-month-old son as my audience to practice my
Random
Over time PowerPoint has become the de facto application that is used at meetings around the world regardless of which topic or meeting format. However once a PowerPoint presentation is presented at a meeting the meeting turns from bi-directional to a broadcast communication format. PowerPoint is killing discussions and open
Docker
What an exciting journey this has turned out to be. What started out as simple curiosity about learning about Docker has actually led to some amazing opportunities. I first installed Docker during the 0.6.x version, which was about six months after the initial Docker release. My first thoughts
Life Hacking
My morning routine probably sounds like most people. Wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, drink lot's of coffee, consume Twitter and FB feeds until I have to make a mad dash out the door. I really felt my morning routine was just a waste of energy and
Docker
My tinkering with things can sometimes result in extra parts lying around after the project is finished, and I don't know where they fit. The same was the case recently when updating this website. Well, I broke it—bad! A little background. This website is running inside a
Docker
Learn how to scale Docker containers efficiently using Docker Compose. This guide covers scaling services, managing stateful apps, and monitoring scaled containers.
Docker
Continuing with the great response from the Docker Monitoring post. I am following up by investigating the setup of Prometheus. I first discovered Prometheus while making changes to the cAdvisor documentation and noticed that cAdvisor now integrates with Prometheus. So, what is Prometheus? Prometheus was a solution created by SoundCloud
Docker
Compare the sizes of popular Docker base OS images like Alpine, Ubuntu, and Debian. Learn why image size matters, the smallest available images, performance impacts, and trade-offs involved in choosing the right base OS for your containers.
Open Source
I used to be able to do these tasks with my eyes closed with AIX and other version of Linux and Unix. Today my brain blue screened on me while trying to expand my Ubuntu machine's root volume group, logical volume, and filesystem. Wow it's been