Tammer Saleh

The Cloud is a quantum flux that pushes the limits of the definition of "eventually consistent". I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. VMs returning from a deprovision command a year later. Entire regions destroyed by a router misconfig. API...

One of the hardest judgement calls in programming is determining the balance between refactoring and progress. Focusing on the quality of the codebase is an investment in its maintainability. Of course, when taken to the extreme, this can completely...

I've often heard from fellow developers that they don't feel they have a strong foundation of UNIX principles. The Unix Philosophy is a good set of meta-rules (much like SOLID principles), but I do better by seeing concrete examples.
This description of Runit is such an example. It makes graceful use of the filesystem, symlinks, convention-over-configuration, process semantics, tool modularity and so on....

I lead a team of engineers here in the London Pivotal office, who are responsible for building the next generation of Data Services for Pivotal CF. Here's some of our thinking around building reliable, self-sustaining, dynamically provisioned data services...