Failures at Scale and How to Ignore Them

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Probably the best talk that I have been to in recent memory occurred in November 2012 at the Venetian Hotel. Amazon was holding their inaugural Amazon Web Services Re:invent conference. James Hamilton is an Distinguished Engineer at Amazon and brought insights into providing data service at massive scale. This talk has caused me to think differently about how to deploy services and manage risk in the IT environments (admittedly smaller than AWS) that I work in. It also challenges me to think more concretely about delivering IT service in relation to resource costing and efficiency. I still go back to YouTube for a listen from time to time!

Mr. Hamilton's website:
http://mvdirona.com/jrh/work/

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Quitting: Part 1

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I wanted to share some of my thoughts about information technology and leadership for the first time on the blog. I'm starting here with more to come soon!

1) If a given IT department is not reevaluating everything they are doing this year, they have already started down the road to failure. Every technology, every system, every position and role, every assumption must be challenged. How we provide IT services is changing so fast and so dramatically that there can be nothing sacred anymore.

May the best info tech ideas win in 2012 and beyond.

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