Author Archives: Alex Galbraith

Startup Spotlight: Re-skill, Pivot or Get Squashed

The subject matter of this post is a startup of sorts and was triggered by a conversation I had with an industry veteran a few months back. By [..]

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Downtime sucks! Designing Highly Available Applications on a Budget

Downtime sucks. I write this whilst sitting in an airport lounge, having been disembarked from my plane due to a technical fault. I don’t really begrudge the airline [..]

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Scale-Out Doesn’t Just Mean Applications

A couple of months ago I wrote a post entitled Scale-Out. Distributed. Whatever the Name, it’s the Future of Computing. Taking the concept a step further, I recently started thinking [..]

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Juxtaposition Time Pt2! Join us at Scotland VMUG to talk AWS! – April 20th 2017

Woohoo! If everything goes to plan, Chris Porter and I will be taking our AWS for VMware Admins talk on the road to the April 2017 Scottish VMUG. Even more [..]

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