TL: DR – – https://github.com/vtexan/emcdotnext-minecraft As you may recall back in my OSCON Blog post, Brian Verkley (@BVerkley) and I had the pleasure of sitting through a really interesting talk from Julia Ferraioli with Google. She discussed running Java type apps like Minecraft in containers. Java Apps are probably one of the most […]
Read More Running Minecraft in a Container with Persistent StorageAs you may recall, I moved into a new focus in January of this year. It’s REALLY outside of my comfort zone from a focus perspective. The Cloud Native Apps team I belong to is really not focused on “storage” or even a particular OS/Hypervisor like I’ve done in the past. It’s geared towards […]
Read More RedisConf 2016Last week Brian Verkley (@bverkley) and I had the extreme pleasure of presenting at the 2016 EMC World in Las Vegas. We were part of “Code and Modern Operations” Track. Our discussion was around 12 Factor App development as it relates to Cloud Native Apps. We took the audience made up mostly of […]
Read More EMC World 2016 12 Factor App FTWThis has taken way longer than I had hoped I wanted to post my April 2016 Austin VMUG Conference Lunchtime keynote. I’ve posted it to Slideshare and you can link to it from here 2016 April Austin VMUG User Conference – lunch keynote from Tommy Trogden
Read More Austin VMUG Conference–Keynote April 2016In my last blog post (New Year with a new focus) I mentioned that I’m on a new journey – one that requires me to roll up my sleeves and get comfortable being uncomfortable in this new world of Cloud Native Apps. For those of you playing along at home, I thought I […]
Read More Let the journey begin–where I started firstOver 5 years ago I left a storage startup to move to EMC to be a vSpecialist. Probably one of the most Pivotal (pun intended) moves I’ve ever made. The numerous opportunities afforded to me here at EMC has been crazy. I went from being a vSpecialist individual contributor, to a vSpecialist Manager to […]
Read More New Year with a new focusIf I’ve said it once, I’ve said it hundreds of times. If you don’t like change, you are going to like irrelevance even less and that is no truer yesterday than it is today and tomorrow. The amount of change IT is going through is incredible. If you aren’t always trying to figure […]
Read More My thoughts on EMC and DellThis is my ElReg style title You like ?!?! HAHA <tap tap tap> is this blog still on? What an amazing time to be in the technology sector and information infrastructure as a whole. So many things going on, so many opportunities and so much information to consume. It can sometimes […]
Read More So what does this all meanI had the absolute pleasure of delivering the lunch keynote at the April 7th VMware UserGroup Conference in Austin. I always enjoy presenting and love it even more when I can be vendor neutral and talk about things that are passionate to me. This presentation is focused on disruption, which interestingly enough is something […]
Read More Austin VMUG Preso–DisruptionTL:DR – go sign up and participate in the VMware Virtual User Group Meeting <-LINK Do you have an active VMUG in your city? If not, do you wish you did? When was the last time you were able to attend one? Here is a FANTASTIC opportunity for you to participate in a “Virtual […]
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