I got my start working in the tech world back in the dot-com days, at an Idealab! startup. I have also spent time in Web2 at MySpace, and more recently in Web3 at my own startup. I have worked extensively with systems and networks, including as a Principal Architect in the CDN world. I present on various topics at a wide variety of venues, with recordings and slide decks posted online. I am currently the Principal Architect at Inertia Labs, a consulting firm dedicated to issues around serving infrastructure quality such as SRE, Observability, and Platform Architecture

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Cloud Rationalization - Industry Trends to Hybrid Environments

The last generation of startups were all born and grew up in the Cloud.  Now that they've grown and established themselves, they're revisiting their Cloud decisions due to concerns about cost, performance, security, compliance, control, and sizing.  However, the expertise to do this has atrophied in Cloud-only shops, and the knowledge needed to do this has been lost.  With Infrastructure-as-Code and modern platforms like OpenStack, we can recreate this knowledge and customize hybrid cloud and self-hosted solutions, the future of these Cloud-only companies.  

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