Daemonic Dispatches

I'm excited to announce Route 53 Files, a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon's highest-availability database.

I created my first AWS account at 10:31 PM on April 10th, 2006.

In 2021 I started publishing FreeBSD AMI IDs in the SSM Parameter Store; this made it much easier for scripts to launch EC2 instances without needing to have hard-coded AMI IDs.

I've been maintaining FreeBSD in the EC2 cloud since 2012, and from October 2013 onwards FreeBSD AMIs had code to automatically download and install security and critical errata updates when they first boot.

As most of my readers are aware, I ported FreeBSD to run on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and have been maintaining the platform ever since.

Amazon's Leadership Principles are famous, not just within Amazon but also in the tech world at large.

I've been maintaining FreeBSD on the Amazon EC2 platform ever since I first got it booting in 2010, but in November 2023 I added to my responsibilities the role of FreeBSD release engineering lead — just in time to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.…

Ten years ago I wrote that it would require someone smarter than me to extract information from the way that Tarsnap splits data into chunks.

As an AWS Hero I get free admission to the AWS re:Invent conference; while it's rare that I'm interested in many talks — in previous years I've attended "Advanced" talks which didn't say anything which wasn't already in the published documentation — I do…

There has been a lot of talk about AI recently, and one particular point has received sigificant attention in the tech industry: The cost of training models.