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Sam Briesemeister

Datacenter Renaissance: part one

With the rise of Kubernetes, enterprise investments in legacy datacenters can become significant economic leverage, by converting legacy IT ops into private clouds. While many enterprises have considered divesting their datacenter infrastructure, and moving primarily or purely into public cloud environments, they may be missing a significant economic opportunity. Kubernetes, along with other automation, provides a unique opportunity to transform cost centers into value-producers, creating efficiencies and accelerating innovation.

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Orchestrated Chaos: a Tale of Radical Progress

How my team pivoted a product strategy, delivered a product from idea to alpha in weeks, and launched a new product with mind-boggling speed.

This year in my career has been absolutely amazing. We’ve delivered profound results by learning a new way to produce software that our customers love, quickly and responsively. This story conveys my recollection of this pivotal time in our careers, and the agile software principles that made us successful.

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Sam Briesemeister

All is Calm

A reflection on the personal dynamics of leadership. As leaders, we sometimes find that our character, reputation, and past successes have earned us new responsibilities, and new challenges: these are opportunities under our stewardship. Some of these will come with new teams, new staff, and new initiatives. Some of these will be strategically important to our companies and our careers.

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The Agile Data Warehouse on Amazon Redshift

Redshift is a great OLAP database environment, though its limitations may surprise you. Many of its benefits are derived from its simplicity, belied by these limitations. Provided these techniques and design considerations can be applied, Redshift offers the flexibility needed for growing, evolving organizations to leverage their data at massive scale. Overcoming these limitations requires a tooling ecosystem surrounding Redshift, whereas Redshift must be respected for the simple, efficient, and yet robustly queriable datastore that it is.

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