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Hi 👋🏼, I'm Steve Francia
You’re probably running my code right now. Cobra powers kubernetes, docker, and GitHub’s gh. Hugo builds millions of websites. Together, my personal projects have earned 200k+ GitHub stars.
I’ve spent three decades creating the developer stack: MongoDB’s developer experience, container standards at Docker, leading Go at Google, AI at Two Sigma. The tech was never the point. Here I write about the human stack: building products, teams, and communities that last.
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spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website
spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.
Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB
Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.
MongoDB and PHP, The Book
I wrote a book. It is published by O’Reilly, and available now on Amazon, O’Reilly Media and a …
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
Windows Power User Tools
I’m a huge fan of Windows 7. It’s the first time I’ve ever run a Microsoft OS on my primary …
LDS SORT Tech Conference 2011
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the LDS Church’s SORT tech conference. Nearly 1200 …
Hybrid Cloud Computing
Traditionally ecommerce companies have had no place in the cloud. The lack of established …
Where have all the good databases gone?
Perhaps you’ll recognize these words, “About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing. …
Easy bash scripting with shflags
One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix …
Competition for the Cloud Heats Up
Cloud no longer a single vendor game. For years cloud computing has been synonymous with Amazon …
Creating a Symfony2 Console Command
One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been it’s ability to write proper …
Pandora's IPO ... a sign of the times
Pandora filed their IPO today. By end of day Pandora was worth 3.2 Billion . The amazing thing …
The Browser as an application platform
With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in …
Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle
Symfony2 is a great web framework. OpenSky is built on this framework and we are one of the …
Release early, release often to minimize risk
Release Cycles have been debated for the last 30 years and will certainly be for the next 30. …
My Favorite Rands Posts
If you don’t know Rands (real name Michael Lopp), you should. His blog is full of excellent …
Announcing Projects & Presentations
I’ve decided to expand the scope of this site a bit to be more than just a blog. It makes …