Hybrid Cloud Computing
Traditionally ecommerce companies have had no place in the cloud. The lack of established …
Hi 👋🏼, I'm Steve Francia
You’ve probably run my code today. Cobra powers kubernetes, docker, and GitHub’s gh. Hugo builds millions of websites. Together, my personal projects have earned 195K+ 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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MongoDB, E-Commerce and Transactions
Last week I had the pleasure of attending MongoUK in London. I had a great time presenting and …
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 …
Blending Mongo and RDBMS for ecommerce
Justin Hileman and I presented at MongoNYC 2011 to a packed house. Our presentation outlines …
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 …
Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce
Justin Hileman and I gave a presentation on “Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce” at …
Getting Started with Symfony2
In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2, the open source PHP framework we use at …
On Symfony2
Symfony2 is the latest brainchild of Fabien Potencier.
The perfect .vimrc vim config file
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration. This is the …
The most productive 20 minutes of my day
As part of my new years resolution to get in shape and spend less dough I decided that I’d be …