Software Development's Magic Triangle
There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is called a magic triangle. …
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 & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination
Last night I gave a presentation on MongoDB & Ecommerce. OpenSky is the first company to …
16 lessons from 16 years
16 lessons learned I learned from my first 16 years working in the technology industry.
Selling on OpenSky
As anyone who reads my blog or follows my tweets knows, I’ve been working for a new startup …
Watch what you say
I came across an article today titled “Help! My boss is on twitter“. Allow me to share a secret …
Ultimate Vim Config
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the …
Moving to WordPress
I’ve used Drupal to power my blog since I started it over 2 years ago. It has been a bitter …
The Golden Hammer
Every so often a “new” technology catches on. Right now it’s nosql databases. A couple years …
NoSQL Databases
Amazon, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter all started on sql databases (all but Amazon on …
Next Gen PHP Frameworks
With the release of PHP 5.3, PHP released the most significant capabilities in years. …
Finding the Right People
Since I began at Open Sky a few weeks ago I have been tasked with building out a great team. …
Transitions
I couldn’t be more excited to announce that I have accepted a position at The Open Sky Project. …
VIM Crash Course
Most developers know the basics of VIM, enough to edit a conf file, but most stay there, …
Unix Jobs Management
Every self respecting linux, mac os X or *nix user should have a solid handle on managing jobs …
Human readable du sorted by size
du is the *nix command for disk usage. It tells you how much space everything in the given …
Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3)
Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the …
Using the right keys
Today I was visiting a friends office and like many offices in NYC they have a shared bathroom …
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP