I am a technologist and entrepreneur. I have specialized in ATG/Oracle eCommerce for the last 25 years, and am a Java/J2EE Architect. I am one of three founders of Spark::red a premium ATG Managed Hosting provider (now part of the Pivotree family). Eleven years ago we were three guys in a coffee shop, we grew to well over 30 people and host sites for the Fortune 1000. I also created 10MinuteMail, a simple and secure temporary e-mail provider which gets about 3.5 million page views a month. I recently started Black Magic Consulting to enable me to help companies, large and small, with improving efficiency and automation via technology. I also have several other projects in the very early stages, so stay tuned!
- Productivity Pitfalls of Prolific Project PlacementsIf you work on projects, whether they’re client-facing or internal, chances are you’ve been allocated across multiple projects at once. This often leaves you feeling like you’re struggling to meet expectations on any of them. The impact on productivity is more significant than many of… Read more: Productivity Pitfalls of Prolific Project Placements
- Cloudflare Workers User Management and Session FrameworkIf you’ve been keeping up with my blog posts and GitHub Profile, you’ll know that I’ve been exploring the world of Cloudflare Workers. I am working on a personal project perfectly suited for stateless architecture and serverless compute, so I am utilizing Cloudflare Workers. The… Read more: Cloudflare Workers User Management and Session Framework
- How Does Cloudflare Workers Compare to AWS Lambda?Cloudflare Workers After exclusively running my workloads at AWS for years and years, I’ve recently started building some applications with Cloudflare Workers. Initially this was just to teach myself a new technology. However, I’ve been so impressed I’ve started migrating several AWS Lambda applications to Cloudflare.… Read more: How Does Cloudflare Workers Compare to AWS Lambda?