I am Devon Hillard
I am a technologist and entrepreneur. I have specialized in ATG/Oracle eCommerce for the last 21 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 to 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!
Recent Posts:
Office Hours – Redux
I am offering my knowledge and advice for free! I have decided to repeat an experiment I did back in 2013, and offer Office Hours. The idea is that if you're interested, we can meet [...]
AWS, WordPress, Bitnami, and Ansible – A Journey
In The Beginning… I’ve been running a number of Wordpress sites at AWS, and using the Bitnami AMIs to do so. They make it super easy, just fire up an instance of the AMI, [...]
Spring AWS SQS Queue Problem QueueDoesNotExistException
I have been working building a Spring Boot application running at AWS. Today I was working on setting it up to receive SQS messages. Like many things in Spring Boot, it is remarkably simple. [...]
OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock Review
I was lucky enough to receive a pre-release demo unit of OWC’s upcoming Thunderbolt 3 Dock and I wanted to write a review of my experience with it. I’ve had one of the new 15” Apple [...]