Blogs

WHY DO WE USE LINUX? We posed this question to our team during a weekly meeting. We are so embedded in the Linux ecosystem that it actually took most of us a while to think about reasons that would make sense to people unfamiliar with Linux, or really with any operating system (OS) other than Windows.

THE “INSPIRED” BOOK – BY MARTY CAGAN This post is based on resources from the excellent and popular book from Marty Cagan on Product Management.

We have recently launched a new service to help new clients who need some help with a (semi-)urgent server, network, or code issue which might only need a few hours of an expert’s time to resolve.

Here are some of the SaaS resources that have been useful to me and my companies over the years. Let me know (email, contact form, or LinkedIn) if you have suggestions to add to it, or just to let me know if any of these have been useful to you too!

Recently, at LinuxFest 2019, Rob presented on Node-RED. Here is an interview with Rob about what this is all about, and a link to the Youtube video recording.

Myself and Richard will be presenting at the BC Tech Association next Thursday. We will be sharing our story on how we repurposed DevOps, software development, and system montioring tools to transform our business by visualizing the key drivers to our model.

In Summer 2018, our Crafty Penguins team visited theOpen Source Summit here in Vancouver BC. Here are some gleanings of “what’s cool” from the post-event journal notes from the sessions we attended and found interesting.

When it comes to a money-producing website, speed and reliability do matter. The era of 33k dialup when visitors would patiently wait a minute for a site to load are LONG gone.

For the first half of March 2019, we were in the Spotlight with the BC Tech Association. Click through to read the interview, including a specific interview with yours truly.

This news is almost a year old already, but still worth sharing as not many people have heard about it.

Our team is excited to both attend and sponsor the Friday Night Board Games Night event at LinuxFest Northwest, which will be held again at Bellingham Technical College (WA state) on April 26 – 28, 2019.

The videos from the recent Chilliwack.Tech/Next event have been posted, including Richard’s presentation on ChatOps. It’s very fast paced due to the 30 minute time limit for each technology demo.