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Honored to be on this list! → The first winners of our Titans of Technology awards

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Wow!

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Excited to partner up with Bridget Kromhout and get the AWS MN Amazon Web Services Twin Cities meetup group revived!

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Always fun night for Minnedemo!

Peter Zaballos introducing SPS Commerce to Minnedemo crowd! Go #TeamSPS!

Man in glasses and light blue shirt speaking into a handheld microphone on a dimly lit stage beside a copper podium at Minnedemo

Proud to be part of Minnedemo (Minnebar & Minnestar) in three different ways!

Three Minnedemo name badges for Jamie Thinglestad pinned to a dark shirt, showing roles as board member, community supporter, and sponsor.
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Grand Marais Photo Workshop

Photos from the photography workshop Tammy and I took with Layne Kennedy this week.

Two trucks with gear loaded on their roofs drive along a two-lane highway lined with tall pine trees on a sunny day. Wooden dock extending over calm lake water with a Danger Extremely Cold Water sign as two people swim and one jumps in Woman in a beige cardigan and blue Crocs sits on a stack of logs petting a brown and white dog standing on its hind legs Dragon boat race on open water, boat number 1 with a dragon head prow, drummer seated at bow, paddlers behind Rustic log cabin game room with a chess set on a live-edge table, board games on shelves, and mounted animal heads on the walls. Older man in a plaid shirt crouches with a Canon camera while a brown and white calf leans its head toward him and a horse stands behind Sun setting behind a dark forested ridgeline over calm lake water with a glowing orange reflection stretching toward the viewer Houseboat with wood-paneled cabin floating on calm water at golden hour, small white lighthouse and sailboat in background Infrared black-and-white photo of a small white country church with a cross-topped steeple beside a rural cemetery and bright foliage Elderly man in plaid shirt suspenders and cap sits beside a large circular saw blade at an outdoor sawmill Ornate dining room with vivid geometric painted ceiling in red orange and blue above blue-clothed tables set with red napkins Rustic log cabin interior packed with taxidermy mounts including elk, deer, and black bears, plus antlers covering the ceiling and walls. Four people paddling a green canoe on calm water near a white lighthouse on a concrete pier with people walking on it

See list of Photography Workshops.

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Silhouette on Superior

Watercolor painting of a lone figure standing on a rocky cliff edge above misty water, with trees behind them.
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Good morning from Grand Marais.

Red sun setting behind a forested hillside over calm water, with its reflection shimmering on the surface below.
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WikiApiary Stickers

StickerMule had a great deal a couple of weeks ago so I had these fun WikiApiary clear vinyl stickers made. They really came out great!

If you want one for your laptop or whatever send me a note and I’ll put one in the mail.

Dozens of small cartoon bumblebee stickers scattered across a sunflower-patterned background with yellow petals and brown centers.
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DevOpsDays MSP 2014

  • DevOpsDays MSP day 2 getting started with Jeff Sussna!
    Conference session in a tiered auditorium with a presenter at a podium and a projected yellow slide reading Protip: promises aren't always kept.
  • Thank you DevOpsDays MSP for opportunity to sponsor a great event!
  • The primary objective of development teams is to create new services and applications.
  • The primary objective of tech operations is to insure 24x7 operations, which all change threatens.
  • Any tech organization that doesn’t acknowledge, embrace and empathize around these two facts has a broken culture.
  • Agree with this @beerops.
    Presenter stands at a podium in a tiered lecture hall showing a slide titled Doing It Wrong with three silos labeled DEV, DevOps, and OPS.
  • There are places where developers are not on call? Technology is on the hook, not just one part.
  • Yikes. That’s a lot of red.
    Presenter stands at a podium in a tiered lecture hall as attendees with laptops watch a projected screen showing a data table with many red rows.
  • “There is no root cause.” - Ian Malpass
  • “Root cause” dismisses the inherit complexity in large systems.
  • I prefer the term “incident report” over “root cause analysis” because oftentimes there is no root cause.
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Gorgeous day for US National Kubb Championship!

Outdoor kubb tournament on a green field with crowds of players, coolers, and a Planet Kubb banner flag under overcast skies.