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October 9, 2020

The “Mic Drop” On Fast File Migration Speed

How Long Does a File Migration Last Anyways?

Fast Cloud File Migration and Throughput

I have been manning conference booths and speaking at technical conferences for over a decade, usually covering the topic of migration in some shape or form. Recently, I attended a technical conference in Las Vegas, for instance. Typical stuff: giant marketing cloths behind me making wild claims of ridiculously fast cloud file migration – a file migration speed of up to 60TB per day.

Surely this is the work of some funny-math executed by a sales VP and then begrudgingly incorporated into a booth banner by some young, inexperienced marketing person. Except that it’s not, and we don’t do inexperienced!

May 10, 2019

Use Version Control for Everything

Version control is an important part of file management on every software development project I've ever worked on in the last two decades, regardless of the methodology. I've used Subversion and Git and several others in the process of building software.

I always find it a bit surprising that other industries don't use version control nearly as much as we do in the software industry. For example, I know several writers who know nothing about version control and they would benefit greatly from it. The same is true for several artists and graphics designers who I know. I find that version control it is extremely easy to work with and gives me some key benefits.

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