Hey, I'm Matt.
What I'm About
I build software, as a career and as a hobby. I collect and archive all kinds of media. I'm a music lover & mixer & snob. All in pursuit of the Good Life.
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Music
Archiving
Joyrides
Featured Projects
Capital One: Vendor Card Acceptance
WorkUnlocking insights for Small Business Cardholders in the Capital One Web App, enabling increased rewards earn.
Whiskey
PersonalMy second brain. My OS. My personal automation system. Cloud-native, data-rich, and private.
Latest Posts
The Blurred Lines of Cloud Resource Ownership
September 6, 2024
I didn't expect to write a follow up to my post on architecture, organization, and ownership so soon, but I had a new use case come up that I couldn't pass up discussing. Here's a story of how we architected a set of infrastructure not just to ensure delivery and best practices, but also to ensure that maintainability was as simple as possible for the responsible team.
Architecture is Organizational
August 27, 2024
A few months ago I was faced with an architectural question from a team I was helping with their cloud deployments. They were developing a data processing solution that wanted to hook into a shared S3 bucket, owned by another team, which was already integrated into its own system. We deployed a decentralized solution to Production and it worked smoothly. That is, until a few weeks later when the notifications suddenly stopped flowing. The investigation and resolution of this issue revealed a lot about the architecture and the organization that influenced it.