Ron Powell
Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
Ron has a background in space physics, having worked as a Cassini team member analyzing plasmas trapped in Saturn’s magnetosphere. He now works for CircleCI in San Francisco, Calif. as a Technical Content Marketing Manager producing content that enables developers to build, test, and deploy their projects faster. Previously, he was a developer evangelist at Samsung Electronics, America where he specialized in 360-degree video production and developing applications for virtual reality hardware, wearables, and IoT.
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Cloud cost-optimization strategies
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Testing in production is not as scary as it sounds
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Recovering from the Git detached HEAD state
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes: how to choose a container orchestration tool
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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7 Benefits of testing in isolation
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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SOA vs microservices: going beyond the monolith
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Deploying vs releasing: What you should know to prevent outages
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Functional programming vs object-oriented programming (OOP)
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Tips for designing distributed systems
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Benefits of containerization
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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SQL vs NoSQL databases
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Top 8 uses of cloud computing
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Top 6 advantages of software as a service
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Top 6 benefits of virtualization
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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How to reduce flaky test failures
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Benefits and challenges of monorepo development practices
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Canary vs blue-green deployment to reduce downtime
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Continuous integration with GitOps
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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How to secure your CI pipeline
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Scaling my application: am I ready?
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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You don’t need to migrate from Jenkins. Start building beside it.
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Is my CI pipeline vulnerable?
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Continuous integration for mobile application development
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Essential DevOps principles
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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How to measure DevOps success: 4 key metrics
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Do I really need Kubernetes?
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Feedback loops: the key to improving mean time to recovery
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy
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Getting your manager to say ‘yes’ to DevOps tools
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Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy