Architecture Building Block: Comprehensive Performance Testing
It is a wonderful feeling to come up with an idea, take the risks to make it real, and be rewarded with customers. Even more so when you...
Solution Building Block: Istio for Microservices Management
Istio helps manage large deployments of microservices used to implement a business solution. Here is a quick SBB Istio component view.
Architecture Building Block: Kubernetes Container Management
If you are thinking about adding Kubernetes to your architecture it’s nice to have a starting point that shows what all is included and how they fit together.
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The Are of Peace: The Importance of Regrouping, Part 1
A man joins the Army out of high school. He is assigned to a Division, joins a Battalion, and learns to rely on his Squad and Platoon.
The Are of Peace: The Importance of Regrouping, Part 1
A man joins the Army out of high school. He is assigned to a Division, joins a Battalion, and learns to rely on his Squad and Platoon.
The Art of Peace: One Life
A 90 year life, on paper - one circle per year:
The Art of Peace: Relationship Strength
The second best we can do in this would is to strengthen the relationship between people we care about.
The Art of Peace: Acceptance
Accept your Family and Friends, with all of their flaws. They are one in the same - the person and the actions.
The Art of Peace: A Lifelong Philosophy
If you find yourself without Friends and Family, create your own. If you measure and find yourself surrounded by something other than like-minded people, change this. If you...
The Art of Peace: When We Die
If at all possible try to be present, in person, when each of your Family and Friends pass away.
The Art of Peace: Longevity
If you decide to be close to someone, never leave. Remember, if you start something, finish it, including your friendships and your peace.
The Art of Peace: Avoiding Conflict
Don’t provoke conflict with others. You’ll likely cost them time with their group, and spend your time as well.
The Art of Peace: One Group
A person can only belong to one group. One day they will need to decide which one it is and by that decision hurt the Others. Find your...
The Art of Peace: Age
Remember the Children and the Elders. They are members of your group as well.
The Art of Peace: Closure
Be forgiving of mistakes, but seek the final positive outcome. Don’t teach a Friend of Family member that leaving a task undone is acceptable. This will impact them...
The Art of Peace: Mixing Business And Friendship
It’s okay to mix money and friends when your group is a healthy size and the trust is established.
The Art of Peace: Know Your Role
Don’t let your Friends or Family think they aren’t appreciated. If you don’t appreciate them, remedy this. Part of being in a group is knowing your role.
The Art of Peace: At Peace With Working
If you aren’t happy at work, let your Friends and Family know and get help looking for ways to change this.
The Art of Peace: A Sick Friend
Always accompany a Friend or Family member when they are sick or in the hospital. Divide the effort among your friends if necessary.
The Art of Peace: Likeness of Mind
A man has over fifty tattoos. He builds motorcycles, smokes, and hangs out with a group of people who share the same interests, including his tattoo artist.
The Art of Peace: Speech
Public speaking induces fear.
The Art of Peace: Beginning with Nothing
If you are starting from nothing, and need to establish your social group, draw a group of circles on a page.
The Art of Peace: Sharing An Experience, Part 2
A man goes for a jog by himself. He runs for about six miles alone.
The Art of Peace: Sharing An Experience, Part 1
A woman goes for a job by herself. It’s late in the evening, and she finds herself distracted by watching the surrounding area for her safety. She feels...
The Art of Peace: Finding Your Purpose, Part 2
A man graduates from high school and is unsure of what to do next. He looks to his Friends and Family, and notices that they all drive cars...
The Art of Peace: Finding Your Purpose, Part 1
A man graduates from high school and is unsure of what to do next. He packs his belongings, gathers money he saved, and moves to another country.
The Art of Peace: Others Talking, Party 2
A woman is going to college. She talks to some other students, and one of them make a passive insult about her nationality.
The Art of Peace: Others and Friends
A woman works at a company. The company is hosting an offsite evening event. It is an opportunity to celebrate the work for the year, and a large...
The Art of Peace: Others Talking, Party 1
A woman is going to college. She talks to some other students, and one of them make a passive insult about her nationality.
The Art of Peace: Choosing Others Over Your Group
A man works at a company. A coworker invites him to a work happy hour afterwards. The man agrees. He is late returning home; he children are already...
The Art of Peace: Choosing Your Group Over Others
A man works at a company. A coworker invites him to a work happy hour afterwards. The man politely declines, returns home and spends his evening with his...
The Art of Peace: Feedback From Others
Others do not have enough information to properly judge you or your actions. If they do, remember their judgement is not based on a clear understanding of you....
The Art of Peace: Exploit From Others
Hurtful insults come from people who lack understanding or are trying to exploit you through your emotions. Take note, but disregard the attempt.
The Art of Peace: Criticism From Others
Don’t worry about what the Others say or think about you. Your emotions are Yours, not Others.
The Art of Peace: Take Your Group
Do things with your Group. Try to take each opportunity to be with people you care about and enjoy. Life moves quickly. If you could the number of...
The Art of Peace: Limited Time
If you are 21, visit your parents 2 times a year, here are the number of visits you have left with your parents if they are 60 and...
The Art of Peace: Closeness
Stay close to your Friends and Family, mentally and physically.
The Art of Peace: Associations
Do not choose your Family and Friends by hobby, career, sports team, religion upbringing, politics, or any other man-made association.
The Art of Peace: Likeness of Mind
Choose your Family and Friends, not by blood, by color of skin, but by Likeness of Mind. “I like this person” is the most reliable measure for lasting...
The Art of Peace: Follow Your Instincts
Trust your instincts about a person. Don’t be afraid of offending someone if you don’t feel right about them.
The Art of Peace: Expression with Trust
Don’t be afraid to express your concerns to a Family Member or Friend. If they do something that hurts you or you do not agree with, your other...
The Art of Peace: Help Fully
If you are going to help someone, help fully.
The Art of Peace: Direct Your Energy Wisely
We cannot, as humans, guarantee that our effort to help more than our Self, our Family, and our Friends is actually helpful. Donate $100, and $10 may hurt...
The Art of Peace: Support Your Friends and Family
Support your Friends and Family. Patronize their businesses above all others; listen and understand; provide constructive feedback; sit with them in times of need.
The Art of Peace: Personal Effort
If you devote yourself to an effort, be certain it is directly for your Self, your Family, or your Friends.
The Art of Peace: Strength of Friendships
If you are unable to remember a person’s details, and unwilling to remedy this, they are not a Friend. Treat them as an Other - respectfully, but appropriately.
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The Art of Peace: Finish What Your Start
Finish what you start. Don’t start what you won’t finish.
The Art of Peace: Peace
The Art of Peace is to be in control of your Self, to love your Family, to appreciate and support your Friends, and to treat all Others respectfully,...
The Art of Peace: Four Groups
Consider four groups of people.
The Art of Peace: The Social Human
As a human, your natural order is to be with other humans.
The Art of Peace: The Mind's Limits
Our minds are as physical as they are abstract.
The Art of Peace: A Source of Lasting Peace
Most things have a natural order, described by basic principles. Peace and prosperity come from finding and following this order. Exploit comes from deliberately causing disorder.
