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Ron Powell

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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.

A graph shows an alert when costs in the cloud get too high.

Cloud cost-optimization strategies

Jul 11, 20229 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

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Testing in production is not as scary as it sounds

Nov 5, 20214 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

A series of green dots represents commits to main, while a branch points to a single commit representing a Git detached HEAD

Recovering from the Git detached HEAD state

Oct 21, 20216 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

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Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes: how to choose a container orchestration tool

Oct 13, 20216 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

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7 Benefits of testing in isolation

Oct 10, 20216 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

A single group of shapes appears next to a stack of three groups of shapes, showing the difference between two types of service-based software development.

SOA vs microservices: going beyond the monolith

Oct 5, 20217 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

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Deploying vs releasing: What you should know to prevent outages

Oct 1, 20214 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

Overlapping groups of coding elements demonstrate the differences between functional programming and OOP.

Functional programming vs object-oriented programming (OOP)

Sep 23, 20219 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

Components of different shapes share a system of connection points stretching out from a central component.

Tips for designing distributed systems

Sep 21, 20219 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

A stack of stylized groups of computer code next to a group of laptops displaying code elements.

Benefits of containerization

Sep 14, 20217 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

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SQL vs NoSQL databases

Sep 10, 20219 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

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Top 8 uses of cloud computing

Sep 6, 20219 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

2021-09-01-top-6-advantages-saas

Top 6 advantages of software as a service

Aug 31, 20216 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

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Top 6 benefits of virtualization

Aug 20, 20216 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

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How to reduce flaky test failures

May 26, 20218 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

Multiple workers manipulate stylized blocks on a single table representing a monorepo repository structure.

Benefits and challenges of monorepo development practices

May 24, 20217 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

Two columns, one blue and one green, show parallel deployments. To the right, a few items from a group are highlighted, showing a canary deployment.

Canary vs blue-green deployment to reduce downtime

May 12, 20218 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

2021-05-10-GitOps-v1

Continuous integration with GitOps

May 9, 20216 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

A series of vertical pipelines with lock mechanisms at various heights, each decorated with a large symbol.

How to secure your CI pipeline

May 7, 20217 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

2021-03-22-ScalingApps-v1

Scaling my application: am I ready?

Mar 21, 20218 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

A Jenkins pencil draws the left half of a pipeline contraption, while a green CircleCI pencil completes the drawing on the right.

You don’t need to migrate from Jenkins. Start building beside it.

Mar 2, 20216 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

2021-02-24-Vulnerabilities-v2

Is my CI pipeline vulnerable?

Feb 23, 20216 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

2021-01-20-MobileApps

Continuous integration for mobile application development

Jan 19, 20217 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

Two pairs of developers monstrate DevOps principles of collaboration and continuous feedback by working together on a shared project.

Essential DevOps principles

Jan 15, 20215 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

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How to measure DevOps success: 4 key metrics

Nov 19, 20207 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

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Do I really need Kubernetes?

Oct 19, 20208 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

2020-01-27 MetricsBreakout-TimeToRecovery-v2

Feedback loops: the key to improving mean time to recovery

Jan 31, 20205 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy

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Getting your manager to say ‘yes’ to DevOps tools

Nov 21, 20186 min read
Ron Powell

Ron Powell

Senior Manager, Marketing Insights and Strategy