Hey, I’m Steve Francia

I design and develop experiences that make developers lives simple.

You may know me from helping to build the Go Language, Docker, MongoDB, and Drupal & creating Hugo, Cobra, and spf13-vim. Here I publish my thoughts on technology, open source, and life.

Hey, I'm Steve Francia
MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up

MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up

A round up of projects created during the driver days hack day by the 10gen drivers team focused on the MongoDB user experience.

Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012

Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012

open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.

The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery

The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery

There are many reasons companies fail to create an effective disaster recovery plan. Far too often they fall prey to the common myths of disaster recovery.

Protecting Intellectual Property on Your Blog

Protecting Intellectual Property on Your Blog

6 steps to protect your intellectual property as posted on your blog, forum or website.

Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON

Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON

Giving a presentation that had more views on slideshare in it's first week than any other OSCON presentation had in 12 years.

How to deliver a great conference tutorial

How to deliver a great conference tutorial

4 secrets I used to give the most popular presentation in the history of OSCON.

Add PhotoshopCS5 support to Picasa

Add PhotoshopCS5 support to Picasa

How to easily add a button in Picasa that will allow you to edit the current picture in Photoshop.

Building your first MongoDB app - OSCON 2012

Building your first MongoDB app - OSCON 2012

This tutorial given at OSCON 2012 will introduce the features of MongoDB by building a simple location-based application using MongoDB.

Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery

Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery

This session introduces the basic components of high availability before going into a deep dive on MongoDB replication.

Multi Data Center Strategies and MongoDB

Multi Data Center Strategies and MongoDB

Data Center Strategies for deployment to multiple data centers, Including a deep dive into deploying MongoDB across a wide area network.

Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP

Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP

The first in a series of posts on MongoDB and PHP that will both explain why you should use MongoDB and teach you how.

NoSQL databases and Managing Big Data

NoSQL databases and Managing Big Data

A review of the various NoSQL databases including MongoDB, cassandra, redis and how they handle big data.

MongoDB, Hadoop and Humongous Data

MongoDB, Hadoop and Humongous Data

Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.

Don't look now, I'm on DZone

Don't look now, I'm on DZone

I'm happy to announce that going forward you'll be able to read my articles on DZone as well as spf13.com.

spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution

spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution

spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …

New personal site powered by GitHub Pages

New personal site powered by GitHub Pages

At 10gen we had new headshots taken recently. I think mine came out great. I took this …

spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website

spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website

spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.

Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB

Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB

Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.