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
Using Nginx as a Load Balancer

Using Nginx as a Load Balancer

Nginx is a relatively new web server that has a light footprint and relatively easy …

Featured in CIO Magazine!

Featured in CIO Magazine!

I don’t know what could be more shocking that opening this month’s edition of CIO magazine and …

Choosing a Hosting Partner

Choosing a Hosting Partner

No question about it, choosing a good hosting partner is one of the most important decisions a …

Social Media Recognition

Social Media Recognition

Recently I’ve been fortunate to be recognized in a few publications. I extend a warm welcome to …

New Facebook in Depth Review

New Facebook in Depth Review

Facebook just unveiled their biggest change yet. The http://www.new.facebook.com website is a …

Setting up Subversion with multiple access methods

Setting up Subversion with multiple access methods

One thing that makes subversion such a powerful revision system is it’s ability to permit …

Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources

Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources

Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace (eBay)

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace (eBay)

Do you still remember when eBay was a great place to buy and sell things? Today most auctions …

Stop Twitter from Becoming the next MySpace

Stop Twitter from Becoming the next MySpace

6 months ago Twitter was the best place in existence to use and develop great relations with …

Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed

Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed

For the past few months Facebook has been obsessed with Twitter. It’s easy to see why. Twitter …

Growing in a Down Economy

Growing in a Down Economy

Strategies for growing while your competition shrinks in a down economy.

Backup Your Files

Backup Your Files

This article will show you how to automatically backup your files often and automatically.

Portero Raises 6.6 Million

Portero Raises 6.6 Million

In a round of financing led by LFE Capital Portero Inc, the worlds leading online luxury store raises 6.6 million to build out a robust technology platform.

Backing up MySQL

Backing up MySQL

How to fully automate the backup of a MySQL database system.

One Hundred Pushups

One Hundred Pushups

Move over skinny nerds. I've begun the 100 puphup challenge and am announcing it here to ensure I take it seriously.

How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple

How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple

Just because you are the market leader doesn't mean you will stay the market leader. A lesson on competition given by Apple to RIM.

Hire Your Next Consultant Using Twitter

Hire Your Next Consultant Using Twitter

How to find great and qualified people to hire using Twitter.

Promotion

Promotion

Portero Inc, the worlds leading online luxury destination, announces the promotion of Steve Francia to CIO.