Rick Fast

Rick Fast is principal engineer at Orbitz. Prior to Orbitz, Rick was an engineer at CDK Global/Cobalt in Portland, an industry leader in automotive retail software. Additionally, he served as lead engineer at Nokia HERE (formerly Navteq), a provider of digital map data.

Content

A tour of Docker’s components: Machine, swarm, compose, and more

June 1, 2016

Docker has grown from a convenience wrapper to encompass an entire architecture. Learn how Docker's major components are related to each other.

Why is service discovery important? (And what is Consul?)

May 24, 2016

A brief introduction to service discovery—and the most popular tool for achieving it: Consul.