Timothy M. O'Brien

i'm a writer and a programmer, I live in Evanston, IL, and I generally write books about technology infrastructure. I'm currently focused on books about novel build technologies such as Gradle and how these technologies intersect with the constantly evolving set of technologies and languages that are involved in today's systems.

Things I'm currently interested in vert.x, the maturation of tools like cfengine, chef, and puppet. NoSQL and a backlash to map/reduce. The evolution of the relational database. It's an interesting time for the industry.