Azedi Technology is my (Kief Morris) site for posting articles and blog entries related to the technology and business of designing, developing, and operating online services and supporting infrastructure. It was originally a corporate site for the limited company I used for a period when I was working freelance, and a place to move work-related stuff off of my personal blog/site.

I am currently the Senior Technical Architect at a company which provides specialised online content for healthcare, specifically for helping healthcare organisations develop and publish evidence-based care pathways for their clinicians to deliver better outcomes to patients effectively and reliably. My opinions do not reflect my employer's policies, and my technology interests are not necessarily related to my employer's strategies or product development roadmap.

My role is largely focused on the software development side at the moment, but I also still have a hand in the infrastructure side of things. I'm not as hands-on at the coding level as I should be at the moment, mainly I try to bridge the technical teams (development and support) with the customers and business people, working out the best way to solve problems and make specific technical changes to our products to do things better.

Some topics I am particularly interested in these days include:

• Distributed content management
• OSGi, eventually leading into SOA and similar areas
• Virtualization and cloud computing
• New business models and technologies for media distribution
• Lean and agile software development practices, and general business practices which focus on lean, transparency, open book management, and similar concepts

Areas I have been interested in the past, but am not really hands-on with these days, include:

• Tomcat and Java application servers in general
• Infrastructure management tools, particularly centralized configuration management such as Cfengine and Puppet, as well as monitoring and provisioning. Still highly relevant, particularly with virtualization and Cloud computing.