Tim Schnell

Director of Engineering @elastic, previously @rackspace and a sundry of startups. Thoughts & opinions are my own.

Openstack Heat Topology

July 15, 2013 less than 1 minute read

This is a screencast of some of my work building a User Interface for the Openstack Heat project.

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