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Bullish on Automation
Every pundit under the sun has their theories about how the “world will change” post-Corona. Personally, I have never liked airy pronouncements about how “NOW it is different.” I prefer more measured responses, like Ben … continue reading
12 May 2020Inception, Kubernetes Cluster Managers
Inception When the cloud-native world really got under way, especially the open-source part of it, much of what we used to do (and, likely, most companies still do) in custom and proprietary ways became standardized: defining workloads defining … continue reading
02 Apr 2020KubeCon San Diego 2019 Observations
Thoughts on KubeCon North America 2019 In late November, I spent several days at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon, for the fourth or fifth time. It certainly has grown over the years; San Diego’s conference was oversubscribed at 12,000 attendees. In the … continue reading
06 Dec 2019Kubernetes Enabling Moving Up the Stack
Yesterday, I had the privilege of one of my many discussions on technology direction with Josh Mahowald. Our conversation turned towards why it is that so many interesting and enabling pieces of software have been built on top of Kubernetes. As Josh … continue reading
03 Sep 2019Change Process vs Change Execution
Why do I need both GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket and JIRA/PivotalTracker/etc.? Over the last several years, while working with companies that regularly deliver software, I have seen three basic patterns in use: Git-All-In: These companies, normally … continue reading
07 May 2019How to Run a Great Conference
How do you run a great conference? I spent the first three days of this week, Monday March 4th through Wednesday March 6th, attending and speaking at QCon London. In my case, I spoke about LinuxKit, a toolkit for composing lightweight, minimal and … continue reading
07 Mar 2019Serverless vs Containers is Silly
Serverless? Containers? Who will win??? In the week of aws reInvent, when 45,000 or so people are descending on Las Vegas, and two weeks before the big cloud-native conference in Seattle, the question of “which is the future, serverless or … continue reading
26 Nov 2018DockerCon Observations
A few weeks back, I wrote an article on my observations on KubeCon/CloudNativeCon. A number of people asked that I follow up with similar observations about DockerCon. Last week, I had the unexpected pleasure of attending DockerCon in San Francisco. … continue reading
19 Jun 2018Kubernetes Is An Operations API
What is Kubernetes? According to the home page: Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. On that basis, Kubernetes has matured and evolved, becoming not just “an … continue reading
23 May 2018KubeCon Observations
Two weeks ago, I attended KubeCon/CloudNativeCon EU 2018 in Copenhagen. The sheer size of the conference was astounding. Over 4,000 people attended.. In addition to the sheer size, the professionalism of both the conference itself - audiovisual, … continue reading
21 May 2018