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 optimized runnable operating system images. Those who know my focus on technology operations might wonder why I gave a talk on so deeply a technical subject as composing operating system images.

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 containers?” seems to be the “debate du jour”. For example, take last week’s debate: I am going to posit a different position, one which, in the true spirit of compromise, leaves everyone equally unhappy: