Trying to significantly improve your company’s ability to build and run good software? Forget Docker, public cloud, Kubernetes, service meshes, Cloud Foundry, serverless, and the rest of it. Over the years, I’ve learned the most important place you should start:… Read More ›
I mean, you’ll mainly find me in Seattle, where I actually live. But, I’m also speaking on a variety of topics at a few shows over the next few months, and thought I’d point those out. “Architecting Highly Available Cloud… Read More ›
When I think of the word “imposter” my mind goes to movies where the criminal is revealed after their disguise is removed. But imposters don’t have to be evil geniuses. Sometimes imposters are good. You may buy generic types of… Read More ›
Imagine that someone asks you to build a cloud-hosted app. So far so good. And that app should be resilient against any glitches within the data center. Um, ok. And the app should stay online even if a whole region… Read More ›
In an ideal world, all your apps have good test coverage, get deployed continuously via pipelines, scale gracefully, and laugh in the face of component failure. That is decidedly not the world we live in. Yes, cloud-native apps are the… Read More ›
What a fun year. Lots of things to be grateful for. Took on some more responsibility at Pivotal, helped put on a couple conferences, recorded a couple dozen podcast episodes, wrote news/articles/eMags for InfoQ.com, delivered a couple Pluralsight courses (DevOps, and Java related), received my… Read More ›
Next week is SpringOne Platform (S1P). This annual conference is where developers from around the world learn about about Spring, Cloud Foundry, and modern architecture. It’s got a great mix of tech talks, product demos, and transformational case studies. Hear from software engineers and… Read More ›
