I got elected to the Knative TOC a few months ago, which is nice (and then I stopped blogging for a bit). I'd like to write a few very biased paragraphs about why I think Knative might be the future of PaaS and Platforms and Serverless. If we've learnt anything…
If you've been busy focusing on the - let's face it - noise around Kubernetes in recent years you might have missed it happen. While we've been busily solving orchestration and inventing increasingly ergonomic ways to hide YAML, in secret (not really) folks have been figuring out how to ship…
I won an election [https://groups.google.com/g/knative-dev/c/98_bYK5NYQk] last week(!), to the Knative TOC. But I did not get the seat: IBM and Red Hat already have two seats, and that's the maximum they're allowed in the rules (to avoid one company having a majority…
It feels like there are two worlds of software. In the first, iteration and moving fast are the priority. In this world we talk about continuous deployment. We talk about observability and testing in production. We often work in small teams, have short iterations. We think that not being able…
So it turns out Basecamp is.. not good. Which is a shame for many reasons, and least of all because I quite liked Hey World. Nevertheless, here we are. A new blog, hosted - at least for now - on Ghost [http://ghost.org]. I'm going to try to make…
It’s not how I’d write software. Hundreds of developers on one code base. Lots of proposal writing and design work before embarking on code. PR-based code review meaning it can take days - or longer - for a change to hit the main branch. Minimal pairing, no stand-ups.…