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Monki Gras 2018: what happened?
We came, we saw, we celebrated craft jeans. I am really proud of the work we did this year. Well… apart from the sound proof curtains. Spoiler alert- they don’t work. From the perspective of a curator...
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On Hortonworks, data management and mind blown by GDPR. First notes from...
At its DataWorks Summit 2018 in Barcelona this week Hortonworks set out its stall for the next stage in its evolution. A year ago it was looking like the Cloud would simply eat the Big Data market,...
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Kubernetes won – so now what?
One of the questions my colleague Stephen is adept at asking and answering is of the form: “You won, so now what?” On the flight home from Kubecon 2018 recently it struck me that this frame is...
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Rancher Labs: Treating Cattle like Cattle
Rancher Labs recently ran an analyst day in San Francisco. The event had thirteen customer speakers, which, given Rancher claims to have 200 paying customers, is a pretty decent chunk of the...
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On putting together better keynotes and conferences – stretches and petting zoos
Major tech conferences and their keynotes are often grueling rather than enjoyable. By the time you’re 2 hours into a keynote and there is no sign of an end it becomes an endurance contest. We all...
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Atomist–making software development observable, programmable
I recently sat down with the cofounders of Atomist Rod Johnson and Ryan Day to discuss the state of software development today and how their platform meets the needs of companies undertaking...
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Some thoughts on Docker post DockerCon 2018
Some impressions from DockerCon. It’s been a month or so since the event, but I didn’t need to be first with coverage. Docker is increasingly a context for business to get done. It struck me for...
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No more tin ear. Google plays the game
In my twenties I was hard work: I was too clever by half. I questioned everything. I had problems with authority. I made things harder for myself and others than I needed to, or should have done....
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Towards Progressive Delivery
At RedMonk we generally try to avoid coming up with new terms for technologies and trends – after all, where there is an available term in common use why not just adopt it?. The pragmatic approach...
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The Quickening: a keynote about software development velocity at New Relic’s...
This week I gave a keynote at New Relic’s FutureStack conference in SF. Isaac Eldridge did a great write up here – 10 Thoughts on Modern Software from RedMonk’s James Governor. You really need to read...
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Pivotal: transactions, Kubernetes, and taking an axe to long term support.
I recently attended Spring One Platform (S1P), Pivotal’s annual developer and user conference, in Washington, DC. Pivotal had invited me to speak at their executive briefing conference, so the CIO...
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On Tech, Power and Responsibility. Notes from Nice
I recently gave the closing keynote address at DevOps world, hosted by CloudBees, in Nice. The conference was excellent. Jenkins is a mature technology and community, but it’s ready for change, under...
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Sympathy for the DevRel
I recently gave the closing keynote at DevRelCon in London, run by Matt Revell and Tamao Nakahara. The conference is building momentum nicely – the first was held above a shop in Shoreditch in 2015,...
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Is it time to be afraid of IBM again?
On the face of it the question would seem clearly amenable to the adage that for any headline with a question mark in it the answer is no. But a couple of months ago at a conference I was talking to...
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Thomas Kurian and Google Cloud: convenience is the killer app
Pretty much the first words from Thomas Kurian to analysts at Google Cloud Next 2019 were: “Customer empathy – you have to understand where they are, how you can help them. Every legacy system exists...
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Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu Recently I posted about GitHub. One reason it took me so long to write the piece was the amount of thinking time I gave it. Why should a report about a tech conference require...
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Progressive Delivery at GitLab
I have been talking about Progressive Delivery for a while now – it’s an approach to deliver application and service functionality incrementally, to targeted user segments and production environments,...
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GitHub Satellite 2019 Berlin. The Social Code – It’s Just Dependencies All...
The keynote at GitHub Satellite 2019 in Berlin last month was a model of crisp story-telling. The comms team did a bang up job. The opening narrative was engaging and emotionally powerful. It asked us...
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Kubernetes Matures: On Operator Experience, industry updates from Docker,...
Kubernetes has firmly established itself as the industry standard for container orchestration. There is basically no other game in town at this point. But when it comes to user experience there is...
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HashiConf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery
As enterprises commit to building microservices to enable greater software development velocity the market for infrastructure to manage and enable these microservices is beginning to mature. HashiCorp...
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