James Governor
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Why now why microservices why not SOA?
My Stephen colleague published an interesting post The Difference Between SOA and Microservices Isn’t Size. In it he argues that developer led adoption of technology – the new kingmaker thesis – is why microservices are different from SOA. Apart from being made to feel old – we now live in a world where SOA can […]
On Pervasive Encryption and GDPR
How much of your personal data is encrypted? Is your hard drive encrypted? Do you know? Only if you caught WannaCry, am I right? How about your corporate data? Is that encrypted? Do you know? How would you go about finding out? Should you care? We spend so much time on the Internet these […]
We need to talk about data science skills. Real talk about AI, deep and machine learning
Saw this story after it was tweeted by Puni Rajah – Bosch to invest 300m euros in AI, employ 100 experts from India, USA, Germany. As ever India has done great job building its native skills base. But the fact Bosch needs to look outside Germany is telling. We’re seeing a lot of pressure owing […]
The incredible shrinking time to legacy. On Time to Suck as a metric for dev and ops
“All this fuss over nothing. All this searching for something, all this reinventing the wheel, all this searching for something, that’s not real” The Wheel, SOHN 2017 I’ve had a riff for a while about Developer Time To Suck, the half life of a product or project before developers decide it is time to […]
europe-west-2
Check out the optics- there is literally nothing more British than Scalextric – 60 years old this year – except perhaps mince on toast (weird meme that one). So Google today launched its London-based data center today. While not exactly a tightly held secret beforehand, the news was welcome. Google is making a significant […]
Kickstarters are like buses: supporting our friends
Kickstarters are like buses. You wait ages for your friends to do one, then two come along at once. Worst. Intro. Ever. That said, it is kind of surprising that two companies that are platinum friends of RedMonk both announced kickstarters today. The first is Beasts of Balance, which is pretty much the most fun […]
Cloud Native at the edge
The Cloud Native stack is not necessarily something you expect to see used in edge computing, but I have noticed a couple of interesting use cases recently. The first is Ocado – the online grocer. I know, I know, I keep writing about the firm, but it’s inarguably making interesting use of technology. Ocado […]
Serverless is more
I wrote the other day that the talk from Jeffconf that had really stuck with me was by Guy Podjarny. That’s actually wrong, I should have said, one of the talks that really stuck with me, because the pitch for Less is More by Ben Fletcher, Principal Engineer at the Financial Times, was fantastic. Ben […]
Why Serverless, Inc is crushing it right now
Serverless apps are auto-scaling, pay-per-execution, and event-driven. I wrote a post recently looking at the the growth of interest in serverless frameworks, with a specific question in mind about OpenWhisk. But as the chart above (which was actually at the bottom of that post) shows, interest in the Serverless framework, as least as far as […]
More from TrailheaDX 2017
The technical news from Trailhead DX fell into three categories – Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), AI/Ml and Event-driven computing. In this post, I will take a quick look at the CI/CD story story. Salesforce DX is now in open beta. It’s a major upgrade to the way Salesforce code can be developed. The approach borrows […]
