James Governor
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Amazon Web Services joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation – what does it mean?
Last week Amazon Web Services (AWS) joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Platinum member, giving it a seat on the board, and an opportunity to blunt potential competitive threats. While other major cloud players are a long way behind AWS, the Anyone But Amazon Club has been establishing a solid technical […]
When production is your test lab – what is “canarying”?
If you’ve attended an infrastructure conference recently, particularly of the “cloud native” variety, you’ll likely have heard the term “canarying”. If you don’t know what that means you’ve probably nodded along sagely and thought, oh I better look that up. I’ll do it when I look up “smoke testing”. So anyway – what is […]
So What’s Up with Oracle Cloud?
I feel the earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down, a’tumbling down I feel the earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down, a’tumbling down I caught up with the Oracle Cloud team recently at the Electricity Showrooms in London. It was interesting to see what’s up. […]
The new Patreon economy
10 years ago I used the phrase New Patronage Economy to describe how open source and cloud were changing the relationship between people, the work they do, and how that work is valued and paid for. At the time I was hopeful that open source would somewhat change the contract to favour the creators […]
On data value, open source telemetry, Kite, Microsoft and .NET Core
It’s now pretty widely accepted that Microsoft has open source religion. The company has embraced open source as a better way of working. But on the data side, it’s actually going further than most open source communities expect or demand. Check out this statement What we’ve learned from .NET Core SDK Telemetry. “As an […]
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 […]
