James Governor
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What is GraphQL and why should you care? The future of APIs
“We’re going GraphQL, we’re replacing everything with GraphQL” Sid Sijbrandij, GitLab founder and CEO GraphQL is an open source technology created by Facebook that is getting a fair bit of attention of late. It is set to make a major impact on how APIs are designed. As is so often the case with these […]
Don’t confuse chatbots with artificial intelligence
I have been taking a look at the various chatbot platforms – and something struck me about how we’ve got away from some of the original beauty of chat as UI. The problem is the focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning, as if every bot had to pass a Turing Test. But they really […]
Minimum Viable Architecture – good enough is good enough in an enterprise
Minimum Viable Architecture — Good Enough is Good Enough in a Startup from Randy Shoup Randy recently shared this great set of slides, which summarises a bunch of experience in scaling Web companies. My only quibble would be the title – in that the lessons are just as relevant to modern enterprise IT. One […]
The race to own the pipeline. Atlassian ain’t playin–introducing DevOps Marketplace
The play to become the standard industry backplane play for Pipelines and DevOps – integrating tools across the application lifecycle, ALM 2.0 if you like – is heating up. Atlassian launched DevOps Marketplace and the list of launch partners is impressively comprehensive. The vendors above represent a who’s who of modern dev and ops tooling […]
On process tool and people shelfware. How are we going to achieve escape velocity for modern software development?
I just got back from two days with HPE Software’s customer advisory board in Las Vegas. I come away all fired up yet also despairing, in almost equal measure. Fired up because large enterprises really do want to get better at developing software. They’re desperate to learn how to become more like Web companies, […]
Some things about HPE Software summit 2017. Number three will shock you.
I came to HPE Discover 2017 with fairly low expectations. I was there to talk to customers about their agile and DevOps transformations, rather than for the formal analyst program. In case you haven’t been following the news in September a newco will be formed in what HPE is calling a “spin merge” with Micro […]
“Serverless and the the death of devops”. Can you not?
So CloudCamp in London on the 6th July has the tagline “Serverless and the the death of devops”. OMG folks can you please stop doing this? I really like the CloudCamp folks – it’s a fun event and a really vibrant community, but the whole “death of devops” thing really grinds my gears. I blame […]
So what even is a Service Mesh? Hot take on Istio and Linkerd
Remember that time, when we used to blithely use Docker and microservices interchangeably? Docker has proved to be excellent in simplifying dev and test workflows, while Kubernetes has emerged as a strong alternative center of gravity for deployment of container-based apps. But it’s still early days in terms of production deployment of container based […]
So where’s the Visual Studio Code at?
We’ve have been thinking about Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s relatively new open source cross platform code editor, a fair bit lately. One reason Code is on our radar is that it keeps coming up positively in conversations with developers and making surprise appearances in demos at grassroots tech conferences. Folks from modern language communities […]
Just how many darned developers are there in the world? GitHub is puzzled
Just how many darned developers are there in the world? At GitHub Satellite in London last week CEO Chris Wanstrath gave a great keynote about the ongoing revolution in software development. One of the themes was what on the face of it is a straightforward question – how many developers are there in the […]
