James Governor
James, aka @Monkchips is co-founder of RedMonk, the open source analyst firm, which specialises in developer advocacy and analytics.
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 is ready to be a platform supplier for these tools, building on its existing beachheads, most notably Consul. That was pretty much my hot take from HashiConf EU […]
Kubernetes Matures: On Operator Experience, industry updates from Docker, Pivotal and Mesosphere.
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 plenty to play for – we’re still early in a secular shift. So far a lot of the Kubernetes build-out has been very […]
GitHub Satellite 2019 Berlin. The Social Code – It’s Just Dependencies All The Way Down and Up
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 to think about our place in the world, our role as collaborators, at a very deep level. It began, as […]
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, limiting the last radius, enabling experimentation with reduced risk. Progressive Delivery builds on the foundations laid by Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration. It’s gratifying to see engineers and […]
On Open Source Dependencies, GitHub, Gender, Philosophy of Science and the nature of Self
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 that much attention? One reason is that I was deeply inspired by the event. When the framing narrative concerns […]
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 for a reason. Meet customers where they are and be deeply sympathetic.” Empathy, sympathy, legacy. All of those words […]
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 someone steeped in the world of open source standardisation, having been part of the […]
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, but this year it was held at the QEII center in Westminster. I really wanted to do a good job, […]
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 pressure from a raft of new entrants. Rather than digging in its heels, the community is looking to the future, admitting Jenkins’ flaws […]
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 access was really good. I came away with a few impressions I wanted to share. Transaction Volumes Customer after customer made it clear they […]
