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 […]
Augmented reality: Field service proof points in the enterprise
A demonstration at Oracle’s Modern Customer Experience conference shows why augmented reality is here to stay in the enterprise. Watch AR help repair a slot machine in Las Vegas.
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, […]
The Robotic Process Automation market will reach $443 million this year
Have we ever got so excited about a market that isn’t even yet past the half-billion dollar spend level? Are we getting over excited about solutions because of their potential before they are fully tried and tested in reality? Let’s get to the realities of RPA by examining the size and five-year forecast for software and related […]
“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 […]
Get Ready to Give Up on LinkedIn for Marketing
I just read a notice in Buffer, the software I use for Social Media sharing, announcing that as of July 2017, LinkedIn would be closing down API access to LinkedIn Groups. Time to give up on LinkedIn for marketing. Here’s the problem: I use LinkedIn by cross posting my latest content there. It’s easy to […]
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 […]
Major Data Loss Bug in WPEngine and Yoast SEO Plugin
What would you think if I told you that while using the most popular WordPress SEO plugin on one of the most popular WordPress hosting platforms you’d lose a blog post approximately every 30 days and be locked out of your account? It’ll cost you the time it took to write the blog post plus […]
