--- title: Cloud Native Blog - Container Solutions | Charles Humble description: Charles Humble is a former software engineer, architect and CTO who has worked as a senior leader and executive of both technology and content groups. He was InfoQ’s editor-in-chief from 2014-2020, and was chief editor for Container Solutions from 2020-2023. He writes regularly for The New Stack and other publications, is a highly experienced content strategist, and has spoken at multiple international conferences including GOTO (keynote), Devoxx, WTF is SRE and QCon. His primary areas of interest are how we build software better, including sustainability and ethics, cloud computing, remote working, diversity and inclusion, and inspiring the next generation of developers. 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He was InfoQ’s editor-in-chief from 2014-2020, and was chief editor for Container Solutions from 2020-2023. He writes regularly for The New Stack and other publications, is a highly experienced content strategist, and has spoken at multiple international conferences including GOTO (keynote), Devoxx, WTF is SRE and QCon. His primary areas of interest are how we build software better, including sustainability and ethics, cloud computing, remote working, diversity and inclusion, and inspiring the next generation of developers. Charles is also a keyboard player, and half of the ambient techno band Twofish. [WTF Is Cloud Native](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/wtf-is-cloud-native) [Hacking the Org](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/hacking-the-org) 38 min read ### [Podcast: Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors on Code Rewrites, Acquisitions, Observability, and Team Performance](https://blog.container-solutions.com/charity-majors-on-code-rewrites-observability-and-team-performance) Charles Humble talks to Honeycomb CTO and co-founder Charity Majors. They talk about her experience at Parse, re-writing Parse in Go, and her lessons from Parse’s acquisition and shut-down by Facebook... [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/charity-majors-on-code-rewrites-observability-and-team-performance) [SRE](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/sre) [WTF Is Cloud Native](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/wtf-is-cloud-native) [CNO](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/cno) [Hacking the Org](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/hacking-the-org) 40 min read ### [Podcast: Jennifer Mace on How Google Does SRE](https://blog.container-solutions.com/jennifer-mace-on-how-google-does-sre) Charles Humble talks to Jennifer Mace, aka as Macey. She gives us her definitions of "site reliability engineer" and “toil”, discusses how google recruits SREs, explores how to manage risk and speed, ... [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/jennifer-mace-on-how-google-does-sre) [DevOps](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/devops) [SRE](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/sre) [WTF Is Cloud Native](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/wtf-is-cloud-native) [Hacking the Org](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/hacking-the-org) 38 min read ### [Podcast: Syntasso COO Paula Kennedy on Platform Team Responsibilities, Patterns and Anti-patterns](https://blog.container-solutions.com/paula-kennedy-on-platform-team-responsibilities-patterns-and-anti-patterns) Charles Humble talks to Paula Kennedy about the rise of platforms. They discuss platform definitions; common anti-patterns and how to guard against them at both a team and organisational level; provin... [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/paula-kennedy-on-platform-team-responsibilities-patterns-and-anti-patterns) [Leadership](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/leadership) [WTF Is Cloud Native](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/wtf-is-cloud-native) [Hacking the Org](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/hacking-the-org) [Product Management](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/product-management) 48 min read ### [Podcast: Adrian Cockcroft on Serverless, Continuous Resilience, Wardley Mapping, Large Memory Systems and Sustainability](https://blog.container-solutions.com/adrian-cockcroft-on-serverless-continuous-resilience) Charles Humble talks to Adrian Cockcroft, ex of AWS, Battery Ventures and Netflix. They discuss: memes in computing, serverless first, chaos and ideas around continuous resilience, strategy and Wardle... [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/adrian-cockcroft-on-serverless-continuous-resilience) [Leadership](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/leadership) [WTF Is Cloud Native](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/wtf-is-cloud-native) [strategy](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/strategy) [Hacking the Org](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/hacking-the-org) 48 min read ### [Podcast: Toli and Andy Norton from Cinch on Team Topologies, Theory of Constraints, and Serverless](https://blog.container-solutions.com/cinch-on-team-topologies-theory-of-constraints-and-serverless) Charles Humble talks to Apostolis Apostolidis (aka Toli) and Andy Norton from Cinch, arguably one of the UKs most successful start-ups. They discuss: how the company got started, how Team Topologies, ... [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/cinch-on-team-topologies-theory-of-constraints-and-serverless) [WTF Is Cloud Native](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/wtf-is-cloud-native) [strategy](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/strategy) [Product Management](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/product-management) 11 min read ### [These Companies Keep Running Thousands of Failed Experiments, and You Should Too](https://blog.container-solutions.com/why-run-thousands-of-failed-experiments) Twenty-odd years ago most big companies would run just a handful of experiments each year. These days, firms like Amazon, Google, Intuit and Netflix run thousands. But how are they able to do this? An... [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/why-run-thousands-of-failed-experiments) [Leadership](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/leadership) [WTF Is Cloud Native](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/wtf-is-cloud-native) [Hacking the Org](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/hacking-the-org) [Product Management](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/product-management) 39 min read ### [Podcast: Silicon Valley Product Group’s Christian Idiodi on Product Management Skills and Product Discovery](https://blog.container-solutions.com/christian-idiodi-on-product-management-skills) In this episode Charles Humble talks to Silicon Valley Product Group partner Christian Idiodi about how he got started in product management, the Certified Scrum Product Owner and MBA pathologies, how... [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/christian-idiodi-on-product-management-skills) [Leadership](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/leadership) [WTF Is Cloud Native](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/wtf-is-cloud-native) [Hacking the Org](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/hacking-the-org) 43 min read ### [Podcast: Sudden Compass Co-Founder Matt LeMay on Effective Product Management and Conducting User Research](https://blog.container-solutions.com/podcast-sudden-compass-co-founder-matt-lemay-on-effective-product-management-and-conducting-user-research) In this episode Charles Humble talks to Matt LeMay, co-founder and partner at Sudden Compass about the job of product management. They explore what the job entails, common A/B testing pitfalls, conduc... 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