--- title: Cloud Native Blog - Container Solutions | Ian Miell description: Ian Miell is a Partner at Container Solutions. --- Check out our **[Cloud Native Services](https://www.container-solutions.com/services) **and** **book a call with one of our experts today!  [![Container Solutions](https://blog.container-solutions.com/hubfs/CS_blog/logo-main.svg "Container Solutions")](http://container-solutions.com) - [WTF Is Cloud Native (180)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/wtf-is-cloud-native) - [Cloud native (152)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/cloud-native) - [Microservices (141)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/microservices) - [Culture (104)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/culture) - [Miscellaneous (103)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/miscellaneous) - [Kubernetes (89)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/kubernetes) - [News (82)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/news) - [Docker (70)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/docker) - [Build (66)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/build) - [Think (51)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/think) - [Design (33)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/design) - [Leadership (29)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/leadership) - [DevOps (28)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/devops) - [Open Source (26)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/open-source) - [Crisis management (18)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/crisis-management) - [CNO (16)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/cno) - [Careers (16)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/careers) - [strategy (16)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/strategy) - [Cloud Native Operations (14)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/cloud-native-operations) - [Events (14)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/events) - [Product Management (14)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/product-management) - [Hacking the Org (13)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/hacking-the-org) - [SRE (13)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/sre) - [Case studies (12)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/case-studies) - [Blog (11)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/blog) - [Run (10)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/run) - [Security (10)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/security) - [Sustainability (10)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/sustainability) - [GitOps (8)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/gitops) - [training (8)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/training) - [Linux (7)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/linux) - [Continuous Delivery (6)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/continuous-delivery) - [Maturity Matrix (5)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/maturity-matrix) - [Architecture (4)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/architecture) - [CI/CD (4)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/ci-cd) - [Istio (3)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/istio) - [Operations (3)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/operations) - [Programming (3)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/programming) - [Chaos Engineering (2)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/chaos-engineering) - [Compliance (2)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/compliance) - [Continuous Integration (2)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/continuous-integration) - [Finops (2)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/finops) - [Machine Learning/AI (2)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/machine-learning-ai) - [Patterns (2)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/patterns) - [eBPF (2)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/ebpf) - [platform (2)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/platform) - [Continuous Compliance (1)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/continuous-compliance) - [Webinar (1)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/webinar) - [cloud foundry (1)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/cloud-foundry) - [concourse (1)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/concourse) - [containers (1)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/containers) - [development (1)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/development) - [networking (1)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/networking) - [secrets management (1)](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/secrets-management) [All](https://blog.container-solutions.com/author/ian-miell#) ## Ian Miell ![Ian Miell](https://blog.container-solutions.com/hubfs/ian_miell.jpeg) Ian Miell is a Partner at Container Solutions. 1 min read ### [Is Open Source Dead?](https://blog.container-solutions.com/is-open-source-dead) For twenty years the advice was simple: don't reinvent the wheel. Wheels were expensive to make and risky to get wrong, so you reached for someone else's. That advice quietly expired. [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/is-open-source-dead) [Cloud native](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/cloud-native) [Microservices](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/microservices) [Architecture](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/architecture) 10 min read ### [Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices](https://blog.container-solutions.com/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-architects-about-microservices) It happened again last week. I was at an architecture review meeting when a fellow architect eagerly started another debate about *microservices*. Within minutes, eyes glazed over and we were knee-dee... [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-architects-about-microservices) [Continuous Compliance](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/continuous-compliance) 6 min read ### [Exploring OSCAL Using Neo4J](https://blog.container-solutions.com/exploring-oscal-using-neo4j) This post is aimed at those interested in continuous compliance, an extension of cloud native principles to the area of software compliance, an under-developed field of software automation. [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/exploring-oscal-using-neo4j) [Cloud native](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/cloud-native) [Patterns](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/patterns) 15 min read ### [Paralysed by Perfection: the Case for Action in Times of Change](https://blog.container-solutions.com/paralyzed-by-perfection-the-case-for-action-in-times-of-change) Imagine a business that knows its survival depends on change—but can't decide how to act. This scenario plays out more often than you'd think, with fear of failure paralysing decision-making and ensur... [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/paralyzed-by-perfection-the-case-for-action-in-times-of-change) [Cloud native](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/cloud-native) [Kubernetes](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/kubernetes) [CI/CD](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/ci-cd) [GitOps](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/gitops) [Cloud Native Operations](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/cloud-native-operations) 20 min read ### [Does Crossplane Replace Terraform? Part I: the Theory](https://blog.container-solutions.com/does-crossplane-replace-terraform) What is Crossplane? If you don't already know, Crossplane is billed as an: [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/does-crossplane-replace-terraform) [DevOps](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/devops) [Open Source](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/open-source) [platform](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/platform) [Programming](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/programming) 17 min read ### [In Praise of Low Tech DevEx](https://blog.container-solutions.com/in-praise-of-low-tech-devex) When I started my career as an engineer in the early noughties, I was very keen on developer experience (devex). So when I joined a company whose chosen language was TCL (no, really), I decided to ask... [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/in-praise-of-low-tech-devex) [Programming](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/programming) 9 min read ### [At 50 Years Old, Is SQL Becoming a Niche Skill?](https://blog.container-solutions.com/is-sql-now-a-niche-skill) SQL is turning 50 years old later this week 🎉 In your opinion, which are the best bits? Which are the worst? pic.twitter.com/aAB5emHuip — Jeremy Taylor (@refset) April 29, 2024 [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/is-sql-now-a-niche-skill) [Cloud Native Operations](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/cloud-native-operations) [Architecture](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/architecture) 21 min read ### [OK Cloud, On-Prem is Alright](https://blog.container-solutions.com/ok-cloud-on-prem-is-alright) As someone who has worked in software since 2001, and in the Cloud Native (containerisation and Kubernetes) space since 2013, I'm getting old enough to have seen trends come and go a few times. VMs ca... [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/ok-cloud-on-prem-is-alright) [Finops](https://blog.container-solutions.com/tag/finops) 6 min read ### [Cloud Cost Management Part II - Quick Wins](https://blog.container-solutions.com/cloud-cost-management-part-i-orientation-0) In the previous post we outlined and defined the three categories of cost management: [Read full article](https://blog.container-solutions.com/cloud-cost-management-part-i-orientation-0) ![cs-logo-white](https://blog.container-solutions.com/hs-fs/hubfs/cs-logo-white.png?width=150&height=61&name=cs-logo-white.png "cs-logo-white") #### **Talk to sales** [info@container-solutions.com](mailto:info@container-Solutions.com) #### Stay In Touch - [**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/container-solutions/) - [**](https://twitter.com/containersoluti) © 2024 Container Solutions