Goodness, have I read and written a lot about platform engineering so far this year. Platform engineering is the sociotechnical discipline of crafting, building and combining all the common tools need...
"The idea of the ‘full-stack developer’ is rather quaint, a throwback to the late 1990s when the ‘full stack’ meant a single development framework like Delphi 5 or VB6. However, in the modern world, t...
“Don’t confuse your mission, your vision, your purpose, with what you sell. At the end of the day, customers really want to know that you’re going to add some kind of value to them. You’re going to he...
The tech industry works hard to break away from monolithic architecture. Yet, we’ve neglected to move away from the idea of the monolithic developer experience.
We think and write a lot about systems reliability at Container Solutions. We even hosted a free, live, virtual event on it on April 28th called WTF is SRE?, for the second year running. Like all thin...
The field of site reliability engineering originated at Google with Ben Treynor Sloss, who founded a site reliability team after joining the company in 2003, but the practice has spread across most or...
We can get overly obsessed with uptime. We can actually set service level objectives (SLOs) too high. If we zero in on five-nines across the board, we risk compromising our teammates’ ability to innov...
Last year was a lot of things. Among them, 2021 was the year of cybersecurity threats. And this year seems on track to top it. The question is becoming not if, or when, but who. Who exactly is respons...
If the tech industry has a diversity, equity and inclusion problem, then the open source world has a catastrophe on its hands. While women make up a still shameful 20 to 23% of the tech industry, wome...
