Business Value, Soccer Canteens, Engineer Retention, and the Bricklayer Fallacy

    Having the privilege of working in software in the 2020s, I hear variations on the following ideas expressed frequently:

    Enforcing Policies with Gatekeeper in Kubernetes

    When managing Kubernetes clusters, cluster administrators need to ensure the overall stability of the system. To accomplish this it is necessary to avoid disruptions to the control plane, and also avo...

    Tackling Supply-Chain Security in Regulated Industries

    The threat of software supply-chain attacks has been looming over the software industry in mellow silence. This all changed when Solarwinds was hit with a large-scale, software supply-chain attack tha...

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    Container Solutions secures a minority investment with GCP

    Container Solutions (“CS”) is pleased to announce a minority investment from Growth Capital Partners (“GCP”), the fourth from their investment Fund V. Container Solutions is a professional services co...

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    KubeCon by Train

    Attending KubeCon in Valencia, Spain this year I was thrilled to find exactly the kind of tech community I hoped for; open, fun and fired up by open source. It was great to see the buzz around the Co...

    WTF is a Service Mesh?

    WTF is a Service Mesh? A Service Mesh is a system that carries the requests and responses that microservices send each other. This traffic ultimately travels from Pod to Pod the same way it always has...

    Podcast: Manuel Pais on Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working

    Charles Humble talks to Team Topologies co-author Manuel Pais. They discuss how the rapid adoption of Team Topologies may be being driven by companies seeking a new competitive advantage as DevOps and...

    Why Are Enterprises So Slow?

    In this article I want to explain a few things about enterprises and their software, based on my experiences, and also describe what needs to be in place to make change come about. Have you ever found...

    Cloud Native in Pharma and Banking: High Levels of Regulation ≠ Low Levels of Innovation

    It’s not enough just being agile. Developers and software engineers have spent years striving for freedom, in the tools they use, in the ways they apply them, and in the ways they innovate and seek to...