WTF Is an Open-Source License Anyway?

    For something that’s supposed to make software development frictionless, open-source licenses generate a remarkable amount of heat and noise.

    WTF is Burnout: Definition, Symptoms and What Organisations and Individuals can do

    After a year spent trying to juggle work and home life, no wonder we are all feeling the burn. A simple Google search will reveal the devastating impact the pandemic has had on our mental health. Some...

    Sustainable Architecture, AWS, & the Enterprise - Our Whitepaper

    At AWS re:Invent in late November 2021, something surprisingly pleasing and yet completely inevitable happened. AWS added sustainability to the well-architected pillars that define their “key concepts...

    Introducing CS Labs

    As well as supercharging our customers’ journeys to Cloud Native, Container Solutions’ engineers have a long association with open source software, contributing to a variety of projects, collaborating...

    Tutorial: How to Set External-Secrets with GCP Secret Manager

    In this second article on our "how to" series on External Secrets we’re looking at the Google Cloud Secret Manager. We are going to configure External Secrets to use a Secret Manager instance as a sec...

    Why I Keep Coming Back to Cynefin

    As I consult with clients to help change the way they work, I struggle to explain that their attack on problems may not be appropriate to the situation I was hired to help with. They might be a start-...

    WTF is Moldable Development?

    Moldable Development is a way of programming in which we construct custom tools for every software development problem. This introduces a new feedback loop that helps you steer your software system mo...

    WTF is eBPF? A sneak peek interview with Liz Rice

    WTF is eBPF? What’s the deal with eBPF? Why has it got our engineers so damn excited? What does it mean for security? Why are we hosting sessions on it? And where can you learn more about it?

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    Windows Container on K8s Clusters

    I recently came across a fun and interesting challenge. In the latest project I joined, a team wanted to do a "lift & shift to the cloud". As a Cloud Native engineer I've seen this pattern fairly ...