Agile in the Cloud Native Era

    After seven years of trying, we at Container Solutions have figured out that the best way to start a Cloud Native Transformation is with a little bit of upfront thinking followed by a little bit of bu...

    Software is Underperforming and The Future Depends on That Changing

    “If something can’t go on forever, it won’t.” - Herb Stein’s Law

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    WTF is Wrong with RFPs?

    The tech industry is littered with acronyms and abbreviations which can sometimes trigger strong reactions. The letters RfP always send me ricocheting between glum resignation and extreme frustration.

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    Why Should We Care about AIOps?

    Those of us who make a living producing software or managing software teams are ultimately getting paid to improve business processes, be it making cars autonomous to improve safety, save people time ...

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    The Curse of Knowledge

    By coincidence, I had the same conversation this week with five different groups of people. I figured that I’d write my ideas down and chuck them up on the blog, since this chain of thought seems to r...

    6 min read

    How Cisco and Container Solutions’ Long-standing Partnership Helped Bring our SRE Conference to Life

    Container Solutions and Cisco have a partnership that goes back to more-or-less the beginning of Container Solutions.

    9 min read

    WTF is the Future of Cloud Native Software?

    Software is transforming and accelerating organisations of all kinds, both directly and indirectly. Software is a key differentiator for organisations to offer value to customers and shareholders. The...

    28 min read

    10 Predictions for the Future of Computing or; the Inane Ramblings of our Chief Scientist

    TLDR; WASM will be everywhere: compile target, deploy target, IoT, plug-in ecosystems. This is already happening! (1-5 years) Rust will continue to grow in popularity and will overtake Go in the next ...

    20 min read

    WTF is Cloud Native Quantum?

    Quantum computing is here, and it’s on the cloud. As someone who loves both quantum computing and the cloud, this makes me very happy. I did a doctorate in quantum computing in the late 1990s. By nece...