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

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.

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

I write lots of services and client apps -- most of them as proof-of-concept or experimental implementations to test out design ideas and/or explore technical details. One of the things I learned earl...