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    Container Solutions Does Hacktoberfest!

    At Container Solutions HQ—or rather the distributed, mainly WFH entity that passes for Container Solutions HQ—we’re busy getting ready for Hacktoberfest. As you’re probably already aware, Hacktoberfes...

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    The COVID-19 Crisis: a Company's Journey into the Unknown

    Container Solutions started 2020 with plans to double our revenue, continue our expansion in the United States, and launch our latest service to help our customers migrate to green data centres. Thing...

    3 Key Practices for Building Organisational Resilience

    Three key practices help us prepare for a crisis:

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    How Hard Is It to Deliver a Virtual Conference in 6 Weeks? (Spoiler: Very)

    Events and content production are at the heart of Container Solutions' marketing strategy. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic didn’t change this strategy, but certainly affected its execution.

    Meet Container Solutions's New CTO: a Chat With Ian Crosby

    What a time to start a new job. In June, in the midst of COVID-19-related economic upheaval around the world, Container Solutions named its new chief technology officer. Ian Crosby replaces CS co-foun...

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    6 Patterns for Coping With a Fast-Moving Crisis

    When the year 2020 started, many businesses—including ours—were looking forward to blue skies ahead. Little did we know that a worldwide pandemic would force us to leave our offices, quarantine in our...

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    GitOps: The Bad and the Ugly

    I recently spoke with the developers of Humanitec, a Continuous Delivery platform for Kubernetes. Humanitec is interesting because, contrary to recent trends, it’s not based on a GitOps deployment wor...

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    A Painless Guide to Blameless Postmortems

    Humans are built to make mistakes. It’s how we learn. That’s true whether you work for a small startup or a global enterprise. The trick is to try to avoid making the same mistakes, over and over.

    Cloud Native and Wishful Thinking—or, How to Avoid Buying Coconut Headphones

    ‘Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket’. —Eric Hoffer, moral and social philosopher