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    Under Control: Why Governance Engineering is Coming to Cloud Native

    The history (and prehistory) of Cloud Native has been characterised by the gradual encroachment of automation on more and more pieces of the software engineering lifecycle. In the dark ages before the...

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    Learn jq the Hard Way, Part I: JSON

    Introduction At Container Solutions, we spend a significant amount of engineering time wrangling JSON requests and responses to and from various APIs. While traditional text-processing tools such as g...

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    Building for Compliance - Part I

    As Container Solutions grows and consults with more and more businesses, we notice common pain points encountered whenever we talk about Cloud Native platforms. One of these areas is compliance.

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    Money Flows Part III: You’re Only As Agile As Your Budget

    Previously, we’ve written about how money flows across your business ultimately determines your operating culture, with posts on how transforming IT starts with finance, and how agility is related to ...

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    AI-Augmented Software Engineering: Are We Losing Our Critical Thinking Skills?

    In the sci-fi movie "Wall-E," humans live a life of leisure, relying on advanced AI to do everything for them. As a result, they become physically and mentally complacent, losing touch with essential ...

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    How eBPF enables Cloud Native Innovation and Performance

    Many organisations today adopted Cloud Native to allow the development and delivery of novel products and services. What was a breakthrough competitive advantage adopted only by elite teams became the...

    Reflections on Amazon Prime Video’s Monolith Move

    Recently an Amazon Prime Video (APV) article about their move from serverless tools to ECS and EC2 did the rounds on all the tech socials. A lot of noise was made about it, initially because it was in...

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    Engineering Ethics: It’s Not Just The Money We’re Talking About

    In part 2 of this series we looked at some examples of how poor company culture resulted in wasting a great deal of both money and time for the company, hurting both it and its shareholders. But unfor...

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    Are Your Cloud Native Transformation Timelines Realistic?

    Under the heading ‘The Future of Cloud’, Gartner ran a symposium for CIOs and IT executives in 2022 including much discussion about strategies relating to Cloud and Cloud Native trends. At least two o...