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    The 5 Skills You Need for Strategic Leadership

    At Container Solutions, we differentiate between leadership and strategic leadership. Both involve inspiring a group with a vision of the future. Both involve connecting a starting point, A, with an e...

    A Guide to Solving Those Mystifying CORS Issues

    Imagine you’re building the UI. You need to connect to remote API to get or send some data. Everything works fine when you test your REST calls with curl, but when you implement them in the UI, it doe...

    Microservices for Managers: Part 1, System Thinking

    For consumers, the speed of technological progress is magical, because of what’s suddenly become possible: self-driving cars, same-day delivery, movies and television shows streamed to us anywhere, an...

    Microservices for Managers: Part 2, Amplify Feedback Loops

    As I described in my previous blog post on the key principles to guide a microservices project, the efficiency of the value chain determines costs, affects profit, and ultimately decides whether a bus...

    Microservices for Managers: Part 3, a Culture of Experimentation and Learning

    In my previous two blog posts, I explored two principles that are at the heart of DevOps: systems thinking and amplifying feedback loops. In this post, we’ll discuss the third and final principle, a c...

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    Why the 10x Engineer Myth Needs to Go

    There was a whole kerfuffle on Twitter this weekend because someone posted about 10X engineers. I didn’t give it much thought. However, over the weekend, the noise just didn’t seem to stop, which got ...

    How Your CI/CD Pipeline Reflects Your Organisation’s Structure

    Kubernetes the Hard Way Explained: Chapter 4

    More than a year after the last post of our series regarding the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s official Kubernetes Certified Administrator program, one might be surprised to see that Kelsey High...

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    Going Cloud Native Without a Map

    The core problem for managers at any company contemplating a Cloud Native transformation is that they don’t know what they don’t know. They don’t even know how long it will take, so they come up with ...