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    The Five As of Consciousness (And Workshop Planning)

    The science and art of workshop design, in my admittedly biassed opinion, is something that is rarely given enough attention and thought. More often than not, a room is booked for a day, Post-its are ...

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    Container Solutions and Isovalent Announce Strategic Partnership to Help Customers Unlock Cloud Native Innovation with Cilium and eBPF

    London and Cupertino – 5th April 2023 – Container Solutions, the leading independent cloud-native consultancy in Europe, and Isovalent, the creators of Cilium, today announce their strategic delivery ...

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    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 1: Foundations

    We publish this series of blogs as Microsoft has just launched its combination of ChatGPT and Bing, generating considerable excitement in almost every industry. Dall-E and ChatGPT (and, most recently,...

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    What We Do @CS: The Yin and Yang of Technical and Organisational Change

    At Container Solutions, we often work with customers who approach us saying they need a Cloud Native Transformation because they are not able to deliver fast enough. Typically, a leader will tell us t...

    WTFinar (with transcript): When (If Ever) is Cloud Repatriation the Right Move?

    With a few notable exceptions, the traffic of workload movement over the past decade has moved firmly one way: from the data centre to the cloud.

    Podcast: Jennifer Mace on How Google Does SRE

    Charles Humble talks to Jennifer Mace, aka as Macey. She gives us her definitions of "site reliability engineer" and “toil”, discusses how google recruits SREs, explores how to manage risk and speed, ...

    Ditch the Template: Incident Write-ups They Want to Read

    Why should we try to make incident reports engaging?

    Regulating the Cloud for the Financial Services Sector

    In my White Paper - Banking on the Cloud, written in the summer of 2022, I highlight the increasing direct oversight that regulators are starting to have over the Cloud Service Providers (CSP).

    WTF a Developer Platform is Not

    Goodness, have I read and written a lot about platform engineering so far this year. Platform engineering is the sociotechnical discipline of crafting, building and combining all the common tools need...