What Psychological Safety Means in a Cloud Native Organisation

    In its Aristotle project, Google tried to define the success of effective teams. The researchers’ main finding was that what really mattered was less about who is on the team, and more about how the t...

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    Why Cloud Native Means You Need to Be a Learning Organisation

    Unlike industries of the past that relied upon great stores of resources like coal, iron, timber, or oil for its wealth, the technology industry relies upon the resources in between our ears.

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    A CFO’s Case for Creating an Inspiring Organisational Culture

    In my daily job in Container Solutions, I work with numbers. Budgets and forecasts. Coaching on profit and loss management. Financial strategy.

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    Going from Corporate Citizen to Cloud Native

    About four months ago I left my cushy enterprise job in sales at Oracle to go work as a Cloud Native engineer at Container Solutions.

    Why We're Adopting Pixar's 'Braintrust' Model at Container Solutions

    Engineers at Container Solutions take on complicated and creative projects and might become lost along the way. To create something great, you have to become part of it. You have to live and breathe i...

    Cloud Native and High-Performance Organisations

    You may be wondering, what is the relationship between high-performance organisations and Cloud Native? It’s quite simple, really. Cloud Native is a sociotechnology, meaning it encompasses technical e...

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    Reviving EveGenie—or, What Happens When a Container Solutions Engineer Gets 'Play Time'

    Container Solutions is a consulting company that focuses on Cloud Native transformations. Working as a Cloud Native engineer here means you get assigned to work on projects for particular clients. Whe...

    State of DevOps 2019: Expertise Spreads, Diversity Progress Stalls

    First, some good news: the DevOps field’s expertise and performance is growing rapidly. Its best practices, like a clear change-approval process, not only improve speed and stability, but also help de...

    How Our Hiring Process Puts Candidates' Career Needs First

    If you are a Cloud Native engineer, you’ve got cutting-edge skills that are in high demand. You might be getting as many as nine messages a day from recruiters. It could be flattering if it weren’t so...