What problem did Spotify solve with Backstage, an open platform for building developer portals to create, manage, and explore software from a single UX layer? | Continue reading
In this piece we explore some of the dangers of remote working, and techniques that can help. | Continue reading
Cloud workloads are exposed to just as many security risks as traditional architectures. But the risks are different, and so are defences. | Continue reading
Derek Pearcy explores how poorly-designed security UX overloads our limited mental cognition, breaking down his secrets as to how he approaches UX. | Continue reading
Apps that stay in-sync with the real world have to continuously analyze boundless streams of events that can’t be paused. | Continue reading
If the tech industry has a diversity, equity and inclusion problem, then the open source world has a catastrophe on its hands. | Continue reading
We think you should be paying attention to WebAssembly because we think it is entirely possible that it is the future of computing as we know it. | Continue reading
Honouring the innovation process is the best way to succeed with Cloud Native transformation. So why doesn’t everybody do it? If you’re an engineer, as I once was, it can be an uncomfortable place. | Continue reading
We hope in this piece to offer you simple and successful ways to attract and onboard neurodivergent people, setting everyone on your team up for success | Continue reading
Adrian Mouat offers his opinion on where key technologies such as WASM, Kubernetes, serverless, blockchain, and more will go in the future. | Continue reading
Within IT, new ideas, architectural patterns, frameworks and libraries arrive so fast it can feel impossible to keep up. | Continue reading
Quantum computers represent an extraordinary feat of engineering. Dr Holly Cummins explains their potential, how they work, why they are such a great fit for the cloud, and what they have to do with cats. | Continue reading
Helen Bartimote, Principal Psychologist at Container Solutions, explores the role of groupthink and the psychological contact in ethical Dilemmas at work. | Continue reading
Before we start using AI-powered systems we really need to understand the ethical implications of what we're doing. | Continue reading
Add chaotic leadership, no real strategy, a lack of alignment with business needs, and pedantic experts. Stir. See no results, just a loss of time and money. | Continue reading
This month and next, WTF will explore some of the ethics issues raised by technology and some non-tech ethics issues developers and engineers and their managers encounter in their workplaces. | Continue reading
An abundance of projects are aimed at syncing secrets from cloud services and injecting them into Kubernetes secrets. Here's a roundup, and how we're working to improve them. | Continue reading
Our industry consumes around 1% or 2% of the world’s energy. If you consider the broader IT industry, our energy usage is higher still. | Continue reading
What can the whole sorry Ofqual episode teach other industries about keeping the real-life consequences of coding and algorithms in mind. | Continue reading
How did we get through the massive web traffic increases of the Covid-19 crisis without the Internet crashing to a halt? Because of creative use of CDNs. | Continue reading
The landscape of Cloud Native products keeps exploding. What does this mean for companies looking to find technology to help them do business? | Continue reading
eBPF gives us a programmable Linux Kernel that only runs safe code, and delivers endless possibilities for tools to be created. Here's a look at four that have recently emerged. | Continue reading
Design Thinking isn't just brainstorming and a flurry of Post-It notes. For starters, it's spending more time finding the real problem than crafting solutions. | Continue reading
Cloud Native is about far more than technology. Here, Holly Cummins, of IBM Garage shares what the culture component really means in an organisation. | Continue reading
When under stress, leaders' 'dark-side' behaviours can emerge, threatening the culture you have built. Here are some tools for preserving that culture. | Continue reading
In 2020 Amazon, Google, and Microsoft —all pledged to be Carbon Zero across their data centres by 2030. What does that mean, and will it be enough? | Continue reading
Digital transformation projects carry an unresolved tension between speed of delivery and control. Creating a Minimum Viable Product can help resolve it. | Continue reading
If you want to create real change, your movement needs to lower the barriers to participation. Here's how to reduce fossil fuel use by your cloud provider. | Continue reading
Cloud Native helps companies grow more productive, make more profits—and employ fewer people. How should we grapple with these consequences? | Continue reading
GitOps is a great method for workflow, but it's not right for every organisation. Cloud Native Architect Ádám Sándor discusses its limitations. | Continue reading
When things go wrong, managers need to make sure the same problems don't arise again. Here are some guidelines for running a 'blameless postmortem'. | Continue reading
In Part 2 of a blog series, Cloud Native engineer Adam Otto builds a homelab with Tinkerbell from Packet, and creates his own CI/CD pipeline. | Continue reading
What's the best tool to deploy user applications in a Kubernetes cluster when you're using GitOps?: FluxCD, ArgoCD, or Jenkins X? We compare and contrast. | Continue reading
The COVID-19 crisis and its economic impact may scare companies into cutting innovation to survive. But that would could make their recovery harder. | Continue reading
Middle managers can be forces for good or forces for resistance when a company undertakes a Cloud Native transformation. Here's why they resist. Part 2 of 3. | Continue reading
In Kubernetes there are a few different ways to release an application, it is necessary to choose the right strategy to make your infrastructure reliable during an application update. Choosing the right deployment procedure depends on the needs. | Continue reading
The main reason most enterprises want to move to the cloud can be explained in two words: product velocity. There are myriad benefits to Cloud Native computing, from lower hosting costs to reduced infrastructure complexity and increased scalability. | Continue reading
In part 2 of his post on Linux capabilities, Container Solutions' Adrian Mouat explains how capabilities work and can be used, and the tooling available. | Continue reading
An explanation of an architecture and programming pattern used to build Cloud Native apps, using AWS Lambda and Functional Programming with Typescript. | Continue reading
Container Solutions engineer Riccardo Cefala answers 11 questions about Kubernetes versions, including how AWS, Google, and other clouds handle them. | Continue reading
Debugging Docker containers in Linux systems can be challenging. Container Solutions engineer Adam Otto offers some methods for getting the job done. | Continue reading
Linux capabilities can confuse even the most experienced Cloud Native engineer. Container Solutions' Adrian Mouat tells why they exist and how they work. | Continue reading
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing is confusing for a software developer. They are security mechanisms built into all browsers and must be fixed in the system. | Continue reading
Container Solutions engineer Jonathan Gold offers strategies for deploying Istio, the service mesh with Kubernetes, in two common situations. | Continue reading
Container Solutions' Adam Sandor details four decisions made in helping FiduciaGAD build a Continuous Delivery platform on its OpenShift cloud platform. | Continue reading
The 10x Engineer is an outdated idea, writes Container Solutions CEO Jamie Dobson. Engineers who work well in teams are needed to build today's software. | Continue reading