Phil WhelanSpam's Lesson For AI Containment
Spam never went away because running on someone else's hardware costs next to nothing. Rogue AI agents will follow the same economics.
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Remote Working Is Eating The World
Fully remote work for everyone was something that only a few companies did prior to earlier this year. Now, we're all doing it. In this post, I'm going to be discussing the impact this has on the tech industry and how it will change remote working forever.
From ActiveMQ To Amazon MQ : Why And How We Moved To AWS’s Managed Solution
In any reasonably successful startup that proves the test of the time (more than a few years) and grows to a reasonable size (300+) there’s always a trail of technical debt left in the wake of the…
Leading The Platform Team @ Bench
For just over two years I have lead the Platform Team at Bench. The work we’ve done is definitely a highlight of my career.
Ephemeral Database Credentials
There are many ways to manage credentials. Some better than others. How we use HashiCorp Vault to give our applications and engineers database credentials that expire.
Starting Out With Kubernetes — Why We Rolled Our Own Despite The Naysayers
Gaining a deeper understanding of what goes on under the hood of Kubernetes was just one of the reasons we decided to roll our own Kubernetes clusters instead of going with a hosted solution.
Breaking Good — Having A Blameless Engineering Culture
In engineering, we often create simple philosophies that seem to have little to do with “real engineering”, but turn out to help us collectively become better engineers. I usually measure “better…
Meeting Chip Childers of the Cloud Foundry Foundation
A few months ago the Cloud Foundry Foundation was officially launched and now has a small dedicated team of people who are focused on getting the Foundation to where it needs to be. Chip Childers,…
Loggregator: The Voice Of Cloud Foundry
Last week I met with Alex Jackson from Pivotal who is one of the creators of the Loggregator logging system of Cloud Foundry. We discussed the past, present and future of this critical component…
Which Comes First? The Microservices Or The DevOps?
It is easy to look at the unicorn companies of our world, most notably Netflix, and say, "That's it! That's how we should be doing it". Whether it's DevOps or Microservices, they seem to have it…
Is Docker The Right Abstraction For PaaS?
Docker has been quickly adopted by nearly everyone and incorporated into everything from cloud technologies, to continuous integration and build systems, to solo developers working exclusively on…
5 Evolving Docker Technologies
Since the announcement of Docker approximately 18 months ago there has been an explosion of new technology in this space. Although the list is becoming very long, here I will outline five evolving…
Getting Granular With Microservices, PaaS, Twelve Factor Apps and Docker
This post is based on a talk given at Vancouver's iTech Conference.
Microservices Resources
Today, I hosted a webinar with John Wetherill about Microservices and PaaS. (John has been writing a blog post series on Microservices.) We think it is a fascinating topic that goes hand-in-hand…
Cloud Foundry: Diego Explained By Onsi Fakhouri
Recently I met with Onsi Fakhouri who is the Product Manager, and previously a developer on Diego, the Cloud Foundry sub-project being jointly developed by Pivotal, IBM, SAP and Cloud Credo. Diego…
The Road To DevOps
I have been thinking recently about where DevOps comes from and how it is adopted. Most adoption for DevOps seems to come from Operations engineers. Adoption is hard and is slow - especially when…