Innovative, Disruptive, Enterprise Focused and Boring – Choose Four....
TL; DR: Being on the cutting edge while still being completely enterprise focused is hard. SAP is showing that there is a path. SAP hold their annual developer event series, TechEd across three...
View ArticleVoice and the Future of the Platform Companies
TL; DR: Voice as a UI will disrupt the technology industry as we currently know it far more than people realise. One of the most interesting questions in consumer technology at the moment is what will...
View ArticleThe Commodity Container Story
TL; DR: The focus maybe on AWS EKS, the managed Kubernetes offering. The future is with AWS Fargate and similar services The rapid commoditization of components is a well understood concept in...
View ArticleAWS Lambda and the Spectrum of Compute
TL; DR – Serverless has grown up and found a home in the enterprise. But it is still an awkward teenager. Perhaps the key message to come out of re:Invent 2017 was not one of any specific direction or...
View ArticleGreening the Cloud: Comparing the Renewable Energy Credentials of the...
TL; DR – All of the hyperscale cloud providers are green and are focused on becoming greener. As a developer there are various aspects of product development that you can influence, and one of the key...
View ArticleA Look at HashiCorp Terraform Registry Usage
TL; DR – AWS related modules dominate downloads from Terraform Registry, with a particular focus on Terraform modules for automating security groups. We have been observing the growth in usage of...
View ArticleA Look at Unit Testing Frameworks
Testing is perhaps the most frequently spoken about, but most often ignored aspect of software development. As we have noted before CI is the onramp to cloud native, and to be successful with CI you...
View ArticleWho Contributes? An Analysis of CNCF Projects
TL; DR: The vast of code contributions to each CNCF projects outside of Kubernetes come from a small subset of users and companies. While Kubernetes is by far the most well-known project to find at...
View ArticleNVIDIA GTC 2018: Kubernetes, TensorFlow and as many GPUs as you can consume
TL; DR: NVIDIA continue to focus on providing the software components to accelerate their hardware business. Operationalizing AI at scale is starting to look easier with Kubernetes support. NVIDIA’s...
View ArticleCloud Foundry Summit – Scale, End Users and Business Outcomes
TL; DR – Cloud Foundry continues to focus on end users. The end users are completely focused on business outcomes. We had the opportunity to attend the Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston last week. As...
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