Nine years of predicting cloud native, scored honestly
I started writing annual predictions in 2017 to find out whether I could read the industry. Nine years in, that's turned out to be one of the least in …
Configuration management at Giant Swarm: a historical overview
This is the first of three posts on configuration management at Giant Swarm.
Donating your project to a foundation: what it actually means for risk and compliance
We don't write about the CRA because we have it figured out. We write because we're in the middle of it, and writing is how we think. What we know is …
You're probably still paying for a VMware licence you no longer need
For years, VMware was the obvious answer. You needed to run workloads, you needed isolation, you needed enterprise support, and VMware delivered all o …
The platform assembly tax: what platform teams keep telling us
When we started doing platform work more than ten years ago, nobody called it "platform engineering." We were just trying to make it easier for people …
The CRA's unexpected effect on open source
There's a conversation happening quietly in legal and engineering teams across Europe right now. It's not about whether to comply with the EU Cyber Re …
