Imagine two aspiring entrepreneurs: Meg and Jen. They are equally capable and well-connected, and they are working on equally promising startup ideas. In fact, imagine that Meg and Jen differ in just one respect: Meg is thinking about what a good fallback job would be and how she plans to pursue it if her current …
The open source release of Docker in March 2013 triggered a major shift in the way in which the software development industry is aspiring to package and deploy modern applications. The creation of many competing, complimentary and supporting container technologies has followed in the wake of Docker, and this has lead to much hype, and …
We do a lot of collaborating these days. But despite the number of open offices, designated “thinking” areas, and our managerial focus on small teams, we still haven’t mastered collaborative work. In fact, we’re really bad at it. A very nice article on Google’s view on team collaboration based upon data analysis. You can read …
2015 was a tumultuous year for Big Data, with highs continuing to dazzle us with the potential world-changing power of data and analytics. At the same time there were plenty of lows serving as ongoing warnings that much is still unknown about exactly how it will end up changing the world. A nice article by …
I believe that a coherent approach to systems architecture is needed, and I believe that all necessary aspects are already recognised individually: I want systems that are Responsive, Resilient, Elastic and Message Driven. Read the The Reactive Manifesto.
Steve Jobs once said: Customers don’t measure on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver. So true!
A very nice article on Software-Defined Data Centers@ DevOps.com OpenFlow protocol primer: Looking under the hood
Today I started building my homelab server. I did this based on the blog post of the Packetpushers. I want this server to be able to run ESXi (6) hypervisor as hypervisor and be cool and quiet. Will keep you posted on the progress 😉 Until now my bill of materials is as follows: Case: …
A nice article on Enterprising DevOps in Banking sector: to be read here.
An interesting article on Response Time Limits by Jakob Nielsen can be found here.