The Soul of Tomorrow’s Businesses
Apple, Tesla, & Disney, among others, what do they have in common? Steve Jobs described it as follows, “… technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married…
A DevOps Journey from 2015
I had presented this publicly back in 2015-16 span of time. DevOps was just beginning to gain widespread attention beyond a small community. Reading over the document today, the messages…
The Power of Microservices
An old customer of mine popped back up recently looking for help. Back in 2007 I developed some software for him that used Flash as a front end. As you…
On To My Next Adventure, Automation … Anywhere
This story of why I chose to join my new company and not why I left my old company. This week I started as the VP & Regional CTO –…
The (Near) Future Is About Low Touch Operations
In the title I specify the “near future” so it won’t be taken as a vision for the long term in which I believe autonomous, self-healing systems will most likely…
The Executive’s Guide to Microservices: An Online Novel
It’s been awhile seen I’ve posted here, but I have been blogging and writing. I have helped launch Microservices Journal with MediaOps, the team behind DevOps.com. I’ve been writing an…
Enterprise Architecture
PaaS
Service Oriented Architecture
Software Development
Solution Architecture
The Two Faces of Microservices
Microservices (μServices) are a fascinating evolution of the Distributed Object Computing (DOC) paradigm. Initial design of DOC attempted to solve the problem of simplifying developing complex distributed applications by applying…
Time for the Tail to Stop Wagging the Dog
Here’s a novel, but controversial statement, “it’s time for the CEO, COO, CIO to start to take joint responsibility for application platform decisions.” For too many years now technical meritocracy…
Technology of the Year for 2016 – The Web Platform
We’re starting to see predictions about what’s going to be hot in enterprise technology in 2017. Cloud (yet again), Blockchain, Big Data/Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) are all among the…
The Curious Case of the WordPress Docker Container and the Devious XML-RPC Denial of Service Attack
Republished from 04/29 as it was lost due to a Docker Container crash… Irony! I have an article in the recently released “DZone Guide to Building and Deploying Applications on…