Relationships and Control We’ve talked in the past about how control is an illusion – we can’t control the world around us, and all we really have are the choices we make. We’ve also talked about how manipulating people only works when you’re the smartest person in the room. One of the things that’s been a struggle …
OpenShift 3.11 release In late 2018, Red Hat released OpenShift 3.11. Major features we cared about were: CRI-O – a replacement container service (over Docker, although it can still run Docker containers) that isn’t controlled by a single company (6 Reasons why CRI-O is the best runtime for Kubernetes) Improved infrastructure alerting and monitoring New web …
I seeeee you! One of our favorite things to do is to observe people. You can learn a ton about people by watching them (uh…in a non-creepy way, ideally) and seeing what they display as valuable. With nerds, one of the best ways to do this is to look at their laptops – make and model and operating …
Fun fact – the Building Reliability blog post was originally called “Building Trust.” It was old content – some day we’ll tell the story of everything that happened between when it was originally published and when we published it here, but suffice it to say that a lot changed okay. Because of what changed, Laine …
In this blog post, we’re going to talk about distributed architectures, and the progression they’ve made over time. We’re going to do this because a long time ago, when we were watching the Getting Started with Docker training on PluralSite, Josh started ranting about this very topic and Laine told him it should to be …
“It works as long as you’re the smartest, but then the curtain comes back. Nobody likes being manipulated.” People hate that word, “manipulation.” As a rule, they don’t hate the concept unless they’re on the receiving end of it, and even then sometimes they appear to prefer it to dealing with…well, reality.
(FYI, we’re using affiliate links to Amazon in this post!) Technology innovation is vital. It can enable business success – and it can also drive business innovation. If a business falls behind the technology curve, it opens itself up to the risk of under-serving its customers, and eventually being out-maneuvered and defeated in the marketplace. This happens over …
One of the greatest things about being a leader, for us, is building deep, enduring relationships with the people and teams we work with. One of the hardest things, for us, about being a leader is leaving the relationships we’ve built. This is a sad, painful process. We love people a lot, and we keep leaving, maybe because …
We’ve seen a lot of tool transitions across a large enterprise, and one of the coolest examples was changing the opinion of the company we worked for regarding source code analysis. We had a tool that was under-licensed, slow, ineffective, and largely ignored. At best, it was a check box labeled “we’re definitely secure, you guys!” …
If you’re a Java developer who’s been working with OpenShift 3.x for a while, odds are very high you’ve worked with their OpenJDK 8 S2I image. That container includes Red Hat’s S2I magic, which can take a git URL or a JAR and turn it into a running Java application. Combined with Spring Boot, it’s …