There’s a joke making its way around the internet that goes like this: Q: How do DevOps engineers change a lightbulb? A: They don’t. It’s a hardware problem. The trend to abstract ...
When people in the DevOps world hear the word "containers," most of the time they imagine the lightweight, standalone, executable Docker binaries that have become commonplace in today’s cloud infrastructure. It might ...
Let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s imagine a world in which almost all the work required to sustain human life on the planet is performed by intelligent machines. Think about it: All ...
One of the fundamental tenets of DevOps is that working in closed, departmental silos is counterproductive for creating quality software. Rather, work is done best when groups are composed of members from ...
“As with any new technology, it’s really important that we be thinking now about how to do [it] ethically and responsibly.” —Robert High, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM Watson Here’s ...
Want to know what a bad day looks like? Imagine you're a developer working your way up the career ladder. One day your manager comes by your cube to tell you that ...
Saying that new jobs will always be created to replace those that have been eliminated by automation is a mechanism for avoiding a real problem that’s lurking on the horizon. In 2004, ...
The API economy has come a long way since the days when I worked at a very well-known automotive website back in 2007. Back then, APIs were the thing that application programmers ...
If we do not change the way we teach, 30 years from now we will be in trouble. Because the way we teach, the thing we teach our kids are the things ...
Discovering how an application works can be a difficult, expensive undertaking. That’s why architectures based on REST are so popular. The architectural style provides an easy-to-implement interface that allows consumers to use ...