Chris
Riley (@hoardinginfo) is obsessed with bringing modern technologies to those who need to solve real-world problems, going from unicorn to reality. Chris speaks and engages with end users regularly in the areas of DevOps, SecOps and App Dev. He works for Splunk as a Tech Advocate and is a regular contributor to industry blogs such as ContainerJournal.com, DevOps.com and Sweetcode.io. He is also the host of the podcast, Developers Eating the World.
Sometimes, the meaning of a word or a phrase changes so quickly that you don't even notice that it's changed; at some point, you just realize that you've been using it differently ...
Where is Hadoop? Just a few years ago, it was everywhere. Internet heavy hitters such as Facebook and Yahoo boasted about the size of their Hadoop clusters and applications. It was easy ...
Here's a simple question: for each tool that your organization uses, have you (or someone else on your DevOps team) changed the default passwords? That should be a no-brainer, shouldn't it? Of ...
Dear DevOps “enthusiast”, You are confused. But I am confused as well. For approximately two years now this DevOps thing has been both exciting and frustrating. And in ways that are totally ...
In the pre-DevOps era, there wasn't much question of developers owning infrastructure, if only because for the most part, they didn't want to own it. They wanted infrastructure to work for them ...
Today Couchbase, the creator of an Enterprise NoSQL database server, announces N1QL ( pronounced Nickle) at their user conference. N1QL is designed to ease the pain for SQL developers when considering NoSQL, by ...
72 days after the fact AdultFriendFinder.com, a “very mature” dating site, realized they had been hacked. The VERY personal information of 3 million registrants has been held hostage. By now, it should be ...
I normally am not a fan of Microsoft conferences. But i’ve always loved the Build Conference. Not just because there is usually an awesome show giveaway. Like this years HP spectre x360, ...
If you are familiar with, or buy into the idea of the Hype Cycle, you are familiar with the Trough of Disillusionment. When it comes to adoption of pretty much anything, there ...
In software development, success is all about failure. That may sound as if we are carrying the "fail fast, fail hard" philosophy a little too far, but which would you rather have ...