Friday, January 22, 2016

Book Review: Cooking for Geeks, Second Edition

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As a single book, this combination of food science, recipes, equipment, ingredients, experimentation, interviews, and geeky humor is hard ...

Links for 01-22-2016

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Washington, D.C., hasn't seen a blizzard like this in nearly 100 years - Guess where I’m scheduled to fly on Saturday AM (obviously won...

The new distributed application development platform: Breaking down silos

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A document came out of Gaithersburg, Maryland in 2011. Published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology it was simply titled...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Why bimodal is a useful model

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You hear a lot about “bimodal” IT these days. Gartner’s generally considered to have coined that specific term but similar concepts have pe...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Links for 01-14-2016

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WNYC is leading public radio's transition to public podcasting - Columbia Journalism Review Digital transformation video-IDC Google'...
Thursday, January 07, 2016

IDC survey says: Go cloud-native but modernize too

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IDC’s recent survey of “cloud native” early adopters tells us that existing applications and infrastructure aren’t going away. 83 percent ex...

Links for 01-07-2015

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What to Expect the First Time You Drink Kombucha — Maker Tour: Part Two | The Kitchn Twitter - Pitfalls of misapplying bimodal would make a...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Beyond general purpose in servers

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Shortly before I checked out for the holidays, I had the pleasure to give a keynote at SDI Summit in Santa Clara, CA. The name might sugge...
Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Getting from here to there: conventional and cloud-native

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Before the holiday break, I wrote a series of posts over at the Red Hat Stack blog in which I added my thoughts about cloud native archite...
Monday, January 04, 2016

What's up with Gordon in 2016?

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First off, let me say that I’m not planning big changes although I’m sure my activities will continue to evolve as the market does. Red Hat’...

Links for 01-04-2016

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Intel increases outside hires - Business Insider - "Intel historically promoted most of its senior management from within but has rece...
Friday, December 18, 2015

Review: Beddit Smart Sleep Monitor

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Much of the focus on activity and health trackers is on wearables. Think Fitbit, Apple Watch, and so forth. However, arguably, this isn’t t...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Links for 12-15-2015

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DevOps best practices—helping technologies integrate, automate, and monitor infrastructures Registration - RT @RedHatCloud: #DevOps best pr...
Thursday, December 03, 2015

Presentation: The new distributed application infrastructure (SDI Summit 2015)

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The New Distributed Application Infrastructure from Gordon Haff Today’s workloads require a new platform for development and executi...
Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Links for 12-02-2015

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Teachers banning simple words like said is a bad idea. The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide - RT @jbarro: Your pe...
Monday, November 30, 2015

DevOps initiatives shouldn't just touch the new stuff

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Although I feel as if it’s been dispelled to a significant degree, there lingers the misperception that DevOps [1] is mostly for companies ...
Friday, November 20, 2015

My fave carry-on luggage

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I travel a lot. Sometimes too much. And I get asked by a lot of friends and acquaintances about gear and other preferences. I’ve been meani...

Links for 11-20-2015

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13 miles of typography on Broadway, from A to Z — Hopes&Fears What Would the Father of American Football Make of the Modern Game? - The ...

Survey says: Who owns DevOps strategy?

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I’ve previously written about the overall results from IDC’s “DevOps, Open Source and Business Agility: Lessons Learned from Early Adopter...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

How open source is increasingly about ecosystems

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When we talk about the innovation that communities bring to open source software, we often focus on how open source enables contributions a...

Links for 10-20-2015

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Particle (formerly Spark) | Build your Internet of Things PrivateEyePi Project What are the best resources to learn Node.js? - Quora Reactiv...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

VMs, Containers, and Microservices with Red Hat's Mark Lamourine

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In this podcast, my Red Hat engineering colleague Mark Lamourine and I discuss where VMs fit in a containerized world and whether microserv...