Writing about technology, and perhaps board games
This year (2023) is the year of platform engineering. Don’t believe me? Here is the esteemed (and it has to be said lovely) Charles Humble totally accurately quoting the ravings of some madman on twitter: “This is going to be year of platform engineering.” @samnewman , #WTFIsCloudNative — Charles Humble (@charleshumble@mastodon.social) (@charleshumble) February 2, 2023 (A screenshot of the…
So, after far too long a hiatus, we’re back on the Magpie Talkshow for a one-off episode where I interview Kafka creator and Confluent CEO, Jay Kreps . I’ve been doing a small amount of work with Confluent recently, and through this I got the chance to meet Jay, and I thought he’d make a great guest for the show. So in this episode we’re going to learn about Jay’s own journey in the tech industry,…
Adrian Cockcroft has been a great supporter of my work around microservices, and I was really grateful he was able to find the time to catch up with me at Yow 2015 late last year. Few people have done as much to help share the power of the cloud in recent years as Adrian, but he certainly has a career that predates the explosion of Amazon Web Services. In episode 22 of the Magpie Talkshow, he…
In the last episode of the podcast, I shared the first of the two part NASA special, when I chatted to Dr Anita Sengupta about her involvement with the recent Curiosity Mars lander. This time, I'm chatting to her colleague Dr. Kamal Oudrhiri , who led the Radio Science team for the same lander. In our interview, Kamal shares his journey into space sciences, from being inspired as a boy by pictures…
One of the nice things that the YOW conference has done over recent years is strive to bring in interesting keynotes, often from quite left-field areas (at least for a software technology conference!). Last year the organisers outdid themselves when they managed to secure the services of Dr Anita Sengupta and Dr Kamal Oudrhiri who worked on the recent Mars Curiosity Lander for NASA. I was lucky…
Picture source , licence I've been very fortunate to have been in demand of late, for conference talks, tutorials, and other things. The problem is trying to satisfy the many requests I get. Being based in Australia means that travel is a significant time sink for me, increasing the impact on my time, sometimes my health, not to mention the planet! Given that I also have a day job, and other…