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Abstractions are great, except when they’re not
Or “please don’t make my life 100% easier, 80% is enough” I had an interesting argument recently in a very crowded meeting – maybe we were all getting that purple meeting haze, but it started to take...
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Cloud Application Life Cycle
Or “you learn by doing, and doing, and doing” One of the most consistent comments I hear about cloud applications is that it fundamentally changes the way applications are written. I’m not talking...
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McCrory on “Cloud Confusion”
or, why is everyone DaaZed and Confused? Dave McCrory, my co-worker at Dell, posted an interesting analysis of how different roles people have in IT jobs dramatically influences their perception of...
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Ballistic Release Cycles: Tracking the Trajectory of OpenStack Milestones
I’ve been watching a pattern emerge on the semiannual OpenStack release cycles for a while now. There is a hidden but crucial development phase that accelerates projects faster than many observers...
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Continuous Release combats disruptions of “Free Fall” development
Since I posted the “Free Fall” development post, I’ve been thinking a bit about the pros and cons of this type of off-release development. The OpenStack Swift project does not do free fall because they...
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Ballistic Release Cycles: Tracking the Trajectory of OpenStack Milestones
I’ve been watching a pattern emerge on the semiannual OpenStack release cycles for a while now. There is a hidden but crucial development phase that accelerates projects faster than many observers...
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