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Volkswagen, and how not to describe your employees
Scapegoat, Some rights reserved by h.koppdelaney At RedMonk we have been talking, and Stephen has written extensively, over many years about the world that now exists, in which developers are the new...
View ArticleSecurity, Accountability and Compliance as Code
Over the last few days we have seen a flurry of coverage here in the UK around a hack (or more accurately a sql injection, that appears to have been carried out by a fifteen year old) on a large ISP,...
View ArticleIn Support of Paying Developers Properly
The Department of Culture, Media & Sport here in the UK announced a call for submissions on December 29th on UK Digital Strategy. This is a welcome call, and the reactions and submissions I have...
View ArticleDocker, Containers and the CIO
A question we are frequently asked here at RedMonk is how do CIOs, and the wider operations side of an enterprise technology function, view Docker, and also how they view the broader container market....
View ArticleSwift, OpenWhisk and APIs – Reflections on IBM InterConnect
TL; DR: IBM’s work around Swift, OpenWhisk and API Connect are worthy of attention. We had the opportunity to spend last week at IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas. It is a somewhat unusual event, with...
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Strategic Technology: IBM Acquire Promontory – Levelling Up in the AI & Data...
Last week IBM announced they had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire strategic consultancy Promontory Financial Group. Promontory is not exactly a household name, but they are one of the...
View ArticleNSX & Cloud Native – The Developer Orientated Next Act for VMware
We had the opportunity to attend VMWorld Europe in Barcelona in October. The event was timely given the recent announcement of the VMware and Amazon partnership, and gave us the opportunity to talk...
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On the Myth of the 10X Engineer and the Reality of the Distinguished Engineer
One of the greatest myths perpetuated in the software industry, particularly by recruiters, over the last number of years has been the idea of the 10X engineer. The idea that some rock-star or ninja...
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Innovative, Disruptive, Enterprise Focused and Boring – Choose Four....
TL; DR: Being on the cutting edge while still being completely enterprise focused is hard. SAP is showing that there is a path. SAP hold their annual developer event series, TechEd across three...
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