The creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source
On today’s episode we speak with Kohsuke Kawaguchi, who won the Google-O’Reilly Open Source award for his work on the Hudson/Jenkins project. Kohsuke began his career at Sun Microsystems. In 2010 he founded InfraDNA, which merged with Cloudbees shortly after. In 2014 he become the CTO of Cloudbees. He shares
Read moreThe hidden cost of speed
It’s tempting to push projects out the door, to woo and impress colleagues and supervisors, but the stark truth is that even the smallest projects should have proper review periods.
Read moreBest practices for cost-efficient Kafka clusters
In today's data-driven world, Apache Kafka has emerged as a cornerstone of modern data streaming, particularly with the rise of AI and the immense volumes of data it generates.
Read moreOptimal rational approximation
A few days ago I wrote about the approximation for cosine due to the Indian astronomer Aryabhata (476–550) and gave this plot of the error. I said that Aryabhata’s approximation is “not quite optimal since the ripples in the error function are not of equal height.” This was an allusion
Read moreAt scale, anything that could fail definitely will
On today’s episode we chat with Pradeep Vincent, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Architect for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or OCI for short. He shares experiences from his time as an engineer at IBM and what it was like to be a senior engineer working on AWS during the early
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