Dec 12, 2022The race I didn’t runThis Wednesday was cold and rainy, and I ran/walked 1.5 miles on a treadmill. For anyone that knows me, that seems like an unremarkable sentence. After all, I’ve been on an exercise and weight loss journey for almost ten years now, and running races up to marathon length since 2014…Running6 min readRunning6 min read
Sep 26, 2022Looking at Data like a City StreetAnyone who has been exposed to English-language children’s books in the last few decades should be familiar with the work of Richard Scarry. Despite his name, his delightful picture books are not at all frightening, and feature amusing illustrations of the anthropomorphic animals who live in the fictional city of…Data11 min readData11 min read
Published inGeek Culture·Mar 11, 2021Patterns, GitHub, and Misplaced ExpectationsKyle Brown — I’ve written before about how I’ve been involved with writing and using Software Patterns for well over twenty-five years now. …Patterns11 min readPatterns11 min read
Jan 20, 2021Paying Back Technical DebtKyle Brown, IBM Fellow, CTO Cloud Architecture Let’s face it, 2020 was a weird year. One of the smaller oddities was that for the first time since 2012, the U.S. Personal savings rate grew (and at a phenomenal rate) rather than holding roughly steady [1]. While most of this is…Technical Debt7 min readTechnical Debt7 min read
Published inThe Startup·Jan 6, 2021A Cloud-Native Coda: Why You (probably) Don’t Need Elastic ScalingKyle Brown and Kim Clark One of the most common features of Cloud Native development that we constantly hear touted as being of supreme importance is elastic scaling. Many companies have told us that they see taking advantage of Elastic Scaling as being a key requirement for their teams evaluating…Cloud Native4 min readCloud Native4 min read
Published inThe Startup·Dec 18, 2020The “Why” of Cloud-Native: Goals and BenefitsKyle Brown and Kim Clark Note: This is part 5 of five-part series. For the first article in the series, start here or jump to Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 In our past articles, we’ve established “what” cloud native refers to and even “how” cloud native works. However, there’s…Cloud Native10 min readCloud Native10 min read
Published inThe Startup·Dec 17, 2020The “How” of Cloud-Native: Technology and Infrastructure PerspectiveKyle Brown and Kim Clark Note: This is part 4 of a multipart series. For the first article in the series start here or jump to Part 2, Part 3, Part 5. While the people, process, architecture and design issues we covered in the last two articles are all critical…Cloud Native9 min readCloud Native9 min read
Published inThe Startup·Dec 14, 2020The “How” of Cloud Native: Architecture and Design PerspectiveBy Kyle Brown and Kim Clark Note: This is part 3 of a multipart series. For the first article in the series, start here, or jump to Part 2, Part 4, Part 5. In our previous article in this series we discussed how a move to a cloud native approach…Software Architecture10 min readSoftware Architecture10 min read
Published inThe Startup·Dec 11, 2020The “How” of Cloud Native: People and Process PerspectiveKyle Brown and Kim Clark Note, this is part 2 of a multipart series. You can find part 1 here , or jump to Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. In the previous article, where we discussed what cloud native actually means, we established that to achieve the desired benefits…Agile Development9 min readAgile Development9 min read
Published inThe Startup·Dec 9, 2020What Does Cloud Native Really Mean?Kyle Brown and Kim Clark Note: This is part 1 of a multipart series You can jump to Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, or Part 5. All too often, conversations around cloud native dive straight into technology choices like containerization and microservices. These are definitely potential ingredients of a…Cloud Native9 min readCloud Native9 min read
