Review of 2022

OpenSourcerers 2022 is a wrap! It was packed with interesting articles covering a wide range of topics. There are 52 articles available covering high level topics down to the dirty technical details of using Red Hat’s products and other OpenSource technologies. Your Opensourcerers blog editors followed along of course! As we come from varying backgrounds […]

DevOps Metrics – What are they good for ?

Why do we need DevOps Metrics and what are they good for ?

Rise of the Superclouds

It is widely accepted that using a hybrid- and multi-cloud approach is needed to increase flexibility and reduce the dependency on any single vendor. However, most organizations struggle to operate effectively across clouds, with environments often being disconnected silos with varying primitives, APIs, and management tools. Thus, moving workloads and data between clouds, and implementing […]

My favorite must-read books to become a better leader

I have been in a variety of technical leadership positions over the past decade before transitioning into people management in 2019. During my journey I’ve attended numerous formal leadership trainings, read dozens of books, and frequently studied online resources (The Enterprisers Project and Harvard Business Review are my favorites by the way). There is so […]

Why test automation won’t work without infrastructure automation

The article shows the different benefits of an automated testing approach and why the full benefit can only unleashed by using infrastructure automation.

Red Hat Summit 2022: Editor’s Picks

Red Hat Summit 2022 is a wrap! It was packed with interesting sessions covering a wide range of topics. Most sessions are available after a quick registration for on-demand viewing until December 2022 here:  https://summit.redhat.com There are 101 on-demand sessions available covering high level topics down to the dirty technical details of using Red Hat’s […]

How to create data sharing and collaboration services in kubernetes environments

Introduction Customer requirements are constantly changing and the digital transformation of any company requires not only support for cultural aspects in the collaboration between departments and colleagues, but also the adaptation of processes, modernisation of programmes and the management of company-related data. In my article “How to create a data pipeline for Next Generation Sequencing”, […]

Correct Estimates? A personal perspective

Motivation A while ago I paused an exchange on twitter. I have been in a strong disagreement with what was stated from Alex. To avoid being bullish on a short reply, it took some time to reply in due respect and also purposefully.  Nevertheless, I need to agree to some extend: There might be cases […]

Security aspects with OpenShift – an overview

Today more than ever availability and performance depend on resilience against increasingly frequent and powerful attacks on the confidentiality, availability and integrity of information and IT systems. It is not just that our systems are being threatened with continuous automated attacks, but also with highly sophisticated approaches, such as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), Ransomware, Side […]

State of the art end-to-end automation

How to achieve a sound & compelling governance handling change requests, incidents and problem tickets in a DevSecOps scenario – based on authors’ field experience with end to end automation.