Passionate technical leader with a proven success record architecting and implementing high-impact software systems for companies ranging from startups to large companies. Participated as an executive, architect, and developer for over 150 projects. In-depth knowledge and experience architecting Microservices (nee SOA), containers, CMS and portal solutions on various platforms. At present, re-architecting a Linux Distribution for more flexibility in a containerized world. Evangelist and implementer of the “perpetual beta,” the promise of DevOps, and the hybrid cloud as ways to create more resilient and usable web applications. Published and spoken at professional and industry conferences.
Like most programmers, I find it much easier to take some existing example of code and modify it to do what I want. Sometimes, I end up with nothing from the original source, but I still find it easier. I wonder if this is akin to writing where, I find, if you put the words down in a stream of consciousness manner, then " rewrite, rewrite, rewrite." As such, I am really excited about the efforts from the CentOS, Fedora...
If you haven't seen it yet, Red Hat has a a site covering the things going on in our upstream communities. The site includes a blog, upcoming events, and many of the projects we contribute to. Recently they have also added a podcast called "Upstream" where Joe Brockmeier interviews various people about what is happening (in upstream :) ). Yesterday, he posted an interview with me about SoftwareCollections.org (our prior post) . Go check it out, and if you want...
As many of you have probably heard, Red Hat announced a new " Docker server" at Summit. The new server is called "Atomic" and details can be found at the project home page. As you all know, I tend to be interested in using Software Collections to ensure the portability of applications. So, putting my foot^W money where my mouth is, I decided to download Atomic, run it as a VM, create a Docker image with a Software Collection, and...
If you are anything like me, you live in perpetual fear of breaking your primary machine. The one you use for reading email, twitter, notifying you of meetings, etc. Over the years we have seen many attempts to alleviate this problem, things like etckeeper, using git to manage home ( duck it), regular backups (sure...), etc. Today, I stumbled across one of the benefits in Software Collections that I hadn't noticed before. My internal monologue went something like this: me...
Red Hat has been working on new and innovative ways to deliver alternate versions of system software for some time. In 2012, we released the 1.0 of the Red Hat Developer Toolset (DTS) which was the first product to use Software Collections. About six months ago, Red Hat took the wraps off of Red Hat Software Collections 1.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Now we're pleased to announce SoftwareCollections.org, a project for creating, hosting, and delivering community created Software...
This is now generally available. BRIDGING DEVELOPER AGILITY WITH PRODUCTION STABILITY. This is what we do. Today, we are pleased to announce the beta availability of Red Hat Software Collections 1.1, the second installment of Red Hat Software Collections which was launched in October 2013. Red Hat Software Collections delivers a comprehensive suite of runtime languages, open source databases, and related tools helping developers and systems administrators accelerate the creation of stable, modern web applications. Based on your wish list...
Apologies that this has been so long in coming, but I was certain that we had already written a post on this subject. What subject you ask? How does one set one or more software collections as automatically enabled for your login. Some of you may consider this obvious, but there are a number of ways to accomplish this goal. First, you just "source" the enable script from your .bashrc. For example source /opt/rh/python33/enable However, as this Red Hat kbase...
As many of you have probably experienced, creating your own rpms can be handy, but what is even better is if you can access those rpms from anywhere on the internet. It is also handy to be able to share the rpms with your friends :). In the past that has meant building all of the rpms for the various RHEL-ecosystem OSs and then finding somewhere you can host them and maintaining it yourself. What I am excited to tell...
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