Doug Tidwell

Red Hat Developer Alumnus

Doug Tidwell

Doug Tidwell is a programmer and writer who creates videos, articles, sample code, container images, and other useful things. He has given hundreds of presentations at dozens of conferences around the world and is the author of O'Reilly's XSLT, a copy of which makes a perfect gift for all occasions. Not that it's particularly relevant, but he enjoys hiking and craft cocktails when not at work.

 

Doug Tidwell's contributions

Lift and Shift Application Modernization
Article

Modernize your application deployment with Lift and Shift

Doug Tidwell

By redeploying your application you can add modern application features like continuous integration and deployment without rewriting. Lift and shift your legacy application onto a cloud/container platform.

Red Hat Summit - Open technology built for change
Article

Red Hat Summit: Building production-ready containers

Doug Tidwell

While it's easy to get started with containers, best practices (as usual) require more forethought and planning. In this post, Scott McCarty and Ben Breard share their experience and wisdom to smooth your move into the world of containers.

Red Hat Summit signage: Keep Exploring
Article

Red Hat Summit: Lowering the risk of monolith to microservices

Doug Tidwell

Modernizing a monolithic application by introducing microservices has some significant risks. Red Hat's Christian Posta shares his experiences helping customers move to microservices, providing lots of practical advice and insight along the way.

Signage for the Red Hat Summit at Moscone West in San Francisco
Article

Red Hat Summit: Functions as a Service with OpenWhisk and OpenShift

Doug Tidwell

Serverless computing (often called Functions as a Service, or FaaS) is one of the hottest emerging technologies today. The OpenWhisk project, currently in incubation at Apache, is an open-source implementation of serverless that lets you create functions that are invoked in response to events.

A Red Hat Summit sign on the streets of San Francisco
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Red Hat Summit: An introduction to OpenShift.io

Doug Tidwell

OpenShift.io is a cloud native set of zero-install tools for editing and debugging code, agile planning, and managing CI/CD pipelines. Installing and configuring developer tools is a major time sink; OpenShift.io takes that task out of the picture.