25 May 2023
When I started OCMock almost 20 years ago, I would never have expected it to become so popular. Then again, at the time Objective-C was a niche language used only to develop (some) applications for the Mac. This changed with the iPhone, and dramatically so. And it changed again in about 2016 after Apple had introduced Swift and had made it very clear that Objective-C had not much of a role to play anymore. I wrote about the effect on OCMock a few years ago.
15 Dec 2023
Following the recently published article on Cloud Native Sustainability: Strategies for carbon reduction the Agile meets Architecture conference team has now published the recording of my talk on the topic. In it I go over the most important concepts of green computing, I explain how organisations are estimating the carbon emissions related to their cloud usage, and I offer some insights into GreenOps and strategies to reduce carbon emssions from IT.
21 Nov 2023
Over the past year I’ve spent a fair amount of time getting my head around green software and what role cloud computing plays in that space. There’s a talk that I’m currently presenting at various conferences and events. If you just want the essentials there’s now an article that I wrote with my colleague Seema: Cloud Native Sustainability: Strategies for carbon reduction.
In the article, we explore how an organisation can reduce their carbon footprint by moving to the cloud and to cloud-native architectures. And that’s an important point right there: Shifting workloads from on-premises data centres to the cloud can significantly reduce carbon emissions, but to realise the full potential of carbon reductions that a cloud-based solution can offer you will have to move to a cloud-native architecture.
09 Jun 2023
Seeing all the experiments with GitHub Copilot around me I decided to take Copilot to some difficult terrain (pun intended, see below). A lot of the positive experience is reported with very common programming languages, JavaScript and Python especially, writing code related to web applications. But how would Copilot fare with a less common language and code that’s involving more complicated data structures? To find out I turned to Crellinor, my genetic programming / artificial life simulator written in Rust, which I have talked about before; and I set out to fix some todo’s in the Terrain class.
08 Jun 2023
The podcast team at the Handelsblatt newspaper invited me to an episode of their So klingt Wirtschaft podcast. Jana Samsonova and I talk about green computing, responsible use of technology, and how moving to a public cloud can reduce CO2 emissions. As you may have guessed at this stage, the podcast is in German.
29 Apr 2023
Developer experience platforms have been a hot topic for a while now, and I've talked about them with many of our clients. Last year, I distilled the essence from those client presentations into a talk that I gave a GeeCON Prague, and now the team have made the recording of the talk available on YouTube. DX platforms are not as hyped at Gen AI but if you want to make your developer teams more effective, they are certainly something to look into.
21 Feb 2023
In this article, published in the funkschau magazine, I discuss an important issue that our modern software supply chains bring when it comes to security: the role of the sprawling web of dependencies.
You can read the article in the online edition of the magazine on page 42. Sorry, no direct link, and the text is in German.
My open source software projects: OCMock, CCMenu, Quvyn, etc.
Conference talk about Rust and its growing ecosystem
Article published in a special edition of IEEE Software
Blog post describing an HTML version of toxcitiy charts
Essay published in a book on sourcing strategies