For more techniques, keep an eye on the updates to this post. 1. Operations Is No Longer Guesswork Everything is interconnected, and the internet’s model of the physical world is becoming more and more accurate. Our geographic location, our movement trajectories, and our operations on electronic devices are all being recorded.

1. On the Aesthetics of CICD Tools In the document A Software Product Is the Output of a Team’s Capability, I mentioned that a software product is the delivery vehicle for a solution, and that its quality depends on the team’s understanding of the core problem. Only with a deep understanding of the domain can the delivered product have a chance of being good.

Many cloud native open source components start with the service and add visualization later. Today I had a brainstorm and went the opposite way: first the visual interaction, then the underlying design. 1. One Canvas Covers Half of Cloud Native Users only need one canvas. Define the Workflow, and they can roam freely across all kinds of fancy Cloud Native applications.

For engineers in the internet industry, what comes to mind most often is the Scalability of systems — for example, how to improve a system as traffic, compute, and storage grow, with all kinds of horizontal and vertical scaling options. Besides services, the Scalability of a team is also critical.

1. Open Source Is Growing More and More Popular The 2019 IDC North America Open Source Software Usage Survey showed that 71% of enterprises are using open source software, and 54% plan to expand their usage. The 2020 Red Hat Enterprise Open Source Survey showed that 95% of IT leaders consider enterprise open source critical to their enterprise infrastructure software strategy.