Today I participated in the inaugural Open Core Summit.
Trail of Coincidence
A guest was coming to our office over lunch, so food was ordered for everyone. Except it turned out that due to a miscommunication, mine wasn’t there. No problem, I...
Camping in Livermore
In the Saturday Japanese school my daughter goes to, there are 4-5 families that mine has been particularly close to. With some families relocating and what not, faces have slowly...
Art of asking questions
A part of my work is a journalistic work. I go out, I grok how & what software people are building, and that knowledge informs what we do next. This...
KubeCon event report (2 of 2)
(This is the continuation from the previous post.)
KubeCon event report (1 of 2)
KubeCon / CloudNativeCon in Barcelona was amazing. I’ve been hearing great things from my colleagues who have been to past KubeCon, but hearing and seeing are two entirely different experiences....
Microsoft Build event report
This is my event report from Microsoft Build last week. More pictures of the event is here. The last time I’ve been to a flagship Microsoft event is more than...
Dockercon 2019
I was at the Dockercon last week. TL;DR is that +1 for the event team, their OSS strategy, and ARM, but -1 for the CTO’s stage performance, and their product...
On technology leadership
What does it mean to be a technology leader? This has been and still is a perpetual question for me. In this post, I’d like to reflect on what I...
My personal journey around diversity
Today, in the software development industry, the issue of gender, racial, and other diversities is widely accepted. But I also think this is still largely understood as “social value,” as...
Software is eating the world all right, but is everyone becoming software business?
As CTO of CloudBees, and the founder of the Jenkins project, I often take a podium in front of a room full of senior technology leaders and make a pitch...