This morning, Silicon Valley Bank had a sudden death. Even if you are in the tech space or in silicon valley, unless you are running a business you probably didn’t see how this unfolded up close. This is a short story of how this drama unfolded around me, a startup founder in silicon valley. The…
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Kohsuke + Launchable = Smarter Testing, Faster DevOps
Software development, meet Big Data. That’s why Harpreet and I are starting Launchable. As the creator of Jenkins, I had the unique privilege to go see many software development teams around the world. And a consistent theme has been emerging. Data is making profound impact to all kinds of businesses, where gut and instinct driven…
A new chapter for Kohsuke
2020 is going to be a year of change for me. By the end of January, I’ll be officially stepping back from Jenkins, switching my role at CloudBees to an advisor, and turning attention to my new startup. The rest of this post is to contextualize this transition, because if you haven’t been working closely…
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 opposed to “business value.†As a result, the awareness is not leading to enough actions, because it loses out in the crucial fight over priority….
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 that software is eating the world and that every business will have to transform into a software business, or they get eaten by those who…
InfraDNA joins forces with CloudBees
Today, I’m happy to announce that InfraDNA is joining forces with CloudBees.
See you at JavaOne!
With a week-long Scandinavia tour over, my nexgt big week is JavaOne! JavaOne has always been an incredibly busy week for me, but this year is no exception. Sunday before JavaOne, we’ll be having a full day Hackathon at Digg. If you are around, please RSVP and join us. I’ll be presenting a Hudson talk…
Scandinavia Tour 2010
I was traveling for the whole week last week. My first stop was at Copenhagen. I attended the two-day Hudson/CI workshop hosted by Nokia, and I was very impressed at the degree in which Nokia embraed Hudson and the amount of the Hudson plugin development they’ve done thus far. I hope some of those work…
Interview with DZone
I did a quick interview with DZone about my new company, InfraDNA.
Introducing InfraDNA, the Hudson company
My new company, InfraDNA, is open for business.