Adrian Bridgwater
Forbes
United Kingdom
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The Path To Cleaner Cloud Containers
Kubernetes has effectively now emerged as the operating system of the cloud. This means organizations are implementing more advanced Kubernetes use cases such as security controls, service meshes, messaging systems and observability tools. → Read More
Why Open Source Software ‘Fragments’
Software fragments at the project level in open source because the open model of community-centric software application development is inherently founded in freedom and the ability to ‘skew & fork’ projects in new directions, all in the interest of innovation and user choice. → Read More
Why Software And Data Waste Has To Stop
Waste happens at the software and data level too, especially in enterprise environments where unused applications and data stores exist either in on-premises data room facilities, in public cloud datacenter instance contracts, or across a hybrid-cloud span of both environments. → Read More
Appian CTO: Data Fabric Leads Evolution Of Low-Code For Process Automation
If we had to write the ‘what low-code did next’ story, we would be putting the rise of process automation & more intelligently orchestrated internal application functions in there as the lead character. This is the manifesto that Appian has used to explain and validate its new data infrastructure. → Read More
Metadata Management Matters, Progress To Acquire MarkLogic
Progress has a vision for application development & infrastructure software, managed through digitally encoded policies and controls. If we started that journey with information management at the heart of the software kernel, then we need to go one tier deeper & add metadata management. → Read More
Software Is A Sandwich, What’s The Filling?
The notion of the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) represents a manifest that identifies the components that make up a particular software app like a list of ingredients of a cake. Accordingly, for applications an SBOM is a list of all the ingredients or components that went into building the app. → Read More
Software Specifics, IFS Engineers Cloud Platform Tools For 'Real' Industry Work
Partly because of its impact upon human workflows as we move to cloud-first software deployment, but also due to the maelstrom of white noise emanating from enterprise technology vendors at every level — all of whom want to tell us about their 'solutions' and their ability to deliver insight and ... → Read More
Progress360 2022: day two keynote
The Computer Weekly DeveloperNetwork team is on the road again and this time it's Boston, USA for Progress Software’s Progress360 developer event, staged from September 11-14, 2022. This event ... → Read More
Progress360 2022: day one keynote live report
The email came in quite quietly over the weekend, just in advance of the morning keynote the following day… and it read, “So, it’s like a normal developer event - all over again right?” The truth ... → Read More
CloudBees CEO: Making Honey In The Software Delivery Hive
Today software gets delivered continuously, cumulatively and concurrently (when users download more than one item at once) to our machines at a cadence that would have seemed simply laughable back when we quaintly used to call our devices personal computers (PCs). → Read More
Open Source To Commercial Software, The Project-To-Product Process
Open source software at various levels now runs much of our global technology backbone, our desktop & handheld devices... and the neural network of synaptic interconnections that weave the whole fabric of the modern IT stack together. Open source runs us, so understanding how we run it is important. → Read More
The ‘Problem’ With Low-Code (And How To Fix It)
Some say that new low-codetoolsets represent too narrow a focus on construction. Ask anyone with a professional software engineering certification about real world deployment and they’ll tell you that developing the code for an application only a fraction of the story. → Read More
Helios shines golden light on microservices development
Developer platform company Helios is making noise. The organisation is comparatively news and it has things to say. Principally, the company highlights the fact that modern cloud apps consist of ... → Read More
What Does IT Scalability Actually Mean?
Among the core IT department goals is a need to create a clear channel to enable applications, data repositories, IT services and all manner of internal system mechanics and functions to scale. But scalability itself doesn’t come in a bottle, so what does it really mean and how do we achieve it? → Read More
Circular IT series - Alibaba Cloud: Open sesame on carbon management
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence division of Alibaba Group, has announced the global launch of Energy Expert. Not a person as such (although plenty of the organisation’s staff ... → Read More
Cockroach Labs: The killer factor in the dead heat cloud zone
People don’t like the poor cockroach. Although they’re widely despised, generally spurned and definitely a very unpleasant addition to a bathroom, shower, bed or couch once you’re on vacation ... → Read More
Steering carefully, the automation acceleration driving DevOps
This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Rob Tribe in his capacity as VP System Engineering EMEA, Nutanix. This analysis is intended to remind us of a core reality ... → Read More
Coder creates multi-compute multi-cloud IDE
The question is not hard. Why did nobody ever start a software application development business for coders to work with code and just go ahead and call it Coder? The answer is even easier, someone ... → Read More
NordVPN Meshnet: device diversity encrypted against adversity
In the post-pandemic world (okay yes, we know infections are still happening and many of us continue to be sensible with facemasks in public places like supermarkets and on planes etc.), people are ... → Read More
Snowflake cybersecurity workload: less congestion for data ingestion
As part of the core news feed stemming from Snowflake Summit 2022, we learned that the firm that calls itself the Data Cloud company has announced the launch of a new Cybersecurity workload for ... → Read More