Interview

Massimo Ferrari, Management Strategy Director at Red Hat believes that automation is one of the most powerful technologies in IT. Should we embrace automation or should we fight it? What are its advantages, disadvantages and misconceptions? Is automation alone enough to steer the digital transformation journey in the right direction? Let’s find out!

Jenkins is still one of the most widely used tools in the area of ​​continuous delivery. Why? In this interview from DevOpsCon 2017 in Berlin, we interviewed Gianluca Arbezzano about the strengths and weaknesses of Jenkins, Docker, and the future of container technology.

Instead of a very simplistic approach, we need to look for collaboration and interaction patterns that work in different contexts. Collaboration comes with a cost but it produces very good results. However, sometimes it’s better to deliberately introduce a kind of boundary between teams. JAXenter editor Hartmut Schlosser talked to Matthew Skelton at DevOpsCon 2016 about the need for collaboration and what goes into good team structures.

We’ve been so focused on the benefits blockchain has on the finance sector that we’ve forgotten about the legal industry. Enter the Accord Project, the world’s first consortium for smart legal contracts. It’s worth your attention because it seems to be the place where legal and tech come together. We invited Peter Hunn and Houman Shadab, founders of Clause.io to tell us more about the Accord Project and the aim of this initiative.

Eclipse Oxygen is here but even though this milestone has been successfully reached, the development continues. We talked to Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation about his favorite Eclipse Oxygen features, the upcoming Java 9 support and the future of the classic development environments.

Today, we’re taking a second look at a new database on the scene, PumpkinDB. Although this new event sourcing database engine is just getting started, we’re fascinated by what we can see so far. We talked to Yurii Rashkovskii, maintainer at pumpkindb.org about this new project, its benefits and challenges and databases in general.

Eclipse Oxygen is here but even though this milestone has been successfully reached, the development continues — next in line is Eclipse Photon. We talked to Lars Vogel, founder and CEO at vogella about his favorite Eclipse Oxygen features, its successor Eclipse Photon and the future of the classic development environments.

Eclipse Oxygen was released yesterday so that’s that. Is it too early to turn our attention to Eclipse Photon, the next Simultaneous Release? We talked to Mickael Istria, ‎Eclipse developer at the ‎Eclipse Foundation about the projects he spent his efforts on in Eclipse Oxygen, what’s coming to Photon, the projects that fascinate him and the future of the “classic IDE”.

“Culture is not something you can force top down on people, it’s something that needs to come up from people themselves.” We spoke to Emily Lannon, the Director of Workplace at SoundCloud, about DevOps, how to meet employees’ needs, and how to build an amazing and diverse workplace culture.

“We actually believe that to collaborate, you don’t need to come from the same actual culture and background and heritage, but you just need to have the same vision.” JAXenter editor Gabriela Motroc talked to GitHub’s Marko Berkovic and Matthias Wiesen at DevOpsCon 2016 about how to create a company culture, the challenges involved in enforcing it, and some tips on how to make remote teams work.

High-performing organizations seem to have one common pattern: they put a high value on human capital. JAXenter editor Hartmut Schlosser talked to John Willis, Director of Ecosystem Development at Docker, Inc about how to turn human capital into high performance organizational capital.

DevOps needs support from the top. Without management buying in, it will never truly succeed. We talked to Anton Weiss a while back about transforming a company culture, DevOps enablers, and the challenges involved in having an almost perfect DevOps implementation.

The release of Java 9 could be delayed to September 21, 2017. What does this mean for Jigsaw? What does this mean for developers? We talked to Georges Saab, chairperson of the OpenJDK governing board and vice president of development for the Java Platform group at Oracle about the proposal to delay the release of Java 9, the roadmap towards Java 10 and more.

Theia is a cloud and desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript. We invited Sven Efftinge, Xtext lead and co-founder at TypeFox, to explain the motivation behind it and how its scope is unique compared to existing open-source projects.