May 26, 2021Latest Instana OpenShift Operator Automatically Collects OpenTelemetry on Red Hat OpenShiftOriginally published on Instana.com and co-authored by Josh Wood, Red Hat Instana Enterprise Observability Instana’s Enterprise Observability platform handles the unique needs of Cloud-Native Applications. Even before Instana became an IBM company, Instana was optimized to work with Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform. Instana is available on OperatorHub and Red…3 min read
May 25, 2021Data Cardinality Is Ambiguous: a Primer on the Meaning of InformationOriginally published on Instana.com According to our website, Unbounded Analytics “provides infinite flexibility to generate new insights from all unsampled, high-cardinality data.” Great! But wait… what does high cardinality data even mean? At first glance data cardinality is one of those buzzwords whose only purpose is to make you look…7 min read
May 25, 2021What is a Kubernetes Distribution and Why Would You Want One?Originally published on suse.com, May 17, 2019 Kubernetes (or K8s, if you want to be cool) is currently one of the fastest growing technologies in the world of open source. These days the technology in, and associated with, Kubernetes seems almost endless — and the innovation comes just as fast…5 min read
Dec 31, 2020Reflecting on my New Year’s Resolution; The Strenuous Life.“In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but…9 min read
Mar 1, 2020Lessons Learned from Hiking a PitbullAt the time of writing, my dog, Buddy — an adopted American Staffordshire Terrier-Rottweiler mix — has logged over 100,000 ft in total elevation gain, in temperatures ranging from -10 degrees Fahrenheit (F) to 95 degrees F. …Pitbull9 min read
Jun 17, 2018Enable agility with infrastructure-as-codeThe Cloud Age In the olden days of ‘yore, when anyone wanted a new server they would embark on a ritual that would involve everything from ordering the physical server from a supplier to provisioning the server after installation. This process would involve multiple time-consuming indirect actions, and could take up to months…Dev Ops6 min read
Jun 17, 2018Key Considerations of an Effective Cloud StrategyA survey conducted by Red Hat among its customer base found that two thirds, or 70 percent, of respondents cited cloud infrastructure to be a top funding priority of 2017. On top of that, 52 percent of organizations stated that cloud strategy will be the main focus of their IT…Cloud Computing4 min read
Jun 17, 2018What is Blockchain and How Does it Work with OpenShift?Originally published on redhat.com Blockchain is More than Bitcoins Blockchain is a decentralized system that allows information to be distributed securely — not copied, as it usually is. For example, if someone were to send you an email today with an attachment, you wouldn’t be opening the exact attachment that they sent to you. Instead…Blockchain5 min read
Dec 26, 2017The Shared Economy for Your ITDon’t forget that Red Hat’s JBoss Middleware is part of the Shared Economy, too. Whether it’s Uber, Airbnb, Waze, Snapchat, or Spotify, the new shared economy is the way of the future, or at least it seems so right now. In 2017, the Shared Economy is going to be a…Open Source5 min read
Dec 26, 2017India is a Woman and Her Name is HopeIndia is a woman — India is a woman but she is not a supermodel who wears the Rosso Corsa while she sits in her vineyard, enjoying the finer points in life. She does not have silver arrows or anything close to white precision engineering. She never wore the Bleu…Poetry2 min read