Holly K CumminsServerless doesn’t have servers, except when it doesThere are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.5 min read·Apr 15, 2021----
Holly K CumminsWhen TDD gets hardTest-driven development (TDD) is a core IBM Garage practice. It provides the foundation for the other practices such as continuous…8 min read·Apr 14, 2021--1--1
Holly K CumminsinGeek CultureWhat Do Fashion and Programming Have to Do With One Another?Last night I dreamt that Roger Daltry’s wife told me to write about fashion and programming. We were in a small skate-punk shop. It was…8 min read·Mar 10, 2021----
Holly K CumminsinThe ShadowThe great microphone face-off, or ‘how I spent lots of money in 2020’The past year saw an unprecedented flourishing of “photos of home offices,” “recommendation threads for microphones,” and “microphone…6 min read·Feb 11, 2021----
Holly K CumminsHow to Love Kubernetes and Not Wreck The Planet Part II: Revenge of the ZombiesWhat are the climate impacts of our technology habits? Part I of this blog discusses the importance of multi-tenancy, utilisation, and…7 min read·Nov 3, 2020----
Holly K CumminsHow to Love Kubernetes and Not Wreck The Planet Part I: Elasticity and UtilizationEarlier this year, I had the enormous honour of delivering a keynote at KubeCon Europe. I wanted to start a conversation about how our…8 min read·Nov 3, 2020----
Holly K CumminsPeople, Planet, CloudsThe world is changing. The cloud gives us dazzling computational possibilities, and … potentially uses a lot of energy. As climate change…9 min read·Jul 9, 2020----
Holly K CumminsUsing Lease Resources to Manage Concurrency in Tekton BuildsI’ve recently started using Tekton as my main build system. In combination with Argo CD for GitOps management of the pipeline scripts, it…6 min read·Jun 30, 2020--1--1
Holly K CumminsHow to Become an IBM Garage DeveloperWhat is the IBM Garage?5 min read·Feb 13, 2020--1--1
Holly K Cumminsin97 ThingsGarbage Collection Is Your FriendPoor old garbage collection. One of the unsung heroes of Java, often blamed, rarely praised.3 min read·Jun 16, 2019--1--1