Holly K Cummins·Apr 15, 2021Serverless doesn’t have servers, except when it doesThere are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Holly K Cummins·Apr 14, 2021When TDD gets hardTest-driven development (TDD) is a core IBM Garage practice. It provides the foundation for the other practices such as continuous…A response icon1A response icon1
InGeek CulturebyHolly K Cummins·Mar 10, 2021What 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…
InThe ShadowbyHolly K Cummins·Feb 11, 2021The 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…
Holly K Cummins·Nov 3, 2020How 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…
Holly K Cummins·Nov 3, 2020How 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…
Holly K Cummins·Jul 9, 2020People, Planet, CloudsThe world is changing. The cloud gives us dazzling computational possibilities, and … potentially uses a lot of energy. As climate change…
Holly K Cummins·Jun 30, 2020Using 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…A response icon1A response icon1
Holly K Cummins·Feb 13, 2020How to Become an IBM Garage DeveloperWhat is the IBM Garage?A response icon1A response icon1
In97 ThingsbyHolly K Cummins·Jun 16, 2019Garbage Collection Is Your FriendPoor old garbage collection. One of the unsung heroes of Java, often blamed, rarely praised.A response icon1A response icon1
