Adrian Cockcroft left Netflix in 2013 as their Chief Architect and now works at VC firm Battery Ventures understanding the needs of Enterprise scale organisations whilst providing advice and guidance to cloud services companies to best service the need and the attraction for funding. Cockcroft describes Microservices as ‘loosely coupled service oriented architecture with bounded context’ differing from SOA in that everything can ...

What Andrey Petrov talked about at GoSF Meetup is solid advice, not only in relation to making an open source project thrive but also in being applied to wider marketing and reputation of tools, products and personal branding. Petrov is the author of several successful open source projects such as the Python HTTP Library Urllib3 and SSH Chat and he explains in ...

Just an intermittent reminder that you can subscribe for updates to GitHub’s GitHub Universe Conference at Pier 70 in San Francisco between October 1-2. GitHub have not released too much in the way of details yet but I’d expect an abundance of brogrammers and beers in what is going to be the most anticipated open source event of 2015.  

WatchKit is the SDK for developing Apple Watch apps which comprises an extension that runs on iPhone plus a set of UI resources which are installed onto the watch itself. At the same time developers are able to use WatchKit Apps, Glances, or Actionable Notifications in order to deliver their apps to the watch itself. The WatchKit link includes resources for building ...