Mike has worked in various marketing roles (product management, partner/business development, product marketing, and developer relations) involving enterprise software. He's been with Red Hat since 2010 doing developer and/or partner related work. He founded the Red Hat developer blog in 2013, and co-founded/launched Red Hat Developer Toolset and Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Mike currently works on Red Hat's Partner Connect team, focused on helping partner developers with Red Hat products.
If you ask three people what they think DevOps is, you’ll get three answers: “a way of running an IT department”, “a culture”, “something to do with Phoenix”. Ask a fourth person and you might hear “You can use OpenShift for that”. To see what DevOps has to do with the world’s favourite PaaS, I went along to the “OpenShift By Red Hat: The PaaS for DevOps” technical deep dive in Brisbane that was given as part of a road...
Donnie and I had a chance to catch up at PuppetConf last month (where Donnie introduced me to sour beer - let's just say it's good to try new things.) :) As usual, Donnie does a great job distinguishing between the DevOps and cloud universes - it's definitely worth the read. Donnie Berkholz's Story of Data: The parallel universes of DevOps and cloud developers When I think about people who live in that foggy world between development and operations, I...
Red Hat is a co-sponsor at the Gene Kim conference, DevOps Enterprise | The Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps Transformation Summit , and Red Hat's Bill Montgomery will be talking Red Hat's own DevOps experiences in the session Red Hat IT’s DevOps Journey: Year One Retrospective . Session Abstract: Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise IT products and services, with over 6,000 associates globally and annual revenues exceeding $1.5B. As of October 2014, Red Hat...
"Summary: As the Internet of Things stands to transform the enterprise, look beyond the traditional architecture used for consumer-based IoT solutions. In a three-tier architecture for the Internet of Things, the intelligent controller tier makes the interconnections between the device and datacenter tiers, holding together the entire IoT solution. "Many consumer-based IoT solutions are enabled by a two-tier architecture of direct device-to-server communication and data exchange. These architectures lack the ability to scale and address the time-critical nature of enterprise-class...
Because Red Hatters are PHPers, too PHP is everywhere, including at Red Hat. Red Hat offers a number of options to deploy PHP and get it up and running quickly. As a PHP developer, you'll find plenty of options to keep you happy with our support of PHP applications on both physical servers and in the cloud. Read on to learn how we support PHP in Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® , and how you can get your applications up and...
Abstract: Properly freeing external resources such as files and connections in a garbage collected environment requires care. The JVM's finalize() and PhantomReference features provide APIs and JVM targetted languages a way to handle the common case of a forgotten close. Unfortunately these capabilities are deeply flawed, and require specialized techniques to use correctly. This session will dive deeply into the problem, showing how the JVM can get it wrong. It will offer useful tips on how developers can safely manage...
"The recent few days have been hectic for everyone who works in the Linux/Unix world. Bash security flaws have rocked the globe leaving people confused, worried, or just frustrated. Now that the storm is over and patches are available for most operating systems, here are the answers to some of the common questions we’ve been asked:" Read the whole article - from the Red Hat security engineering team: Frequently Asked Questions about the Shellshock Bash flaws | Red Hat Security...
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