Over the past couple of years, it seems that the term ecosystem is being broadly applied to what we previously called a community. I don’t like that, and here’s why.

The origin of the term ecosystem, when applied to the environment in which a software project is being …

During lunch at the EMEA OpenStack day in London this week, I had a brief but excellent conversation with fellow OpenStacker Adam Spiers from SUSE. Our chat turned to the merits of working from home, and he encouraged me to write up a blog post about some of the ideas …

Early next month, I’ll be off to Barcelona for speaking at LinuxCon Europe. Here’s an overview of my talks.

November 5-7, the Linux Foundation is holding the annual LinuxCon Europe in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities — some say the most beautiful — Barcelona. I will be attending …

It never fails. Someone manages to break their Pacemaker cluster, and Henrik starts preaching his usual sermon of why Pacemaker is terrible and why you should never-ever use it. And when that someone is GitHub, which we all know, use and love, then that sermon gets a bit of excess attention. Let’s take a quick look at the facts.

Next week, I will be speaking at the inaugural CloudOpen conference in San Diego. This is your chance to learn about OpenStack high availability and Ceph!

August 29-31, San Diego hosts the first CloudOpen conference, colocated with LinuxCon North America. CloudOpen is the Linux Foundation’s brand new, stack-agnostic cloud …