2022 Year in Review - Big Changes

As I wind down the year 2022, it's time to reflect and take stock of my activities to put it all in perspective. 

I find this to be one of the more enjoyable articles to research, as I was part of all events and content statistics that I collect. It's nice to see my hard work, code, writing, and travels all tied up in a single article with a pretty bow on it.

This year was one marked with a lot of change for me and for the world if we are honest. We all came out of a few years of pandemic lock downs, lack of mobility, lack of freedom to interact face to face, and wondering if the world would ever be the same again. On top of that, I decided it was time to move on to new adventures this year. This was not pandemic driven, but more about the changes to the company I was working for due to an acquisition. 

On 15 July, after +13 years at Red Hat, I decided to jump into the exciting challenges of cloud native observability (o11y) at scale with a wonderful company called Chronosphere.

All of these things meant that I was going to get back into the world of interactions with people, being on a stage, sharing knowledge, learning new things, and taking you all on the journey with me. Let's review some of my activities from 2022 as things started to get back to the new normal.

Installing Fedora 36 on Macbook Pro 13 inch (late 2011)

This weekend I decided to update my old Macbook Pro 13 inch from late 2011, with 125GB SSD and 8GB RAM. 

It's a machine I've taken on trips around the world and back in the day ran many a session, workshop, or demo on sharing all that developer goodness.

Last time we checked, this was installed using Fedora 35, so how about an update to Fedora 36?

O11y Guide - Getting started with Perses

Getting started with Perses

In this sixth installment of the series covering my journey into the world of cloud native observability, I'm going to start diving into an open source project called Perses. If you missed any of the previous articles, head on back to the introduction for a quick update.

After laying out the groundwork for this series in the initial article, I spent some time in the second article sharing who the observability players are. I also discussed the teams that these players are on in this world of cloud native o11y. For the third article I looked at the ongoing discussion around monitoring pillars versus phases. In the fourth article I talked about keeping your options open with open source standards. My last installment, the fifth article in this series, I talked about bringing monolithic applications into the cloud native o11y world.

Being a developer from my early days in IT, it's been very interesting to explore the complexities of cloud native o11y. Monitoring applications goes way beyond just writing and deploying code, especially in the cloud native world. One thing remains the same, maintaining your organization's architecture always requires both a vigilant outlook and an understanding of available open standards.

In this sixth article I'm going to provide you with an introduction to an up and coming open source metrics dashboard project I'm getting involved in. Not only the introduction to the project, but I'm going to get you started hands-on with a workshop I'm developing to get started with dashboards and visualization.

Gumbo Podcast - Your First Steps in Cloud Native Observability

Last week, on 6 Dec 2022, I was invited to share my experiences on the Data Protection Gumbo podcast with its host Demetrius Malbrough and we had a nice chat about my journey into cloud native observability (o11y) since joining Chronosphere. 

The title of episode 171 is, Your First Steps in Cloud Native Observability and  we covered a bunch of questions around the series of articles I've been writing called the O11y Guide. It's taking you along for the journey in my learnings as I go from an application development background into the world of cloud native o11y.

Below is a list of the topics we covered in the 20+ minutes of the podcast, which you can find on all major platforms to listen / subscribe to.

Cloud Native + Kubernetes Edinburgh Meetup - 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Data

My new year will be kicking off just right with my first trip heading back to Edinburgh, Scotland! 

I've been invited to speak at the Cloud Native + Kubernetes (K8S) Edinburgh meetup and I'm really excited to join them on 25 Jan 2023. Meetups are really essential to my job, as they are the grounds were I can test out both ideas and hands-on content. 

Attendees are knowledgeable as they are often active in their daily jobs with the various technologies that a meetup covers. They are the perfect candidates to provide feedback on new ideas or help with crafting existing ones towards perfection.

I'll be sharing a very interesting story I've been working on for some time now around the massive amount of unexpected cloud native data that we are encountering in our daily work lives, and how we can survive it all.

DZone Webinar - Shift Left Observability (slides)

Exciting things are happening at DZone this week! 

Today George Hamilton and I gave a webinar talking about how to use cloud native observability to do more “Dev” and less “Ops” while dramatically improving developer and engineer workflows and productivity.

Soon the recording will be available on demand at the DZone events page.

Whether you’re an enterprise migrating to cloud-native or born in the cloud, most of today’s APM and Observability tools don’t support how your engineers and DevOps teams need to develop, deploy, and support their software. Observability needs to shift left and reflect the modern way companies organize their development teams and their vital interdependencies.

George and I shared how the unique requirements for observability in a cloud-native world can be addressed. 

Below you will find the slides from our session.

LeadDev New York 2023 - Burning DevOps and Shifting Left O11y

In the Spring of 2023 there will be a new conference on my calendar called LeadDev New York. It's a conference about all things around engineering leadership and I thought I might have a few things to share so I'm submitting a few talks.

Get ready for behind-the-scenes case studies from top engineering organizations, practical advice and frameworks, and community networking with leaders from around the globe.

It's a bit outside of my normal event type, but I have been in this business long enough to start sharing some of the insights based on that experience. 

Below are the talks I'm putting forth as my contribution to LeadDev and hope to see you in March 2023.

KubeCon EU 2023 - Beyond O11y at Cloud Native Scale and Tracing Adventures

Next year in Amsterdam, the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 conference kicks off from 17-21 April 2023.

There will be co-located events on Monday and Tuesday, which are one day events like Prometheus Day and Open Observability Day, then a three day event with the focus on open source and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects. 

I've attended these events in both Europe and North America over the years but have yet to try speaking at one. That changes next year as I've jumped on their call for papers with several colleagues, one old and one new!

Below you'll find my submissions to the CNCF KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Eu event.

O11y Guide - Bringing Monoliths into the Cloud Native World

This is the fifth article in the series covering my journey into the world of cloud native observability. If you missed any of the previous articles, head on back to the introduction for a quick update.

After laying out the groundwork for this series in the initial article, I spent some time in the second article sharing who the observability players are. I also discussed the teams that these players are on in this world of cloud native o11y. For the third article I looked at the ongoing discussion around monitoring pillars versus phases. In the fourth article I talked about keeping your options open with open source standards.

Being a developer from my early days in IT, it's been very interesting to explore the complexities of cloud native o11y. Monitoring applications goes way beyond just writing and deploying code, especially in the cloud native world. One thing remains the same, maintaining your organization's architecture always requires both a vigilant outlook and an understanding of available open standards.

In this fifth article I'm going to look at architectural choices you might encounter when older monolithic applications and monitoring tools are still part of an organization's infrastructure landscape.

Webinar - Shift Left Observability: Discover true cloud native observability

On 15 November 2022 I presented, together with George Hamilton Director of Product Marketing at Chronosphere, a webinar talking about how shifting left helps provide true cloud native observability. 

This webinar is now available on demand and below you will find the slides we used and the details around the presentation.

We both hope you enjoyed our take on pushing your focus back to the left with your cloud native observability strategy and how the Chronosphere platform helps you get back to what you do best.

Kubernetes Community Day France 2023 - Observability for Complexity at Cloud Native Scale

This Spring, the Cloud Native Community Groups has organized a few Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) across Europe. I've always been curious about these events, wondering if they might allow me to share my cloud native observability insights and meet with fellow practitioners in this space. 

On 7 March 2023 the KCD France 2023 will take place in Paris, France and their call for papers went out in September. Together with a French speaking friend of mine, we're submitting a few talks to see if they will allow us to entertain the KCD France attendees.

The submission deadline closed this week, so I wanted to share my submissions while we wait on the responses from the selection committee.

PromCon EU 2022 - All things in the Prometheus community

For two days last week I was on site at the PromCon EU 2022 event in Munich Germany. A very well organized community event focused on all things in the open source Prometheus project, including for example PromQL and PromLens. 

This will be a bit of an overview, not each specific talk, covering what I saw and found interesting between the common discussions and chatting that happens between talks in the hallways. Often these overlapped session starting times and prohibit one from seeing everything at a conference.

Trajectory 2022 - Shifting Cloud Native Observability to the Left (slides)

Today I presented at the online event known as Trajectory 2022, a virtual conference. It's a conference is about exploring how development, engineering, and product teams are modernizing software development and delivery.

I'm sharing the slides here of my talk that touched on one of my favorite topics, how the promise of DevOps has led developers down a path that is totally unsatisfying in the cloud native world.

Let's take a look at the slides I used, shall we?

PromCon EU 2022 - Centralized versus Decentralized Prometheus Metrics (slides)

Today I was on site at PromCon EU 2022 in Munich, Germany for the first of two days. 

The main event for Prometheus across Europe and the minds that are behind this open source metrics monitoring project gather to share and collaborate for two days.

he last in person edition was in 2019 and you can see what that was like in their video recap.

As they state on their website, this conference is to "...connect Prometheus users and developers from around the world in order to exchange knowledge, best practices, and experience gained around using Prometheus. We also want to collaborate to build a community and grow professional connections around systems and service monitoring."

I co-presented with Ales Koprivnikar on a session that DoorDash gave a few weeks ago at Prometheus Day in North America, a story about insights into metrics collection at a very large scale.

KubeCon - Quick Guide to Prometheus Day North America

Today I was on site in Detroit at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon pre-event Prometheus Day North America. 

It was on-site at the Huntington Place Convention Center in room 360, which is on the river with views across the water into Canada. Just a bit of geography as many attendees I spoke with were not aware that Detroit was so close to the northern US border.

The full schedule for Open Observability Day is available online but wanted to share an overview impression of what it was like to be there.

The day is centered around all the CNCF projects related to Prometheus and observability. Let's look closer at my impressions of the sessions I found interesting.

KubeCon - Summary of the Open Observability Day North America

Today was the one day inaugural event known as Open Observability Day, held as one of the off-site options before the full KubeCon and CloudNativeCon event this week in Detroit.

It was on-site at the Huntington Place Convention Center, which is on the river with views across the water into Canada. Just a bit of geography as many attendees I spoke with were not aware that Detroit was so close to the northern US border.

The full schedule for Open Observability Day is available online but wanted to share an overview impression of what it was like to be there.

The day is centered around all the CNCF projects related to open observability and is full of both vendors and project focused talks.

Let's look closer at my impressions of the sessions I found interesting.

Webinar - How to Wrestle Your Observability Data Demons and Win!

This week I presented, together with Scott Kelly a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Chronosphere, a webinar talking about the advantages of a platform that gives you control over your observability data. 

This webinar is now available on demand and below you will find the slides we used and the details around the presentation.

O11y Guide - Keeping Your Cloud Native Observability Options Open

This is the fourth article in the series covering my journey into the world of cloud native observability. If you missed any of the previous articles, head on back to the introduction for a quick update.

After laying out the groundwork for this series in the initial article, I spent some time in the second article sharing who the observability players are. I also discussed the teams that these players are on in this world of cloud native o11y. For the third article I looked at the ongoing discussion around monitoring pillars versus phases.

Being a developer from my early days in IT, it's been very interesting to explore the complexities of cloud native o11y. Monitoring applications goes way beyond just writing and deploying code, especially in the cloud native world. One thing remains the same, maintaining your organization's architecture always requires both a vigilant outlook and an understanding of available open standards.

In this forth article I'm going to look at architecture level choices being made and share the open standards with the open source landscape. 

PromCon EU 2022: Centralized vs. Decentralized - How DoorDash Collects Prometheus Metrics (accepted)

This year PromCon EU 2022 in Munich, Germany is the seventh edition where all things dedicated to the open source Prometheus monitoring system are on display. 

The last in person edition was in 2019 and you can see what that was like in their video recap.

As they state on their website, this conference is to "...connect Prometheus users and developers from around the world in order to exchange knowledge, best practices, and experience gained around using Prometheus. We also want to collaborate to build a community and grow professional connections around systems and service monitoring."

Since the event will be in person this year it seemed like a great idea to submit something technically interesting and we happen to have a great story to tell with a customer around centralized verses decentralized metrics collection at a very large scale.

Trajectory 2022 - Shifting Cloud Native Observability to the Left

Just this last month I was made aware of Trajectory 2022, a virtual conference. This conference is about exploring how development, engineering, and product teams are modernizing software development and delivery.

It's a two day conference spanning 9-10 November and speakers will share challenges, tips, insights and more from the frontlines of feature management. It sounded like a great venue for sharing some insights into how cloud native observability applies to your product releases and production environments in the modern cloud world.

The following talk I'm sharing touches on one of my favorite topics, how the promise of DevOps has led developers down a path that is totally unsatisfying in the cloud native world.

O11y Guide - Cloud Native Observability Needs Phases

This is the third article in the series covering my journey into the world of cloud native observability. If you missed any of the previous articles, head on back to the introduction for a quick update.

After laying out the groundwork for this series in the initial article, I spent some time in the second article sharing who the observability players are. I also discussed the teams that these players are on in this world of cloud native o11y. 

In this third article it's time to dive a bit into the impression I'm getting from the message being pushed for cloud native o11y solutions. 

Being a developer from my early days in IT, it's very interesting to explore the complexities of cloud native o11y. Monitoring applications goes way beyond just writing and deploying code, especially in the cloud native world.

O11y Guide - Who are the Cloud Native Observability Players?

This is a continuation of the series taking you on my journey into the world of cloud native observability. It's a world that is altering the way developers work in their daily jobs, it's creating new teams, and there are roles appearing to attempt to keep control of the cloud native complexity that these large scale architectures deliver.

The first article in this series covered how developers have to deal with more than just code in a cloud native world. It shared a look at cloud native observability (o11y) and touched on what the three pillars are versus the three phases of observability.

This second article takes you out onto the playing field where you need to understand who the players are and what teams they form. It's no longer a world full of developers and operations teams as the cloud native environments have pushed right on through those traditional walls.

Let's dive right in, shall we?

O11y Guide - Your First Steps in Cloud Native Observability

Let's start a series that takes you along on my journey into the world of cloud native observability. This is a journey I've started on since joining Chronosphere, a cloud native observability platform, a little less than a month ago.

While I've been evolving the stories I'm telling for some time from developer audiences towards architecture audiences, one thing that caught my eye has been the complexities of cloud native environments. The complexer the solution architecture, the more need for simple ways of sharing how successful organizations work at cloud native scale. 

Along with the journey into cloud native architectures, there has emerged a very distinct issue that is playing out across cloud native environments. That issue I've outlined in a series about cloud data and it's about more than just your data storage from the early architecture days.

This look at cloud data uncovered a very interesting and somewhat hidden world of cloud native observability where the data generated keeping tabs on your cloud native architecture often can exceed your spend on running production. 

This series kicks off with the basics, from developer to cloud native observability, the players involved, and outline the technical versus business story being sold to you around the tooling in cloud native observability. 

Let's dive right in, shall we?

JFall 2022 - Sharing Cloud Data and DevOps Insights

This year in the Netherlands the local Java User Group is hosting their Fall get together, aptly named JFall 2022. 

It's been a few years since I've dropped in on this event, having moved on a bit from the topics they were discussing in my daily work. This year it's different, I have some interesting ideas I want to try out and this is a perfect venue for it. It's a one day event on November 3, 2022.

Below the three talks I've submitted to their CFP.

Cloud Data - FinOps is the crucial Ops

The daily hype is all around you.

From private to public cloud, multi-cloud, and even hybrid cloud, you're overrun with information telling you this is the path to your digital future. To complicate matters while you are contemplating these choices, you are expected to keep up your daily tasks of enhancing customer experiences and agile delivery of those applications.

Wrapped up in all this delivery and architectural infrastructure, there's a multitude of decisions around data to be considered when engaging with any cloud experience. There are regulatory and compliance pressures that force you to evaluate how we collect, process, and store our observability data. Understanding the pitfalls around the collection, maintenance, and storage of your cloud data can mean the difference between failure and success within your cloud strategy.

This series is based on a talk given previously in Dublin, Ireland and was brainstormed with my good friend Roel Hodzelmans. The reactions from the audience inspired me to share the concepts in this series.

The first article in this series provided an introduction to cloud and data, what that means in a cloud-native architecture beyond just storage. The second article in this series talked about the forgotten data that is often overlooked when planning for cloud-native solutions. This third and final article explores a new operations role that is going to be the most crucial one in your organization.

Cloud Data - Observability is the forgotten data

The daily hype is all around you.

From private to public cloud, multi-cloud, and even hybrid cloud, you're overrun with information telling you this is the path to your digital future. To complicate matters while you are contemplating these choices, you are expected to keep up your daily tasks of enhancing customer experiences and agile delivery of those applications.

Wrapped up in all this delivery and architectural infrastructure, there's a multitude of decisions around data to be considered when engaging with any cloud experience. There are regulatory and compliance pressures that force you to evaluate how we collect, process, and store our observability data. Understanding the pitfalls around the collection, maintenance, and storage of your cloud data can mean the difference between failure and success within your cloud strategy.

This series is based on a talk given previously in Dublin, Ireland and was brainstormed with my good friend Roel Hodzelmans. The reactions from the audience inspired me to share the concepts in this series.

The first article in this series provided an introduction to cloud and data, what that means in a cloud-native architecture beyond just storage. In this second article, the forgotten data that is often overlooked when planning for cloud-native architectural solutions is discussed.

DevConf.US 2022 - Exploring Open Source Edge Success at Scale (slides)

 As previously posted, DevConf.US 2022 took place this week in Boston, MA.

Together with Ishu Verma, we presented our thoughts and work on developing architectures based on existing edge customers from Red Hat. 

Not only did we share the path taken to develop these architectures, but we also shared the tooling, diagrams, and links to how the audience can get started with the work and tooling. 

Below we've shared the slides from our talk. 

DevConf.US 2022 - Exploring Open Source Telco Success at Scale (slides)

 As previously posted, DevConf.US 2022 took place this week in Boston, MA.

Together with Ishu Verma, we presented our thoughts and work on developing architectures based on existing telco customers from Red Hat. 

Not only did we share the path taken to develop these architectures, but we also shared the tooling, diagrams, and links to how the audience can get started with the work and tooling. 

Below we've shared the slides from our talk. 

Cloud Data - Understanding 3 common pitfalls

 

The daily hype is all around you.

From private to public cloud, multi-cloud, and even hybrid cloud, you're overrun with information telling you this is the path to your digital future. To complicate matters while you are contemplating these choices, you are expected to keep up your daily tasks of enhancing customer experiences and agile delivery of those applications.

Wrapped up in all this delivery and architectural infrastructure, there's a multitude of decisions around data to be considered when engaging with any cloud experience. There are regulatory and compliance pressures that force you to evaluate how we collect, process, and store our observability data. Understanding the pitfalls around the collection, maintenance, and storage of your cloud data can mean the difference between failure and success within your cloud strategy.

This series is based on a talk given previously in Dublin, Ireland and was brainstormed with my good friend Roel Hodzelmans. The reactions from the audience inspired me to share the concepts in this series.

Saying hello to Chronosphere

After writing my last article sharing my decision to leave Red Hat after +13 years, I took a vacation from writing until I could publish an introduction to my new challenge.

Today I'm starting a new and exciting path with Chronosphere, which is the only observability platform that tames rampant data growth and cloud-native complexity. 

For me it's an interesting space to dive into and one that I've been dabbling in with my writing and speaking topics for the last year or so. It's also a place that Red Hat, with a focus on providing infrastructure and cloud-native platforms for your hybrid cloud environments, is not concentrating on.

I'm hoping to share my experiences from both the infrastructure and application development domains, use my open source experiences, and learn as we go in the observability world. I'm very excited to dive into the topics of the day on metics, monitoring, and observability while sharing all of my new insights with you here.

Now, about the new role I'm going to take on.

Saying goodbye to Red Hat

My tenure: 2009-2022

The time has come... the end of my tenure at Red Hat after +13 years.  

How about a short summary of some of the highlights while at Red Hat before I move on to a new adventure? 

I'll try to capture the big milestones, but there are just so many that I'm sure to miss a few. 

It's a moment of reflection on more than a decade spent in the world of enterprise open source technologies and riding a wave that was Red Hat in the prime of its evolution in the industry.

I have been involved in open source since my introduction late in life to programming, operating systems, and Linux in 1996. Before joining Red Hat I was involved in the community around a business process management project called jBPM. We were using this heavily in the financial institution I was working at and I became active as you do when you submerge yourself into an open source technology.

OpenShift Commons Dublin - 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Data (video)

As previously mentioned, on 23 June 2022 I spoke at the OpenShift Commons event in Dublin. 

It was open to all community participants: users, operators, enterprises, non-profits, educational institutions, partners, and service providers as well as other open source technology initiatives utilized under the hood or to extend the OpenShift platform.

I shared some insights into cloud, public cloud, and the way cloud data is having a huge impact on our organizations. I pointed out three aspects to show how sometimes we are missing a very crucial aspect of our usage (and the cost) of data in the cloud. It's not just about storage, but observability and some of the choices we make when collecting metrics on our cloud applications.

Below you'll find the session recording along with the abstract and slides I used in Dublin.

DevConf.US 2022 - Talking edge and telco architecture shop

 As previously posted, DevConf.US 2022 is happening as an in person event later this summer from August 18-20 in Boston, MA.

Our team submitted a myriad of talks to showcase our progress over the last year with open technology architectures at scale. This has been hand crafted around a series we call Talking Architecture Shop that allows us to maintain structure in the talks while focusing in on certain collections or areas of architectural use cases.

This last week we got our notifications that two of the talks were accepted, so let's see what we'll be sharing with you next month in Boston. 

OpenShift Commons Dublin - 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Data (slides)

Today, 23 June 2022, I spoke at the OpenShift Commons event in Dublin. 

It was open to all community participants: users, operators, enterprises, non-profits, educational institutions, partners, and service providers as well as other open source technology initiatives utilized under the hood or to extend the OpenShift platform.

I shared some insights into cloud, public cloud, and the way cloud data is having a huge impact on our organizations. I pointed out three aspects to show how sometimes we are missing a very crucial aspect of our usage (and the cost) of data in the cloud. It's not just about storage, but observability and some of the choices we make when collecting metrics on our cloud applications.

Below you'll find the abstract and slides I used in Dublin and I hope you enjoy them.

OpenShift Commons Dublin - 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Data

I've been invited to share my insights into cloud data at the upcoming OpenShift Commons event in Dublin, Ireland.

On Thursday, 23 June 2022 I'll be on stage with other community members and customers sharing their stories as they work with OpenShift and other cloud technologies. OpenShift Commons is open to all community participants: users, operators, enterprises, non-profits, educational institutions, partners, and service providers as well as other open source technology initiatives utilized under the hood or to extend the OpenShift platform.

It's a great place to find your community:

• If you are an OpenShift Online or an OpenShift Enterprise customer or have deployed OpenShift on-premise or on a public cloud.
• If you have contributed to the OpenShift Origin project and want to connect with your peers and end-users.
• If you simply want to stay up-to-date on the roadmap and best practices for using, deploying, and operating OpenShift.

Now about that talk I'm going to share with you...

Devoxx UK 2022 - Designing Your Best Architectural Diagrams (video)

 Devoxx UK 2022 conference a week ago has posted recordings of all the sessions. I wanted to share our workshop session on how to start designing your best architectural diagrams

The Devoxx series is well know and I've attended and spoken at multiple sessions for the Belgian version in the past. It's very developer centric with a lot of good depth and knowledgable attendees.

Below you'll find the video recording of this 30 minute session and links to the free online workshop and slides used in this talk.

Devoxx UK 2022 - Designing Your Best Architectural Diagrams (slides)

Today I presented at Devoxx UK 2022 conference and shared our workshop on how to start designing your best architectural diagrams

The Devoxx series is well know and I've attended and spoken at multiple sessions for the Belgian version in the past. It's very developer centric with a lot of good depth and knowledgable attendees.

In London I was presenting a short introduction to our diagram tooling, freely hosted online and here are the introduction slides.

London OpenShift User Group - Talking Architecture Shop

My second trip this year takes me to London for some fun later this week at Devoxx UK 2022 and a chance to speak with our customers at the London OpenShift User Group.

As the official site says, Tuesday 10th May we have a special meeting of the London OpenShift User Group featuring:

• Enterprise Portfolio Architecture - the open source way
• Uncover the genius within your ranks - A live stream of the Keynote presentation from Red Hat Summit in Boston featuring Paul Cormier (President and CEO), Stefanie Chiras (Senior VP) and Matt Hicks (Executive VP)

Below you'll find the slides from my talk.

Portfolio Architecture Examples - Application Development Collection

 

Figure 1: The portfolio architecture process

For a few years now we've been working on a project we have named Portfolio Architectures. These are based on selecting a specific use case we are seeing used in the real world by customers and then finding implementations of that case using three or more products from the Red Hat portfolio.

This basic premise is used as the foundation, but many aspects of open source are included in both the process and the final product we have defined. There is a community, where we share the initial project kickoff with a group of architects and use their initial feedback from the start. We also present the architecture product we've created right at the end before we publish to ensure usability by architects in the field. The final publish product includes some internal only content around the customer projects researched, but most of the content is open and freely available through various open source channels. 

This article is sharing an overview of the product we've developed, what's available to you today in our architecture center, and concludes by sharing a collection of architectures we've published.

Portfolio Architecture Examples - Data Engineering Collection

Figure 1: The portfolio architecture process

For a few years now we've been working on a project we have named Portfolio Architectures. These are based on selecting a specific use case we are seeing used in the real world by customers and then finding implementations of that case using three or more products from the Red Hat portfolio.

This basic premise is used as the foundation, but many aspects of open source are included in both the process and the final product we have defined. There is a community, where we share the initial project kickoff with a group of architects and use their initial feedback from the start. We also present the architecture product we've created right at the end before we publish to ensure usability by architects in the field. The final publish product includes some internal only content around the customer projects researched, but most of the content is open and freely available through various open source channels. 

This article is sharing an overview of the product we've developed, what's available to you today in our architecture center, and concludes by sharing a collection of architectures we've published.

Portfolio Architecture Examples - Retail Collection

Figure 1: The portfolio architecture process

For a few years now we've been working on a project we have named Portfolio Architectures. These are based on selecting a specific use case we are seeing used in the real world by customers and then finding implementations of that case using three or more products from the Red Hat portfolio.

This basic premise is used as the foundation, but many aspects of open source are included in both the process and the final product we have defined. There is a community, where we share the initial project kickoff with a group of architects and use their initial feedback from the start. We also present the architecture product we've created right at the end before we publish to ensure usability by architects in the field. The final publish product includes some internal only content around the customer projects researched, but most of the content is open and freely available through various open source channels. 

This article is sharing an overview of the product we've developed, what's available to you today in our architecture center, and concludes by sharing a collection of architectures we've published.

Portfolio Architecture Examples - Finance Collection

Figure 1: The portfolio architecture process

For a few years now we've been working on a project we have named Portfolio Architectures. These are based on selecting a specific use case we are seeing used in the real world by customers and then finding implementations of that case using three or more products from the Red Hat portfolio.

This basic premise is used as the foundation, but many aspects of open source are included in both the process and the final product we have defined. There is a community, where we share the initial project kickoff with a group of architects and use their initial feedback from the start. We also present the architecture product we've created right at the end before we publish to ensure usability by architects in the field. The final publish product includes some internal only content around the customer projects researched, but most of the content is open and freely available through various open source channels. 

This article is sharing an overview of the product we've developed, what's available to you today in our architecture center, and concludes by sharing a collection of architectures we've published.

DevOpsDays Raleigh 2022 - Talking Architecture Shop (slides)

I've mentioned previously that I had a talk accepted to the DevOpsDays Raleigh 2022 conference this year. 

Today was the day after travel to Raleigh that we got  to chat with a room of super enthusiastic architects.

Thanks for the time and lending us your ears. Below you'll find the talk title and abstract along with the slides for your viewing pleasure.

Portfolio Architecture Examples - Infrastructure Collection

Figure 1: The portfolio architecture process

For a few years now we've been working on a project we have named Portfolio Architectures. These are based on selecting a specific use case we are seeing used in the real world by customers and then finding implementations of that case using three or more products from the Red Hat portfolio.

This basic premise is used as the foundation, but many aspects of open source are included in both the process and the final product we have defined. There is a community, where we share the initial project kickoff with a group of architects and use their initial feedback from the start. We also present the architecture product we've created right at the end before we publish to ensure usability by architects in the field. The final publish product includes some internal only content around the customer projects researched, but most of the content is open and freely available through various open source channels. 

This article is sharing an overview of the product we've developed, what's available to you today in our architecture center, and concludes by sharing a collection of architectures we've published.

Portfolio Architecture Examples - Automation Collection

Figure 1: The portfolio architecture process

For a few years now we've been working on a project we have named Portfolio Architectures. These are based on selecting a specific use case we are seeing used in the real world by customers and then finding implementations of that case using three or more products from the Red Hat portfolio.

This basic premise is used as the foundation, but many aspects of open source are included in both the process and the final product we have defined. There is a community, where we share the initial project kickoff with a group of architects and use their initial feedback from the start. We also present the architecture product we've created right at the end before we publish to ensure usability by architects in the field. The final publish product includes some internal only content around the customer projects researched, but most of the content is open and freely available through various open source channels. 

This article is sharing an overview of the product we've developed, what's available to you today in our architecture center, and concludes by sharing a collection of architectures we've published.

Portfolio Architecture Examples - Edge Collection

Figure 1: The portfolio architecture process

For a few years now we've been working on a project we have named Portfolio Architectures. These are based on selecting a specific use case we are seeing used in the real world by customers and then finding implementations of that case using three or more products from the Red Hat portfolio.

This basic premise is used as the foundation, but many aspects of open source are included in both the process and the final product we have defined. There is a community, where we share the initial project kickoff with a group of architects and use their initial feedback from the start. We also present the architecture product we've created right at the end before we publish to ensure usability by architects in the field. The final publish product includes some internal only content around the customer projects researched, but most of the content is open and freely available through various open source channels. 

This article is sharing an overview of the product we've developed, what's available to you today in our architecture center, and concludes by sharing a collection of architectures we've published.

Portfolio Architecture Examples - Telco Collection

Figure 1: The portfolio architecture process

For a few years now we've been working on a project we have named Portfolio Architectures. These are based on selecting a specific use case we are seeing used in the real world by customers and then finding implementations of that case using three or more products from the Red Hat portfolio.

This basic premise is used as the foundation, but many aspects of open source are included in both the process and the final product we have defined. There is a community, where we share the initial project kickoff with a group of architects and use their initial feedback from the start. We also present the architecture product we've created right at the end before we publish to ensure usability by architects in the field. The final publish product includes some internal only content around the customer projects researched, but most of the content is open and freely available through various open source channels. 

This article is sharing an overview of the product we've developed, what's available to you today in our architecture center, and concludes by sharing a collection of architectures we've published.

Portfolio Architecture Examples - Healthcare Collection

Figure 1: The portfolio architecture process

For a few years now we've been working on a project we have named Portfolio Architectures. These are based on selecting a specific use case we are seeing used in the real world by customers and then finding implementations of that case using three or more products from the Red Hat portfolio.

This basic premise is used as the foundation, but many aspects of open source are included in both the process and the final product we have defined. There is a community, where we share the initial project kickoff with a group of architects and use their initial feedback from the start. We also present the architecture product we've created right at the end before we publish to ensure usability by architects in the field. The final publish product includes some internal only content around the customer projects researched, but most of the content is open and freely available through various open source channels. 

This article is sharing an overview of the product we've developed, what's available to you today in our architecture center, and concludes by sharing a collection of architectures we've published.

DevConf.US 2022 - Talking more architecture shop

DevConf.US 2022 the 5th annual, free, technology conference for community project and professional contributors to Free and Open Source technologies was a few weeks ago. 

The plans are to again bring this back to an in person event later this summer, August 18-20 in Boston, MA.

For the first time in years I am not part of the selection committee and therefore wanted to take this opportunity to share our teams progress over the last year with the talks in our series Talking Architecture Shop. 

Devoxx UK 2022 - Designing Your Best Architectural Diagrams (accepted)

As mentioned previously, I've pushed a few talks to the Devoxx UK 2022 conference being held from 11-13 of May in London.

The Devoxx series is well know and I've attended and spoken at multiple sessions for the Belgian version in the past. It's very developer centric with a lot of good depth and knowledgable attendees.

The selection committee decided that the workshop I submitted would fit their developer tools and productivity theme nicely so I'll be sharing this great material with you in London.