How Liquid Are You?

The Wicked Witch of the West had it wrong. In the land of Oz, she feared getting wet and melting away, but for software development...

The liquid software revolution is already underway, advancing steadily toward reality as DevOps takes firmer hold in enterprises. Development and deployments are moving away from fixed, versioned releases, toward streams of verified software components. Ultimately, this can feed a steady river of trusted continuous updates that flow reliably to computing environments and devices.

So, how liquid are you now? Will your development pipeline be able to easily join the flow, or will you drown in the coming flood?

The Seven Deadly Sins of Versioning – Part 1

October 10, 2018 ·

SemVer Patch Number Discussing (and defining) versioning is never simple. It’s a complex issue, not least because of the large number of developers who have been involved in creating solutions for…

Reduce Technical Debt with Featureless Releases

No-Feature Releases – The Fun Way to Reduce Technical Debt

September 26, 2018 ·

As executives and managers, we know that technical debt is the worst inhibitor to engineering productivity. “Short cuts make long delays,” a wise hobbit once said in Tolkien’s epic, and developers’…

Defeating Zero-Day Attacks

September 17, 2018 ·

Zero-day security threats constitute a critical imperative driving software development towards liquid software (i.e., continuous updates). First, let’s be clear about terminology. When we hear about zero-day vulnerabilities, zero-day exploits, and…

People Don’t Resist Change. They Resist Being Changed.

August 15, 2018 ·

An American systems scientist, Peter Senge, said that. He could have been talking about developers who think liquid software (i.e., continuous updates) is still conceptual, something that’s not ready for prime…

When Vision Becomes Reality

April 30, 2018 ·

The Birth of a Vision We all like to engage with the people who use our products; whether we’re at customer sites, figuring out solutions for complex cases of advanced usage…

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