Some thoughts about my contribution to the Future IT Leadership Course at Técnico+.

In today's digital landscape, organizations find themselves under pressure to deliver high-quality software as quickly or as blatantly as possible. The silos between the traditional development and operations worlds are no longer tenable, and DevOps itself is a key practice for any sensible organization.  As future leaders, it is essential to understand this and sustain DevOps as a way to drive success and ensure competitive advantage.

What is DevOps and Why Does it Matter?

Back to basics: DevOps is much more...

At Drupalcon Amsterdam 2019 I moderated a very interesting panel about Local Drupal Development tools.

The invited panelists were: Randy Fay from Drud (DDEV), Mattias Michaux from Dropsolid (Launchpad), Michael Schmid from Amazee (pygmy), Engin Yilmaz from FFW (Docksal), Mark Casias from Mediacurrent (Lando) and Alejandro Moreno-Lopez from Acquia (Acquia DS).

It seems everyone has their own favorite local development tool these days. From Lando to DDEV, along with Launchpad, Docksal, pygmy and Acquia DS to custom solutions, developers have strong opinions of which tools rank...

People around the world cheered yesterday morning (Feb. 11) when scientists announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time whose existence was first proposed by Albert Einstein, in 1916.

The waves came from two black holes circling each other, closer and closer, until they finally collided. The recently upgraded Large Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) captured the signal on Sept. 14, 2015. Not every scientific discovery gets this kind of reception, so what exactly is all the hype about, and what's next for LIGO now that it...