Blog

Most of my blog posts dating back to 2002. Some written here, some written elsewhere and aggregated here.
Sandbox Environments for Testing

Sandbox Environments for Testing

06/08/2020
In this article by Nils Balkow Tychsen, Lead Q&A Engineer at Humanitec, you will learn some use cases for sandboxed environments such as parallel feature development, parallel testing of feature flags, and parallel testing of microservice versions in different combinations.
Developer Experience Roundtable - Continuous Improvement

Developer Experience Roundtable - Continuous Improvement

15/07/2020
A good developer experience is crucial to keep developer teams productive, happy, and focussed on work important to your business aims. In this first roundtable, we get the opinions and experiences from two experts in the field: Nigel Simpson, Director, Enterprise Tech Strategy at a Fortune 100 company, and Erik Muttersbach, CTO at forto (formerly FreightHub), a Berlin logistics startup.
The Benefits and Best Practices of Continuous Delivery

The Benefits and Best Practices of Continuous Delivery

16/06/2020
Continuous delivery helps software development teams get their code changes from development to testing, and into the hands of users more quickly. In this post, Chris Ward looks at the benefits and best practices for implementing this practice into your teams.
The Benefits of Containerization

The Benefits of Containerization

24/04/2020
Breaking applications into smaller coupled components like microservices, and running each of those components in containers often go hand in hand. These modern application architecture principles have allowed many businesses and software projects to make regular and rapid changes to running software and scale them to suit changes in demand and approach. In this article, we breakdown what a container is, and the direct benefits they bring to your developer teams and business.