The Functions-as-a-Service paradigm is steadily progressing but it won’t catch its stride until it learns from established paradigms — Let me say up front: I’m a big fan of the so-called Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) paradigm in computing. I think that it bears a great deal of promise for developers and I’m eagerly tracking its development in OSS projects like OpenFaaS and cloud productions like Google Cloud Functions and AWS Lambda…

The OSS world remains tightly focused on plumbing. But we will likely see the emergence of an “app native” paradigm of OSS focused on user-facing functionality. — TL;DR: I anticipate a general shift in the OSS world from “plumbing” to specific application functionality. The “cloud native” paradigm is very quickly asserting itself; it will likely be followed by an app native paradigm that will see a broad-based shift in focus and energy.

We need to confront container documentation as the crucial, non-trivial problem that it is. — TL;DR — As far as I can tell, there’s currently no way of providing documentation for specific containers that we could fairly call canonical, “best practice,” or even all that widely used. …

Adhere to just a few simple principles and your content may just have a fighting chance — I hate to say it, but there’s no magical template for writing technical blog posts, no silver bullet for garnering tons of clicks and retweets, getting to the top of Hacker News and staying there for hours, and engaging and endearing influencers and ordinary readers alike. There’s a lot of…

gRPC-Web is a JavaScript client library that enables web applications to interact with backend gRPC services using Envoy instead of a custom HTTP server as an intermediary. Last week, the gRPC team announced the GA release of gRPC-Web on the CNCF blog after nearly two years of active development. Personally…