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Apr 15, 2018

the Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming

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Rod Johnson in The Composition

Sep 22, 2016

Software That Writes And Evolves Software

I’ve been quiet lately, largely because I’ve been writing a lot of code. Today, I’m delighted to start talking about some of what we’ve been working on at Atomist.

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Jessica Kerr in The Composition

Sep 22, 2017

Effective Use of Slack

A lot of us are using Slack now. Some of us are past the shiny and into misery, where we wish for the good old days of email and talking with our mouths.

Let’s look at this technology thoughtfully, and see whether we can corral it into helpfulness. Dan North gave…

Rod Johnson in The Composition

Mar 22, 2018

Why You Need a Software Delivery Machine

Many teams have a clear vision of how they want their software delivery to work. For…

Rod Johnson in The Composition

Aug 27, 2018

The Future of Software Delivery is Code. And It’s Here

Rod Johnson in The Composition

Jun 4, 2018

Developers, Developers, Developers: Microsoft/GitHub and The Ascendancy of Code

My Twitter feed is full of fear, with people envisioning an exodus of open source from the best collaboration platform we’ve ever had. I don’t think we should worry. The emergence of GitHub and…

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Sep 19, 2018

Deploy your Spring Boot application to Kubernetes in 3 mins

You’ve probably heard of Spring Boot and Kubernetes. But have you tried to deploy a Spring Boot application to a Kubernetes cluster from scratch?

Jessica Kerr in The Composition

Jul 3, 2017

A Taxonomy of Yak Shaving

Yak Shaving is: doing seemingly-unrelated tasks to get some real task done.

The name has obscure roots and doesn’t matter; the key is that it makes you think, “Why would you do that?”

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Rod Johnson in The Composition

Oct 10, 2016

Evolving Projects Using Atomist Editors

In my last post, I discussed a new approach to code generation, introducing the idea of “editors” as transforms on a running project.

Today I’ll show how Atomist editors running in the cloud make it…

Rod Johnson in The Composition

Oct 11, 2017

If You Care About It, Automate It with Atomist

In previous posts, I’ve written about better project creation and evolution, and Atomist out of the box features like our Slack lifecycle support. Today I’m excited to share Atomist’s bigger vision around Development Automation.

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