Ian Crosby

    Ian Crosby
    Ian Crosby is Chief Technology Officer at Container Solutions.

    DevOps - The Sec is Silent

    There are two hard problems in tech: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors. We have proven this over and over again through a multitude of poorly named things. Whether it’s AWS Serv...

    What Is a Tech Strategy?

    A few years back I embarked on a dream project. The client contacted us to design and build a greenfield Cloud Native platform. They had a new and exciting hardware device that was going to collect lo...

    Case Study: A Company Gets Ready to Scale

    QOMPLX, an intelligent-decision platform provider, offers data handling, analytics, reporting, and advanced algorithms. The company, celebrating its fifth year in business, finds itself in the midst o...

    7 Cloud Native Trends to Watch in 2020

    As Cloud Native continues to grow in popularity, with more organisations than ever adopting the tech and all that comes with it, let’s take a look at what we are expecting to see in 2020.

    What We Learned at DevOps Days Montreal (Spoiler: a Lot)

    Community has always been a huge part of Container Solutions, from meetups to workshops to conferences. When we launched our new office in Montreal last year, we were eager to join in the local commun...

    In Defense of Maturity Models

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    No, You Don't Need Kubernetes - You Need Unit Tests

    No, you don’t need Kubernetes, no matter how much you believe it to be the answer to all your troubles. What you actually need is unit tests. Let's look at why this is true.

    Cloud Native in 2019: A Look Ahead

    DORA: The State of DevOps in 2018

    DORA, the DevOps Research and Assessment team, have recently released their 2018 State of DevOps report. An intensive collection and analysis of data on the usage and application of DevOps across orga...