Engineering & Ethics: Responsibility by Design
I am very honored to deliver the opening keynote at DevOpsDays Zürich 2026 (in Winterthur, of course) on May 6th, 2026 with my new talk, "Engineering & Ethics: Responsibility by Design".
An Illustrated History of Apache Sling, at adaptTo 2025
I had the pleasure to present my view on the history of Apache Sling, at the adaptTo conference in Berlin in late September 2025. Including a few kazoo interludes, why don't people put more music in their talks?
Foundational vs. application software: two worlds?
We often consider software engineering as one discipline, but I think foundational and application software are almost two different worlds.
The Power of Simplicity - my first time at DevOpsDays
I had the pleasure of giving my talk on _the Power of Simplicity, Crafting durable software systems_ at [DevOpsDays Zürich 2025](https://www.devopsdays.ch/) today (in Winterthur - of course), and enjoyed it very much.
Banning AI? How about synthesizers and drum machines?
Discussions about whether we should use Artifical Intelligence helpers for creative work remind me of musician's unions attempting to ban synthesizers and drum machines, back in the early eighties, as told by the articles linked at the end of this post.