Seldom without a computer of some sort since graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1978, I have been a full-time Linux user since 2005, a full-time Solaris and SunOS user from 1986 through 2005, and UNIX System V user before that.
On the technical side of things, I have spent a great deal of my career as a consultant, doing data analysis and visualization; especially spatial data analysis. I have a substantial amount of related programming experience, using C, awk, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and lately Groovy. I'm looking at Julia with great interest. I have also built a few desktop and web-based applications, primarily in Java and lately in Grails with lots of JavaScript on the front end and PostgreSQL as my database of choice.
Aside from that, I spend a considerable amount of time writing proposals, technical reports and - of course - stuff on https://www.opensource.com.
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Thanks for the comment, Seth! For sure there is conceptual alignment, I suppose that's the (kind of tongue in cheek) point of my article - how does Kubernetes relate to a classical fat desktop application designed nearly 20 years ago? Well for starters, deployment...
James, thank YOU for your kind comment.
Re Java - lately I've been dipping my toes into the whole streams & collectors thing, and I have to say the messages the compiler emits when I goof up the syntax can be pretty darned opaque, too.
I think we're in for more of this kind of thing as the pressure for doing something useful every six months besides just fixing all the bugs starts to weigh on people. Plus I'm not clear on how those wonderful projects that are meant to USE this new stuff are going to keep up.
Not to be overly bleak here! But just a bit worried.