Tech Leadership

Published Elsewhere (As of June, 2026)

Derrick

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Long before this site existed I created a lot of different videos, articles, podcasts and have done a number of public technology talks. This is just a running index of some work I've previously written, recorded, or presented on other platforms over the years (not all but some). The newer thinking and the full commentary pieces will predominantly on live here moving forward. However, this is the back catalog, kept in one place so it does not get lost across a dozen sites.

Articles and bylines

Disaster Recovery with OpenShift: Hot-Hot. Running OpenShift active-active across sites so a failure in one location does not turn into an outage for everyone.

The Tool Sprawl Tax: Why Platform Teams Are Consolidating on Kubernetes. The quiet cost of stacking tool on tool, and why platform teams are collapsing the pile down onto Kubernetes.

Hot-fixing Log4j JNDI: Java 16 Updates Required. A field fix for the Log4Shell JNDI vulnerability, written during the scramble, including the Java 16 wrinkle that caught teams off guard.

Everything on Arctiq. My full back catalog of Arctiq writing, including the Kubernetes ten-year-bet and agent production-access pieces this blog builds on.

Podcasts and webinars

Red Hat Summit Executive Briefing. A Red Hat Summit briefing on application modernization for high-growth software teams.

Achieving True Infrastructure Agility with Red Hat OpenShift. Building infrastructure you can move between any environment on demand, after VMware's price hikes turned lock-in into everyone's problem.

Talks and videos

VMware Exit Strategy Discussion, Shadow-Soft. A conversation on migrating off VMware to OpenShift Virtualization, the migration paths, the platform options, and the tradeoffs that actually matter. Below is various Youtube videos (not all, but a handful) I've done over the years.

And a lot more...

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