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When I spoke to the founders of Hasura, Rajoshi Ghosh and Tanmai Gopal, last year I couldn’t help but be impressed. Hasura had started life as company offering managed Kubernetes services, but that’s a market which is super-crowded, with major entrenched competition. It’s pretty cool, and feels like it makes a ton of sense for Postgres users looking to modernise their apps. It’s simple, elegant, and plays to Hindu culture, which makes sense given Hasura is a Bangalore/San Francisco startup.

The sound is not as good as over the ear headphones obviously, but I find proper headphones uncomfortable if i am trying to to sleep or relax. Stephen is a big fan of active noise cancelling functionality for travel, but I find noise cancelling headphones actually increase the kind of treble noises, cups or cutlery clinking that stop me from sleeping. Some other in-ear headphones had made my voice sound weird and stuff to myself when on calls – not so with the 65es. Not sure how long the offer will last, but for right now at least it seems John Lewis has the Jabra 65e headphones on sale at £89.99, which is a pretty decent discount.

IBM’s influence remains very significant in all of these open source foundations, putting its weight behind the Linux Foundation’s evolution to also manage the Node.js Foundation and The Cloud Native Computing Foundation. As Tunguz argues: Red Hat offers three groups of software products: Operating System (Linux and virtualization); Application Development (application server/JBoss); New Infrastructure (OpenShift, OpenStack and Ansible). I regard Red Hat’s OpenShift platform as the leader in enterprise platform-as-a-service. I am fairly confident in the leadership of IBM folks like Todd Moore, VP of Open Technology, and their capacity to do the right thing for the industry as a whole, but it was still really interesting to hear someone from the industry say they were now afraid of IBM, because of its dominance in a number of crucial industry standards.

Last year I started talking about what I call Progressive Delivery, because I feel like the industry is missing a term to describe a set of approaches and technologies used by Web companies, such as Feature Flags, Blue Green deployments, A/B testing at scale, routing new services to a subset of users before broader roll out. I still haven’t nailed an elegant definition, thought I quite like this from Carlos Sanchez at Cloudbees: “Progressive Delivery is the next step after Continuous Delivery, where new versions are deployed to a subset of users and are evaluated in terms of correctness and performance before rolling them to the totality of the users and rolled back if not matching some key metrics. We’re heavy users of feature flags, and progressive roll out, we’re multi-tenant. Bruno argued that logs are particularly useful in the context of Progressive Delivery, because developers don’t know what problems are going to emerge with new services as they are rolled out.