Mike Bursell

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I've been in and around Open Source since around 1997, and have been running (GNU) Linux as my main desktop at home and work since then: not always easy... I'm a security bod and architect, co-founder of the Enarx project, and am currently CEO of a start-up in the Confidential Computing space. I have a blog - "Alice, Eve & Bob" - where I write (sometimes rather parenthetically) about security. I live in the UK and like single malts.

Open Source Sensei People's Choice Award Emerging Contributor Award 2018 DevOps Cloud Gamer Linux Geek Contributor Club Author

Authored Content

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But I don't know what a container is

Here's how containers are both very much like — and very much unlike — virtual machines.

3 mistakes to avoid when learning to code in Python

5 traits of good systems architecture

If you don't know what data is in your system, you don't know what it does.

Disbelieving the 'many eyes' hypothesis

Review by many eyes does not always prevent buggy code

There is a view that because open source software is subject to review by many eyes, all the bugs will be ironed out of it. This is a myth.

Authored Comments

30 Jul 2018

Confessions of a recovering Perl hacker

ScottyProg - go for it! I'm still very fond of Perl, which has a real elegance when written well.

21 Jul 2018

Confessions of a recovering Perl hacker

Now I'm wishing I'd thought of that!