Chris Ward

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Expertise

Monitoring and Observability

Articles

Big Cloud Still Runs Most Containers on VMs; What Does that Mean for the Rest of Us?

While many developers run containers on bare metal in development, in production, it's almost all VMs. What does this mean for the broader cloud landscape?

February 27, 2026

· 1,678 Views

Virtualized Containers vs. Bare Metal: The Winner Is…

With the performance of VMs rapidly increasing, is weighing the benefits of containers running on VMs versus bare metal as straightforward as it used to be?

August 15, 2025

· 4,854 Views · 7 Likes

KubeVirt: Can VM Management With Kubernetes Work?

KubeVirt, while promising for organizations exploring virtualization, several caveats remain for the support of at-scale virtual machine workloads

June 12, 2025

· 3,300 Views · 1 Like

Selecting the Right Automated Tests: A When and What Guide To Implementing Tests in Your Application

In this article, discover the many different types of tests an application can implement and the kinds of issues they can prevent.

September 15, 2023

· 4,902 Views · 6 Likes

The Future of Observability: OpenTelemetry Adoption

Martin Mao shares his insights about why he predicts 2022 will be a big year for OpenTelemetry adoption.

September 1, 2022

· 7,537 Views · 1 Like

The Future of Observability: Central Teams as the Standard

Chronosphere co-founder and CEO Martin Mao shares his insights with technical writer Chris Ward about the importance of central observability teams across an organization.

August 29, 2022

· 6,379 Views · 1 Like

Increasing Cloud-Native Sustainability With Observability

Learn about the unintended environmental impact and cost of the proliferation of cloud services, frameworks, and "throw an other service at it" development.

July 11, 2022

· 4,814 Views · 2 Likes

Open Source Monitoring and Metrics Landscape

Navigate what open source monitoring standards are available, where in the ecosystem they fit, and how interoperable they are with each other.

Updated June 27, 2022

· 9,666 Views · 1 Like

Instrumenting a JavaScript Application for OpenTelemetry, Part 1: Setup

This post looks at the first steps for instrumenting a JavaScript application to report OpenTelemetry metrics.

Updated June 1, 2022

· 6,184 Views · 1 Like

Pioneering Education, BioTech, and Blockchain [Podcast]

A DZone Zone Leader interviews several startups to see how their developers are shaping the future across several industries.

Updated April 22, 2022

· 6,726 Views · 4 Likes

The Differences Between a Service Catalog, Internal Developer Platform, and PaaS

There are many services and tools to help manage microservices. This post looks at some options to highlight the similarities, differences, and when or why to use one.

February 7, 2022

· 4,743 Views · 2 Likes

Nextcloud and Kubernetes in the Cloud With Kuma Service Mesh

Want a powerful, self-hosted personal cloud? Then look no further than Nextcloud running on Kubernetes with a service mesh to add all the help and features you need.

Updated September 4, 2021

· 7,876 Views · 3 Likes

Measuring Metrics in Open-Source Projects

As open-source projects grow in use and popularity, many of their maintainers face a challenge to understand how and how many people use their tools.

May 18, 2020

· 5,457 Views · 2 Likes

Learning to Code With Swift Playgrounds

Swift Playgrounds from Apple is a slick integrated coding education tool — how far does go it to teach one of the hottest languages of the past 5 years?

April 2, 2020

· 8,206 Views · 4 Likes

Multipass and MicroK8s: the Quickest Route to Ubuntu and Kubernetes?

Would your Kubernetes-based workflows run better on Multipass and MicroK8s?

Updated November 21, 2019

· 26,290 Views · 6 Likes

Fluree: Blockchain, GraphQL, and More: All in One Database

Learn more about Fluree and listen to an interview one of our Zone Leaders had with Co-CEO Brian Platz.

Updated May 21, 2019

· 15,312 Views · 3 Likes

Building Chatbots in React With Botonic

Learn how to use the open source and popular React.js framework to create your own chatbot for that app you're developing.

September 9, 2018

· 12,372 Views · 4 Likes

eyeo, Adblocker plus and the future of funding

Since content has been created, companies have been attempting to monetize it. Read about this new way that one ad blocking companie is making money.

August 30, 2018

· 3,389 Views · 1 Like

Vale for Spelling, Grammar, Style and Readability Linting

If you've wanted a spell checker or autocorrect that simply does more, check out how this tool is bein used to check for tense and syle as well.

Updated August 14, 2018

· 11,107 Views · 4 Likes

Production-Scale Deep Learning With Skymind

Skymind combines open-source and custom tooling to create two main toolchains that integrate well with other frequently used tools in the data science tool bag.

April 30, 2018

· 5,889 Views · 3 Likes

Customizing Visual Studio Code for Writing

Are you a technical writer or dev who needs to create documentation around your project? Check out these extensions you can integrate into VS Code that can help.

April 2, 2018

· 19,778 Views · 2 Likes

DocFX: The Next Documentation Tool to Consider?

In this post, we take a look at a new version of Markdown, DocFX Flavored Markdown, and how it can be used to create documentation for REST APIs.

March 11, 2018

· 14,433 Views · 3 Likes

Lint, Lint and Away! Linters for the English Language

If you've used linters before for your code, then you know how useful they can be. This is where grammar meets technology.

February 16, 2018

· 13,550 Views · 17 Likes

Adding a CMS to Your Static Site With Netlify CMS

If you're looking for a developer-friendly CMS platform for creating static sites, check out this article on a CMS with a growing community of devs.

January 4, 2018

· 17,026 Views · 3 Likes

A Comparison of Docker GUIs

These graphical user interfaces give you a bunch of different and useful ways to interact with Docker. Read on to learn what each one can do.

July 19, 2017

· 57,741 Views · 28 Likes

Refcards

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Software Usage Analytics for Data-Driven Development

Trend Reports

Trend Report

Automated Testing

The broader rise in automation has paved the way for advanced capabilities and time savings for developers and tech professionals, especially when it comes to testing. There are increasingly more conversations around how to transition tests to an automated cadence as well as a deeper push toward better automated testing integration throughout the SDLC. Solutions such as artificial intelligence (AI) and low code play an important role in implementing tests for development and testing teams, expanding test coverage and eliminating time spent on redundant tasks. It's a win-win-win.In DZone's 2023 Automated Testing Trend Report, we further assess current trends related to automated testing, covering everything from architecture and test-driven development to observed benefits of AI and low-code tools. The question is no longer should we automate tests; it's how do we better automate tests and integrate them throughout CI/CD pipelines to ensure high degrees of test coverage? This question will be examined through our original research, expert articles from DZone Community members, and other insightful resources.As part of our December 2023 re-launch, we've added updates to the Solutions Directory and more.

Comments

Lint, Lint and Away! Linters for the English Language

Feb 16, 2018 · Chris Ward

You can always rely on an article about better writing to have a mistake!

Corrected…

Cross Functional Doesn't Mean Everyone Can Do Everything

Mar 07, 2017 · Jordan Baker

Great post Mike! I would add one further comment. There are also people who have no motivation or enthusiasm for particular tasks.

Data Modelling Topologies of a Graph Database

Mar 03, 2017 · Athanassios I. Hatzis, PhD

Thanks for this, I've heard a lot about Graph databases without ever really understanding them!