Tim McNamara

4 posts

Developer Advocate

Tim is a developer advocate with Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating system. He is a member of the Juju core team and enjoys sharing how to decrease operational complexity with the world. He has past experience leading big data software projects for a New Zealand data sciecnce consultancy and leading outreach a supercomputing centre. He has also founded multiple startups and had several years in the public sector. He's the author of upcoming book, Rust in Action, published by Manning Publications. He describes Rust as the language that enables Haskell and Java programmers to get along.

Tim McNamara
11 February 2020

DevOps tools in 2020: Why consider Juju?

Article Charms

Many DevOps tools struggle as deployments change. Juju excels. 2020 heralds a decade for a divided technology industry. Software delivery is diversifying. Complexity is increasing. Teams are looking to make use of new approaches such as serverless and split large applications into microservices. They also need to retain...

Tim McNamara
11 February 2020

Tim McNamara
10 January 2020

Infrastructure-as-Code mistakes and how to avoid them

Article Cloud and server

Two industry trends point to a gap in DevOps tooling chosen by many. Operations teams need more than an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, but a complete model-driven operations mentality. Learn how Canonical has addressed these concerns to create multiple world-leading products.

Tim McNamara
10 January 2020

Tim McNamara
8 January 2020

Data Ops at petabyte scale

Article Cloud and server

Should you deploy Apache Spark to Kubernetes? Learn how model-driven operations have enabled one data engineering team to evaluate several options and come to an ideal solution.

Tim McNamara
8 January 2020

Tim McNamara
5 December 2019

Web application development with Juju charms: an interview with Marc André Audet from Absolunet

Article Charms

“The best thing about Juju is that it is very flexible. It is easy to look for existing charms in the charm store and you adapt them to your needs.”

Tim McNamara
5 December 2019