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Alex Hudson

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Hi — I’m Alex. I help SaaS teams ship reliable, valuable products faster. As a Portfolio CTO I focus on pragmatic architecture, clear product thinking, and leadership that scales. I partner with CEOs and engineering leaders to remove technical drag—modernise platforms, adopt leading-edge technology

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205 from 22 Sep 2008 to 13 Sep 2026
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2026 8

  1. Blogs
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  5. Aigre: the AI-Governed Runtime Engineering Approach
  6. What Role for Humans in the AI SDLC?
  7. Mindful Chef Review: a long-term reflection
  8. Why I Left Twitter

2024 1

  1. Connect and learn

2023 1

  1. Jobs in the AI Future

2021 2

  1. Introduction to the Metaverse
  2. It's tough being an Azure fan

2020 5

  1. The Trials of Contact Tracing
  2. A No Drama Action Plan for Covid 19
  3. Debugging generic errors: yarn could not resolve host registry.yarnpkg.com
  4. The 'No Code' Delusion
  5. On Becoming a CTO in 2020

2019 4

  1. Making sense of information security certification
  2. Is SMS a secure second factor?
  3. Libra: a usable digital currency?
  4. Carbon Neutral: thoughts on energy

2018 8

  1. Encryption-at-rest under question: SSDs, hardware support and Bitlocker
  2. UK High St in is cascade failure
  3. Simple software can cost lives
  4. C[IT]O’s Guide to Serverless Costs
  5. Don’t ship the microservices
  6. Trying AliCloud
  7. Spectre attack: why is it unpatchable?
  8. “Troubleshooting Agile”, a new podcast, and some notes about Ownership

2017 21

  1. We’re not in The Merge
  2. The CTO’s guide to containers/serverless changes – re:Invent 2017
  3. A FaaS by any other name would smell as sweet
  4. Responses to “Software architecture is failing”
  5. Faster Continuous Integration with some stowage patterns
  6. WPA2: Broken with KRACK. What now?
  7. Software architecture is failing
  8. Improving the metaphor of technical debt
  9. Pokémon Architecture
  10. A defining time in deployment: thoughts on Istio
  11. Initial impressions on Symfony 3.3
  12. Articulating the ATOM approach
  13. Lean versus Agile
  14. Fedora’s revised mission
  15. Serverless, Put Simply. A big change to software development is coming.
  16. Brand demolition
  17. So, what is strategy anyway?
  18. A business plan for Ubuntu
  19. Symfony 4 and a flex-able approach
  20. Academia is apparently unmanageable
  21. Brand & Culture: it’s all about Action

2016 13

  1. Habitus: the right way to build containers
  2. The ongoing poverty of the Docker environment
  3. A short review: The Agile Team Onion
  4. – Alex Hudson
  5. Deadlines, estimates, predictions
  6. Brexit confirms: storytelling is dead
  7. Containing incestuousness
  8. Stackanetes
  9. Some notes on Serverless design: “macro-function oriented architecture”
  10. Passion burns most fiercely when fuelled by success
  11. On Hiring A-Players
  12. Tech2020 followup
  13. Tech2020

2013 3

  1. What I realised I’m missing from Gnome
  2. A first look at docker.io
  3. packaging a virtualenv: really not relocatable

2012 1

  1. A (fond) farewell to Zend Framework

2011 16

  1. “Dart” out in the open – what’s it all about?
  2. Is package management failing Fedora users?
  3. Speculation on Google’s “Dart”
  4. The quality of Fedora releases
  5. Who can program?
  6. Short thoughts on the riots.
  7. OpenOffice.org ⇢ Apache
  8. I voted in the Fedora 2011 elections
  9. Developing a “Fedora Welcome SIG”
  10. Fedora Greeters
  11. Drag Me to Shell, p2.
  12. Drag Me to Shell, p1.
  13. Fedora 15 & Gnome leadership
  14. Thoughts on Nokia & MS
  15. Open Source Expo 2011
  16. Updates to bongo’s storetool

2010 18

  1. “Upgrade” your i386 Fedora install to 64-bit
  2. Potential Gna! issues
  3. Copyright changes ahead for the UK? SAS v WPL goes to Europe
  4. SparkleShare updates
  5. A late review of Fedora 14
  6. bkuhn on Canonical
  7. Philip Green report on Govt spending; UK Free Software
  8. LibreOffice
  9. Beyond dogfood
  10. Fedora people repos & Sparkleshare
  11. ActiveSync & Bongo; patently a problem
  12. Bongo & Roundcube
  13. Getting rid of Google’s annoying “background image”
  14. Thunderbird: Fedora & the future
  15. Waiting for Goddard
  16. On oData
  17. Making Thunderbird sustainable
  18. Why Google is really pulling out of China

2009 37

  1. Problems with Moonlight’s new covenant
  2. Fedora 12 & ChromeOS
  3. First attempt with Gnome Shell
  4. Whatever happened to the Chandler project?
  5. litl breaks cover – what to think?
  6. Corporate lobbying against free software
  7. First thoughts on litl’s Easel.
  8. RMS, KEI and ORG tell DGC “No” on ORCL MySQL
  9. Asay and Tiemann, mano a mano.
  10. WikiReader – “Project B”
  11. Boycott “Boycott Novell”: a huge own goal?
  12. Derren ‘witch’ Brown
  13. Patent infringement to be criminalised?
  14. A couple of words on Clutter…
  15. Compiling Bongo
  16. Boycotts as consumer judo
  17. Come on, Facebook – re-instate Tom Brake MP
  18. Google Chrome OS
  19. Mono and the MCP
  20. Did you vote in Fedora elections?
  21. Stuff-as-a-service…
  22. Windows Vista lameness (for future reference)
  23. A few words on CMake…
  24. Fedora 11 is unleashed.
  25. Want to tell UK Govt. to keep their hands off the ‘net?
  26. Sun vs. Oracle!
  27. IBM vs. Sun – spoken too soon?
  28. Sun vs. IBM
  29. Testing Nouveau
  30. Rawhide upgrade pains
  31. Government Action Plan: Open Source, re-use, etc.
  32. Thunderbird & calendars
  33. Maintaining bits in Fedora…
  34. Daily Hatemail spills Stig beans
  35. Qt and the LGPL
  36. News of the Screws cack-handed “the Stig revealed!”
  37. GPL’s failure to compensate

2008 66

  1. An overview of Christmas
  2. Bikeshedding notifications
  3. An argument against the “fat client”
  4. Thunderbird 3
  5. Brand new old blog.
  6. Bongo at Expo
  7. Bad day for software patents in the UK
  8. Bongo Events
  9. Diversity in the community
  10. Economics of free software
  11. Google Summer of Code 2008
  12. Happy Christmas to all, and a healthy and happy 2008
  13. M3 test release 1
  14. More thoughts on Thunderbird.
  15. Mozilla on the future of Thunderbird.
  16. Out of office message alex is away
  17. Ubuntu it has been a nice ride
  18. Update on m3
  19. Where do you want to use bongo
  20. Why not groupware
  21. A short word on hula
  22. About mail aliases
  23. Aftermath of 03
  24. Alexs june status update
  25. Back to the hack
  26. Bongo architecture
  27. Bongo has joined the software freedom conservancy
  28. Bongo on mugshot
  29. Chris lord on social calendaring
  30. Concentrate here comes the science bit
  31. Diagrams and stuff
  32. Feedback from google
  33. Further to yesterdays post on water
  34. Green energy
  35. Hacking update
  36. Hawkeye status
  37. Html as a mail format
  38. Inspiration
  39. Introducing project bongo
  40. Locking revisited
  41. Lugradio live 2007
  42. Microsoft show off new office distribution system
  43. More on lugradio 2007
  44. More work in the store
  45. My personal vision for bongo
  46. New logo work
  47. New query builder
  48. Not enough bongo time
  49. Notes on the end of bongo hackweek
  50. On locking problems
  51. Parsing queries
  52. Reading configuration from store
  53. Setting up access control lists
  54. Simple store introduction
  55. Sqlite experiment r800 reached
  56. Sudden dislocation
  57. Suggestion for pat
  58. The bongo project has applied for google summer of code
  59. This is how we cool it
  60. Thoughts about mdb
  61. Using system libraries
  62. Various rag bag of stuff
  63. Visionaries needed apply within
  64. Welcome to 2008
  65. Welcoming mozilla messaging
  66. Whither zimbra

Undated 1

  1. Introduction to wardley mapping