Software affects everything in our lives.Imagine that software could be constantly updated without our involvement! No need to figure out hardware specifications. Nothing to interrupt our digital activities. No waiting for lengthy downloads and reboots. What if it all just happened in the background, and we could simply enjoy the benefits?
Liquid Software explores a future in which developers code high-quality applications that securely flow to end-users with zero downtime. The authors bring insights from their more than 50 years of collective experience in building software in modern development environments. They explain that what sounds like Software Utopia is possible and practical!
We’re at the dawn of the next great leap forward in computing – the achievement of continuous software updates. The Liquid Software revolution has begun!
Fred Simon is an avid software visionary with over 25 years of hands-on open source coding experience. He is a co-founder and the Chief Architect of JFrog, the DevOps accelerator company. He was also the founder of AlphaCSP – a Java experts consulting firm that was acquired in 2005. As a community influencer, Fred has been part of the most challenging changes in the software industry and has led Fortune 500 companies in their transition to DevOps. In 2015, Fred envisioned a world in which software is “liquid” and revealed the driving force behind the DevOps Revolution: Continuous Software Updates.
Yoav Landman is a devout engineer, the creator of Artifactory, and a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of JFrog. With over 20 years of experience as a Software Architect of enterprise applications, he plays a significant role in the evolution of DevOps. In 2006, Yoav created Artifactory as an open source project paving the way for the software community to a new domain of managing binaries. Prior to JFrog, Yoav created many production solutions as a consultant in the fields of Continuous Integration and Distributed Systems. He is also an accredited speaker and a Java Rockstar.
Baruch Sadogursky is a vibrant and passionate advocate in the software development community. He is known as a champion in vocalizing key technical problems and offering inventive solutions in the high-tech industry. Baruch has been a software professional, consultant, architect and speaker for almost 20 years. He has been JFrog’s Developer Advocate since 2012. Prior to JFrog, Baruch was an Innovation Expert at BMC Software and a consultant and software architect at AlphaCSP. Baruch is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Ambassador, an Oracle Developer Champion, a Java Rockstar and a leading DevOps evangelist.
