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There we go — the Red Hat—​IBM merger is now complete: As #RedHat’s acquisition by @IBM closes, Red Hat will maintain independence and neutrality to give customers freedom, choice and flexibility. Get the news: https://t.co/ggZWYrT8ut pic.twitter.com/rw6hdvrqv7 — Red Hat, Inc. (@RedHat) 9 lipca 2019 This is a pretty big deal. And I’m not talking about money only. Red Hat — a company as I know it I’m a Red Hatter since over 10 years now. I joined the company when it had just a little bit over 2k people. Now we have over 14k. Over all these years I saw how we grow. And we grew really fast. Especially in recent years. ...

TL;DR; I’m back! It took a while. We didn’t see each other in long time. Probably too long. So, let me introduce myself again. I’m Marek. Since almost 10 years I work for the same company: Red Hat, in the Middleware part of it. Over that time I was working on various different technologies. Among other things it was: virtualization (KVM, IaaS), Fedora (RPM packaging), Cloud (OpenShift), Middleware (TorqueBox) and more. If I would be tasked to select one technology that influenced my work the most — I would choose containers. This topic is close to everything I do in the last few years in a row. ...