Sacha is co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CloudBees. He has been an active leader in open source software for 20 years and was a core contributor to Marc Fleury's JBoss open source project, implementing its original clustering features. In 2003, when JBoss became a business, he established its European headquarters, serving first as general manager for Europe and then as chief technology officer. Red Hat acquired JBoss in 2006, appointing Sacha as general manager of its middleware division.
The CloudBees co-founder on a belated drive to cloud-native CI/CD and some of the choices to power that...
Instead of delivering yet another markup language, we decided to leverage GitHub Actions [essentially an API for cause and effect on GitHub]. We made extensions, wherever it made sense, then we're dynamically translating this into whatever is required to operate on Tekton or in the future, any other engine. We're really trying to have the best user experience from the front-end standpoint, but then focus on what’s best at the back-end.