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John Willis

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John Willis

John Willis is Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat Prior to Red Hat, he was the Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker, which he joined after the company he co-founded (SocketPlane, which focused on SDN for containers) was acquired by Docker in February 2015. Previous to founding SocketPlane in Fall 2014, John was the Chief DevOps Evangelist at Dell, which he joined following the Enstratius acquisition in May 2013. He has also held past executive roles at Chef and Canonical. John was one of the earliest cloud evangelists and is considered one of the founders of the DevOps movement. John is the author of 7 IBM Redbooks. He is also the co-author of the “DevOps Handbook” and “Beyond the Phoenix Project” along with author Gene Kim.

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DevOps for GenAI Toronto Edition Hackathon: Unlocking New Opportunities

This week in Toronto, at the DevOps for GenAI Hackathon, something remarkable occurred: Industry professionals, academic leaders and learners representing top academic institutions, fintech, technology firms, and consulting companies came together in a high-intensity innovation sprint that blurred the lines between academia and enterprise. Across four banking teams (including winners from Scotiabank), three technology and […]

Dec 17, 2025 · 3 min

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To Devin or Not to Devin?

Cognition Labs’ Devin is creating a lot of buzz in the industry, but John Willis urges organizations to proceed with caution.

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AI

What DevOps Needs to Know About ChatGPT

OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) bring powerful AI language models to every IT community. Within the past few months, ChatGPT has become an incredibly popular derivative of GPT. GPT also has the potential to shake up the DevOps and DevSecOps communities. This article will provide an overview of GPT, its history, current status and future […]

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Application Performance Management/Monitoring

A History of Distributed Tracing

Organizations are increasingly using distributed tracing to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. Distributed tracing has become essential in microservice applications, cloud-native and distributed systems. Microservices and serverless applications can grow exponentially, which makes observing them at scale very challenging. The traditional logging method becomes expensive, and if there’s an issue, time-series data can reveal symptoms […]

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