Ms. Ragan has had extensive experience in the development and implementation of business applications. She began her consulting career in 1989 consulting to fortune 500 organizations in the areas of testing, configuration management and build management. It was during her consulting experiences that Ms. Ragan recognized the lack of build management procedures for the distributed platform that had long been considered standard on the mainframe. In the four years leading to the creation of OpenMake Software she worked with development teams in implementing a team-centric standardized build management process. Ms. Ragan served on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors as an Add-in Provider Representative for 5 years. Ms. Ragan received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.

Microservices: A Welcome Disruption
Much is discussed about Kubernetes and containers, but the real benefit of this platform comes in the form of microservices—small, independently deployed functions that will define digital transformation. Microservices give us the ...

Kubernetes Pipelines: Hello, New World
Kubernetes pipelines are about to change the way we do things. Kubernetes and microservices will drive us away from our old way of doing things to a much leaner method of software ...

Let’s Get It Right This Time: Domain-Driven Design and Microservices
Because we are at the beginning of our journey into microservices and a true service-based architecture, we can start on the right foot by properly organizing them so they can be shared, ...