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<div style="width: 100%"><p>Dr. Nic is the CEO and founder of Stark &amp; Wayne.
He previously served as both VP of Technology and VP of
Engineering at Engine Yard. He discovered Cloud Foundry
in 2011, and launched Stark &amp; Wayne in 2012 to help the enterprise world
with successfully running application container platforms.</p>
<p>Dr Nic is a heavy user and evangelist of Cloud Foundry,
Kubernetes, Rancher, Concourse CI, and BOSH.</p>
<p>He is the author of online books <a href="https://concoursetutorial.com">Concourse Tutorial</a> and
<a href="https://ultimateguidetobosh.com">Ultimate Guide to BOSH</a>. He has presented at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dr+nic+williams">dozens of conferences</a>.</p>
<p>Read his articles written for <a href="https://www.starkandwayne.com/blog/tag/author-drnic/">Stark &amp; Wayne</a>, find him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/drnic">@drnic</a>,
on GitHub <a href="https://github.com/drnic">@drnic</a>, and LinkedIn <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/drnic/">@drnic</a>.</p></div>
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<p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thanks to the <a href="https://twitter.com/cloudfoundry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cloudfoundry</a> foundation, to <a href="https://twitter.com/starkandwayne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@starkandwayne</a> team for 5 years of great work, and to everyone who reads our blog &amp; books, uses our tools, and shares our love of platform operations. This is very nice to receive xoxo <a href="https://t.co/Jb2Ks8MWD1">pic.twitter.com/Jb2Ks8MWD1</a></p>&mdash; Dr Nic (@drnic) <a href="https://twitter.com/drnic/status/987438229254230016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
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<p class="excerpt"><p>Concourse is a 100% open source CI/CD system with approximately 100 integrations to the outside world. Concourse's principles reduce the risk of switching to and from Concourse, by encouraging practices that decouple your project from your CI's little details, and keeping all configuration in declarative files that can be checked into version control.</p>
<p>This Concourse Tutorial book is the world's most popular guide for learning Concourse, since 2015. It is a wonderful companion for Concourse online documentation.</p></p>
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<p class="excerpt"><p>BOSH is an open source tool for release engineering,
deployment, lifecycle management, and monitoring of
distributed systems.</p>
<p>It's incredible. Huge companies are using it.
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You too could be using it.</p>
<p>This is the Ultimate Guide to BOSH.</p></p>
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