Charles Humble
Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant
Charles Humble
Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant
Charles is an IT industry veteran with 30 years' experience. A former software engineer, architect and CTO, he has worked as a senior leader and executive of both technology and content groups. He is experienced as a commissioning editor, was InfoQ's editor-in-chief from 2014-2020, and was chief editor for Container Solutions from 2020-2023. During his time at CS he launched and ran WTF is Cloud Native with the marketing team, and created and hosted the Hacking the Org podcast.
He writes regularly for The New Stack, O'Reilly and other publications, is a highly experienced content strategist, and has spoken at multiple international conferences including GOTO (keynote), Devoxx, WTF is SRE, and QCon.
His primary areas of interest are: how we build software better, including sustainability and ethics; cloud computing; remote working; diversity and inclusion; and inspiring the next generation of developers.
Charles is also a keyboard player, and is 1/2 of ambient techno band Twofish.
Upcoming conference sessions featuring Charles Humble
Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable
AI's rapid growth is having a significant and largely hidden environmental cost — Microsoft and Google have both reported carbon emissions surging by 30-50% in recent years, driven primarily by AI infrastructure.
In this talk, Charles explores the environmental impact of large language models and offers practical strategies for reducing it at each stage of the AI lifecycle. Topics include demand shifting and shaping, model compression techniques (pruning, distillation, and quantisation), federated learning, speculative decoding, and how choosing where and when to run workloads can reduce software carbon emissions by up to 99%.
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Unscripted: What can software learn from improvisation?
Kent Beck plays guitar. Charles Humble is half of the ambient techno duo Twofish. Between them they've also spent about sixty years building software and thinking about how it gets built.
Short loops, listening, recovering from mistakes in front of people. How big is the overlap? And what can software learn from improvisation?
This is our unscripted stage. No slides, no script, and no idea where it ends up.
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Content featuring Charles Humble
Remote Working Approaches That Worked (And Some That Didn’t)
Writing For Nerds - Blogging For Fun and (Not Much) Profit
How to Deal with Software Complexity
The Value Flywheel Effect: A Modern Cloud Strategy
The End of Engineering's Blank Check: Accountability in Software Leadership
State of the Art of Container Security
State of the Art of DORA Metrics & AI Integration
State of the Art of Biological Computing
How Architecture & Culture Go Hand in Hand
Beyond Storytelling: A Deep Dive into Wardley Mapping
How to Learn: Unlocking the Brain's Secrets
Insights on Leadership & Innovation
How Structures Affect Outcomes: Insights from Software Engineering Leader Elisabeth Hendrickson
How To Lead Through Transformation in Tech
Building Software That Survives: Autonomy, Architecture & Alignment at Scale
Technical Leadership in Media: Architecture, Communication & AI Challenges at FT
Sovereign Cloud: Who Really Owns Your Infrastructure?
State of the Art of Platform Engineering
From Hardware Hacker to CTO: Building Teams That Scale
Quarkus Unveiled: Efficiency & Green Impact
Dynamic Teams: Reteaming Patterns & Practices
Building Modern Software at Scale: Architectural Principles Two Decades in the Making
Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable
Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable
Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable
Writing Greener Software Even When You Are Stuck On-Prem
Professional Skills for Software Engineers
Quarkus Unveiled: Efficiency & Green Impact
Dynamic Teams: Reteaming Patterns & Practices
How to Learn: Unlocking the Brain's Secrets
Maps, AI, and the Future of Reasoning: A Conversation with Simon Wardley
How To Lead Through Transformation in Tech
How to Deal with Software Complexity
Building Software That Survives
State of the Art of DORA Metrics & AI Integration
Kubernetes at the Edge
State of the Art of Container Security
State of the Art of Platform Engineering
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