Year: 2015
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Just out: [Mobile] Developer Megatrends H1 2015
“Only 20% of mobile developers target enterprises, but 46% of them makes over $10K per month, versus 19% for consumer-oriented developers.” The other thing to note is how close we are to having “mobile developers” just upgraded to simply “developers.” Just out: [Mobile] Developer Megatrends H1 2015
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Want a promotion? Cheer up and be on time
Beards considered a career retardant: “For men, that may mean getting rid of a beard or mustache, since almost one-quarter (24%) of these managers objected to facial hair.” Other fun facts like don’t be a sour-puss. Want a promotion? Cheer up and be on time
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Enterprise DevOps interview with iThome Weekly
A little while back I did an email interview with Ray Wang from iThome Weekly, in Taiwan. It’s a little piece about DevOps getting more and more into the enterprise. To read the Google, robot translation, it looks like I did some things “single-handedly,” where in fact I was one of many hands. As always,…
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Docker death blow to PaaS? The fat lady isn’t singing just yet folks • The Register Forums
Occasionally, @TheRegister comments are more interesting than the whacky icons that marbled their jolly girth: Docker death blow to PaaS? The fat lady isn’t singing just yet folks • The Register Forums
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Micro Services: Java, the Unix Way, 2013
Nice talk from James Lewis on doing a microservices approach to solving a banking system problem. Micro Services: Java, the Unix Way, 2013
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The Agility Frontier – Continuous Delivery and Pivotal Cloud Foundry
What’s Pivotal Cloud Foundry have to do with continuous delivery? Fresh off presenting at a recent Jenkins User Conference on that topic, I ask Karun Bakshi to go over his presentation. We discuss how Pivotal Cloud Foundry helps enable continuous delivery and also some of the “deleted scenes” from his talk. The Agility Frontier –…
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The hidden value of automation
“They started with 95 percent resource utilization in maintaining legacy processes, and a mere five percent of resources free to invest in new innovation. By the end of their transformation, just three years later, the percentage of resources available for new innovation was up eight times to 40 percent. In addition, with the introduction of…
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The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2015
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2015
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Coté Memo #072: Since last time…
It’s been forever since a memo! Here’s this week’s. I’ve tried to craft a work-flow that will allow me to collect links I want to share, in addition to shameless self-promotion and the occasional commentary in here…and actually send these out weekly. We’ll see what happens. Travel I’ve been traveling a lot recently and have…
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What does IT need to start doing to become a software defined business?
I was asked to talk to do an internal, “brown-bag” style talk at a company this week. I chose to do a slightly more technical-oriented version of the talk I tend to give, commentary and pointers on moving your orginization over to relying on more and more custom written software to run your business. Here,…
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Pushing DevOps to the mainstream
My second column from FierceDevOps is up. It’s essentially a write-up of my DevOpsDays Austin talk (see slides here): a quick check-in on how DevOps is doing (good!) and my advice on what it can do to keep being successful. Check out the piece, tell me what you think!
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Here’s how we can help push DevOps into the mainstream
Can DevOps declare victory yet? Not quite, but soon. Figuring out when a technology inflection point happens is always hard, if not impossible, in real-time. It’s easy to point backwards and say when ERP, agile software development, the Web, business intelligence, mobile or cloud suddenly became “normal.” I think DevOps is right at the door…
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What is OpenStack?
Chris Kemp speaking recently: “Openstack is not a product, it is a collection of projects designed to be productised,” he said. The companies making that effort today, he said, are focusing on large-scale opportunities. “Customer participation drives the change that customers want,” he said, and with not many users deploying OpenStack to date there’s therefore…
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Outlook is a good, mobile email client
And, when I actually think about what is going on, I’m using Microsoft Outlook on my Apple iPhone to read my Google Gmail. I’ve used it since back when it was Acompli. It’s good stuff! I’m looking forward to the desktop Outlook working well in OS X (I run the preview and last I checked…
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OpenStack Kilo Rolls With Network, Storage Upgrades
Quick overview of the new OpenStack version. OpenStack Kilo Rolls With Network, Storage Upgrades
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Microsoft targeting $20bn cloud business by 2018, currently at $6.3bn run rate
Microsoft Corp. wants to reach annualized revenue of $20 billion in its corporate cloud business in the fiscal year that ends in June 2018. At the moment, it’s: The company last week said it has a current run rate of $6.3 billion for the cloud business, which includes its Azure data-center services and cloud versions…
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Organizational change is only first step to ensure DevOps success
From the perspective of the xMatters engineering team, Serediuk and Dunn-Krahn told me they see themselves as a service provider helping the business and customers to achieve their goals. They got those super short pieces over at FierceDevOps. Organizational change is only first step to ensure DevOps success
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Podcasting has something like 17% market penetrarion
According to data compiled by Pew Research for its annual State of the Media report, awareness of podcasts grew significantly last year. One-third of all Americans now say they have listened to a podcast; 17% said they had listened to one in the last month alone, as of January. You know, over whatever the survey…
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Is OpenStack a Success?
From the data I have seen the number of production OpenStack deployments worldwide in 2014 was on the order of hundreds – not thousands or tens of thousands. Some criteria for “should I use OpenStack” as well. Is OpenStack a Success?
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The more flexible SOA
“But microservices want to bring you into tomorrow,” says Winterberg. “Microservices add a bit to the category concept, defining a service over all application layers, including the UI. So people already doing SOA may gain a kind of new freedom by adopting microservice ideas.” That freedom includes technology independence and an alternative to aging technologies,…
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