Year: 2015
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The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness
I wasn’t told this was an option: “we could be wearing paper hats and eating pistachio macaroons in the bathtub.” The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness
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HP not so hot on public cloud, or well positioned for developers
Here’s the tiny quote: “We thought people would rent or buy computing from us,” said Bill Hilf, the head of HP’s cloud business. “It turns out that it makes no sense for us to go head-to-head.” I feel like there’s a lot of nuance to add that’s missing. However, analysts seem to think this direction…
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Micro Focus guillotine will fall more frequently on Novell necks • The Channel – The Channel
I think SUSE is the gem in that crown, at least last time I heard their y/y momentum numbers. Micro Focus guillotine will fall more frequently on Novell necks • The Channel – The Channel
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Lean Documentation, some tips
I find your lack of documentation disturbing. Lean Documentation, some tips
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“Managed cloud” and MSP market-sizing
Global cloud and data center-delivered managed network services doubled in size from $1,384 million in 2009 to $2,606 million in 2015, according to a report from Statista, a New York City research firm. While those seem like impressive growth numbers, the MSP Alliance has estimated managed services revenue generated by cloud and managed service providers…
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Stack Overflow Survey 2015: Technologies Used, Loved, Disliked or Wanted
Java and JavaScript very popular. Coupled with the Eclipse community survey and the RedMonk amalgamation surveys, you’d get a good view of things. “Over 26k developers from 157 countries answered 45 questions.” Stack Overflow Survey 2015: Technologies Used, Loved, Disliked or Wanted
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Coté Memo #069: Chili Cheese Tots, shift key avoidance syndrome
Follow-up, Follow-forward The column I excerpted from last time is up, over at FierceDevOps: Software-defined businesses need software-defined IT departments. Tell me what you think; they asked me to write a monthly piece, so I’d love to get some ideas for topics going: got any? I got some good feedback on the podcast sponsorship meanderings.…
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We are afflicted with the same disease. It’s hard (impossible?) to find a day job that is consuming so we look for other stuff to fill that void, which of course just makes us insane As one of my friends put it. Indeed!
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Betting on the Software Defined Business for growth
I had lunch with Israel Gat yesterday. Lobster bisque in a sourdough bread bowl, to answer your first question. We were talking about the concept of a “software defined business” (and I was complaining about how HEB needs more of that, if only to get digital Buddy Bucks). The question came up, so will companies…
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Multi-cloud
“At least half of the calls I take are clients that are either actively planning or are already actively deploying a multi-provider strategy,” said Mindy Cancila, an analyst with Gartner, Inc. based in Stamford, Conn. “I believe most organizations are going to end up with more than one public cloud provider, whether they realize it…
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Coté Memo #068: Are they really making $48,000 a month just talking about Apple?
Tech & Work World Podcasting Rates Brandon shared some podcast revenue estimates with me from the Hot Pod newsletter recently. I’m all for there being lots of money in podcasting, but they seem bonkers high: Then there’s Standard Broadcast Co., independently produced shows that hang a banner under the same ad sales network. This includes…
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Coté Memo #000: No jokes here.
Tech & Work World “What kind of company do you think we are?” Here’s some excerpts from a FierceDevOps column I submitted yesterday. Quick tip: if you’re in a room full managers and executives from non-technology companies and one of them asks, “what kind of company do you think we are?”…no matter what type of…
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s/SOA/microservices/g
After a thrilling Tweeter-thread on SOA vs. microservices, I thought I’d just playing with some old text, here: Decomposing an online store like Amazon.com, for example, into its fundamental piece parts yields a set of services – among them: a presentation service to deliver the HTML, a search service to find appropriate items, a shopping…
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The new industry analysts, again
Never mind journalism, it’s industry analysts who are being disrupted. I keep coming across a new crop of IT industry analysts who end up getting compared incorrectly to journalists. It’s little wonder as most people have little idea what an industry analyst does; it’s not like analysts, hidden behind their austere paywalls, help much there.…
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Coté Memo #064: I’m calling from Mexico, someone has stolen the Venus de Milo!
Follow-up We’re up to 90 subscribers and one of you went a helped out one of our sponsors (The Craftsman PM), so thanks! Tech & Work World Sayulita I had a nice chance to spend the week in Mexico this week. A friend of mine rented a house here in Sayulita and asked if we…
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Coté Memo #063: Working at Pivotal and Yak shaving
Follow-up In reponse to the analyst access commentary from last time, a reader wrote in: Are you familiar with Securosis? They’re a security-only analyst firm. Their business model is pretty different – everything they publish is free, and make money through sponsorship and inquiries etc. They have a model they call totally transparent research. I…
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