Coté Memo – Issue #7

My write-up of “staff your application team with all the roles needed for the full life-cycle of the application.” There’s lots of names and schools of thoughts for this: I used the term Pivotal people like, “balanced teams,” but there’s also “integrated teams” or just “DevOps.” Also, check out Pam Dineva’s write-up of the topic.

This week, we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, Pivotal’s funding round, and some follow-up for the OpenStack Summit: turns our Gartner doesn’t hate them. Also, with the new ping-model out, we discuss the potential for peak ping pong. Here’s the MP3 download, also the iTunes feed which you subscribe to.

My new-ish talk on DevOps, given at DevOpsDays Austin. I sum-up the state of DevOps and then go over tips for doing DevOps at large organizations. I feel like that’s where the new problems will be and where the most “impact” can be had.

My cherry-picking summary:

– Momentum by penetration: “30% of the Fortune 100 currently work with Pivotal… The company now works with seven of the top 10 U.S. banks, three of the top five global auto manufacturers, and five of the top 10 telecommunication companies.”

– Momentum by run-rate: “Pivotal Cloud Foundry® and Pivotal Big Data Suite having crossed the $200 million and $100 million annual bookings run-rate milestones, respectively.”

– Momentum by logos: “GE, Ford, Verizon, Home Depot, Comcast, Humana, Lockheed Martin, and Allstate”

More coverage of Pivotal’s recent funding round.

Alan Waite clarifies that he actually doesn’t hate OpenStack. A good case study of how flimsy tech news talk can be.

Free Expo pass to OSCON Austin: Want to sample #oscon (Ignite, Open Container Day, etc), free? Get an expo hall pass w/ code SPEXPO.