Year: 2023
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The eternal first inning of cloud
LEGACY SOFTWARE AT BANKS! That’s the topic of the talk my colleague and I are giving tomorrow. You can watch it for free, check it out. In addition to the talk, you’ll get a free copy of my book on managing legacy software, Escaping the Legacy Trap Here’s the slides we have so far, a…
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Patterns vs Platforms – It’s all hard stuff. Instead of centralized platforms, perhaps consider public cloud instead, mixed with conventions. Variation: don’t build your own platform, outsource it to a vendor/cloud.
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The Homework Apocalypse substack.com/inbox/pos… How to incorporate ChatGPT (etc.) in school and lessons…in a good way.
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Confused Coté Corner: The RHEL Drama
Recent picture of me trying to figure this all out. (I seem to have forgotten my toupee that day.) Source Code I’ve almost figured out the drama around Red Hat redoing how they distribute the source code for RHEL. Is this it? Here is my understanding of it: Before the changes, anyone could get the…
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[Midjourney and Adobe Stock](https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2023/06/27/midjourney-adobe-stock/) – Using AI to make stock photography, etc.
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The real story of how Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google – “Acquisitions are the first moment when founders and investors have diverging interests. This is the one time when you should be wary of feedback from your investors. And, of course, like any negotiation, whoever is willing to walk away…
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Gsma | Mobile Industry Eyes Five Billion ‘Dormant’ Phones Sitting In Desk Drawers For Reuse Or Recycling – 5 billion phones sitting in desk drawers.
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Midjourney and Adobe Stock – Using AI to make stock photography, etc.
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‘Zero trust’ was supposed to revolutionize cybersecurity. Here’s why that hasn’t happened yet. – ’John Watts, a Gartner analyst, wrote in the firm’s annual predictions memo from last December that “moving from theory to practice with zero trust is challenging,” and that fewer than 1% of large enterprises are actually using it today…. Moreover, Watts…
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Beyond belt-tightening: How marketing can drive resiliency during uncertain times | McKinsey – What’s a little crazy is: shouldn’t this all just be the way marketing always works?
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28 Questions to Ask Your Boss in Your One-on-Ones – Good things to talk about in your meetings if you can’t think of anything else.
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A modern-era lift and shift: Danske Bank seeks massive cost-to-income ratio improvement with the help of Infosys – As ever with outsourcing: hire cheaper labor under less restrictive labor laws…?
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Software as strategy
I really liked how this first talk in out three part series came out. I wanted to talk as much as possible about actually strategy, business-think, so to speak, when it comes to how financial enterprises do software. All of us cloud native people spend a lot of time talking about the general benefits of…
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Lessons learned from Cloud Foundry for the platform engineering community
Here’s my talk from Cloud Foundry Day, last week: The Cloud Foundry community has been around for a long time and the PaaSes built on it have been in use for awhile as well (many for at least five year, some for well over 7 years). In this talk, I first wanted to go over…
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How’s DevOps been going?
Has DevOps reached its goals from way back in the late 2000’s: deploying multiple times a day and having developers work closely with operations people? Adam Jacob brought up this question in two interviews recently, on my podcast, interviewed on my podcast by Matt Ray this week (which I [cough] haven’t, well actually listened to…
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It’s time for the Kubernetes value line – “There’s a reason the saying ‘culture eats tech for breakfast’ has become a favorite in today’s IT lexicon. What this pithy saying doesn’t get into is that technology can change behavior over time.”
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