Year: 2023
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Link catsup
I’m at Cloud Foundry Day today – travel, conference, etc. I realized I’m giving the last talk, which is kind of a good slot to have. I’ll have to do some kind of “end of the conference” commentary on life. It’s Germany, and it’s hot. People leave the doors open for a breeze, so there’s…
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Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? – Café Lob-On – Difficulty crossing the chasm. But, come on: it’s been less than a year.
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All those naked Greeks… – I think the conclusion is status, power, beauty, and sex.
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2023-06-18 yesterday note
Mid-day. For Father’s Day, Kim set me up with a nice hotel room that has a sauna in it. I think we’re developing a tradition of these parents days where the parent gets the day off. Sort of ironic, but fitting for the contemporary pro mental health vibe we all stew in. I was told…
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Rest for the restless – “Maybe it’s my low tolerance for boredom. I can’t help but do something, anything. If only I could embrace boredom, and just let myself be. I can do a seated meditation for 10 minutes with no big issue of fidgeting, just focusing on my breath. But that’s still doing something?…
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I don’t need to “do less to do more.” I just need to do less.
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The past is not what’s normal, the present is.
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possibly, love birds
Recommended theme song: Dog walk through the park Out on a dog walk on a recent evening, there were several things to see. The homeless guy who lives in the parkwas sitting in his little area and there was a young guy sitting there with him. They were talking about something, smiling and laughing a…
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Catching up on the HOT links
Do you like words like: security – governance – PCI – regulation – SBOMs?! Then you should attend our talk series on cloud native app development in banks, insurance companies, and financial services. It’s online and, of course, free. Relevant to your interests The Quest for Better, Faster Deals – The highest quality deals are…
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Celebrity photographer Chris Floyd shares six pieces of career advice everyone can learn from – “I think that anything generic is fucked now. Anything where a client thinks: ‘We need a picture of a woman who is eating a salad’, say, or ‘laughing with a laptop’. If it’s not a specific person, it’s just a…
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Gartner’s Enterprise Value Equation for Business Value of Platform Engineering – Metrics and attributes to use to measure platform effectiveness.
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What is platform engineering? – “Here are the key pillars of platform engineering, as I see it: Self-service; Platform operations; Platform as product.” And: “at CWT we created a series of DevOps services like a CI/CD pipeline, self-service performance testing, an image service for pre-approved, hardened images (consumable via source templates or the built images…
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What Is Platform Engineering, and What Does It Do? – Lori Perri at Gartner defines platform engineering (Oct 2022): “In short: Platform engineering implements reusable tools and self-service capabilities with automated infrastructure operations, improving the developer experience and productivity. This technology approach utilizes reusable configurable application components and services. The benefit to users is in…
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Citi to cut 5K jobs citing tech initiatives – Not good for the pro-AI crowd. // ‘Citi’s technology transformation plans, which Mason said are in the execution stage, are driving efforts to reduce headcount…. Over time, “we will no longer need the same level of people that we have at this particular phase,” Mason said.…
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