Year: 2023

  • Kubernetesless is just someone else’s Kubernetes

    Kubernetesless is just someone else’s Kubernetes

    Read to the end to see an illustration of the inner workings of cloud infrastructure. For all the interest in Kubernetes, there’s not actually many apps running on it right now. Gartner’s Wataru Katsurashima estimates that “by 2027, 25 percent of all enterprise applications will run in containers, an increase from fewer than 10 percent…

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  • Qlik acquires Talend to solidify data governance and quality –

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  • First Attempt at Gathering DORA Metrics – Not easy.

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  • It’s the agile mindset that matters for local government – getting local government to do agile is difficult – “Local government culture is heavily business case driven, where funding is unlocked by making promises around outcomes in one, two or more years’ time. There’s also decades of learned behaviour to overcome, where people are just…

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  • Day 868 and Chunks – Knowing what your or your organization’s goals are in enough difficult to come up with a to do list is difficult.

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  • The secret of selling your product to enterprises – Sales is hard and expensive because of all the time and activities it takes, only the multi-quarter timeline, etc.

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  • Economist Daron Acemoglu: ‘When mistakes involve powerful technologies, you’re going to have trouble’ – ‘He imagines a day when teachers could use AI to create individual lesson plans for every student, or nurses might be able to take on much greater roles in, for example, diagnosing diseases. “Why is it that nurses cannot prescribe medications?…

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  • Dumping links like Galileo dumped the orange – There’s a lot going on here: ‘These are the interesting discussions we could be having about these tools, if we could stop letting mediocre billionaire live rent-free in our heads as they hold flashlights under their chins and intone “Aaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeeee” in their spookiest voices. These guys…

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  • Start Your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery – For when you’re doing more than just lift and shift. Also, Marc and I wrote up using DDD for app modernization The Legacy Trap.

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  • The Cult of the Founders – Operating a large tech company is a different set of skills than marketing a small company.

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  • “The Dead Silence of Goods”: Annie Ernaux and the Superstore – The culture of big box stores as seen through French eyes.

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  • ICYMI: Instagram’s New App Could Be Here By June – Adding a microblog to Instagram?! // “You can post text updates up to 500 characters (that’s less than an Instagram caption, an extended tweet or a LinkedIn post so be concise!)”

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  • “the unsalvageable West”

    “the unsalvageable West”

    Just links today, but first! I’m giving the opening talk at the VMUG Belgium, on June 1st. It’s in Brussels, which is always a nice place to be. It seems like it’s free, so of course you should come in you’re in the neighborhood. There’ll be a wide range of talk from traditional VMware topics…

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  • – Innovator’s Dilemma dynamics – “while a $40 million company needs to find just $8 million in revenues to grow at 20 percent in the subsequent year, a $4 billion company needs to find $800 million in new sales. No new markets are that large. As a consequence, the larger and more successful an organization…

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  • Adding A Product-Led Growth Strategy To A Traditional B2B Organization – Among other things: don’t forget they your sales model is going to drive your product management, eventually.

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  • Josh Long at Devoxx UK: Showcasing Bootiful Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 – “In his humoristic seriosity, Long mentioned that as he feels the compilation was taking too long he decided to ask for either elevator music or at least a notification, like the toasters, to alert him when the compilation is done.” Sounds…

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  • The 90s Obsession With Transparent Technology – Clearly a good read.

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  • Gartner Says Four Trends are Shaping the Future of Cloud, Data Center and Edge Infrastructure – Some predictions about how organizations will do public cloud stuff, if you’re into Gartner predictions. Here is one on migrating apps to public cloud: ‘The focus of refactoring cloud infrastructure should be on optimizing costs by eliminating redundant, overbuilt…

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