: Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance? - Analysis of IBM’s AI stuff. Also, a good side point: …
: The Pessimism Problem Continues to Grow - It’s 60% now: ’Back in 2020, I wrote a post titled …
: A framework for council technology planning – SensibleTech - “We don’t have much – if any – …
: Touchpoints, coalescence and multi-platform engineering — thoughts from Kubecon 2023 - A sum up of …
: Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Government IT Spending to Grow 8% in 2023 - “Worldwide government …
: Retrospective of 10 years of digital in the UK government - Great overview of the past ten(?) years …
: Manage process before people - File under “must be nice…"
: Majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it - “Just 14% of U.S. adults have …
: Extending the Pivotal Labs Way: How Tanzu Labs Helps Organizations Deliver Great Software - All …
: How Ecosystems Are Changing Insurance CX - An example of using digital stuff to improve insurance, …
: Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) - As with most things, the whole …
: Cutting Costs by Cutting Waste - Instead of removing travel, R&D, etc. (which were thought to be …
: How Agile Value Management Creates Value Faster - Some metrics for measuring progress.
: Gartner Survey Reveals 71% of CMOs Believe They Lack Sufficient Budget to Fully Execute Their …
: On-Premises Cloud Is a Failure. Google Has the Fix - Or you could run Cloud Foundry and call it a …
: Qlik acquires Talend to solidify data governance and quality -
: First Attempt at Gathering DORA Metrics - Not easy.
: Economist Daron Acemoglu: ‘When mistakes involve powerful technologies, you’re going to have …
: Dumping links like Galileo dumped the orange - There’s a lot going on here: ‘These are …
: Start Your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery - For when you’re doing …
: The Cult of the Founders - Operating a large tech company is a different set of skills than …
: “The Dead Silence of Goods”: Annie Ernaux and the Superstore - The culture of big box stores as seen …
: ICYMI: Instagram’s New App Could Be Here By June - Adding a microblog to Instagram?! // …
: - Innovator’s Dilemma dynamics - “while a $40 million company needs to find just $8 …
: Adding A Product-Led Growth Strategy To A Traditional B2B Organization - Among other things: …
: Josh Long at Devoxx UK: Showcasing Bootiful Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 - “In his humoristic …
: The 90s Obsession With Transparent Technology - Clearly a good read.
: Gartner Says Four Trends are Shaping the Future of Cloud, Data Center and Edge Infrastructure - Some …
: MariaDB walks tightrope between commerce and open source - “It recorded a 26 percent …
: AI Act: a step closer to the first rules on Artificial Intelligence - “AI systems with an …
: Eyecandy - Visual Technique Library - Different, fun camera techniques.
: A Formula For Pitching CIOs - Pretty good for any pitch.
: Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved - “Above $2-5M/year annual spend is where bringing …
: TP–7 - teenage engineering - This is the weirdest looking recording gear I’ve ever seen. …
: Twitter doesn’t drive many substuck views - “At the start of the year, Twitter on …
: IBM Watson missed the AI revolution, but Watsonx could become the heartbeat of the Generative …
: Gartner Says Layoffs May Ultimately Harm Shareholder Returns - After firing people to lower costs, …
: Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring -
: Monoliths vs micro-services, here we go again -
: Apple Makes More Fintech Moves With High-Yield Savings Account From Goldman Sachs - Very detailed …
: VMware strives to become the multi-cloud leader - Overview of VMware’s current strategy, etc. …
: Introducing Kubecost Cloud: Now in Open Beta! - - FinOps!
: IBM looks to turn nearly 8,000 jobs over to artificial intelligence, CEO says - ’“I could easily see …
: Jeffrey Bernard put it when I went to interview him: “As if there was something romantic and …
: KubeCon Europe 2023 highlights Kubernetes explosion and need for instant platform engineering, CNCF …
: Setting the Record Straight on Cloud Computing ROI - Ability to add new features(quickly), access to …
: Why Are You Doing This? (Wrong Answers Only) - Some of these are mostly (only?) for companies …
: Use Forrester’s insights to calm depositors and prevent a bank run - Europeans are trusting …
: The Definition Of “More From Less” In B2B Content Strategy And Operations - The best tip here to …
: How To Be Resilient: 5 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard -
: Will Platform Engineering Get Loved To Death? -
: The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky : The Mystery of Everyday Life -
: Build A Platform Engineering Team To Support Your Organization’s Prize Talent -
: Scaling Beyond the Pilot in Public Sector Organizations -
: CD Foundation Releases Fourth State of Continuous Delivery Report, 2023 - In these surveys (based on …
: Enterprise interest in sovereign cloud on the rise, survey - “In a poll of 1,000 enterprise leaders …
: FinOps! Five Cost Management Tips for IT Leaders, IDC - Good chart of what people are doing to …
: I’m giving a talk about platform engineering lessons learned at Devoxx UK this week, May 10th …
: Spring Cloud Gateway: The Swiss Army Knife of Cloud Development - Hooking up your applications and …
: The Cloudcast: How AI will Impact Cloud-native - This is incredibly comprehensive.
: Deep Work summarized by Phil Gyford
: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.
: 1970s grocery store, wide angle. Midjourney.
: Another bank bites the dust. Three recommendations to wring opportunity out of this so-called …
: Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? - “Today, we find ourselves in a situation in which …
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: Snacks stand, Amsterdam, 2021.
: In the Netherlands, a little bit of Texas for breakfast is still possible.
: 📹 Kubernetes is getting better for developers, especially as they manage it less themselves This is the first of a few videos and blog posts I have on our annual Kubernetes survey, which you …
: Managing Tech Debt Much like financial debt, technical debt is helpful when managed responsibly, but like real debt, …
: Everything is big in America & the men don't wear designer purses I’m a Texan living in Amsterdam, so when I come back to the States (Dallas and Austin this time), I …
: Urgency I’ve started writing this bit two times (see the community one and the one on ICs vs. managers …
: Open Source usage survey Some commentary on a recent survey commissioned from my work, VMware. Unsurprisingly, open source is …
: How to do fun and interesting executive dinners, round tables, etc. - online and in-person Here’s what I’ve learned in doing 30 (maybe more like 40?) executive events in person and online …
: Napkins, Ice, Toilets, and Passports Allow me to indulge in some trans-Atlantic compare/contrast’ing. I was back in Texas and Chicago for …
: Platform Engineering Probably Doesn’t Mess with CaaS and IaaS From the report “Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023: Platform Engineering,” Paul Delory and …
: Getting more eyeballs for your boring enterprise tech videos - analysis and LIFE HACKS from four months of long and tiny b2b videos by channel and numbers Looking at four months of numbers, here’s my theories of how to get more attention for my …
: 5 Definitions of DevOps I’ve tracked at least three different definitions of DevOps since the days of “agile …
: The one minute pitch at DevOpsDays As a DevOpsDays sponsor you’re often given the chance to give a one minute pitch to the entire …
: Two Types of Digital Transformation There are two types of digital transformation. First, literally. You had an analog process (booking …
: Rule 1: Don’t go to meetings. Rule 2: See rule 1 Coffee is for coders. Whether you’re doing waterfall, DevOps, PRINCE, SAFe, PMBOK, ITIL, or whatever …
: Banks are handling disruption well - Highlights Thus far, it seems like the large banks are fending off digital disruption, perhaps embracing some …
: Ode to Airports An airport is a time pause. It’s an excuse to not stress or try. You’re trapped in the …
: Keeping sane at the airport After 10 years of business travel, this is how I cope at the airport: You’ll get there, even …
: Book Review: Maximize Your Investment: 10 Key Strategies for Effective Packaged Software Implementations The premise of this book, for most anyone, is painfully boring: planning out and project managing …
: Moving beyond the endless debate on bi-modal IT I get all ants-in-pants about this whole bi-modal discussion because I feel like it’s a lot of …
: These aren''t the ROI's you''re looking for I have a larger piece on common objections to “cloud native” that I’ve encountered over the last …
: Asking questions often leads to more work, for you Most of what we do as white-collar workers is help our organization come to a decision. What new …
: Avoid fence painting by assigning homework One of the more eye-rolling tactics of white collar workers is what I call “fence painting”: an …
: Dead Horse Points In corporate meetings, oftentimes one person figures out a problem and comes up with a solution. …
: Eventually, to do a developer strategy your execs have to take a leap of faith A kingmaker in the making. I’ve talked with an old colleague about pitching a developer-based …
: So you want to become a software company? 7 tips to not screw it up. Hey, I’ve not only seen this movie before, I did some script treatments: Chief Executive Officer …
: The Problem with PaaS Market-sizing Figuring out the market for PaaS has always been difficult. At the moment, I tend to estimate it at …
: Addressing the DevOps compliance problem Satisfying the mythical auditors is often one of the first barriers to spreading DevOps initiatives …
: All the taboos about working at home--- Working at home, with a family, is a challenge, as this nice overview piece at The Register goes …
: Barriers to DevOps in government There’s just as much pull for DevOps in government as there is in the private sector. While most of …
: A presentation is just a document that has been printed in landscape mode I’m always wanting to do a talk or write a series of items on the white-collar toolchain, or …
: Management’s role in DevOps: orchestrating the why Donkey teamwork What’s the point of it all? Why are we doing this? These questions pop up frequently …
: There’s no easy way to model DevOps ROI Think you can show DevOps ROI? Think again “What is the ROI for DevOps?” is a question that has been …
: Enterprise DevOps interview with iThome Weekly A little while back I did an email interview with Ray Wang from iThome Weekly, in Taiwan. It’s …
: Here’s how we can help push DevOps into the mainstream Can DevOps declare victory yet? Not quite, but soon. Figuring out when a technology inflection point …
: Sizing the PaaS Market Fun with market sizing I’ve spent a lot of time over the years working with cloud …
: Software Defined Businesses need Software Defined IT Departments (I originally wrote this April 2015 for FierceDevOps, a site which has made it either impossible or …
: 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 …
: The new industry analysts, again Never mind journalism, it’s industry analysts who are being disrupted. I keep coming across a new …
: Advice for being an industry analyst Occasionally, my fellow analysts ask me for advice on being an analyst. Here’s an edited up version …
: When in Rome, format your PowerPoints like the Romans do One of the “tricks” you learn in programming - “soft skills,” apparently they used to call them - is …
: Selling to Hoodie and the Sticker-Festooned - Building a Developer Relations Program to Win Over Developers as Paying Customers I’m just about the give a short presentation on developer relations and marketing at our HCTS …
: The great OpenStack conundrum: with 15,000 members, why is adoption lagging? This is the common OpenStack meme for coverage. Each Summit there’s more and more users - …
: Embedding OpenStack in Solaris - Press Pass Oracle announced that it’s putting OpenStack into Solaris, which is good fun. James Niccolai asked …
: Infor ERP moving products to AWS - Press Pass A few weeks ago, I talked with Chris Kanaracus for his story on Infor moving parts of their …
: VMware and Citrix team-up with Google Chromebooks to run Windows apps - Press Pass I spoke with a couple of reporters earlier this week on the partnerships between Google and VMware …
: Press Release Quotes As an analyst, you often gets asked and paid to provide press release quotes (see some of mine here, …
: Press Pass: PaaS in 2014 (Pun!) Paul Krill asked a few questions about the future of PaaS last month for an omnibus appdev article …
: Press Pass: GitHub Traffic Analytics Comments GitHub Traffic Analytics service gives developers insight into interest in their projects Paul …