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2016

December 27, 2016

• Can’t get enough of that computer in your pocket
• It’s Not the Economy, Stupid

December 22, 2016

• Meddling with Apple and Chinese Manufacturing

December 21, 2016

• No one likes being told their dead, dev skills, books to read – Coté Memo #23
• 2% increase in IT budgets predicted
• Michael Dell On Leveraging Dell’s Scale To Grab Share In 2017, The ‘Golden Age’ Of Information Technology
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out
• Puppet and containers

December 16, 2016

• Amazon is building an ‘Uber for trucking’ app
• Autonomy quarter stuffing
• Developer Relations: More than Traveling the World and Buying People Beer
• On-prem still a big thing, Gartner survey
• Oracle losing legacy software sales, growing (public?) cloud sales
• Polycom’s Former CEO Tapped As New Leader Of BMC Software

December 12, 2016

• Amazon grocery store has no cash registers, uses phone

December 5, 2016

• All the things from re:Invent 2016
• The crowded cloud native space

November 30, 2016

• The many meanings of “DevOps,” legacy software, & adulthood – Coté Memo #22

November 29, 2016

• Not actually a DevOps talk

November 28, 2016

• Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy, booklet

November 22, 2016

• Book Review: two DevOps books

November 21, 2016

• Largile, living with nudists, containers, & jobs – Coté Memo #21
• The Container Landscape, choosing what to do now

November 16, 2016

• Getting paid to podcast, trump’s possible effects on tech – Coté Memo #20

November 7, 2016

• Help me finish this agile PDF, hear @bwhichard complain about Agile – Coté Memo #19

November 3, 2016

• You’re not really Agile, airports, hitting yourself & absurd AI TAMs – Coté Memo #18

November 1, 2016

• Keeping sane at the airport

October 26, 2016

• Book Review: Maximize Your Investment: 10 Key Strategies for Effective Packaged Software Implementations
• Getting Started — picking your first cloud native projects, or, Every Digital Transformation Starts with One Project

October 24, 2016

• Smelly coders, profitless stacks, & digtal whatnot – Coté Memo #17

October 8, 2016

• Coté Memo #16 – Outsourcing & DevOps, Lovecraft, 38% DevOps penetration

September 28, 2016

• Enterprise open source montage

September 22, 2016

• “My pants are full of brisket,” Apple updates, & Oracle storms the AWS castle – Software Defined Talk #73

September 15, 2016

• “Oh! Scurvy! Again.” – Software Defined Talk #72

September 13, 2016

• Moving beyond the endless debate on bi-modal IT

September 8, 2016

• HPE Software sold for $8.8bn, to Micro Focus

September 7, 2016

• Back at Dell, Docker Forking, Healthcare IT, & DevOps – Coté Memo #15

September 2, 2016

• Unbreakable Docker, or, elephants, er, like other elephants – Software Defined Talk #71

September 1, 2016

• Deciding where the Docker ecosystem will make money

August 27, 2016

• “No one wants to eat a finger-pie.” – Software Defined Talk #70

August 19, 2016

• The two types of sales dudes you meet in heaven, the IaaS MQ, and layoffs – Software Defined Talk #69

August 17, 2016

• Coté Memo #14 – Wet Phones, Podcasts, and #S1P

August 5, 2016

• Too old for the buffet – Software Defined Talk #68

August 3, 2016

• These aren’t the ROI’s you’re looking for

July 30, 2016

• Working with legacy applications, systems, and portfolios

July 28, 2016

• Questioning DRY

July 27, 2016

• Coté Memo #13 – LAS Twice, Circle of Code

July 1, 2016

• Fried chicken, Docker Swarm, tech journalism, or, “but that sweet @MattRay interpolation, tho.” – Software Defined Talk #67

June 29, 2016

• Coté Memo #12 – The Gibberish of PaaS, Multi-cloud, Agile, etc.

June 17, 2016

• I-Bankers Smokin’ L’s in the Hot-tub – Software Defined Talk #66

June 13, 2016

• Coté Memo #11 – Why would MSFT buy LinkedIn? Lots-o-links too!

June 3, 2016

• Residential Diaper Rash – Software Defined Talk #64

May 27, 2016

• Coté Memo #10 – DevOps talk recordings, cash on hand, towel meat

May 25, 2016

• The Snack-Tracker, Uber in Austin, & Tater Salad – Software Defined Talk #63

May 18, 2016

• Coté Memo #9 – “Let’s meet in Bender, it’s usually free.”

May 9, 2016

• Coté Memo #8 – Change Review Boards Are Annoying

May 6, 2016

• Coté Memo – Issue #7

May 5, 2016

• Peak Ping Pong – Software Defined Talk #62

April 29, 2016

• Coté Memo #6 – OpenStack, big cloud transformation

April 28, 2016

• Baltimore is not the same as Annapolis. Also, they like crab there – Software Defined Talk #61

April 25, 2016

• Coté Memo #5 – OpenStack, an interest in cheese

April 22, 2016

• Coté Memo – Issue #4

April 16, 2016

• Coté Memo – Issue #3

April 12, 2016

• Coté Memo – Issue #2

April 9, 2016

• Asking questions often leads to more work, for you

April 8, 2016

• Avoid fence painting by assigning homework

April 7, 2016

• Coté Memo #83, now back to #1, and linky!
• Dead Horse Points

March 31, 2016

• Eventually, to do a developer strategy your execs have to take a leap of faith

March 30, 2016

• So you want to become a software company? 7 tips to not screw it up.

March 28, 2016

• Self-motivated teams lead to better software

February 25, 2016

• Link: Hacking Your To Do List with Your Calendar

February 18, 2016

• Link: 2016: the year IT sales will go sdrawkcaB • The Register

February 11, 2016

• Link: IDC: Federal government seeing cloud spending push

February 9, 2016

• Link: Cloud Computing Trends: 2016 State of the Cloud Survey
• Link: Don’t make the mistake of thinking the CIO is irrelevant – TechRepublic

February 3, 2016

• Link: Gartner: Cloud Email Adoption Still in Early Stages

January 21, 2016

• Link: JFrog Raises $50 Million To Provide The App Store For The Internet Of Things

January 16, 2016

• Link: Walmart to Close 269 Stores as Retailers Struggle

January 14, 2016

• Link: Banking time
• Link: Googles challenge in enterprise cloud
• Link: Oracle insider: We’re not walking the cloud talk
• Link: Wanted: 1,400 sales jockeys to flog Oracle Cloud

January 13, 2016

• Link: Why 2016 Will Be The Year Of Mass Wearables Adoption

January 7, 2016

• Link: Cloud Foundry poised to shine in 2016, Chris Talbot

January 5, 2016

• Link: IBM’s Steve Mills retires
• Coté Memo #082: Disrupting with high prices, indulging in colonialism porn, and dying among the tomatoes. Oh, and Docker!

January 4, 2016

• Link: Is the future of wealth management going to be robo-advisers?