Oracle acquired Werker - April 2017 GE Digital acquired Solano Labs - Oct 2017 Cloudbees acquired Codeship - Feb 2018 Idera acquired Travels CI - Jan 2019 Jfrog acquired Shippable - Feb 2019 From my co-worker, Nima.

After the initial kibitzing, I recommend standing up and doing a small toast (if it’s a dinner meeting) and introduce a “topic.” For boards this can be an issue you’ve been debating as a management team that you don’t plan to cover off at the board meeting or you can even go a little bit more fun and introduce a “get to know you” topic if the group is newer. Source: How to Run an Effective Networking Dinner

The most important issue in organizational data quality is whether you have the data you need to test whether your beliefs about the organization are really true. So if I believe my organization has a reliable backoffice in terms of transactions, do I have the data that show how many errors are made a day or a month for a given volume of transactions.? Counts tell us almost nothing; we need rates, like errors/daily volume.

How to use containers, even managing them. Being more autonomous - developers love freedom. Keeping up to date on skills (see containers). Dealing with or hiding from stupid business culture in their org. Getting permission to try new things. Testing code, automation to avoid legacy traps. More scalable architecture for distributed apps, new types of data stores for dealing with new types of apps. [Maybe Thought Works style radar thing] Modernizing old core and frameworks that they're stuck with.

Wells Fargo, explains how the company is combating advanced persistent threats, as well as an onslaught of CVEs, by repaving its entire platform multiple times per week — with a goal of doing so every day by the end of 2019. That is, they rebuild production three times a week, probably now more. Source: Why Wells Fargo Wants to ‘Repave’ Its Platform Every Day

My booklet, Monolithic Transformation is finally out. It collects together the stories and successful tactics large organizations are using to get better at software. You can get a free copy from Pivotal or search around to find it elsewhere.  

> The new structure would include nine hundred applications, thirty thousand end-user devices, twenty-five thousand e-mail accounts, nineteen hundred vendor contracts, three new data centers, one of the largest enterprise data warehouses in the world, and the addition of five thousand new servers, with the recreation, cloning, or moving of another nine thousand across sixty global locations. This is a description of what IT had to manage when PayPal split from eBay.

> The conventional approach to form contracts is (1) no one reads them but (2) the company pretends that everyone reads them and makes an informed decision to accept their terms. If you’re the company sending out the contracts, it seems kind of risky to undermine that convention. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a…

Replacing human agents with AI, matching it to the right sales workflow: > “So we watched how this was going very closely,” he said. “We’d review transcripts from the early customer interactions, verbatim transcripts, to see how people are reacting in a conversation with Watson – because they didn’t know it was Watson.” > > Kalinsky found reassurance in particular from a Watson-customer conversation that occurred one night at about 2 a.

> Meant to be more funky and collaborative than typical uptown office space, about 400 Duke Energy employees will work at the former mill on a permanent basis, with about 100 more working there on a rotating basis. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/busi…