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Scroll to the bottom for my daughter’s favorite joke. Cynical Tactics for Change Management Most people don’t want to change. And why would they? What they’ve done to this point has been successful: they’re still here! Most people want stability in their day-to-day life, not the risks of trying new things all the time. So when you’re changing how you think about and build software, you need to make changing seem like the safest choice over staying the same.

Catch-up on four tiny videos, links, and wfh thinking. DevOps Loop, June 22, 2022 — devopsloop.io If you haven't registered yet, you should attend one of the conferences I help put together, DevOps Loop. I've spent a lot of time with several of the speakers to think up talk topics - they're ones I'm looking forward to. It's free and online, so it's super easy to attend. Check it out, register, and attend!

This is a bit of a ICYMI edition. I've been posting on my blog a lot more, so I'll give some pointers to that. DevOps LoopBetter clean up my desk.Our second DevOps Loop conference is coming up on June 22nd. It's free, and we've put in a lot of work to get an interesting line-up of topics, that is, speakers. I've worked with many of them to come up with new (or new-ish) talks.

I’m in Istanbul for a talk at Java Days Istanbul tomorrow. I’ve been publishing stuff to my old blog a lot at cote.io/notebook, which is fun. Here are two things, one a quick link to a piece I’ve been sitting in for awhile about doing “executive dinners” and then a write-up of the need for urgency to change. Pardon the lack of formatting a such, I’m on my phone in a hotel lounge tapping this out.

Most software/cloud vendors have people who do competitive intelligence. Here's what and who that work is useful for. Uses for Competitive IntelligenceJordi asked about the usefulness of competitive intelligence (at software/cloud vendors) in the Software Defined Slack. Here's what I added to the thread: I think competitive intelligence is least useful for product management. Innovation, talking to customers, and finding out sells and doesn't sell from your salesforce is more interesting.

Notes on what it's like to be back, compare and contrast. Also, analysis of our recent kubernetes survey Lots going on at the moment. We’re on vacation for two weeks, finally going back to Texas to visit. Most of our family hasn’t met our two year old, born at the start of COVID in Amsterdam. And while I’ve been back to Austin twice in the ~4.5 years we’ve been expats, the rest of my family hasn’t.

The last "platform" diagram you'll ever need, chop the first paragraph. Scroll all the way down for two secret videos about kubernetes. Grind!How to build apps to run on kubernetesRegister for SpringOne Tour Chicago here, and use the code S1T_SAVE25 for a $25 discount. A Good "Platform" DiagramI'm always looking for good diagrams of a "developer platform," an "internal platform," whatever you want to call that stuff you run on-top of kubernetes.

OMGWTFBBQDEVSECOPS; how to give a DevOpsDays vendor pitch; The Difference Between DevOps & DevSecOpsIn this longer blog post, I go over how I've finally come to think about what DevSecOps is. A summary of what the post covers: A secure software supply chain – This is a fancy way of saying "we know all the components that went into building and deploying this software and trust those components." It also includes the actual CI/CD pipeline that you trust and that's resistant to third parties including malicious code, as we've seen happen in recent years.

The pain of legacy software doesn’t hit until it’s too late. Scroll to the end for a secret video that only you will be able to watch. LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE Kubernetes for Developers, April 26–27 in Chicago We’re kicking off our developer conferences later this month in Chicago, April 26th and 27th. It’s SpringOne Tour time! This year most of the talks have something to do with app development with/on kubernetes: not all, to be sure.