Hello, as I like to do every six or so months, I moved some publishing infrastructure around. This time, back to Revue from the fully automated Mailchimp. Yay me. Links Here’s a mix of things I’ve done recently and other items I liked. The Frontside Podcast: 10 Pounds of Dirt in a 5 Pound Sack Charles and I talk about the job I do, how industry analysts work, and other tech marketing tactics.

It’s the end of the year - might as well be over once I wrap up today. On the other hand, if you’re in sales, it’s hardly the end of the year. It might be the most white-knuckling two weeks left. I’m sure glad I don’t do that work. Infrastructure Software in 2016 summerized Coté Content 2017 Predictions, Software Defined Talk In the last episode we make whacky predictions (not too whacky, actually) for 2017.

I’m in New York today for a quick meeting, ostensibly on DevOps, but as ever on how organizations can do software better. “DevOps” has increasingly become the term people use when they mean “doing all that new stuff, in new ways.” Vendors, like Pivotal, have tried to use the phrase “cloud native” to describe it, but that hasn’t stuck too much outside of the vendoring and chattering class. The key phrases, I’d say, are:

It's turkey time! In the US at least. There's a few pieces of my content below and some links. I'm hoping to just have two more trips this year, but we'll see what Q4 demands have.  I'll be at the Gartner AS&S conference in December. Come on by the Pivotal booth to say hi if you're there. One of our customers, from Home Depot, is speaking as well. It should be a good talk.

The long break is coming up - Thanksgiving and then Christmas, the holidays as it were. For sales people, Q4 of course is anything but a break, so hug your sales person. Getting paid, podcast editionI got a few offers sponsoring the Software Definded Talk podcast. It looks like we could get about $75 an episode (split three ways after costs). We're at just north of 2,000 downloads per episode (over a few weeks).

It’s the day before elections in the US. If you haven’t already, go out and vote. Kim and Cormac are up in Ohio block walking to get out the vote, which is amazing. In retrospect, I should have gone with them. I’ll have to remedy that for the next elections, about two year’s time I suppose. Help me finish this PDF Back when it was 37 pages. I’ve been posting some excerpt here and there from this PDF I’m working on: pulling together all the “so, how do we do better software here?

There's not much to say at the moment, just some travel here and there before Thanksgiving and then Christmas. The end of the year is fun, it cools down and you get to see family. I'm trying to wrap up my big PDF for this year, the "second edition" of my cloud native journey book, check out a new excerpt for y'all below. There's also some content of mine and, as always, fun links.

Make sure to go vote, early if possible! This issue is a round-up of some links and content I’ve been up to since last time. I’ve had the iPhone 7 Plus for several weeks now. I really, really like it. I was afraid it’d be too big, but I think it’d perfect. I just updated to iOS 10.1 which has the “portrait mode.” I’m eager to see how that works; hopefully I can finally take a new headshot photos.

Fall is finally coming to Austin, which means it’s nice and cool. With a long lull in travel, I’ve been working on a second edition of my “cloud native journey” PDF. See a fragment of it below, on outsourcing. Meanwhile, I’m reading through the DevOps Handbook to write a review. Outsourcing and DevOps, it's a problem An excerpt from the second edition of my cloud native journey booklet. This is from the second section where I cover the common questions and “barriers” to doing DevOps/Agile/cloud native/whatever you want to call it.

With summer over, there’s a new round of conferences, and my kids are back at school. My 6-year-old, Cormac, is starting 1st grade. We looked around at lot of schools for him and settled on the Lake Travis STEM Academy. I went to public school all my life - and a state college (I mean, a not too fucking shabby one) - so I’ve been really curious to see how private schools pan out.