Since last time, I was at SpringOne Platform and took a week off for beach-time. Both were fun. I have very little travel over the next few, well, months. I’ll be speaking up at DevOpsDays Dallas, Sep 15th and 16th. With this “downtime” - we’ll see if I actually do it - but I’m hoping to work on a second edition/sequel to my “Cloud Native Journey” book from last year. Over the past year I’ve collected a sort of FAQ that large companies us about DevOps, microservices, PaaS, continuous delivery, and agile (you know, “cloud native”).

I’ll be in Las Vegas two weeks in a row, which is a rarity. Las Vegas was a frequent destination when I was an analyst at RedMonk and 451: big vendors like IBM and Microsoft love to put on shows here. I suppose it’s cheap, easy to get to, and has rooms a-plenty. The perfect combination. Next week is Pivotal’s big, annual conference, SpringOne Platform. I’m speaking twice, my 5 minute Ignite talk on surviving BigCo corporate culture and then my DevOps/Agile/Everything stump-speech.

Last week I had a tiny tour of Poland, speaking in Warsaw and in Devoxx in Krakow. It was fun! I got to give the long version of my "Surviving and Thriving in BigCo's talk" and also the "Better Ways of Doing Software" stump speech, as it were. Tragically, I missed the pigs on a spit. Right now I'm up in Chicago at an EPA tech summit where I gave an overview of agile for orginizers such as theirselves.

What’s more delightful than finding a cup of coffee you forgot about earlier in the morning? Bonus coffee, more than you thought was left. I have some trips coming up, not least of which is the week in Poland. I’ll be speaking at a meet-up in Warsaw and then twice at Devoxx.PL in Kraków. Hopefully this poison ivy I have will be abated as much as possible by my flight!

What’s more delightful than finding a cup of coffee you forgot about earlier in the morning? Bonus coffee, more than you thought was left. I have some trips coming up, not least of which is the week in Poland. I’ll be speaking at a meet-up in Warsaw and then twice at Devoxx.PL in Kraków. Hopefully this poison ivy I have will be abated as much as possible by my flight!

The nook of the IT world I operate in now - application development and delivery - had a good event this week in the Cloud Foundry Summit. This is the annual meeting of the open source foundation and community built around Cloud Foundry. There are several distributions of the core project, I of course work at Pivotal where we offer Pivotal Cloud Foundry (to much momentum over the past year). Sam gives a good overview of the event if you'r interested.

This week I'm at OSCON in Austin - loads of people are in-town! Next week I'll be at CF Summit in Santa Clara. It's a good chance to see people talking about "cloud native" and they're applying it at their company. I've got a 20% discount code if you want to register. DevOpsDays Seattle last week was good fun. The foot-traffic by our table was excellent. During breaks it was so loud you could barely hear people talking.

This week it's DevOpsDays Seattle after a few days at home. I have two extra passes to give out to that conference if you're interested, plus a discount code, per usual. Check out cote.io/promos for that code plus discounts to other DevOpsDays, OSCON Austin, and the Cloud Foundry summit. OSCON is next week in Austin, which will be fun! Coté ContentChange review boards aren't helpful — www.theregister.co.uk My monthly column at The Register looks at one of the findings of the DevOps studies: One of the more wickedly astonishing findings from the current DevOps Report is that change review or advisory boards have little effect on a company’s performance.

It’s the thick of conference season. I was at DevOpsDays earlier this week, and Agile & Beyond right now. Next week it’s DevOpsDays Seattle, then OSCON in Austin, and the CF Summit. If you want to go to any of these, I have registration discount codes for many of them, check out cote.io/promos. Coté Content "Use Balanced Teams to Suck Less at Software" in Built to Adapt My write-up of “staff your application team with all the roles needed for the full life-cycle of the application.

The OpenStack Summit was pretty good stuff. Coming up next week is DevOpsDays Austin where I’ll be speaking on Tuesday and staffing the table. I’m then off to the Agile and Beyond conference to talk better ways of doing software and unicorns. Hopefully I’ll see y'all around, otherwise, keep apprised of the Twitters for any hijinks. Promos, ads, discount codes Coté Content Rather than subject you to a big text block of ads and such - and save myself from typing it all the time - I put all the conference discount codes and ads I have on one page: http://cote.