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Codenvy delivers a code- and build-developer experience through the browser (451 Report)

My report on the cloud ALM tool Codenvy is up, for 451 Research clients. You can also sign up for a trial if you want to take a peek behind the paywall. Here’s the 451 take: The idea of a Web-based IDE comes into vogue almost predictably every three to four years, just like all-meat diets. This space is usually plagued with developers scoffing at the idea of coding in a browser, figuring that lag time and other performance problems will ruin their typing.
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Codenvy delivers a code- and build-developer experience through the browser (451 Report)

My report on the cloud ALM tool Codenvy is up, for 451 Research clients. You can also sign up for a trial if you want to take a peek behind the paywall. Here’s the 451 take: The idea of a Web-based IDE comes into vogue almost predictably every three to four years, just like all-meat diets. This space is usually plagued with developers scoffing at the idea of coding in a browser, figuring that lag time and other performance problems will ruin their typing.
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Secondly, when evaluating new IT hardware and software assets for potential adoption, you need to institute a much stronger requirement for programmability and open APIs. Complete automation of your infrastructure requires programmatic access, and it’s simply insufficient to only have control via graphical interfaces. This isn’t just about provisioning and configuration support via such APIs, you also need to ensure that vendors are providing reliable APIs to get sufficiently detailed status. A core tenet of DevOps is the ability to measure the state of your infrastructure for future improvement and this really needs to be automated programmatically. Ideally these APIs for automation and measurement are simple, easy to adopt, and accessible to people who aren’t full-time software engineers. Thus, beware of complex, language-specific APIs, and strongly lean towards vendors using simple HTTP or REST APIs and standard, easily parsable data formats like JSON.

–Nigel Kersten, Puppet Lab’s CIO. Also, see this interview I did with Nigel way back in 2008 when Nigel was using Puppet to manage the Mac desktops (!) at Google.

Secondly, when evaluating new IT hardware and software assets for potential adoption, you need to institute a much stronger requirement for programmability and open APIs. Complete automation of your infrastructure requires programmatic access, and it’s simply insufficient to only have control via graphical interfaces. This isn’t just about provisioning and configuration support via such APIs, you also need to ensure that vendors are providing reliable APIs to get sufficiently detailed status. A core tenet of DevOps is the ability to measure the state of your infrastructure for future improvement and this really needs to be automated programmatically. Ideally these APIs for automation and measurement are simple, easy to adopt, and accessible to people who aren’t full-time software engineers. Thus, beware of complex, language-specific APIs, and strongly lean towards vendors using simple HTTP or REST APIs and standard, easily parsable data formats like JSON.

–Nigel Kersten, Puppet Lab’s CIO. Also, see this interview I did with Nigel way back in 2008 when Nigel was using Puppet to manage the Mac desktops (!) at Google.

Secondly, when evaluating new IT hardware and software assets for potential adoption, you need to institute a much stronger requirement for programmability and open APIs. Complete automation of your infrastructure requires programmatic access, and it’s simply insufficient to only have control via graphical interfaces. This isn’t just about provisioning and configuration support via such APIs, you also need to ensure that vendors are providing reliable APIs to get sufficiently detailed status. A core tenet of DevOps is the ability to measure the state of your infrastructure for future improvement and this really needs to be automated programmatically. Ideally these APIs for automation and measurement are simple, easy to adopt, and accessible to people who aren’t full-time software engineers. Thus, beware of complex, language-specific APIs, and strongly lean towards vendors using simple HTTP or REST APIs and standard, easily parsable data formats like JSON.

–Nigel Kersten, Puppet Lab’s CIO. Also, see this interview I did with Nigel way back in 2008 when Nigel was using Puppet to manage the Mac desktops (!) at Google.

CCOS #004 - Facebook culling, plain txt vs. f2f, dungeons

[youtube www.youtube.com/watch] Senior Dancy and myself are back to talk about life in a too connected world and oblique strategies for coping with the world outside out head. As ever, very soon, there will be a proper podcast. In the meantime, check out the video above, and here’s some show notes: The Facebook culling, by Kim - this is a good metaphor for how I feel like I should be thinking about work Shingy Meetings in real-life vs.
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I’ve spent years puttering around at the “infrastructure layer” in IT: programming, systems management, cloud, all that gunk. From what I can tell much of the growth in IT is being driven by companies wanting to engage in “social” more. What is “social,” though? Indeed, that’s one of the things this podcast will try to figure out (hopefully with as much delightful rat-holing as Horace). Also, we’ll discuss my need for slippers that masquerade as socks so I can get them past my wife’s 2nd floor blockade.

Mostly though, it’s a McGuffin for getting to talk with Chris more.

On that note, here’s the video we recorded earlier. A podcast format with all the bells and whistles will follow.

We just having a working title now: Connected Culture and Obscure Stuff, which is much better than our original working title.

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Building a Great Team (Dell buys Enstratius)

With the Enstratius acquisition, Dell is getting a group of people with deep influence in the community. Founder George Reese is an O'Reilly author and a cloud pioneer. He is supported by James Urquhart, Bernard Golden and John Willis, all recognized as influencers in the cloud community. --Alex Williams, TechCruch cloud strength.Welcome @botchagalupe @davidajbagley @georgereese @jamesurquhart @bernardgolden and the entire @enstratius team — Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle) May 6, 2013 This is the part I'm most excited about.
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