Check it out! Charles and I recorded an episode. In Video! Charles and I discuss DevOpsDays Austin, how programmers keep up with things now-a-days, and some detailed examples of the social parts of GitHub.

Some take aways from Rob. More: 7 takeaways from DevOps Days Austin

I was in and out of DevOpsDays Austin over the past few days. It's always a fun, event, packed with plenty of old friends and folks to catch up. We gave away a Sputnik to a lucky winner, a fine fellow from Boston as I recall. Also, check out Barton’s video interview with Patrick Debois.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), by way of comparison, is estimated to have brought in $1.8 billion last year. --Microsoft adds Azure to its billion dollar a year club | Ars Technica

The history of computing over the last 30 years is one of lurches forward every time individuals got the power to do what only big enterprises could do previously — and to do a much better job of it. --People will do more with Big Data than big companies can

I suspect the prevalent “slow follower” mentality within the public IaaS companies that are chasing AWS will continue. So too will the confusion about their inability to catch up with AWS, let alone pass them by. At the end of the day, this is about inventing new ways to provide better and more resilient computing infrastructure to the Global 2000. Trying to beat AWS won’t get you there; you need to take the path of innovation and creativity --The Secret to IaaS Success?

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In other words, as with open source, these developers can't be bothered with corporate bureaucracy. In an earlier Forrester survey, developers said the primary benefit of the cloud is that it's the "Fastest way for me to get my project done and deployed." This calls to mind Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady's assertion that "Convenience trumps just about everything" when it comes to cloud adoption. --Forrester: Middle-Aged Developers Driving Cloud Computing – ReadWrite

Today is an exciting day for me: Dell is launching a product that I’ve helped put together and create along with a team of people across the company and, of course, the leader of the project, Barton George. We’ve been calling it Project Sputnik, and it’s got a real name now, “XPS 13 developer edition.” I’ll of course probably always refer to it as Sputnik. I help run the internal incubation program we have at Dell, and this was the first project we accepted and the one that I’ve been “managing.

Today is an exciting day for me: Dell is launching a product that I’ve helped put together and create along with a team of people across the company and, of course, the leader of the project, Barton George. We’ve been calling it Project Sputnik, and it’s got a real name now, “XPS 13 developer edition.” I’ll of course probably always refer to it as Sputnik. I help run the internal incubation program we have at Dell, and this was the first project we accepted and the one that I’ve been “managing.