Try to go beyond hand waving and opinions and find out what really is happening. A good way to start is to ask people to picture what their scenario would look like if everything was perfect. This puts them into a positive frame and helps focus on great outcomes. Once you’re sure you’re working on an improvement opportunity that’s worth your time, try small time-bound experiments that you actually follow through on.

On overview of how Bloomberg is looking at the likes of Pivotal Container Services: "Many Kubernetes distributions are good on day one, when they're first deployed," said Andrey Rybka, technical architect in the office of the CTO at Bloomberg, the global finance, media and tech company based in New York. "But what happens on day two, when something fails? Kubernetes doesn't [automatically] address things like failures at the physical node level.

From an interview with Jeffrey Hammond and Marc Cecere on developer skills gaps. Here, the trend to training with people in person and then (slowly) going back “home”: [Hammond:] One of the things I think you see is it– so many companies have used the words, partnering model, for years, and it’s been more or less lip service. But you do see a little bit more of a partnering and more highly tailored model.

Source: Chef Launches Habitat Build, a Cloud-Native Application Packaging Service

The single biggest one is the move to public cloud, and this is where Docker is focused today. This is the number one area that we are putting all our investment in. We have this great container platform that allows you to do a lot of things, but just like any company, we need to pick an area of focus and for us, helping customers take legacy apps, moving them to the Docker platform, and allowing them to run it on any infrastructure because it’s hybrid cloud world, does a couple of things — it drives massive savings for customers, typically 50 percent cost reduction in a cost structure, but it also opens up real opportunities for the customer and our partners to innovate within that environment Also, this is an insanely good example of a fluffy leather chair conference interview, plus, The Channel filter.

Oracle all over that public kubernetes service. Source: Oracle Emulates Google, AWS On Its Cloud

451 Research's data points suggest that some workloads are likely to remain on private cloud regardless of any disruptor's attack. And even with hungry cloud providers eyeing private workloads, growth is likely to continue across all cloud models, not just public cloud. Whole bunch of survey numbers tryin’ figure out how many workloads will stay on private cloud. Source: Private cloud: avoiding an existential crisis

The three new Puppet products based on Distelli's technology are Puppet Pipelines for Apps, which automates key application development and delivery tasks; Puppet Pipelines for Containers, which enables users to build Docker images from a repository and deploy them to Kubernetes clusters; and Puppet Container Registry, which gives developers a comprehensive view of their Docker images across all repositories. Source: Puppet Launches Barrage Of Products To Enable ‘New Age’ Of Software Automation And DevOps

Consider the case of the connected cows. The grand unified, cloud/AI/IoT/serverless theory: That was the essence of the Build keynote: The cloud interprets IoT telemetry, in real time, with AI. And that AI can, in turn, instruct other IoT devices to do things based on its interpretation. Source: The Serverless Revolution Will Make Us All Developers

Paying premium bucks to hire influencers for the big cloud migration wars. Source: What is Microsoft Doing?