I often brow-beat people into the notion that “cloud is all about developers.” That’s hyperbolic - there’s actually a lot more to cloud than just supporting custom written software…and yet, that seems like the bulk of it. By “developers” I mean you’re running a SaaS (you’re a company who sells the SaaS, like an “ISV” would sell packaged software) or you’re a company that uses cloud-based applications to help run their business (think of online banking, or Uber, or mobile loyalty apps like the Starbuck’s app…or internal applications just used to help run a company).
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Coté Memo #056: the $110,000 a year blogger, investing in barf bags
Tech & Work World Quick Hits Puppet Labs pushes ahead with more staff, broader enterprise DevOps deployments - a recent 451 Research report from Jay Lyman on my team, now free for everyone.
Software Defined Talk #17: DevOps is the New Agile - another fine episode of Software Defined Talk. Be sure to check out my cheesy DevOps market timing if you like that kind of thing.
They dubbed it Slack and released it in August 2013. Since then, Slack has grown swiftly: more than 300,000 people use it each day, and the company has more than 73,000 paid users. The company has also raised a lot of venture capital funding—about $163 million since the company switched its focus to Slack.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/532606/three-questions-with-slacks-ceo/
Jimminy-fuck-crickets that’s a of lot of cash to raise. People do talk about Slack a lot. Any of you knuckleheads out there use it?
[H]ighway billboards have returned as a coveted status symbol for tech’s directionless marketing departments
So that’s what billboards are for!
http://valleywag.gawker.com/billboards-of-semi-nude-brogrammers-are-lining-silicon-1660933261
Everything in cloud competes with everything else
http://www.slideshare.net/joshuamckenty/but-what-about-docker
Coté Memo #055: It's cold in Toronto
Follow-up I mentioned the Software Defined Talk recording last week, the episode is up for those who were waiting.
At DockerCon EU - turns out I’ll be at the Amsterdam DocerCon the first week of Dec, just for a day and half, though. If you’re there, it’d be fun to meetup. I’ll have been traveling all of that week, so you can see my brain turned to mush!
Coté Memo #054: CA World wrap, Docker orchestration
Tech & Work World Quick Hits Rackspace reports solid growth in the third quarter - time to turn back on the love-pipes, I guess. The point being: it’s hard to figure out how to rate a company, esp. on short-term financials.
Microsoft rebrands Lync as ‘Skype for Business’; readies 2015 releases (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet) - people tell me that Lync now is great, and I hope it is.
A few weeks ago, I gave one of my occasional lectures at the University of Sydney, a class on the history of virtual reality and art. (Postmodern theories about disembodiment and self-representation from the 90s have found a new lease on life, thanks to Oculus and Google Cardboard.)
So that’s what the kids are learning about down under.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/12/the_last_pc_replacement_cycle_is_about_to_start_turning/
And all of it, Nadella maintained, is part of a product focus which is less far-flung than it might look. When considering Microsoft’s products, “I just think about three things,” he said. “There’s Windows, there is Office 365, and there is [cloud platform] Azure. That’s it. Everything else, to me, you can call them features.”
Satya Nadella’s Microsoft Wants To Make Productivity Sexy, Inspiring, And Futuristic