Healthcare Shift to the Cloud Quickens

As software eats the world, this kind of mismatch between “fail fast” and “must be perfect on day one” will happen constantly. NHS Health Apps Library full of data-spaffing apps, claims studies

“We’ve come to understand that productivity software is always evolving, and it’s our responsibility to bring the customer along a journey of constant improvement as opposed to dropping major releases every few years.” Two points: That stance is fun: we need to put in new features, and we need to educate users about them. This is a tricky position: users don’t know what they want (when they want to stay the same).

I followed up my recent column on DevOps ROI with a podcast on the topic. Back from the podcasting dead, I called up Ed who is actually a real, live “finance person” to walk through what ROI is and how you’d calculate it for something like DevOps. As ever with Ed, it’s a great conversations. Check out the episode listing over on the Pivotal blog for full show notes and the feed to subscribe to if you want more from my Pivotal Conversations podcast.

10th State of Agile Survey

“cut another 30,000 jobs” - shedding droves of people happens at big tech companies a lot. I always wonder how their system got so inefficient that they hired this many extra people. It’s a strange problem once you start thinking through it: each of those hires was thought to be needed to be profitable, and now all the sudden they’re not needed…? Hewlett Packard Enterprise to cut 30,000 jobs

Kubernetes Has A Ways To Go To Scale Like Google, Mesos

There’s just as much pull for DevOps in government as there is in the private sector. While most of our focus around adoption is on how businesses can and are using DevOps and continuous delivery, supported by cloud, to create better software, many government agencies are in the same position and would benefit greatly from figuring out how to apply DevOps in their organizations. Just 13% of respondents in a recent MeriTalk/Accenture survey of 152 US Federal IT managers believed they could “develop and deploy new systems as fast as the mission requires.

How do I Contain This Virtual Machine?

I’ve done M&A pitches for UI companies before. They’re hard. For IBM, Node.js Creates a Microservices Middleware Layer