Category: newsletter
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Good metrics are good, bad metrics are bad, and people in zombie movies have obviously never seen a zombie movie
What every kid wants, the Windows XP wallpaper. What’s your favorite “observed statistical regularity”? The “problem” with Goodhart’s Law is that we now know it exists. By “problem,” I mean using Goodhart’s Law when it comes to critiquing organizational metrics. If you know Goodhart’s Law (rather, the rewording of it as we’ll see below), when…
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Links, links, links. And where to stay in Paris
Let’s get to it Found in a stack of my son’s old school papers. Wastebook If it’s bad to yuk someone’s yum, I suppose it’s equally rude to yum someone’s yuk. When I see a title that reads “Towards a…” I often think “cool story. Call me back when you get there.” I’ve listened to…
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When you hear the word “input,” run – avoiding unpaid work at work
Thriving in a BigCo: Avoiding homework, and assigning homework I’m working on a video series with O’Reilly based on my working and thriving in a BigCo talks. Here’s a little storyboarding I did on one topic to avoid having too much work that’s not part of your job, a concept I call “homework.” The young…
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Skills – CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“We can’t hire the right people” is the eternal complaint of CIOs everywhere. They’re beset by all this FUD’ing out about Facebook coming and disrupting the toothpaste industry, Google accidentally dis-intermediating car insurance, Elon Musk launching a bank1, or Amazon doing anything new. I call this freaking out the “macro-economic headwinds” part of any pitch,…
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Skills – CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“We can’t hire the right people” is the eternal complaint of CIOs everywhere. They’re beset by all this FUD’ing out about Facebook coming and disrupting the toothpaste industry, Google accidentally dis-intermediating car insurance, Elon Musk launching a bank1, or Amazon doing anything new. I call this freaking out the “macro-economic headwinds” part of any pitch,…
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Skills – CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“We can’t hire the right people” is the eternal complaint of CIOs everywhere. They’re beset by all this FUD’ing out about Facebook coming and disrupting the toothpaste industry, Google accidentally dis-intermediating car insurance, Elon Musk launching a bank1, or Amazon doing anything new. I call this freaking out the “macro-economic headwinds” part of any pitch,…
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We should probably just fix networking instead of putting on another layer of paint
Here’s the final installment of my talks with Here’s the third little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talk about things that slow developers and other staff down. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to…
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Managing multi-cloud Kuberntes
Here’s the third little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talked about managing Kubernetes, especially if you’re a large organization that has lots of everything. You know: MULTI-CLOUD, Y’ALL! He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks…
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What is a Kubernetes “distro,” and why are there so many of them?
Here’s the second little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talked about security concerns with Kubernetes. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to my work. Torsten says that last he counted, there were over 140…
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Don’t freak out too much about Kubernetes and security, it’s just like any new technology that’s early in usage
… Here’s a little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talked about security concerns with Kubernetes. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to my work. Not enough failure yet to be perfect As ever with…
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We Fear Change (because we don’t get any rewarded for all the risk)
Suggested playlist for this episode. We Fear Change, a new talk I’ve got a mostly newish talk coming up next week about people’s fear of change in organizations, on Oct 24 2023 at 11:00am Amsterdam time. Register to Watch the Talk It’s narrowed down, of course, for software and ops stuff. You know: all that…
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There is no relationship between The Doobie Brothers and AI generated D&D battle maps and
If you thought yesterday’s edition was way too long deep into some stinky, weeds, today’s episode is for you! Johnny Ghoul. Using Midjourney and DALL-E to generate Dungeons and Dragons Battle Maps It works well enough, I think, given how cool they look. The scaling is obviously not perfect, but it’s fine. I just did…
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It takes a village to make a king, not just developers
This is an example of a weird use of “developers are the new kingmakers”: There is a simple rule: developers rule. You run the global economy, right? Not politicians, not CEOs – developers are the ones running this global economy. What aspect of your life is not getting more digital? Everything, sports, entertainment, social experience…
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idling insignificantly
How to survive giving a lot of presentations at conferences I think it was John Willis who told me that a long time ago. Relative to your interests What is Technical Debt? – “In practice, my observations are that most development teams, even in small companies, are too far separated from these types of financial…
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The only people who don’t like metrics are the people being measured, or, developer productivity metrics quicksand
No links today, but this: Measuring Developer Productivity Once you suggest tracking an individual software developer’s performance, you get into big trouble with the thought leaders. This is, you know, pretty much a correct a response. McKinsey decided to have a go recently, giving us all a chance to think about “developer productivity” again. In…
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Kubernetes Service & Distro Usage
Just a few things today. The Network is the Computer “Sun Microsystems founders (left to right) Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy and Vinod Khosla stand in front of their sports cars at the company’s facilities in Palo Alto in 1987”. Posted by readjpeg.raw. Kubernetes Distro Usage If you’re interested in marketshare, usage trends, and…
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The container management market is $1.6bn in 2022, going to $3.6bn in 2027
Suggested theme song. Just links and fun finds today. Relevant to your interests VMware named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant – Nice spot for VMware in the MQ. // This is a pretty small market! Hopefully the market is selling around container management, the stacks of app dev support above it, and…
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