Category: newsletter
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #43
There’s an insane block of travel coming up for me in October, and then Asia in November. Figuring out a “road warrior” job is difficult, and I’m constantly asking if that’s the life I want, away from family a lot. The perks – pay, seeing people and places, all the frequent traveler benefits, and also…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #42
I’ve been trying to figure out micro.blog as a platform. Hosting all my stuff over there seems much nicer than at WordPress. I think I’ve got all my stuff setup there now, at cote.coffee. Really, it’s just a duplicate of what’s here – mostly links. This week I managed to be in both London and…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #41
I’m a Texan, so cold weather is always welcome. Rain and cold weather is even better. Here in Amsterdam, people apologize for the rainy weather, they seem to dread it. I suppose it you’d lived all of your 41 years in a gray and wet city, you’d be sick of it too. Just like I’m…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #40
I was down in France, just around Paris this week to speak at an event. The audience gave me the chance to work on a military-centric version of my standard talk which was fun, and was well received. I dove even deeper into the ongoing US Air Force story of modernizing their software. It’s chock…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #39
I’ve been in Berlin at a quarterly sales meeting this week. It’s a big room of people, new and veterans. Traveling from Amsterdam to Berlin is just an hour, the old you spend longer in the airports than the actual flight thing. It proves out the whole reason for moving here though: business traveling in…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #38
I’ve been in this quiet before the business-travel shit-storm for the past two weeks. Next week it slowly starts up. In the meantime, it’s given me time to get back to writing on the cloud native book I’ve been working on it. There’s links to some excerpts in progress below. Also, I made the entire…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #37
We’re in Amsterdam now, all moved into our house – rented, of course. I missed last week due to packing and moving. Original programming Magic little scripts & favorite SpringOne Platform talks – Pivotal Conversations #110 — soundcloud.com SpringOne platform is coming up quick – next month! – so Richard and Coté do their annual…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #36
We move to Amsterdam in 5 days. We’re nearly done packing up our whole house. It’s surprisingly easy to just get rid of things, all things: clothes, kitchen stuff, furniture. People say this all the time and it’s true: you should get your house in shape for selling while you live there so you can…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #35
20 July 2018 We move to Amsterdam in 11 days. Cloud Native Journey, 3rd edition In my capacity as an enterprise thought lord, I write up how large organizations are managing to improve their software every few years. It’s the main thing I talk with people about and “work on.” I’ve been working on a…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #34
The problem with me and newsletters is that I constantly want to make one, but they’re a lot of work. I long for the old blog days of just a splatter of content, a wunderkammer. Let’s try this commonplace book format. Software Defined Talk Episode 141: Broadcom acquiring CA, AT&T acquiring AlienVault, the mysteries of…
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Private cloud all up in my grits, plus, Cloud-native Enterprise Architecture – Coté Memo #33
This week, news around Microsoft’s Azure Stack drove a lot of private cloud talk around these parts. Also, I’ve been trying to figure out what “Cloud-native Enterprise Architecture” means. Links and notes below. Also, if you’re into Software Defined Talk, we’ve created a Patreon account. One, if you just want to give us cash, hey,…
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Coté Memo – Issue #32
It’s a short week, what with July 4th on Tuesday. There’s a few podcasts below and bit less than a handful of links. Podcasts Software Defined Talk: “Do I just need some better medication?” or, advertising, antitrust, and talking to strangers Without advertising, there would be no capitalism, and, if you’re not constantly afraid of…
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DevOps Hustlers, Cloud-native Ops, Amazon + Whole Foods – Coté Memo – Issue #31
We had a two week vacation over at Gulf Shores, Alabama. Despite three days of rain, it was great. If you’re looking for a Gulf-beach vacation, it’s an excellent place to go – just about 10 hours from Austin if you drive fast and don’t have to stop a lot for kids to go pee.…
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People use JavaScript, Internet mattresses, password stink – Coté Memo #30
Just a few updates and links this week. I don’t list them all below, but there’s several interviews from OSCON and DevOpsDays Austin in the Coté Show Variety Podcast as well. Programming languages XML, all alone on its own. The RedMonk programming language index is out, as always it’s interesting to see how things rank…
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Private cloud, beans and franks, and bathrooms – Coté Memo #29
There was some interesting container orchestration news this week which we discussed in Software Defined Talk. If you’re into Slack, I started a Slack channel for Software Defined Talk listeners. There’s other channels in there, of course, but if you’re into extremely low-traffic stuff – or want to make it higher traffic, send me a…
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BigCo change management, OpenStack, and BBQ – Coté Memo #28
It seems like all I do now-a-days is podcasts. So, here’s some down below, plus some links of interest. Recent Podcasts Pivotal Conversations: The management perspective on transforming Allstate, with Opal Perry — soundcloud.com I talk with Allstate’s Opal Perry about how Allstate has been shifting how they do it, to a more cloud-native approach.…
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Innovate or die, & make sure you’re lucky – Coté Memo #27
Just a few podcasts and links today. I should have a The Register column on OpenStack up by next issue (gotta write that next!). Cloud-Native Strategy Workshop, June 7th in D.C. Come check out a day-long workshop with me and Mark Heckler: You’d like to improve how your organization or agency writes and runs software. Like…
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Erryone’s after the cold cash – Coté Memo #26
I’ve been at OSCON this week and have a pile of video-cum-podcasts to edit and post, still from DevOpsDays Austin! The usual links and such below. Enjoy! Podcasts Pivotal Conversations: User Account and Authentication (UAA), with Sree Tummidi — soundcloud.com For God’s sake, don’t write you own access and authorization services. Coté Show: John Willis…
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Private cloud rules, containers, IT still (mostly) blows – Coté Memo #25
I’m at DevOpsDays Austin this week. This must be the 4th or 5th one, and I’ve been to all of them. It’s a good show, put on by good people. Next week I’ll be at OSCON in Austin (find a discount code over in this week’s show-notes). There’s mucho links this week, I even left…
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Spreading the happy-sauce – Coté Memo #24
Hello, as I like to do every six or so months, I moved some publishing infrastructure around. This time, back to Revue from the fully automated Mailchimp. Yay me. Links Here’s a mix of things I’ve done recently and other items I liked. The Frontside Podcast: 10 Pounds of Dirt in a 5 Pound Sack…
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