Category: newsletter

  • Coté Memo #9 – “Let’s meet in Bender, it’s usually free.”

    Coté Memo #9 – “Let’s meet in Bender, it’s usually free.”

    This week I’m at OSCON in Austin – loads of people are in-town! Next week I’ll be at CF Summit in Santa Clara. It’s a good chance to see people talking about “cloud native” and they’re applying it at their company. I’ve got a 20% discount code if you want to register. DevOpsDays Seattle last…

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  • Coté Memo #8 – Change Review Boards Are Annoying

    Coté Memo #8 – Change Review Boards Are Annoying

    This week it’s DevOpsDays Seattle after a few days at home. I have two extra passes to give out to that conference if you’re interested, plus a discount code, per usual. Check out cote.io/promos for that code plus discounts to other DevOpsDays, OSCON Austin, and the Cloud Foundry summit. OSCON is next week in Austin,…

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  • Coté Memo – Issue #7

    It’s the thick of conference season. I was at DevOpsDays earlier this week, and Agile & Beyond right now. Next week it’s DevOpsDays Seattle, then OSCON in Austin, and the CF Summit. If you want to go to any of these, I have registration discount codes for many of them, check out cote.io/promos. Coté Content…

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  • Software Defined Talk 061: Baltimore is not the same as Annapolis. Also, they like crab there

    Coté Memo #6 – OpenStack, big cloud transformation

    The OpenStack Summit was pretty good stuff. Coming up next week is DevOpsDays Austin where I’ll be speaking on Tuesday and staffing the table. I’m then off to the Agile and Beyond conference to talk better ways of doing software and unicorns. Hopefully I’ll see y’all around, otherwise, keep apprised of the Twitters for any…

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  • From “Survey Analysis: DevOps Adoption Survey Results,” Gartner, Sep 2015.

    Coté Memo #5 – OpenStack, an interest in cheese

    I’ll be at the OpenStack Summit in Austin this week, meandering about talking with folks, at the Cloud Foundry Foundation booth a few afternoons, getting some pancakes and breakfast tacos with The New Stack folks, visiting with some analysts and other in-town, and moderating a panel on developer marketing Thursday morning. Also, I got my…

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  • Coté Memo – Issue #4

    Hello again. It’s been raining cats and dogs here in Austin, worse over there in Houston. We lived in years of draught, so downpours are always miraculous. I think the lake is even full now, after God knows how long of being way under. Conferences The Spring conference season is on. You know if someone says…

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  • Coté Memo – Issue #3

    Coté Memo – Issue #3

    Things are thin this episode as I took some time off for family. “An ongoing battle” “Beer versus scientist represented a kind of schism between the banality of speech versus the originality of thought. An ongoing battle.” From Authority, delightfully “new weird.” Coté Content DevOps isn’t just about the new: It’s about cleaning up the…

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  • I like seeing the old soft drink machines. Check that wood paneling at the bottom!

    Coté Memo – Issue #2

    Hello there, welcome to the second re-birth issue. Go to a conference on the cheap! Discount Codes I round up all sorts of discount codes for conferences and such, here’s what I got so far: Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I’ll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle…

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  • Coté Memo #83, now back to #1, and linky!

    Hello there! Let’s be honest, the highly manual-driven newsletter of mine was mostly dead. I stumbled across Revue.co which looks like the exact level of automation needed to make me more successful at sending out newsletters. I’ll try for every few days and first and see what happens. I imported the 107 existing subscribers I…

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  • 451 Research on Container Adoption

    Coté Memo #082: Disrupting with high prices, indulging in colonialism porn, and dying among the tomatoes. Oh, and Docker!

    Come to the Austin Docker Meetup this Thursday (Jan 7th) to see me and some much smarter people talk about “The Container State of the Union.” See below for some of the “prep” work I’ve done. Also in this edition, new types of disruption theory, compliance in DevOps, books, and a smalll, interesting link round-up.…

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  • Pivotal Cloud Foundry diagram

    Coté Memo #081: The best steak I’ve ever eaten, and the slow train problem

    Tech & Work World How Microservices Fixes the Slow Train Problem I write little columns for the internal Pivotal newsletter we have sometimes. Here’s one that’s about to go out. The ideas of “dependencies” and “coupling” are important touch points for understanding and conveying the software delivery benefits of a microservices approach to architecture. “Coupling”…

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    Coté Memo #080: Come on, register for this God damn webinar

    This week is a lull in travel. I’m closing out the year by going to lots of DevOpsDays (Charlotte, where I’m speaking, and Silicon Valley next week), a few internal summits, and my first Gartner show, where I’m speaking in a sponsored slot. Tech & Work World Shameless Self Promotion “You should put that on…

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    Coté Memo #079: No Comment, Slack Behavior

    Tech & Work World No Comment Big news for the company I work in this week. Sadly for my desires to write about and link to interesting stories on it, I have to take a pass. It’s bad form for employees to comment on any of this stuff; and since I worked at Dell on…

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  • Spiceworks momentum, as of 2015

    Coté Memo #078: Spiceworld 2015, Spiceworks Momentum, Enterprise Use, and DevOps

    Tech & Work World I was at Spiceworld, briefly, last week. This is Spiceworks’ big user, annual conference in Austin; they have one in London as well. I’ve followed Spiceworks for many years (from RedMonk to 451 Research) and have always liked their IT management approach: their business model is to be the Facebook of…

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  • Coté Memo #077: Avoid going from “VP of Having a P&L” to “VP of Special Projects”

    Chicago I’ll be at DevOpsDays Chicago in a few weeks, August 26th to 27th. If you want to go and haven’t registered yet, you can use the code PIVOTAL10 to get 10% off, which gets it down to like $170 or something. It’s excellent value for a tech conference, plus you can see me speak…

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  • Coté Memo #076: How cloud native makes customers awesome

    Follow-up The piece on “cloud journeys” I excerpted from last time is now posted. Tech & Work World Cloud Native I’ve been writing some pieces on “cloud native” of late. It’s a term we’ve been using at work to describe what we’re all about. Here’s an excerpt from an internal newsletter piece I drafted today:…

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  • Coté Memo #075: Dealing with legacy code in a cloud native world

    Get your lurn on – this weekend! Do you want to bone up on your product management skills? Check out this two day workshop from Craftman PM. I used to work with Prabhakar and he’s anything but boring when it comes to opinions around product. Check out more details, and if you use the code…

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    Coté Memo #073: If you like tater-tots, go to Minneapolis

    I’m in transit between Minneapolis and San Francisco right now. The MSP airport is delightful, with a long mall at the base and concourses reaching out, it seems civilized. Follow-up I had lunch with one of you today who said, “looks like you started up the newsletter,” to which I replied, “well, if I can…

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  • DevOpsDays Amsterdam - Thursday June 25th

    Coté Memo #072: Since last time…

    It’s been forever since a memo! Here’s this week’s. I’ve tried to craft a work-flow that will allow me to collect links I want to share, in addition to shameless self-promotion and the occasional commentary in here…and actually send these out weekly. We’ll see what happens. Travel I’ve been traveling a lot recently and have…

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    Coté Memo #071: How to eat a bubble at #ApacheCon

    View this on the web In this episode: who comes up the ApacheCon booths, a seemingly coordinated conversation about tech bubbles, and “how to eat.” The Cloud Foundry Summit is coming up on May 11th and 12th, in Santa Clara. It’s a great chance to dive into Cloud Foundry ecosystem both on the technology side…

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