Category: tech
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What do developers need/want to hear?
How to use containers, even managing them. Being more autonomous – developers love freedom. Keeping up to date on skills (see containers). Dealing with or hiding from stupid business culture in their org. Getting permission to try new things. Testing code, automation to avoid legacy traps. More scalable architecture for distributed apps, new types of…
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🗂 The Gig Economy is Actually Pretty Tiny – Nextgov
> According to the data, in May 2017, just 1 percent of workers were “gig economy workers whose tasks were electronically mediated,” or sourced through technology platforms like Uber, Upwork or TaskRabbit. > Moreover, in the workforce as a whole, 89.9 percent of people had a standard work arrangement as their main job, slightly up…
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Monolithic Transformation
My booklet, Monolithic Transformation is finally out. It collects together the stories and successful tactics large organizations are using to get better at software. You can get a free copy from Pivotal or search around to find it elsewhere.
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PayPal’s IT catalog in 2014
> The new structure would include nine hundred applications, thirty thousand end-user devices, twenty-five thousand e-mail accounts, nineteen hundred vendor contracts, three new data centers, one of the largest enterprise data warehouses in the world, and the addition of five thousand new servers, with the recreation, cloning, or moving of another nine thousand across sixty…
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🗂 bol.com CIO interview
> The strength of our IT department is that IT is fully integrated in our organization. About 400 IT people or engineers work at bol.com, and they are organized as much as possible in about 70 small, multidisciplinary and self-managing teams. We see that that works best. These teams build features for our customers or…
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🗂 Kubernetes Culture Change
> Thus we’ve seen a bunch of Kubernetes services spring up, run by the same people who brought you all the other Infrastructures-as-a-Service. Google (from whence Kubernetes emerged originally) has Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon has Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Microsoft has Azure Container Service (AKS), VMware has VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE), you…
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🗂 “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.”
> my company is based in Oakland. This is like being based in San Francisco, but with fewer microclimates. Rolling up to work in a company hoodie, jeans, a t-shirt from your last company, and a pair of Tevas is A-OK. But the further east you go, the more formal everyone’s business wear gets. Jeans…
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🗂 What startups should know about ITIL®
> ITIL came from a very different IT setup compared to that of today’s startups. IT had a supporting, not central role in the organizations’ daily operations
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🗂 Multiple personality enterprise data
> There is also the cost of different people thinking about data differently because they are working with different platforms and not really speaking the same language as each other. I hear about this all the time from customers. They’ll have two people from their own organisation pitch up in a meeting with two different…
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🗂 Achieving Multi-Cloud Flexibility
Matt Baker’s concise history and path to the “multi-cloud” thought-technology: > “The definition and the usage of the term cloud has been hotly debated for the past decade, changing significantly over the years from access to computing resources over the internet to now reflecting an operating model designed to help IT. One that is agile…
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🗂 ‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
Better predicting, targeting, and driving people to buy shit: > While the general modus operandi of Google, Facebook et al has been known and understood (at least by some people) for a while, what has been missing – and what Zuboff provides – is the insight and scholarship to situate them in a wider context.…
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🗂 Insiders say that Google’s new cloud boss is likely to make some very large acquisitions
Financial analysis of in wild with bizarre predictions. It’s hard to see synergies worth paying for in GCP owning Atlassian or ServiceNow. GCP is infrastructure. Plus, sounds like Google staff throw up resistance to buying old school companies: > In the months before IBM’s mega-deal, Greene formed a close relationship with the Red Hat team,…
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🗂 Some high-profile wins at Microsoft of late, in retail
> The customer win is another example of retailers choosing cloud vendors that are not Amazon. Microsoft last week announced a retail-as-a-service (RaaS) partnership with Kroger, with the super market giant splitting its cloud investments between Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Walmart is also partnering with Microsoft, with the retailer and frequent Amazon foe signing…
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🗂 PKS – a Painkiller for Kubernetes
The list of pains: One cluster is not enough Developers want clusters close to them, for low latency Data storage Day two operations – upgrading, scaling, capacity management Managing heterogeneous infrastructure underneath the platform Backup
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🗂 Only the good meetings
> Finding a cadence upon which to work as an engineer can be difficult. As engineers are generally averse to meetings, oftentimes we wind up with sporadic meetings and a lot of people who are unclear on their priorities and goals. On the other side, we can find ourselves in environments that are extremely meeting…
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🗂 The future of Kubernetes is Virtual Machines
Multi-tenancy ain’t easy: > The Kubernetes cluster itself becomes the line of “Hard Tenanacy”. This leads to the emerging pattern of “many clusters” rather than “one big shared” cluster. Its not uncommon to see customers of Google’s GKE Service have dozens of Kubernetes clusters deployed for multiple teams. Often each developer gets their own cluster.…
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🗂 Meanwhile, does tumblr just burn cash?
> The reality is that Tumblr is almost certainly a big money loser: the app was earning about $13 million in revenue on expenses of about $25 million when Yahoo acquired the blogging platform/social network in 2013, and while that is not necessarily reflective of how much the service might generate today (although it probably…
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🗂 COTS kills container cornucopia
> Where we are today, we have quite a bit of package software that we customize. And so we are paying license fee for a product that we can’t even get serviced on because it’s so customized. And so we have the worst of both situations and we have to work our way out of…
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🗂 Cloud Comfort Level is Growing, Survey Finds
> Cloud Foundry Foundation reported that more than 50 percent of companies it surveyed are developing at least 60 percent of their applications on cloud platform. That total is up sharply—13 percent—from the group’s last survey released in March. Demographics: > ClearPath Strategies conducted this wave of quantitative research as part of the Global Perception…
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VMware uses NSX for Istio
> The microservice architecture, which breaks complex applications into sets of single-purpose networked components, can be a challenge to manage, as each microservice must be instrumented, secured and locatable in a dynamically reconfiguring network. In addition, multiple copies of microservices may be run in parallel, to meet the demands of a growing demand. Their traffic…
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