Category: tech
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Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy, booklet
[Gallery images not available] Like reading about doing agile, DevOps, and “cloud native” in the real world? Check out my little booklet on that topic drawing from failures and success at large organizations that I’ve observed over the past few years. Get it here. A Chinese version is also available. I often present on this…
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Book Review: two DevOps books
Check out my review of the DevOps Handbook and Start and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise over on The New Stack. Unsurprisingly, I liked both of them, esp. the second: What I find so helpful, and even thrilling, about Gruver’s book, is that it’s exacting in its instructions and walks through several what-if scenarios for addressing common…
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Making users more productive
“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…
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Talking DevOps ROI with the Finance Department
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.…
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Day of the donkey, DevOpsDays Chicago 2015, recording
The recording for my talk at DevOpsDaysDays Chicago is up. As I mention in the opening, it has some material from my previous talks but is also pretty updated with new tips and tricks, as it were. Here’s the slides if you like that sort of thing. (And, here’s the clown zombie, from Day of…
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A tale of two ITs | Business Cloud News
“The challenges are cultural, organisational, and technical. According to the 2015 BCN Annual Industry Survey, which petitioned over 700 senior IT decision makers, over 67 per cent of enterprises plan to implement multiple cloud services over the next 18 months, but close to 70 per cent were worried about how those services would integrate with…
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Will OpenStack, Kubernetes, Or Mesos Control Future Clusters?
“When Apple moved to bare metal with Mesos, one of the big reasons why they did it was, first, they did not need the virtual machines and, second, they got a big performance improvement. The virtualization tax that we often talk about is very real and for Apple it was on the order of 30…
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Axel Springer | Case Study | Pivotal
“Together, the teams were able to reduce deployment times from 14 hours to 14 minutes, facilitated by Pivotal Cloud Foundry’s integration with Jenkins and Gradle build systems. Since this pilot, Pivotal Cloud Foundry has had zero downtime. It is being maintained by just two operators, using their preferred tools: Logstash, DataDog and PagerDuty. Furthermore, it…
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Gartner Says Demand for Enterprise Mobile Apps Will Outstrip Available Development Capacity Five to One
“Organizations increasingly find it difficult to be proactive against competitive pressures, which is resulting in their mobile apps becoming tactical, rather than strategic,” said Mr. Leow. “We’re seeing demand for mobile apps outstrip available development capacity, making quick creation of apps even more challenging. Mobile strategists must use tools and techniques that match the increase…
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The Green PaaS: Innovative Data Centers Will Save the World Billions | Pivotal P.O.V.
“They initially planned for a 6 month pilot. With Pivotal’s help, we had Pivotal CF running in a surprisingly short period of time. It was installed within days. This is how modern applications should work! Then, our customer deployed a single customer-facing app to production. Instead of 6 months for the pilot, they decided to…
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PaaS or Play? Cloud’s Next Move – MeriTalk
“respondents from a recent government study who have already used PaaS say they save 47% of their time, or 1 year and 8 months off a 3.5 year development cycle. For those who have not deployed PaaS, respondents believe it can shave 31% off development time frames and save 25% of their annual IT budget,…
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CoreLogic | Case Study | Pivotal
14 months down to 6 months, 16 staff down to 8 staff: “[w]hen planning the first product developed on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, CoreLogic allocated a team of 12 engineers with four quality assurance software engineers and a management team. The goal was to deliver the product in 14 months. Instead, the project ultimately required only…
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The Need for U.S. Digital Engagement
“Twenty years ago, 61 percent of the Internet’s 35 million users were based in the U.S. Today, the U.S. accounts for less than 10 percent of the 3 billion connected people worldwide. There are now 650 million Internet users in China (compared with 280 million in the U.S.) There will be as many as 550…
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New Dell Cloud Manager Release Simplifies Management and Consumption of Cloud Services Across Organizations
“Dell Cloud Manager v11 features new state-of-the-art distributed blueprint support based on the TOSCA standard, simplifying portability and management of cloud applications and services throughout their lifecycle. New support for Windows Azure Pack and enhanced support for Microsoft Azure give Microsoft customers the first independent unified solution to centrally manage their combined private and public…
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IDC: Industry-specific solutions to drive public cloud computing
“IDC predicts the cloud computing market to reach about $70 billion this year and the number of new cloud-based solutions to triple within the next four to five years….the biggest cloud computing verticals worldwide will be discrete manufacturing, banking, professional services, process manufacturing, and retail. IDC expects the five verticals to represent 45 percent of…
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DevOps Mumbo Jumbo & Zombies – thwackCamp panel
A few weeks back I was on a panel for a Solarwinds conference (done all online, in Solarwinds style, of course). Check out the recording a above (or just a 1 minute excerpt if you don’t have time). There’s also an article covering the discussion. For some reason we started talking a lot about QA,…
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Coté Memo #074: \”Let’s start an anonymous club.\”
_It’s mostly links this week, with a big add video ad for my pal below:_ # Get your lurn on [[player.vimeo.com/video/121…](https://player.vimeo.com/video/121473651?color=01786e&byline=0&portrait=0](https://player.vimeo.com/video/121473651?color=01786e&byline=0&portrait=0)) Do you want to bone up on your product management skills? Check out [this two day workshop from Craftman PM](https://pgconsulting.com/workshop/). I used to work with Prabhakar and he’s anything but boring when it comes…
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As Docker rises above (and disrupts) clouds, I’m thinking about their community landscape
“There remains a confusion between Docker the company and Docker the technology. I like how the chart (right) maps out potential areas in the Docker ecosystem. There’s clearly a lot of places for companies to monetize the technology; however, it’s not as clear if the company will be able to secede lucrative regions, like orchestration,…
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Enterprise DevOps interview with iThome Weekly
A little while back I did an email interview with Ray Wang from iThome Weekly, in Taiwan. It’s a little piece about DevOps getting more and more into the enterprise. To read the Google, robot translation, it looks like I did some things “single-handedly,” where in fact I was one of many hands. As always,…
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The Agility Frontier – Continuous Delivery and Pivotal Cloud Foundry
What’s Pivotal Cloud Foundry have to do with continuous delivery? Fresh off presenting at a recent Jenkins User Conference on that topic, I ask Karun Bakshi to go over his presentation. We discuss how Pivotal Cloud Foundry helps enable continuous delivery and also some of the “deleted scenes” from his talk. The Agility Frontier –…
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