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: VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) architectural diagram At KubeCon EU, March 26th, 2026.

: This cake is bananas

: Hot modems, dinergoths, the platform bottleneck, and the SaaSpocalypse - Related to your interests, Monday Also: sovereignty’s control plane, 81,000 people tell Anthropic what they want, Google sells …

: Securing AI More “how do we secure this AI stuff” talk with David Zendzian on today’s live …

: If you’re wondering how cold fusion produces pollution, let alone a lot of it, don’t …

: Rainbow Cake Mila's sixth birthday. Cake from De Drie Graefjes Zuid.

: MCP Security Guide My pal Adib Saikali wrote up an MCP security guide covering how to think about securing MCP servers …

: KubeCon EU 2026, bottlenecks, Corporate Bullshit Receptivity, and the End of the Meat-Mouse - Related to your interests, Wednesday Also: sovereign AI, Claude Code auto mode, FCC bans foreign routers, Walmart digital price tags …

: Kubernetes is the bottleneck, and you can get through it with a platform Photo by Daniel Bryant. Another great KubeCon talk from Abby Bangser imploring the Kubernetes …

: VMware/Broadcom at KubeCon EU 2026 Here’s Claude’s take on VMware’s stuff at KubeCon - just some light editing for …

: The end of the meat-mouse The agency in agentic AI feels a lot more like giving the users - the humans - agency they …

: The Mythical Agent-Month, Retirement Cartoons, and Coffee Brains - Related to your interests, Monday Spotted in the Tenerife South Airport, February, 2026.Related to your interestsBroadcom Empowers …

: Using AI to help with SRE, ops, etc.: The problem, he said, is that Claude “will get wrong …

: Using AI for security log analysis and how to fix it suggestions: Building on that foundation, …

: Enterprise ROI: Banking edition Maybe no new banking businesses from AI yet: “It is a long, expensive and risk-constrained …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam Hidden, but seen.

: Opinionated Platforms, Private Models, & Essential Dev Tooling Related to your interestsWhy Your DIY Kubernetes Stack Won’t Survive the Era of Agentic AI - 🤖 DIY …

: It's real, enterprises just need to do the CISO work and SRE work After using Claude more and more for task in my personal life, my current zinger analyst take on the …

: It was a rather stressful period Related to your interestsYour database is about to become an AI tool. Is it ready? Banks struggle to …

: Internet Coin-op

: AI Brain Fry, Zombie Projects, and Gentleman Vibe Coders - Related to your interests, Monday KubeCon EU is next week, in Amsterdam, and I’m talking at VMUG Amsterdam tomorrow about what private …

: My grandfather was mildly obsessed with organizing and documenting the history of his life: a memoir …

: AI use isn’t about firing people, it’s about making the people you already have more …

: "Feminization" and Deming The term “feminization” is, as the kids used to say, “suss,"[^1] but this …

: When Developer Workflow Discipline Isn’t Enough thectoadvisor.com/blog/2026… Selling …

: Fully Synergized Paradigms - Related to your interests, Monday sweep The LinksWorkers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs - “The results revealed …

: Related to your interests - Week of March 2nd, 2025 The LinksClaude, without me asking, rewrote many of my original description below. Enjoy! Pentagon …

: When to use AI for writing, and when it's totally acceptable If you’re dyslexic and just trying to communicate more clearly in writing, or you’ve got a bullshit …

: Art Degrees, Sun Microsystems, and How Kubernetes Scales Contributions, with Josh Berkus - Software Defined Interviews #121 Our interview for this week is up, it’s with Josh Berkus: Whitney and Coté discuss with Josh …

: Related to your interests, Tuesday CFOs boost tech budgets and squeeze headcount, AI art may not be copyrightable, and agents expose …

: DIY Stacks, Agent Memory, and the Great Migration - Related to your interests, Monday Links! Wastebook! Background changes afoot! Potsdamer Platz bei Nacht, Paul Paeschke, ca. …

: Related to your interests, Monday Potsdamer Platz bei Nacht, Paul Paeschke, ca. 1929. Related to your interests Why your DIY …

: Kubernetes alone does not a platform make Even the platform engineers need to hide Kubernetes to get their job done: Kubernetes adds another …

: Does Platform Product Management & Design Really Happen? Or is it all just platform engineering? - Tanzu Catsup Most organizations treat infrastructure as a series of projects to be “completed,” but …

: Developers crave AI tools for various tasks beyond coding, but that’s only about 20% of their …

: Bad advice from Wall Street on enterprise AI.

: Automating everything but changing how people work - Relative to your interests, Friday Enterprise AI apps (or lack thereof), ROI surveys, CFO budget pivots, agile’s stubborn …

: You Can Feel It Coming - Software Defined Talk This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and “The Modern …

: Progressive Delivery, with Heidi Waterhouse - Software Defined Interviews See the traditional podcast version for more and Heidi links.

: Why it's great to be a Spring developer now, and how to make it even better - State of Spring, 2026 This is a talk I give at the start of Spring workshops we do. Here is the recording. The point is to …

: Best review of The Sound and The Fury, in Mad Men, s2e11: “Sex is good. This book is just …

: Management is always eager to "reduce costs." The real story lies “in collapsing headcount growth expectations, from 6% in 2025 to just 2% in 2026 …

: Say you love business logic without saying "business logic." Model Eats the Software: Why the Marginal Cost of Enterprise Software Approaches Zero More on …

: AI still not good at basic knowledge worker workflows, which is likely an apps problem Here is one account of AI being shit at multi-step activate outside of coding: I think my request …

: Where are the enterprise AI apps? Part n + 1 Outside of programming, there’s still a dearth of enterprise AI apps, it seems. Palo …

: Attention, Autonomy, and AI in the Critical Path - Related to your interests - February 17th, 2026 From “CEO said a thing” journalism and sovereign payments to product teams in code-gen land, Deming …

: Your Boss Doesn’t Know What to Do With AI Enterprise AI Has a Product-Market Fit Problem. …

: There's a lot of business logic in Java, decades worth... We have invested a lot in domain models, some of which are even very good. And, to be able to …

: From The Book of Lairs, volume one.

: If OpenAI fails, the most likely mode is the Yahoo path: not a dramatic collapse but a slow fade …

: Proof of value lies in the results. To date, more than 90% of the top 10,000 VMware customers have …

: “Greedy work” refers to jobs in which earnings are convex in hours - meaning that working longer, …

: AI Is Normal Now - The Enterprise Is Not Original ContentEnterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn’t need new platforms - I’ve been …

: Tanzu Catsup: The Risk of Relying on AI for Platform Engineering Internal development teams and executives are increasingly looking at AI to automate the creation of …

: Relative to your interests, Friday afternoon AI money is absurd again - Anthropic at $380B, Waymo at 360x revenue - while software CEOs get a …

: I use the HA HA! BUSINESS! meme a few times each decade. The original is pretty small and …

: Related to your interests, Thursday Europe doubles down on sovereign cloud, Anthropic shakes markets, and AI seeps into meetings, …

: Ask yourself: which lock-in would an enterprise CFO prefer: Being locked into a CRM that holds 15 …

: You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some …

: In its latest set of predictions, First said that this year, the upper bounds of its 90% confidence …

: Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn't need new platforms Enterprises should focus on resilience and learning in AI projects by experimenting with …

: Relative to your interests, Saturday morning The Draw Boy - Remove a bottleneck (usually humans), and supply can meet demand. New demand is …

: If everyone can ship software, what will distinguish the successful companies from the apps that are …

: The Banquet, René Magritte, 1958.

: The weird bastion stuff in D&D 5e 2024 makes a lot more sense after reading Dungeon Crawler …

: AI Reality Bites, Wall Street Panics, and Everyone Becomes an Architect Original ContentA few things since last time: Kubernetes use rising, large organizations slowest to …

: Large enterprises continue to run a hybrid model for the foreseeable future. After more than 15 …

: Go cheap on innovation. Otherwise you just buy PowerPoints. Jana Werner on using tight timelines and …

: Two theories of the AI investor spook-out Concerns are growing that AI-generated applications could disrupt existing software companies, …

: Relative to your interests, Friday Enterprise AI reality checks everywhere: no more free lunches, Copilot productivity gaps, agent …

: Building your own internal developer platform is a trap. Buy it instead. // My talk at cfgmgmtcamp …

: Two leading thinkers of the 18th century, the French philosopher Montesquieu and the Scottish …

: one of the values of Pair Programming is that you have to regularly explain things to your pair. …

: The broader lesson extends beyond music. When outcomes worsen, we are tempted to regulate expression …

: AI, open source, talent, and more, live at cfgmgmtcamp 2026, with Andrew Clay Shafer Spotting talent, getting innovation adoption and driving use, open source, AI, and developing taste …

: Relative to your interests, Tuesday OpenAI’s Codex taking aim at Claude Code, plus growing global pushback against U.S. tech - with …

: This is how the new announcement economy works. You declare a massive number. The headlines write …

: The real problem is that developers don’t choose AWS anymore (because honestly, given a choice …

: Relevant to your interests, Monday Longevity data from the CDC, why CIOs keep missing AI infra costs, and what agentic AI can actually …

: Enterprise ROI continues to be elusive, but 48% of surveys say they've been cutting humans AI is still stuck in “efficiency mode.” In many organizations, a technology organization leads AI …

: Runciman’s thesis, roughly, is that any given week in a democracy looks like a clown show of …

: Researchers at the University of Manchester followed 25,000 11- to 14-year-olds over three school …

: Google shows that large language models, when paired with traditional tools and validation …

: Here are the slides for the talk I’ll be giving at @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social later today, at …

: Related to your interests, Saturday A collection of articles discusses the importance of optimizing everyday experiences, the rise of …

: Big Tech, aggregator companies are always trying to steal your customer relationship: If they can’t …

: Lots of yes-but’ing here, inc. this gem for y’all security folk: Wall Street …

: Relevant to your interests, Friday A Coxswain on Your Shoulder - AI as executive coach. Primary tip: listen more before you ask …

: AI won’t replace you. Your boss using AI to cut costs will. Your boss is not incentivized by …

: How much does it cost to build an internal developer platform? - Tanzu Catsup This week’s Tanzu Catsup is about how much you need to pay people to build your own internal …

: Enterprise ROI is elusive - maybe ROI is just headcount chopping, not revenue growth and "transformation" AI implementation in organizations currently focuses on efficiency rather than transformative …

: You need to write SEO and enterprise research text for AIs now, in addition to humans. Does this …

: Relevant to your interests, Wednesday How the 1944 CIA Sabotage Manual Accidentally Became Your Software Acquisition Playbook - as always, …

: Internal Developer Platforms - Build vs. Buy “Don’t build something if you can buy it.” Building a bespoke internal platform should focus on …

: Kubernetes use rising, large organizations slowest to adapt, not many people train their own AI model or deploy new AI models frequently The CNCF cloud native report indicates a growing adoption of Kubernetes and container usage in …

: TikTok ownership in the US is one the strangest tech stories ever. Sixty-seven percent of online …

: Optimizing marketing web pages for AI You need to write SEO and enterprise research text for AIs now, in addition to humans. Does this …

: Where to stay in Amsterdam For a fun, less touristy experience in Amsterdam, consider staying in the neighborhoods of De Pijp …

: Enterprise ROI continues to be elusive NICHOLAS LITTLE, from this IEEE article.Original ContentHere’s a summary of a new post on my weblog: …

: This week’s Software Defined Talk: This week, we discuss the end of Cloud 1.0, AI agents …

: This week’s Software Defined Interviews: we talk with Nathen Harvey, who leads the DORA …

: This week’s Tanzu Catsup: AI tools have solved code generation, probably. But they’ve created …

: Another go at LowCode Another go at LowCode: It is a new era of app creation that is sometimes called micro apps, …

: For a long time I foolishly scorned George Orwell. I think the prejudice is common among people of …

: The US needs, even wants China. From the revealed preferences files: Aside from rhetorical …

: SaaS businesses not looking good now: Traditional estimates for this scope of work: Method Estimate …

: Be well known around the company, do some personal marketing, “have an impact” on other …

: Picture by NICHOLAS LITTLE.

: Outrage about TikTok, so heated a few years ago, now seems like a time capsule from another era. …

: Yes: “about what benefits AI is actually providing today, 66 percent said it’s improving …

: Discounts for VMware and Tanzu software: Under this new agreement, [US] agencies can purchase …

: “I have no idea what Federighi’s stance is on break-room bananas, but it seems a stretch …

: Enterprise AI ROI is still elusive. What IT can do to fix it. It's not "culture." Despite high expectations for AI’s impact on business productivity, over half of CEOs report …

: Stack Overflow said 84% of respondents are using or planning to use AI tools in their development …

: Nearly 9 in 10 executives plan to increase AI investments in the coming year and 46% said they would …

: How the normies experience AI news.

: To have full sovereign IT, you need to build the software from the ground up. 🔗 two questions on …

: The #1 in a market doesn’t have to give up customer control to Apple: Walmart doesn’t …

: A project is what IBM delivered at e&. Custom integration, IBM Consulting on-site, bespoke …

: Even Jamie Dimon is like: fellas, fellas….let’s slow-roll destroying society as we know …

: What do platform engineers need to do to prepare for a flood of AI-generated apps? If enterprises …

: Enterprise ROI still elusive More than half of CEOs report seeing neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI, despite …

: Debating AI dicks is pointless He’s never been a fan of AI: I’ve stopped trying to debate software developers on …

: AI's are not very good at role playing games My findings after 3 years on AIs playing games is that they’re just generally bad at it. …

: Relevant to your interests, Monday The Revenge of QA: How AI Code Generation Is Exposing Decades of Process Debt - “AI …

: More of AWS’s all-in EU public cloud, write-up from Nick Patience: the ESC represents a total …

: After years of playing [solo role-playing], I have developed a personal rule about rolling dice: …

: “Since we started using Application Advisor, we’ve seen a 70% reduction in engineering time tied to …

: Where there is saxophone, synth is sure to follow.

: How to use AI for solo roleplaying with Dungeons & Dragons Here’s my talk from AI for the Rest of Us: What the goblins can teach us about enterprise AI. …

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: Relevant to your interests, Saturday The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them - …

: The Internet and social media platforms are now obviously detrimental to collective goods, …

: “For the last year or two, we’ve been tinkering with it,” Daniel Danker, executive vice president of …

: Amazon Should Buy Anthropic, AI Doctors, Metaverse RIP Original ContentAmazon should buy Anthropic. I wasn’t really sure what hardned images were, let …

: After the Dream - Software Defined Talk #555 This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast: This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s …

: Relevant to your interests, Friday Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage | Computer Weekly - “the …

: Goes over lots of use cases for AI at a grocer. Some internal facing ones: The platform provides …

: I suppose it can be said that I’m an absent-minded driver. It’s true that I’ve …

: 60% of you Java people are living dangerously Check this out from my pal DaShaun: in May of 2025, 60% of Spring Boot downloads were for versions …

: Here’s a cynical, but good overview of Anthropic’s attempt to use Claude code for …

: Relevant to your interests, Wednesday RIP the metaverse - It’s fine to use your mountains of spare cash (and voting control) to try …

: No, no…AI won’t replace you. A person using AI will replace you and 4,999 other people.

: Winning in AI, story mode Winning in AI is now defined as having a great chat app, not the AI infrastructure running that app. …

: I wasn’t really sure what hardned images were, let alone “distroless,” so Tony and …

: All dads are ethnic dads.

: Facebook shutting down metaverse. It’s fine to use your mountains of spare cash (and voting …

: Relevant to your interests, Tuesday 3 + 4 - On the three day work week. AWS in 2026: The Year of …

: “cradle-to-crematorium biography” The best non-fiction to read this year

: Recursive Loops, Enterprise Nanny-states, Garbage Chairs, and Improv Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, Duivendrecht edition.Original ContentFrom Platform Engineering to …

: 🤖 Summary of "Economist Tyler Cowen on the positive side of AI negativity" podcast The below is a summary of the original transcript from ChatGPT 5.2. Conclusion: Cowen’s core …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, Duivendrecht edition.

: Relative to your interests, Monday Is Your AI Assistant Creating a Recursive Security Loop? AI security concerns and opportunities for …

: Industry analyst value after AI - how could Gartner use AI Feeding the decades of Gartner research into some kind of AI querying thing would be interesting. …

: “Labor is valuable only insofar as it occupies a constraint the firm hasn’t yet …

: It’s good to keep building the future, though it’s sometimes absurd to hear someone pivot, …

: “Your brain hates unbounded risk. When there’s no plan, it escalates into dread.”

: the reason the 2000 bug didn’t destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because …

: This week’s Software Defined Interviews episode is with Lian Li: In this episode, Whitney and …

: Relative to your interests, Sunday Is Your AI Assistant Creating a Recursive Security Loop? - AI-assisted coding is starting to eat its …

: 🔗 What will the DEI landscape of the tech sector look like in 2026?

: The Alpha and The Omega, Software Defined Talk #554: This week, Brandon and I discuss AI’s impact on …

: Small, independent and with some degree of autonomy, what ultimately came to be described as the …

: Adding Apple Health to ChatGPT is, hopefully, great. I haven’t used it yet, so it might be …

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: Software Defined Talk listener survey Pardon the not-an-actual-newsletter episode of the newsletter, but… Do you listen to my podcast, …

: Do you listen to my podcast, Software Defined Talk? If you do, I’d appreciate you taking the …

: Is Your AI Assistant Creating a Recursive Security Loop? from Camille Crowell-Lee AI-assisted coding …

: Perhaps the attraction is that film noir is a way of traveling into the past—the world right …

: “We’re very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device—in fact …

: I used to be from here, 2025 edition Things expats notice when they’re back in AmericaThe night of arrival, at Stiles Switch.We go back …

: Once again I’m logging in from Ibiza. I wouldn’t say I’ve gone native, but …

: Virtual machines still run the world The above is from a recent IDC white paper. Container use is growing. Even then, VMs still run …

: Software Defined Talk’s 2025 Year in Review - This week, we review our 2025 predictions, …

: Check out the traditional podcast version if you prefer that over video. I liked Jana’s book …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, snowpocalypse edition

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, Austin edition.

: Recently, in America

: Enassholeification.

: Consumer tech focuses on the process, enterprise tech on the outcome.

: Shift Run Stop is back! This was one of the most influential podcasts for me. It showed an attitude …

: Labor vs. AI Automation creates a temporary rent for whoever controls the remaining bottleneck. Whether workers …

: Containers running in VMs 4ever “IDC forecasts that nearly 85% of all containers will continue running inside VMs through 2028 …

: Keep the thesis in mind. ‘Writers must […] constantly ask: what am I trying to say? …

: Books added to the To Read List: The Savage Sword of Conan (2024-) #1, The Making of Prince of …

: Books: Stubborn Attachments Stubborn Attachments is a weird book. Perhaps because it was published in 2018 it has an out of time …

: I became one of a countless number of young men who found solace in Nietzsche’s thought. A …

: “Yes, a book about parking can be fascinating.” 2025 in Review: Reading and Writing …

: Employee optimism about work-place productivity Employees think working from home is fine: Hybrid work has moved from novelty to normality, but …

: Related to your interests, Wednesday More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds - “Together, …

: You can see the pattern and understand the root cause: ChatGPT can’t actually understand the …

: For planning: The logic of this rigid segregation of functions is perfectly clear. It is far easier …

: Recently, in America

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, North Texas edition.

: Related to your interests for Sunday “Moody’s Analytics recently estimated that the top 10 percent of households were responsible …

: To understand a man, you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty, Napoleon …

: Post by @softwaredefinedtalk@hachyderm.io This week, Brian Gracely joins @bwhichard to dissect …

: Another writer said he “was a confident, gray-eyed, wild-bearded, chain-smoking philosopher-poet who …

: Write your AI stuff in the languages you know and that are running your organization From my recent article on The New Stack: The choice of where and how to start your AI journey is a …

: Related to your interests, Thursday Harry Clarke’s Elixirs of Life 9 Terms That Helped Navigate a Confusing Year in Art - “It’s …

: The Octopus Organization is a great collection of organization anti-patterns. This week, one of the …

: Recently, in America Scroll to the end to see five giant lasagna pans.

: While Finland and Sweden consistently rank at the top of the happiness league table, for example, …

: Currently not available in Europe.

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. Amstelveen edition.

: Platform Plumbing, AI Ads That Work (But People Hate), and D&D Characters Drawn by Robots Original ContentOn this week’s Tanzu Catsup, We spend an excruciating amount of time talking about …

: I think this is could be my forever meme guy. From Nano Banana…after a lot of banana peeling …

: “Mad Max, an Australian documentary.” Matt.

: “It’s a birth scene, not a boss scene.” ChatGPT 5.2 analyzes The …

: Weird-ass sounds from Russell's Dig Also, see parts two, three, and four.

: ”We want adult tension. The tension of brains. If anyone sees sex, that’s on them. We’re not …

: Should you use AI for Knowledge Work? A decision framework. Pro-AI: This is work I need to do but don’t want to. Anti-AI: This is work I enjoy doing.

: “Always be suspicious of a dish that has five shots of vodka lined up so you can brace …

: Cross silo ROI is not legible.

: ”Betty’s boyfriend-to-be is a dog-chef called Bimbo, who serenades her on a duck that transforms …

: The new mid-life crisis is reading Proust.

: AI generated ads are more effective, but people don't like them. Study finds that AI generated ads are more effective, but people don’t like them. Some good …

: Good actionable pondering on coming up titles that people will click on and word-of-mouth spread. 🔗 …

: Full on management-by-magazine phase in effect Executive mandates are racing ahead of reality. Boards and CEOs often expect payback in 6–12 months, …

: Making YouTube thumbnails with AI - Nano Banana and OpenAI Me: “Make this thumbnail better.” [The one above, which I made.] OpenAI: Me: “Wow! …

: Adding new services to internal developer platforms, like AI stuff We spend an excruciating amount of time talking about how platform engineers add new …

: The ongoing existential quandary of corporate presentations and meetings: “PowerPoint’s …

: Related to your interests on Wednesday Heads down on some stuff yesterday, so no post then. But here is a post now! Let them eat hard …

: “We shall endeavor to survive the loss of your opinions.” Westenberg.

: There’s a fine line between “charming” and “annoying.”

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, thrown away properly at the Milieudepot Duivendrecht

: Inside The Sandcastle (Het Zandkasteel, Amsterdam)

: Platforms, Agents, Anxiety, and Ice Cream Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.This week it’s a digest of the flow of stuff. If you want to keep up …

: Adding security and governance to Model Context Protocol - How Broadcom uses MCP Here’s the benefits Broadcom is getting from using MCP (running on Tanzu Platform): This …

: Relevant to your interests on Monday Don’t let having an opinion and knowing what you like (being a critic in the classical sense) …

: What would an annual intellectual purge look like? Accounting for and getting rid of unfinished …

: As I get older, I need to do less “let’s see what happens.”

: It is hard to keep up with American corporate smile-energy.

: The curse of enterprise maturity Enterprises have a habit of “professionalizing” consumer tech by adding control - …

: A race against software calcification Eventually, software is very hard to change. There are numerous reasons for this, and they often …

: “Oracle’s predicament is more acute than the hyperscalers’. Its business is smaller, its …

: Recently in the Netherlands: The group of people experiencing anxiety or depression has grown over …

: “The question that actually determines success is simpler—and almost never asked: Are we ready …

: “a new AI-infested economy” 🔗 Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

: “Let’s say one person forgot to pick up groceries or didn’t accurately recall a conversation; the …

: Use yours secrets to get generative AI ROI From an article by my colleagues and me: For generative AI (GenAI) apps to deliver real business …

: A great platform as a product paper, and a fun platform philosophy thereof I like this platform as a product paper a lot. You should check it out if you’re into DevOps, …

: Sometimes, you accidentally delete a paragraph of text and it’s not in the undo buffer for …

: How shit actually works versus how you wish it worked A discussion of messy dichotomies from the robot: Thus spoke 🤖 : Exploratory vs Normative — Quick …

: Even after 3 years of tuning ChatGPT to be my best dumb friend, I keep getting told to cut the shit …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.

: Scoping questions for business books What type of organization is this book for? IBM or Facebook or OpenAI? Netflix or Warner Brothers? …

: What you’re putting off now is not going to get any easier or less boring to do in the future. …

: 20 years of business travel - you'll get there, or you won't The first thing is, the travel industry changes very slowly. What changes most frequently is the …

: About 80% of the time, most made-up percentages of something studies have abandoned …

: “[N]ot everyone needs to like everything, which is the most important thing.” On art, …

: Relative to your interests on Thursday Your aging brain stops being a people-please. But: “The same directness that would be called …

: Day 2 AI looms Achieving enterprise AI ROI still tough: According to a recent Gartner poll, over half (53%) of …

: Spending less money on IT is always the priority, and how to get around it The survey of more than 200 CFOs, taken during August 2025, showed that 56% of CFOs rank achieving …

: Relative to your interests on Wednesday Hasbro thinks AI is fine, so maybe it’s fine, even helpful for the enjoyment of D&D. …

: Woke fonts. I wasn’t sure what size they used for Courier New.1 How I long for the all business, …

: “snorkeling in the shit-infused shallow end of the Dunning-Kruger pool” But, please, …

: If you are only allowed to learn from the internet at age 16, you are probably not ready for …

: “No. Make it shorter. Tea please.” The PowerPoint Guru.

: Highlights from that OpenAI "The state of enterprise AI report" On average, ChatGPT Enterprise users attribute 40–60 minutes of time saved per active day to their …

: The robot says: Underwood was the typewriter brand for much of the early 20th century. Hemingway, …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.

: Those Gemini slides and infographics are OK. What would be awesome is deciding as a civilization …

: Shutdown and consolidate old IT so you can focus on new IT, like AI hoopla People often say they spend 80% of their IT efforts on maintenance, “keeping the lights …

: Post by [@clipart@mastodon.art](https://micro.blog/clipart@mastodon.art) View on Mastodon

: As we continue to accelerate the pace of digital innovation across our global operations in an …

: Amazon's enterprise AI strategy, explained by Neil Ward-Dutton Neil Ward-Dutton, an IDC analyst focused on AI, automation, data and analytics, said three …

: “While the JavaScript language didn’t ship publicly until that September and didn’t reach a …

: “The quick post is low-context, the effortpost is high-context.” As summarized a bit …

: Monday assorted links Shadow AI, here it comes. Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself, stop…oh, forget …

: 🤖 A stark analysis of how a withdrawing U.S., a resurgent Russia, and a coordinated China have …

: Culture eats AI strategy for breakfast.

: “Unlocking data.” Since the 2000’s we’ve been trying to “unlock” …

: People don’t read vendor1 PDFs anymore. This is oft said. Is it true for you? Should anyone be …

: If you have PowerPoint pillars, your organization probably has strategy BO. FromThe Octopus …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. This is a very popular spot for dumping car chairs.

: Some product management maxims. The job isn’t to ‘prioritize value,’ but to create the conditions where value can move. …

: "technically fine, offends no one, and also does fuck-all to advance the conversation" Me: Give me a definition of and commentary on “anodyne.” It seems like smarty-pants …

: It me, except I don’t even want to send the email, or have sent it.

: 🤖 The 2025 OWASP Top 10 rebrands “Vulnerable Components” as “Software Supply Chain …

: Agile fails quickly if you don’t follow the practices.

: If I could only give one piece of feedback for the rest of my career on all tech marketing content …

: “visibility engine” Russell

: The options we pass to FFmpeg in a variety of cases is now so complicated that I can’t really …

: Speed is no longer a differentiator. Every team now has access to the same AI horsepower. Shipping …

: MONKEYSHINE - “mischievous or playful activity : PRANK —usually used in plural” …

: Not sure what they do, but this is a great logo.

: Infrastructure self-harm That wasn’t what we hoped would happen when nearly 10 years ago we and others came up with these new …

: ”Extrapolating these results to the economy, current generation AI models could increase annual US …

: That last grebble apparently is for monitoring seismic activity to find geo-thermal power generation …

: “What do you think about Windows 8, Mary? Have you thought about it much?” 2012.

: Make it so the robots can use your shit, or you might be irrelevant. At least, less so. Platforms, …

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: Executives are made up. They’re just a node in the org chart, but generally have no specific, useful …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.

: A house style that intentionally enforces a neutral voice without strong opinions is often an …

: “The job isn’t to “prioritise value”, but to create the conditions where value can move. You …

: MCP and Claude Skills exemplify an open-source AI model that promotes collaboration and …

: Getting ready for an AI app influx. Did we learn from the digital transformation era? Will IT get ahead of the chaotic introduction of a new technology, AI, into their organization? …

: A fantastic summary of what it feels like to read most executive-level (marketing/comm/) content, on …

: This is at big tech companies. Imagine how it is at but normal companies. Better or worse? 🔗 How …

: The Command Line Lifestyle Great list. Also, I am envious of what CLI lifestyle this person is living. Solid nerd-culture. 🔗 …

: “in the era of the working class teen, you could get a job at a video store and still afford a …

: “In software development, we have 18,000 developers at the company that use coding agents …

: “For my money, the current multi-billion-dollar question is can AI agents be useful for tasks …

: Sounds like a fun game. 🔗 Gamebook Interview with Joseph Fry, Author & Illustrator of Lost in …

: Execs have little knowledge or how things actually work, giving then false hopes on how AI can improve things and replace workers “In our recent survey of 1,400 U.S.-based employees, 76% of executives reported that their …

: An XDG library for Java - xdgj Each time I write a small utility, either a command line one or for an MCP server, I need to store …

: Vibes, Code, Consequences A selection from my weblog and elsewhere since last time… Original contentWhitney goes to KubeCon - …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, the journey to home.

: ”2022 was a now-unrecognizable time where absurd errors in AI were celebrated.” Nano Banana can be …

: “Sometimes you get the sense that McCarthy believes the Twentieth Century actually ended in …

: How to write in LinkedIn-style “It involves posing a provocative question, sharing a vulnerability that you have learnt from …

: NotebookML overview and uses This is a good overview. Other than the podcast generator…I still don’t get it enough …

: In a UI, label things what they are, not your unique, product centric (often brand/marketing) name …

: Many things can be forgiven if you put on a clean shirt.

: “Internet handle” is a good name for your personal domain name. 🔗 Internet Handle

: A whole bunch of security advice for individuals, more plain-spoken than jargon. 🔗 Resources — Stop …

: Instructive thoughts on web design. 🔗 The Creative Website Manual™

: “People who grew up near pecan orchards (Texas, Louisiana, Georgia) overwhelmingly say …

: The AI Apprentice's Adventures I’ve been wondering why the quality and ease of making stuff with AI has not resulting in a …

: What does Agile Smell Like? I tried to answer that question back in 2006 when I worked at RedMonk in …

: 🤖 Open Source Maintainers Are Burning Out and Walking Away Summarized by AI. Open source software is sustained by overworked, often unpaid volunteers, many of …

: What is a platform and how do you do platform engineering at scale? Find out in this interview on …

: It’s day two for vibe coding. 🔗 What the hell is going on right now?

: Digital Transformation Fatigue, and how to get over it - DOGE case study This is the story of most large IT transformation/modernization efforts. Once the executives that …

: Google has many overwhelming advantages. It has vast access to data, access to customers, access to …

: This matters politically because it means that in Latter-day Saint theology, coercion is not merely …

: Slop-reading If you’re not gonna bother writing it yourself, I ain’t gonna bother reading it myself. Yes, …

: “impervious to the shafts of ridicule and insensible to slights” Notes from “The …

: all the AI structured formats in Spring AI As always, if you use Spring, you get the latest and greatest…so long as you’ve …

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: What is platform engineering? What is a platform? How do you show platform ROI? Tony was on the the team that lead platform engineering at Home Depot for many years. Here’s …

: Playing D&D is the perfect test case for this. Can Claude “remember” the lengthy …

: Office hours, DaShaun's secret to juicing up your enterprise devrel DaShaun became a great devrel by developing a new way to work with our community. I’ve seen it …

: tl;dr: “Nobody likes a smartarse” People are not rebelling against economic elites,” writes Heath. Instead, this is “a rebellion …

: Kubernetes, AI, and platform engineering, build, build, build AI is here. It’s hungry. It’s expensive. And Kubernetes is the only thing big enough to …

: “If the people building the tech are terrified of it, maybe we should listen to their fears …

: There’s probably around 50 million developers world-wide, and 20.5m professional developers. …

: A few months ago, I bought my new glasses, prescription, at the Ray Ban store. They checked my eyes …

: AI uses in finance, survey Three use cases stood out as they have been adopted by more than a third of respondents that had …

: How to think about infrastructure software as strategic instead of just tools. Plus, evaluating if …

: The Europeans are not digging the American public cloud of late. “Europe is facing regulatory …

: Managing the eels A combined Google family bundle costing $120 to $200 a month could replace existing subscriptions …

: What’s the 24 hour analysis on Gemini 3: should I cancel my ChatGPT and Claude subscriptions …

: The platform that needs a platform Despite its status as a critical tool for cloud-native applications, Kubernetes remains complex and …

: “He’s just… ✋👋🖐✋👋🖐👋✋🤚 …different”

: We conflate the quality of our decisions with the quality of their outcomes so automatically that we …

: Circa 2011.

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: “If you already have zero enterprise apps in Python, that remains the right number and Gen AI …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.

: Reducing the 7 R's of modernization down to 3 - new take on tech debt, from Charles Betz Where once there were 7, now there are three: Forrester data provides clear guidance on where …

: My daughter’s swim school has a (brown) bar connected to it that has panoramic windows looking …

: Only three kinds of AI products actually work - “For my money, the current …

: AI, banks, mainframes, and on-premises Above related to spending on EU sovereign cloud for AI, the lack of AI app explosion in the …

: “Nobody below colonoscopy age remembers the expectation of paying for a news story to read the …

: I’m no epidemiologist, but all of this seems like the biggest positive health impact since …

: He goes hard and detailed in the Masto recco. 🔗 Time to Migrate

: Our tech is fine, ROI is a user error We’re solidly in the “you’re doing it wrong” era of AI hustling: The …

: That’d be an unexpected source for a data leak. 🔗 OpenAI: The New York Times is forcing us to …

: IT spending in Europe will grow 11 percent next year to hit $1.4 trillion amid a desire for cloud …

: “These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact …

: Platform engineering for AI stacks Your AI stack needs to have DevX, thus, a platform: I think it’s a sign of maturity that even when …

: Google Cloud's EU sovereign stuff, for AI Digital sovereignty is not a future trend — it’s happening now. Whether you’re in defense, finance, …

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: My new rule based on Whitney’s life-choices: if you want to take a selfie with me, I need to …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, Power Mac G4 edition.

: This feels like the perfect Betteridge’s law of headlines example.

: This man changed my life. I completely cut boring tuna from my diet, and started slapping my …

: The Potato, the Spreadsheet, and the AI That Checks Its Own Work Of late, the newsletter has turned into me linking to longer posts on my blog. There’s the usual …

: 🔗 You’re not Facebook. Why use their tools?

: The one who tribalized every issue found a ready-made community that validated every prior. Etc, …

: Now, enterprises need to find the AI apps. 🔗 AI is all about inference now

: The top use cases for AI agent pilots for marketing technology leaders are content or marketing …

: Meatsack context engineering to defuse tense conversations In a tense situation, take a moment to say out loud your opponents position, feeling, and …

: The charts say things are OK It’s astonishing that the richest country in world history could convince itself that it was …

: ”Trente Glorieuses” Trente Glorieuses

: Feels a little bit like a platform standard so powerful that you need an AI front-end to make it usable by mere mortals. Yes: Kubernetes started as a way to orchestrate containers, but its true innovation lies in its API …

: 🤖 Writing for Baby Shoggoths: How AI Became Literature’s Last Reader {Some crazy-town stuff in here, but interesting and probably, mostly, correct. -Coté} Human writers …

: 🤖 Optimism Linked to 15% Longer Life and Higher Odds of Reaching 85+ People who maintain a more optimistic outlook tend to live longer and are more likely to reach …

: 🤖 AI Security Loops: When Coding Assistants Become Their Own Risk Developers are embracing AI coding tools to accelerate software creation, but the resulting security …

: 🤖 Europe’s Innovation Constitution Calls for Radical Economic Refocus Europe’s prosperity is stagnating because the EU has strayed from its core mission: a functioning …

: 🤖 DoD Unveils CSRMC: Automating Continuous Compliance for Cyber Risk at Operational Speed Summarized by AI. The article explores how defense and enterprise organizations are evolving from …

: The ultimate bike-shedding story, and, always make your own slides The iterative design process for the Mac calculator app highlights the challenges of executive …

: AI uses at banks, private AI and customer built AI apps - skills and regulations are the friction for wider adoption The most common use case for agentic AI is customer service, according to 75% of banks surveyed by …

: We should be calling it all “AIaaS,” but I don’t think anyone could pronounce that without going …

: Stop Building Frameworks, Go With Good Enough. And, check out the full discussion I had with Brian.

: Some of the risks of having AIs write codes and AIso check code, “recursive AI security …

: Reject the rejection of your writing voice especially when you're writing "enterprise grade" copy Rejecting editing suggestions that dilute your unique writing style is essential for maintaining …

: Lawyers love AI At this point this feels like what it’s showing is that the amount of work needed to do law is …

: Survive the next meeting Focusing solely on surviving meetings can lead to challenges when dealing with both well-meaning and …

: I’m creating a State of Spring [Framework] talk, just 20 minutes. The focus isn’t so …

: “Outside sad is better than inside sad.” Trees and sky.

: “Give me just a second to think about what I need to be thinking about.”

: You can probably do it with a spreadsheet. 🔗 Everything is a Spreadsheet

: “he ends the memoir discovering instagram and finding purpose in being an asshole on …

: Tech DEI programs on decline Major employers including Meta and Google suspended minority hiring targets and dropped some …

: "The core IT spending is now projected to hit $3.45 trillion" “Gartner is now projecting that datacenter systems spending in 2025 will rise by 46.8 percent …

: Every generation thinks their decade had "real" culture and everything after is fake. The 90s kids …

: “We guarantee that our placebos will help you regress to any mean, or else!” Taylor.

: Elon Musk on prison reform: “I think we might maybe able to give people — if somebody …

: Good Management Is a Fad, Use Women's Razors, and AI Saves Three Hours a Week 3 factors is all you needIn this Tanzu Talk interview, Coté talks Brian Friedman about his extensive …

: 3 factors is all you need - Notes on Modernizing Enterprise Apps In this Tanzu Talk interview, Coté talks Brian Friedman about his extensive experience working with …

: “trust fund brunchlords” Here

: “White Collar Elitism” America’s ‘Simon Sinek’ Problem

: “Multi-Layer Configuration Sandwich of Gemini CLI” Daniel Strebel

: Corporate culture can just be a tool to match the needs of the moment. The conclusion here is clear: the industry will want different things from you as it evolves, and it …

: ”Buyers are relying on AI-driven tools and insights to shape decisions, with 77% of B2B buyers …

: I am considering putting corn on my shit. I like corn just fine. I’m from Texas after all. But …

: Private Cloud AI Platform Engineering, at SREDay Amsterdam I’m at SREDay Amsterdam today, hosted by ING at their lovely Cedar building. Here’s the …

: Using ChatGPT image generation to make isomorphic D&D maps With a little prompt craft, you can get some good regional maps out of ChatGPT. Here is the original …

: If you’re into release notes, this is a good one. Also, they’ve been steadily making …

: Remember when DevSecOps was all the rage? Enterprises are till trying to figure out DevSecOps: [M]any organizations remain stuck in siloed …

: Many times in London I’ve smelled perfume that smells like super-sweet cotton candy. Is that a …

: “…the Gen-Z exit…” overheard near Bank, London.

: What AI is used for in the SDLC - inner and outer loop watch “adoption rates varied across the SDLC. Coding and testing were the top use cases for …

: "we now have more than 7 million total ChatGPT for Work seats (up 40% in just 2 months)." A big deal: more than 800 million weekly users already familiar with ChatGPT, adoption and ROI …

: Gemini could lap ChatGPT in app features This would be great. I implicitly trust Google because my stuff is there. While I love using ChatGPT …

: AI use in banking, BBVA The use of OpenAI tools is becoming widespread among employees who, with more than 4,000 active GPTs …

: Questions asked and not asked of Andrew Clay Shafer We interviewed Andrew for Software Defined Talk last night. It will be our next week. Here are some …

: If this stuff actually “just works” with Apple stuff, that would be cool. Side-note: was that Matter …

: The “infinite loop” problem in AI security is real, and there are ways to break it. 🔗 …

: “We’ve all got to die of something, he thought. Even if it’s just from staying …

: When to stay public - Modeling staying in public cloud versus moving out of it. 🔗 Leaving the Cloud …

: Little buddy - ‘Some 36% of active users consider generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) …

: AMS -> LCY

: Good guide on picking a chat bot. Good guide on picking a chat bot. 🔗 An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now

: If failure is the norm, a 95% failure rate for AI projects isn't so shocking. Suppose that 95% of enterprise AI transformations fail. How does that compare to the failure rate of …

: Programmers irrationally chose based on brand identity As many of us say, technology is fashion and passion. Programmers identify with the language they …

: Man-razors aren't the best Use women’s razors for a better, more comfortable shave, he says. 🔗 How Gillette Used Gender …

: Organizations are measuring DevEx metrics more, JetBrains survey JetBrain’s The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity survey is out. …

: I’m hear in the AMS KLM and lounge, and because the business people are blaring their calls on …

: Links and original content Original contentThe Enterprise Turing Test, Software Defined Talk #544: “This week, we discuss …

: There’s still enterprise marketing writing that beings “In today’s fast-evolving …

: How Tanzu Platform Fixes the AI Deployment Problem You need a proper AI platform: Interested? Try a 90 day trial of the Tanzu Platform: …

: 3 + 1 Cloud Foundry Stories We don’t tell Cloud Foundry stories enough. Here are four: This talk was also a request to …

: AI video generation is very good, but its current prudishness will limit art and general use AI-generated videos and images could be significantly “better” without current …

: Trusting every (short) video you see is now a very bad idea. Because AI. Hopefully we’ll go …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. And bonus garbage table.

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.

: Americans move less than they used to/stay where the grew-up Figure 1 shows a steady decline in interstate migration rates between 1996 and 2024 across all age …

: New tech requires new governance IDC predicts that by 2027, half of all AI-enabled enterprise applications will require new oversight …

: Always have a pitch ready ”Organizational interest comes in waves. When it’s reliability time, VPs are desperate to be doing …

: “Even paranoid people have enemies.” Ron Emanuel, _Political Gabfest, October 30th, …

: Command-line Life Style. Tiny CLI scripts for tiny tasks. // I love this kind of thing. 🔗 My Secret Recipe for Personal …

: ”becoming a parent has forced me to prioritize predictability and comforts that are compatible with …

: The failures of ambition that keep the world running “It’s also a part of a broader inversion of values. In America, we now treat the jobs …

: “Be yourself,” they always tell me. Yes, but, if I was being myself, I would not have …

: Apple's inflation adjusted revenue Applying inflation to Apples’s revenue makes it more flat. // The same would apply to other …

: The three clouds are equal Any cloud will do: “We believe that the three clouds competitively are on roughly equal …

: Shocker! Reversal in AI ROI slide-wisdom: AI does works well There’s a new study out that means it’s time to update all those slides that say AI …

: Amazon's culture went the wrong way Big layoffs at Amazon corporate: “The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really …

: I added a colophon for this site, just linked off the main homepage. There is a certain arrogence to …

: 🤖 Old infrastructure considered not optimal, Forrester study Legacy systems are creating measurable revenue drag, with 63% of surveyed companies citing …

: 🤖 Tanzu Data Intelligence update VMware announces updates to Tanzu Data Intelligence with performance and resilience improvements …

: New stuff in Apple Shortcuts Usually I’d say Shortcuts are poorly documented, but at least these release notes are OK. // …

: Recent AI generated videos, Grok edition - and 4 discoveries/techniques Grok’s AI video generation is like lazy Sora. All you have to do is upload a picture and it does the …

: There’s a wave of “Back in my day…” nostalgia in the near future as us …

: 🤖 Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists - How Paris …

: “data swamp” Here.

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.

: “There is so much road in American roads. They widen and narrow like rivers, now six lanes, …

: 🤖"here are 8 things you should do for supply chain security" 🔗 What Good Software Supply …

: I’d prefer we spread the excellent everywhere instead of just centering it in one place.

: “Creating a real-time digital representation of an enterprise build on harmonized data & a …

: Satisfying on the greasy poll This week on Software Defined Interviews, talk with Russell Davies about…all sorts of things, …

: Does anyone read predictions pieces? In late 2025, I predict that only people who read prediction …

: “So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in …

: 🤖 Tyler Cowen’s characteristic phrases and intellectual frameworks I’m fascinated with Tyler Cowen. Here is Claude Sonnet 4.5’s deep research on his Tylerisms, I …

: What do we think of GitHub saying there are 180m developers in the world? 180 million-plus developers now work and build on GitHub. Their definition is “[a]nyone with …

: “your general intolerance for corporate euphemism.” // After almost three years of using …

: Not helpful I am in my Gmail, and I open up the Gemini side bar and type: Flag emails I should just archive. …

: Run your AI stuff in locked down containers and AIs Good piece on enterprise AI security. The good news, it’s all the same shit. The bad news …

: Those new AI employees Forrester seems all but say “Salesforce is full of shit”: Salesforce claims that its …

: "Come on down and chum some of this shit." Everyone needs to stop thinking about enterprise AI as a way to fire people and think about how to …

: AI is not for experts Emma Thompson does not need Clippy Jr.: “When I’ve written something and put it into a …

: Make it easy for other people to pitch for you With some generalization, this is good advice for any pitch, from corporate presentations to call …

: James on Embabel Honestly, this checks out. Embabel is an enterprise play, and one where Java developers' skills are …

: Platform Engineering Anti-Patterns This is has some new material in it, not just the same old transformation discussion from agile and …

: Stuff developers are using, part 3 Meanwhile, what’s going on with developers outside of the GenAI echo chamber. What’s up …

: Angel flying too close to the 10-Q.

: Tuesday Links and Wastebook Relative to your interestsI’m posting a lot more regularly on my weblog , most of the links below, …

: Soviet spas “There is ambient music for spas - and there is ambient music for former Soviet spas.” …

: “an encapsulated volume of pre-Fascist space-time” Alan Jacobs

: “I don’t know what it is other than what it does.” Tyler Cowen on Tetragrammaton …

: ”Tech is a pop culture." ”Tech is a pop culture. Very few of the decisions made in the industry are made rationally or …

: Setting up other people to pitch your idea for you With some generalization, this is good advice for any pitch, from corporate presentations to call …

: Today’s lock-in was yesterday’s promise to open architectures.

: "Touch of Water," from Uncaged, volume 2 I solo played “Touch of Water” last night. It’s a good representation of the …

: Checking in neocon globalization dreams, ~40 years later The decline of the US Rust Belt is directly linked to the rise of China, driven by US free trade …

: Apple should cave to regulators The Gruber: “When is the last time an investigation regarding the legality of the App …

: Friendship is difficult If you were natural you would be a moss. Moss doesn’t have friends. Moss just spreads, cold and damp …

: high production value ≠ rizz. Tips on doing corporate videos. It’s almost: be less polished. Plus, The Kids Slang. 🔗 high …

: The aesthetics of .sh I grew up as a programmer in the 2000s, in Java culture. The aesthetics were about elegance, …

: New 🥦 perspective Broccoli is like two vegetable in one: flourette and stem. Genius!

: All the commentary about AI generated content versus this The way this guy turns picking up litter into one of those “video gaming while yelling at …

: A meeting is not work, it's talking about work. As always, if you want your people to get more work done, interrupt them less and invite them to …

: What is it about “founder” style, content, and intellectual aesthetics that makes me cringe so much? …

: Who invited these goofballs into my workshop of hand-crafted excellence I think the point is: it’s nice the professionals can make excellent content. It’s fun …

: I was promised a smarter world, and instead I have this October, 2010, probably at an airport.

: Analyst Briefings Only Taken at some analyst forum in October, 2010. It was probably Adobe MAX that year.

: How many apps are written in Java? How many apps use the Spring Framework and Spring Boot? I’m always trying to find how many apps are written (and, of course, running) in Java. Here …

: Recent D&D pictures made by the robot When I’m solo roleplaying D&D, or just farting around, I like to make pictures of …

: Recently, in photos and video Most of these are human-made, two were given to the robot as guides. The video is me as a kid, maybe …

: Festina lente / make haste slowly Tasks should be approached with a balance of urgency and diligence to avoid mistakes and achieve …

: blogging as art blogging as art!!! why not? i am drowning in information. all i want is a little fun. a respite from …

: When should a Claude Skill use code versus just a SKILL.md? Here are some thoughts after a week of using Claude Skills. JasonJ in the SDT Slack says: I’d …

: Excellent comparison of various LLMs doing AI image generations. Cool UI for looking at the output too. Excellent comparison of various LLMs doing AI image generations. Cool UI for looking at the output …

: If it's bullshit work, have the bullshit artist do it. There’s a lot of knowledge work that can be automated: ‘Where Altman’s comment holds …

: Making LLMs think harder What exactly does “thinking” mean? “Thinking harder”? Robin says: …

: Using AI to make quick D&D battle maps in Claude Quick and crude SVG battle maps for D&D can be efficiently generated using Claude, enhancing …

: Being exhausted is exhausting That title says it all. There are two people I think of here: Tyler Cowen is eternally optimistic. …

: What's on TV? Meanwhile, humans are still making good Internet videos. 🔗 ✺ CHANNELVUE

: $30bn of $6tn ‘“The availability of AI devices has also boosted overall spending by more than $30 billion,” …

: What's next in Sora Lots of new features coming in Sora. Clearly not just a side project. 🔗 Coming in the next versions …

: “I didn’t know whether or not to laugh or cry when he said that Trader Joe’s …

: A representative case of the oddly simple things that LLMs are bad at Does it seem right that computer systems that use billions of dollars of hardware, electricity, and …

: Vibe coding toolchain and method A lot of effort went into making this effortless. 🔗 Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic …

: How to market open core products Instead of: “Why the ‘free’ version of [INSERT OPEN CORE PRODUCT NAME] could be …

: Hockey stick on wheels Great, if cynical phrase: hockey stick on wheels: “Consider a team which presents their …

: Anthropic is building a PaaS. Anthropic is building a PaaS. They’ve got isolated VM’s/containers, they’ve …

: You need a proxy for enterprise AI Google Cloud suggests using a centralized proxy to mediate all …

: Can't stop hitting yourself The problems feel like something we should have moved passed long ago. The general problems and …

: A new name for the CMDB What’s wrong with the CMDB concept, especially how it’s applied and managed. 🔗 “CMDB” Is …

: Lots of AI private cloud, survey As enterprises try to figure out the benefits of AI, they’re relying on lots of private cloud: …

: civilization changing, or just a better ad network? My work at OpenAI reminds me every day about the magnitude of the socioeconomic change that is …

: tasty machine output “artistic product” versus “artistic process.” Well, I guess “home …

: Guardrails in platforms “Individual teams making rational decisions create organisational fragmentation.” // An …

: This post's title is rad A post. Here is a man eating an apple: I read this book a lot when I was a kid. He has another book …

: The Rule of Threes Unless you’re skilled otherwise, always present, think, and communicate in sets of three. …

: Identity is the most powerful form of tech marketing As someone who uses and appreciates 37signals products, I can honestly say - we like being the kind …

: Cloud Foundry is alive and well, running lots of really important shit Here’s my talk from Cloud Foundry Day. It’s four stories of large organizations using Cloud Foundry: …

: Filtered “All of my news was filtered through AI.” 🔗 Good Morning & Good Luck

: Another round-up of the AI skeptic studies and surveys. 🔗 Generative AI’s Productivity Myth

: Clickable proverbs. Ancient Dutch proverbs are the best. 🔗 Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

: AI women skew young “Despite there being no systematic age differences between women and men in the workforce …

: Working as designed ‘allowing for controversial yet eye-catching content like AI celebrities, OpenAI is borrowing …

: Actually changing is what matters most If you make huge changes to how your under performing business works, there’s a good chance …

: “I’m a Wal-Mart guy. What’re we gonna do about it? It’s the year …

: Do rooms have coffee machines? That is a quick heuristic for picking hotels for work travel, …

: “a giant turd of text” Oracle - ‘Generic AI stops at 60%, industry expertise is the …

: AI chatbots at the municipal level Using an AI chat desk to augment the support desk for a Us county. This seems like a basic packaging …

: “the flying car of the mind” AI is the flying car of the mind: Irresistible, impractical

: AI agents as skills. 🔗 The Right Mental Model For Agentic AI

: Buy things that have low competetive advantage This is good framing and wording: “Reexamine your ecosystem and identify where …

: Survey on what people value for sponsorint B2B conferences “What drives investment in third-party events: High-quality lead generation (67%) Credibility …

: Weird Every culture with a weird thing thinks they’re the only one with the weird thing.

: Defining slop “It is generic and all the same personalized, the Big Mac without the onions.” defining …

: 🤖 AI Answers Barely Shift Across Languages, Study Suggests Even when asked in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, or Spanish, modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT deliver …

: “The context window is a public good.” Skill authoring best practices,Claude Docs

: Good parties For when you want to be that accountant or in the first Ghostbusters. 🔗 21 Facts About Throwing Good …

: Larry's AI Larry’s pitch for a full-stack, private cloud AI platform. And, here, you can see someone …

: Vector stores and art style Good, brief explanation of how vector searches work. And it’s in the art history and criticism …

: Plot Unfolding Machine v9 For solo role playing people. After Mythic, PUM is the most fleshed out system. It has a different …

: It's the people A little too ad hominem, but feels right from a critical stance: ”All my misgivings about AI really …

: LHR -> AMS

: AMS to LCY

: Recent fatteh experiment.

: Baltimore is, of course, well known for its discount LED light strips. Found in Action, Amterdam Poorte.

: Four Happy Cloud Foundry Users, 2025 From my Cloud Foundry Day EU talk. See the slides if you want to zoom in and click on the citations. …

: Is it morally OK to think that AI generate people are shit? SoraI have a Sora account. The take is that people like it because it lets them make videos of …

: An enchanting annoyance ‘When we say, “I love my job,” we really mean, “My job pisses me off, but in …

: Make the users awesome “I would summarize her thesis as such: Your best marketing and communication should talk about …

: Wastebook round-up “As a writer I value the concept of boredom because it’s very useful in having ideas and …

: Where's the good AI stuff? “If these tools are so great, where is the explosion of AI created stuff in the world?” …

: "rust out," the new "burn out" The never ending quest to keep doing what you’re good at and get better at it…rather …

: What the kids are saying 🔗 Study Reveals America’s Most Searched Slang Words 2025 / OHIO; mayonnaise

: "perhaps I am expecting too much when there is a poop emoji on the cover." “perhaps I am expecting too much when there is a poop emoji on the cover.” Cory Doctorow …

: Ever Elusive AI ROI “for every $1 spent on model development, firms should expect to have to spend $3 on change …

: Frankfurt, October, 2025

: How wonderful is this? It’s a 3D print thing.

: Parenting teenagers

: "I assume they kept the socks as evidence too." “I assume they kept the socks as evidence too.” Theft of Services via Sock

: More slop words “Slopjects.” pointed out by bruces

: do you hug or hand-shake? All I really need to know about socio-political culture I learned from 80s high school movies. 🔗 …

: tech-culture sayings “Laws can be opinions on inevitabilities in the world of software engineering, or wry …

: Recently in London

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam This one had some bonus cat action.

: only half bad A vision for a kinder post-AI meltdown. Also, speculation about where AI code generation will stick …

: getting enterprise eyeballs is difficult “According to IDC research, 72% of tech marketers say creating original, differentiated …

: Would you like to hug a cow? Cows, IoT, and MLOn this week’s Software Defined Interviews, Whitney and I talked with my friend …

: hallway conversations vs. AI Your business processes are tribal knowledge passed down through email chains and hallway …

: Cloud sovereignty strategy advice ”Prioritize sovereignty where it matters most. Not every workload requires sovereign infrastructure …

: VKS For those who prefer Kubernetes instead of a PaaS, there are good options that your organization …

: Brisket in London Smoked brisket in London from Smokoloko. It wasn’t too great, but I had some travel salt packets, so …

: Getting MCP auth into Spring AI As the kids say: 👀 ”This repository provides Authorization support for Spring AI integrations with …

: Dutch problems

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, Spitalfields edition

: Fly includes an audacious reimagining of the software development process, making versioning automatic and version names obsolete. ‘JFrog Fly is the company’s agentic developer platform and an MCP server that works with …

: "Solo Toxic Neon Lord." “Solo Toxic Neon Lord.” DriveThruRPG.com

: Move fast and leak things. Move fast and leak things. 🔗 Senate report accuses DOGE of flouting law, oversight

: The AI as a junior engineer theory. The AI as a junior engineer theory. 🔗 The AI coding trap

: Generate and execute code in Claude's web app, also pull from GitHub and package managers. What else can you have it do and install in the containers(?) it's running? Generate and execute code in Claude’s web app, also pull from GitHub and package managers. …

: 'the code's use of a "taste-driven development (TDD) paradigm."' ‘the code’s use of a “taste-driven development (TDD) paradigm."’ …

: Ben Thompson recently noted that these prices are spiking, and the AI companies are about to get blamed for it. Ben Thompson recently noted that these prices are spiking, and the AI companies are about to get …

: Others doing D&D with AI. Looks more structured than what I piddle around with. Others doing D&D with AI. Looks more structured than what I piddle around with. 🔗 The D&D …

: The poor semicolon. The poor semicolon. 🔗 AI loves an em dash — writers in the US, on the other hand, aren’t so keen

: Running your AI in your own private cloud Tips on running AI on your private cloudSome brief comments on using Tanzu Platform to run your …

: Dust Cover Portraits of the Late 70s This is what I remember every portrait of an author or academic being like on the backs of all those …

: Quite the album cover, there: “A good title, but primarily recommended for Getz fans.” …

: Cloud Foundry Day, October 7th, 2025 Next week in Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025: Cloud Foundry Day. I’m speaking in my ongoing …

: Programmer aesthetics: "your engineering taste is composed of the set of engineering values you find most important." Programmer aesthetics: “your engineering taste is composed of the set of engineering values …

: They advocate for using JSON (with comments) over YAML They advocate for using JSON (with comments) over YAML: “Generating json as a better yaml …

: How many managers does the world need, though? 🤖 Technical writers are shifting from writers to content directors, steering and editing AI output. …

: "Doughnut Economics is based around an important insight: _Diagrams are powerful marketing tools_." “Doughnut Economics is based around an important insight: Diagrams are powerful marketing …

: Everybody talks about digital transformation, but nobody does anything about it. Recording of my AI platform engineering talkThis is a new talk of mine going over how platform …

: my lifestyle utopia From Who’s Got the Apple, I book a spent a lot of time with as a kid.

: old books at Natura Artis Magistra

: aside from where I'm from, my favorite town

: heavily filtered tree, 2019

: That museum that they renamed in Amsterdam, 2019

: W Hotel, BCN, 2019

: Not available in Europe, 2019

: Amsterdam Skies, 2019

: Lunch with Hinada, Munich, 2019

: Pythagorasstraat, 2019

: Café Brecht, Amsterdam, 2019 One of my favorite “brown bars.”

: Iceland, 2019

: And that's why you always leave a note

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: Typical Dutch, 2018

: Drip, drip

: Saturday

: Paper: when the message demands the medium Robin Sloan contemplates the _ The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons_: It occurred to me, …

: Once you fix the bottleneck of coding, you face the all the other bottlenecks down the line. Once you fix the bottleneck of coding, you face the all the other bottlenecks down the line. So, you …

: Nudging the AI It’s a delight to find weirdly human and overly chatty prompts like this one on how to make …

: Recording of my AI platform engineering talk The talk discusses how platform engineers can navigate AI support, emphasizing the need for …

: Manton reviews ChatGPT Pulse: it might drive traffic to more websites, going around Google Manton reviews ChatGPT Pulse: it might drive traffic to more websites, going around Google: There’s …

: Enterprise AI not legible. If you can’t measure it, you can’t ROI it Enterprise AI not legible. If you can’t measure it, you can’t ROI it: “It’s easy for an employee to …

: CRM's Agentforce <5% of customer are paying for it “But after nine months on the market, fewer than 5% of Salesforce’s more than 150,000 …

: Three D&D battle maps of city blocks

: no marrow left behind, your humble author, 2017

: at ATL, 2017

: help Pancho, 2015

: Austin motel, 2014

: that Ancient Greek oracle practice where a guy is half in a hole that I can never remember the name of

: redmonk media, 2007

: you owe me a goat, 2005

: fantastic wine I like earthy, dirt-tasting and feeling wine a lot. I asked for something that tasted like an old …

: accidental cloud hair

: 🤖 Drowning in Noise: Learning to Reject in the Age of Infinite Choice Modern life has shifted from one of intentional selection to one of constant rejection, as boundless …

: 🤖 AI in Radiology: Why Machines Make Radiologists Busier, Not Obsolete AI has revolutionized medical imaging benchmarks, detecting diseases with speed and precision that …

: 🤖 Senators Slam Amazon, Big Tech for AI Layoffs Followed by H-1B Hiring Spree Lawmakers are pressing Amazon, Meta, Google, and other major tech firms for allegedly laying off …

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: snack shack

: Watergraafsmeer

: why eat the real thing when you could eat candy instead? why eat the real thing when you could eat candy instead?

: shower in the back lot

: red berries, blue sky

: Sandwich artist

: Workers controlling the means of ROI The Golden Era of PaaS is Still HereI’m playing around with trying to, I don’t know, re-introduce …

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: Audience participation, "don't sweat the small stuff." “Very often, you need great audiences to have great art.” Tyler And at: “people …

: we gave up on that dream The Concorde was fast, but not that fast. It could go from New York to Paris in just over 3 hours. …

: You get the enterprise AI you deserve, or, while management search for AI workloads, workers gobble up the AI ROI Recent discussions on enterprise AI reveal that while individual workers may benefit from …

: Low quality content production is a higher quality of life ‘I think the level of quality that everything has these days, every image, every website, …

: Google Cloud: $58 billion in new revenue commitments over the next two years nine out of the top 10 AI labs use Google’s infrastructure. He also says that nearly all generative …

: we can all agree that "workslop" is the word we need The critique acknowledges the flaws in a HBR study about “workslop” while embracing the …

: “Our parenting hack of the year so far is having cut vegetables ready at the table when our …

: Feeding the hungry robot with your video content Doing SEO for the LLMs so that your content can be found. 🔗 AEO for YouTube: How to Get Your Videos …

: monetization efforts Sources say that Simo has recently been meeting with potential candidates, including some of her …

: Supporting the executive This is also what it’s like to work in corporate strategy and supporting the executive suite. …

: 1953–1961 I always forget that Nixon was a vice president, and I’m still shocked every time I’m …

: Auto Mix is Good I thought I’d dislike the new Auto Mix song transition in Apple Music. But, I actually like …

: my “shopping” note keeps me from buying dumb shit all the time - Instead of actually …

: 🤖 Google Cloud’s 2025 DORA Report Declares AI the New Developer Baseline AI has shifted from a helpful add-on to the bedrock of modern software engineering, according to …

: 🤖 Bain Says GenAI Coding Hype Falls Flat Without Full Software Lifecycle Rethink Generative AI stormed into software development promising a coding revolution, but so far, it’s …

: [2509.13348] Towards an AI-Augmented Textbook - Adapting/changing textbooks to match learning style. …

: Enterprise AI Looks Bleak, But Employee AI Looks Bright - I think a take-away is: AI ROI accruing to …

: AI Center of Excellence Gatekeepers Guild Getting over the AI policy board bottleneckAlso, people have suggested that have just two roles on …

: Everyday AI and AI Everyday, with Hannah Foxwell - Software Defined Talk Everyday AI and AI Everyday, with Hannah Foxwell - Software Defined Talk Check out last week’s …

: The Larry King Desk and framing arrangement for that YouTube talking head look.

: The Man Calling Bullshit on the AI Boom - “To what end? What happened there? Because we get all …

: The intelligence is in the user - The robot is only as good as what you bring to it.

: The art of Jean-Michel Nicollet - “French cover design can be unsympathetic to cover …

: Manton predicts the AI oligopoly - “I’m increasingly thinking that we’ll have …

: “How many $18 glasses of natural wine can you drink while friends relay the latest upsetting …

: The new Lost Generation - What people without kids are up to. “Must be nice,” etc.

: How Target is rethinking search for generative AI - 🤖 To stay ahead, Target is training its AI …

: 🤖 The New Lost Generation: Phone Addiction, Expats, and the AI Fork in the Road Our modern addictions—especially to our phones—have quietly become the backbone of daily life, …

: I Blame the AI - “Accountability sinks are systems designed so that when things go wrong, no …

: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity - “We define workslop as AI generated work …

: So many links, so many finds PaaS TalkWe’re trying to amp up more technical explanations and demos of why Tanzu …

: Waiting for the Eurostar in that little space - both at Centraal and St Pancras - crammed in with …

: Marriott checks out AI agents amid technology transformation

: Occupying TikTok with love - “And TikTok is full of advice about how to break out of this …

: Do Not Shred Your Fingers In An Actual Blender - “Yes, sometimes LLMs can simulate humans. …

: Pentagon research official wants to have AI on every desktop in 6 to 9 months - “‘We …

: Java 25: Oracle’s Big-Tent Release—and a Clearer Roadmap for What’s Next - “Java’s momentum …

: The Post-AI Org Chart - The people need to stop saying the quiet part out-loud about job loss. The …

: “A person dies, but capital is forever.” // And, when the worker becomes the …

: ”advanced Unicode manipulation” Free Glitch Text Generator - Create Distorted & Zalgo Text …

: Open Source Has Too Many Parasocial Relationships - “If you want the software to get …

: Dan Moren’s iOS 26 Review - “It’s one of the very best, most thoughtful, most useful …

: Treat your to-read pile like a river - ”To return to information overload: this means treating your …

: 🤖 Michael Dell Joins Trump-Backed Consortium to Acquire TikTok US Michael Dell is part of a consortium, including Oracle’s Larry Ellison, pursuing the …

: 🤖 Sunlight’s Surprising Upside: Why a Little UV Might Be Healthier Than Hiding Indoors Recent research suggests that moderate sun exposure may confer wide-ranging health benefits beyond …

: 🤖 We’re Optimizing Ourselves Into Oblivion This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: Our obsession with efficiency is costing us our …

: 🤖 Youth Optimism Collapses Amid Debt, Housing Crunch, and Job Anxiety This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: What Killed Youth Optimism? Youth, long the …

: 🤖 San Francisco’s AI Gold Rush: High-Agency Hustlers vs. NPCs in the Great Lock-In This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: are you high-agency or an NPC? San Francisco is …

: 32 notes on AI & writing - “AI is better than most humans at producing prose. In a couple …

: 🤖 ChatGPT’s Love Affair with the Em Dash Sparks a Punctuation Panic This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading …

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: Webcurios 19/09/25 webcurios.co.uk/webcurios… “I COULD GET TO MARSEILLES IN 8 HOURS …

: “linguistic pyrotechnics” - Chatty-G tries to explain to me why I don’t like …

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: UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/1… ‘The …

: Java 25: Oracle Makes Java Easier To Learn, Ready for AI Development -

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: Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B - That’s a good match, and a …

: Does anyone really want air hand-dryers around? I mean, they’re loud and they don’t …

: When you don't know what you're doing, do a lot of it This a good, correct framing of the AI project failure stuff. No one really knows what will work and …

: Look at this busy lil' fella!

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: “My phone -and I realise this is mildly absurd – is a constant slight disappointment to …

: “A man who had over the course of a week absorbed, as by osmosis, the Spirit of the Internet. …

: Slowing Down - How to avoid burnout as you get more successful at life.

: Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise apps will feature AI agents by 2026 - “Enterprise …

: Migas from another mother I have been trying to figure out fatteh. Here are some recent attempts. I still don’t know if I …

: School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use …

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: How to use Tahoe's new Use Model shortcut to summarize articles The new Use Model shortcut in Apple Shortcuts opens up a lot of possibilities. For example, I like …

: All of the nerd content I've made this fiscal year, so far A collection of work-related content produced between November 2024 and July 2025 pertains to …

: Export markdown from Apple Notes, even in bulk...almost works. In macOS Tahoe, you can finally export Apple Notes in markdown. This is great, and even exports …

: How To Build Agentic AI That Ships - The New Stack - “Ninety-five percent of AI initiatives …

: Anthropic lets Claude remember previous interactions to streamline work - Including, and using, past …

: “cash incinerators” OpenAI doesn’t have the cash to pay Oracle $300 billion — raising it …

: macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica review - Check out the extended overview of the new Spotlight …

: Most Work is Translation - by Aparna Chennapragada - ACD - This is a great metaphor: ”To me, LLMs …

: ChatGPT uses, a survey OpenAI’s study indicates that users primarily utilize ChatGPT as an advisory tool to enhance …

: After migrating my Mastodon instance from social.lol to here, I seem to have lost about 1,000 …

: Getting a slice of the Kubernete$ management pie How big the Kubernetes market?TAM-time for managing Kubernetes: The container management market has …

: Invisible to the robots In my searches/research, analysts like Gartner, IDC, and Forrester are invisible to ChatGTP, Claude, …

: Why CIOs can’t afford another modernization failure in 2026 - ”Gartner estimates that up to 70% of …

: This is the kind of thing the Internet was made for, with that “one person can do a …

: Battle Maps for The Dying Unicorn adventure Maps for The Dying Unicorn side adventure, which did not have any, being a small adventure. I like …

: To Apple, there is only one time zone. www.macrumors.com/2025/09/1…

: When the AI policy board is slowing everything down youtube.com/shorts/Xq…

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: “I couldn’t imagine anything worse than running my dad’s Hooters.” An …

: “Music for Claude Coding.” What I think about when I think about Claude Code

: “I was drinking coffee because I was tired, and I was tired because I was drinking coffee. Can …

: AI uses at Goldman Goldman Sachs has implemented its GS AI Assistant to enhance employee efficiency in tasks like …

: An air fryer means fresh croutons in ten minutes.

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: an activity to break up the wine drinking “The last thing I bought and loved was a sauna. It came on a truck from Sweden. It looks like …

: I think this means “thing you use to run and manage container based applications on public and/or …

: An IT modernization tale, with both technology and culture. // The Untold Saga of What Happened …

: Slop might save us from social media Social media has shifted from genuine connection and casual sharing to low-quality, curated content, …

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: ChatGPT image generation can now create coloring book pages from photos.

: The last in a six part series. I haven’t this many books, so quickly in a long time. It was fun! The …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, ultra rare Duivendrecht edition.

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: If your deal is nostalgia for another time (imagined on real), your customers are likely …

: “Today the only full time employees besides him are Horvitz and two full time editors. The …

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: “won’t be available if both the user is physically in the EU and their Apple Account …

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: I consolidated my two Mastodon accounts into one, moving/merging @cote@social.lol to @cote@cote.io. …

: How to use AI to write conference talk abstracts, good ones “GenAI can help you write talk proposals, but if you use it without injecting your own …

: Never mind the business value, this about resume value The last of my don’t build your own internal developer platform tiny videos: Check six more reasons …

: No More Coders? You Still Need DevOps.

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: 6 NotebookLM features to help students learn - Just in time for school!

: Platform engineering is about more than what’s going on Backstage - An internal developer platform …

: Conflicting opinions on the ROI of AI - Yeah, it’s up in the air at the moment. I think we …

: 10 Months into AI Agents : Which Are Used Most? - Feels like it’s primarily about supporting …

: Final thought on Australia - “Sydney, with its lush yards, immaculate beaches, stellar Asian …

: What’s the point? - “I don’t know if the people working on this stuff have a …

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: How I Use Claude - “Claude is really good at helping here, mostly because thinking quickly …

: An ode to “via” - ‘the old ways’ - there are so many of these little things from the …

: Oxide Friday FAQs - These are clever/amazing “brand marketing” assets. You take …

: Breaking the AI illusion: From adoption to growth - Garbage in, garbage out: “37% of midmarket …

: All IT work to involve AI by 2030, says Gartner - ‘AI’s hidden costs mean Gartner believes 65 …

: The Three Faces Of Generative AI - “People today use large language models for three central …

: What if the AI stockmarket blows up? - ‘By our reckoning, the total revenue from the tech …

: Training for Legacy - Press Pass Advice on managing legacy applications emphasizes understanding their history, identifying …

: Highlights from VMware Explore Summer. For most of my life I lived in Texas, where the heat of summer melts your face off. Summer …

: The Great Migration: Why Workloads Are Coming Home to Private Cloud - “55% of enterprises are …

: The End Of Business Apps As We Know Them Is Here - Kate Leggett has a go at defining the enterprise …

: The World Runs 20 Billion Instances of Curl. Where’s the Support? -

: Private AI powers Broadcom’s vision for VCF 9.0 - “We shared we have more than 80 customers …

: With AI Boom, Dell’s Datacenter Biz Is Finally Bigger Than Its PC Biz - “Thanks to the GenAI …

: Thirty Years On, the Californian Ideology is Alive and Well - The cycle of tech loosing its …

: China Has a Different Vision for AI. It Might Be Smarter. - AI applications outside of the consumer …

: VCF And Private AI Take Center Stage At VMware Explore 2025 - “We believe that while the …

: Is Your IT Organization A Ponzi Scheme? - “The only way out is to stop borrowing against the …

: Five Vide Coding Lessons for the Enterprise - ‘In an enterprise, the “context window” isn’t …

: Seeing like a software company - When management meddling slows down the business because they …

: Athens has a spooky atmosphere.

: The airwaves are always there You should check this out: You can try out our AI platform with a 90 day trial. It’ll host models in …

: Blade Runner makes its live-action return next year - 2026 in Amazon.

: “Let’s face it, everything runs on computers now.” Original contentHere’s two of my podcasts to share with you: Capitalism is working, Software Defined …

: Meta Says Threads Has Over 400 Million Monthly Active Users - “What is even more amazing about …

: The Business of ChatGPT - Revenue and such numbers circa. August, 2025.

: One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood - GPT5: “Phones are not the root cause; …

: ai-development-patterns, PaulDuvall - ”A comprehensive collection of patterns based on my experience …

: Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty - Great picture too.

: Kubernetes Isn’t Enough for a Production-Ready Platform - Yeah. You should buy your platform instead …

: AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is ‘dumbest idea’ - ‘Amazon Web Services …

: Don't kill your darlings, put them in the dead pool Here is some (book) writing pedantry for business book writing. Of course, the way to write anything …

: Accelerating Enterprise Application Upgrades Through Legacy Dependency Migration: Spring Application …

: The Cost Reality Check: Eliminating Public Cloud Waste Through Strategic Planning - “49% of …

: What is the most profitable thing you have done with ChatGPT? - A lot of it is making sense of …

: a word to my students - Copy and paste from AI only hurts the student. The rest of is should just …

: The long slog to enterprise AI ROI. Or, digital transformation is back, baby! Lots of AI slowdown and skepticism in the past week. Likely due to the letdown of the GPT-5 release, …

: The European Cloud Dilemma: Innovation Versus Digital Sovereignty - Tough call.

: The Hidden Cost of AI Pilots that Never Scale - “Scale” - that is, doing a lot of it …

: New survey reveals key differentiator for successful AI adoption: IT modernization - “With 71% …

: What happens when one storytelling style dominates the world? - ‘I realised this, at first, …

: A guide to platform engineering - For those who want to “be like Google.

: How to Tell if Something is AI-Written - Sure, those are good heuristics. But, I mean, if it’s …

: Helen Garner’s ‘How to End a Story’ - Noticing.

: The Creator Economy Is a Race to the Bottom for Human Dignity - “Edelman Trust Data reveals …

: GEO best practices for in-house PR teams | Muck Rack Blog - SEO and PR for AI. Figure out what …

: Resist AI! - Meanwhile, if you’re opposed to AI, some tips and tactics.

: The Top AI Tool for Devs Isn’t GitHub Copilot, New Report Finds - “LeadDev’s …

: Is GPT-5 really worse than GPT-4o? Ars puts them to the test. - This is a good way to review AIs.

: Who does your assistant serve? - Against AI for therapy and friendship, etc.

: Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? - Eventually, you have to pay for that …

: Why AI Can’t Crack Your Database - “The real challenge lies in business context. …

: The forgotten war on the Walkman - The new thing is always going to destroy civilization, or at …

: Practical platform engineering, the industry analyst business dies again, personal utopia - three good videos Three good videosPlatform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now. Most platform engineering …

: From Knowledge to Action - For AI, now, the app is what matters most.

: Google is a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant for SCPS -

: Why we’ve decided to decommission GOV.UK PaaS (Platform as a Service) – Government Digital Service - …

: GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. - “We have been …

: AI Reviews Aren't Very Good Making AI Reviews More UsefulFrom Robert Brook, posted July, 2025.Reading all the ChatGPT 5 coverage …

: Columbus, Ohio’s Revival: a Model for the Rust Belt - Update from IRL. Now, back to cyberspace.

: At-Scale Management and Multi-Foundation Views with Tanzu Hub - If you’re running a platform - …

: Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 22.5% in 2024 -

: Remembering Dominic Pannell: Dom’s Framework for Influencer Ecosystem Mapping - Managing the …

: Why AI Isn’t The Silver Bullet For Customer Service — Yet - A typical digital transformation …

: Heroku brings app development to the AI era - One day I hope people stop focusing on build …

: In the world of podcasts, YouTube is now the elephant in the room — just like in TV - This is …

: The Reformist CTO’s Guide to Impact Intelligence - A good take on metrics and frameworks to show the …

: Your AI workloads still need a service mesh - You always need a load-balancer/proxy/gateway, more …

: Luck, belly fat, & a typical existentialist Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, July, 2025.Relative to your interestsHow to Secure MCP Servers Modern …

: Don’t hide behind AI to trim your belly fat. Start redesigning your workforce - “What we are …

: Modern Applications on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 - When you want to build your own platform with …

: The case for memes as a new form of comics -

: Why is Rear Window so tense? - “The central critical question about Rear Window is: what makes …

: How to increase your surface area for luck - “One distinguishing feature I’ve noticed …

: Moral Deskilling: why you spend more time on admin than your actual job - I think what this is …

: How to Secure MCP Servers -

: C-suite leaders attribute revenue, software development boosts to AI - “Executives credit …

: “It will probably be bad. But in the end, it doesn’t matter.” Original ContentInternal developer platform marketing series - just as a round-up, here’s my series …

: Strategic Benefits of Private Cloud in Financial Services and Insurance - “Security is the …

: 2025 Sees Inflection Point for Government: A Shift to Private Cloud - “more than 70 percent of …

: How Elicitation in MCP Brings Human-in-the-Loop to AI Tools -

: The AI Replaces Services Myth - If your software saves your customers money, then you’re not …

: The Satya of Satya’s Layoff Memo - Reading between the lines/translating corporate-speak.

: neiltron/apple-health-mcp - Export Apple Health data to a CSV. Good for handing over to the robots.

: What LLMs Know About Their Users - “please put all text under the following headings into a …

: ‘Impossible hill to climb’: US clouds crush European competition on their home turf - …

: Inter font family - Crisp and clean.

: GoogleCloudPlatform/apigee-samples - Use Apigee as MCP middleware.

: The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care - “Another way to put this is that to retain …

: Platform engineering for private cloud Here’s a recording of my latest “how to do platform engineering in large organizations” talk. In …

: Internal Developer Platform marketing: the people, the community management Driving Platform Adoption: Community Is Your ValueIf you want developers to actually use your …

: Using t-shirts to drive internal developer platform use Is Swag the Secret to Platform Adoption?Turns out, T-shirts might matter more than YAML. In this …

: How I use LLMs to learn new subjects - It’s good at well know facts, things that are …

: Do conversations end when people want them to? -

: The more senior engineers get, the more results matter - “as you become more senior, …

: Kubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy - Turns out computer are always …

: How Pair Programming Enhanced Development Speed, Focus, and Flow -

: Where Technology Executives Will Be Investing In 2026 - Looks like lots of datacenter buildout.

: Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me - Less …

: Java licensing snafus cost millions, drive developers to open source - ”One-quarter of respondents …

: Beyond London Summit 2025: Decoding Google Cloud’s Scale Narrative - Summary of stated Google cloud …

: AI industry’s size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues - Doing enterprises AI …

: Why I’m Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) - ‘Meanwhile, the …

: Internal Developer Platform Marketing, part 01 Most platform teams forget they have a product to sell to developers. Part one of my new series over …

: VMware Tanzu enhances support for generative AI and agents with Tanzu AI Solutions - “As …

: Identify, solve, verify - “My job is to identify problems that can be solved with code, then …

: Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027 -

: Gartner Survey Finds 45% of Organizations With High AI Maturity Keep AI Projects Operational for at …

: Trump’s pressure on Apple to make All-American phones ignores the last tech giant that tried and …

: Agentic Design Patterns, book draft -

: Musings on The AI Con - “ask more questions of those pushing AI into everything. What, …

: Arriving at ‘Hello World’ in enterprise AI - The (slow) nature of digital transformation hits AI …

: Why saying "please" is nice and pineapple skin, AI edition The AI Wired Parent“Why is saying ‘please’ nice?” my five year old daughter asked. Being a dad, I …

: VMware Tanzu CIO Checklist for Safer and More Scalable AI Application Delivery - If you’re …

: Key Lessons from Shipping AI Products Beyond the Hype -

: How Snowflake’s DevProd team operates -

: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals - “the projects we’ve worked on, …

: How should businesses kick off their AI initiatives? Time for the AI advice column - your doctors …

: A consumption basket approach to measuring AI progress - “In contrast, actual human users …

: Air France-KLM to increase intelligence of bots that have saved 200,000 hours - Four or five AI uses …

: “We’re gonna show, the young people, how to have an effective 30 minute meeting.” Perfect FoodsPerfect foods: traditional Tex-Mex refried beans; bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast …

: Untitled - “AI-generated art is abundant and cheap to produce. Yet they are both priced the …

: American - “I know the nationalities of my fellow oath-takers because of the next stage of the …

: AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases, Wikipedia - List of words and writing styles commonly found in AI …

: How to Fix Your Context - Lots to digest in here.

: Lessons learned from agentic AI leaders reveal critical deployment strategies for enterprises -

: AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study - ”Gartner still expects that by 2028 about 15 …

: KubeCon Is Starting To Sound a Lot Like VMCon -

: 2025: The State of Consumer AI, Menlo Ventures survey - “More than half of American adults …

: A think tool Giving AI an inner-voice with Model Context Protocol I separated out a “think tool” from …

: Pluralistic: What’s a “public internet?” (25 Jun 2025) - A lot of thinking about …

: Europe’s Sovereign Cloud Crossroads: Competitiveness vs Control - “Why has cloud sovereignty …

: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Versus VMs and Containers on Bare Metal - VMware Cloud …

: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and Private AI: Kubernetes On-Prem is “Having a Moment” - …

: 32 notes on AI & writing, Jasmine Sun - Some positive, growth oriented thinking about AI in …

: AI and Tech Jobs: More Evidence That Panic Isn’t Justified - ”32% said it has increased the number …

: Linux Foundation Appoints Jonathan Bryce to Lead CNCF - Good appointments.

: New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal - Looks good, helpful, and fun.

: How much does AI impact development speed? - “AI sped up task completion by ~21%.” // …

: Can you add AI to existing application - it's unsatisfying...so far If you program enterprise apps, it’s likely in Java. And if you Java, you probably use the Spring …

: The Am Dash - A version of the m-dash that’s purposefully human.

: Where should AI sit in your UI?. Mapping emerging AI UI patterns and how… -

: Stop pontificating about other people losing their jobs to AI and worry about your own job - More …

: The 2025 CEO Agenda: Leading in an AI-Driven World, IDC - “In what areas have you achieved …

: Microsoft is pushing Copilot, but everyone just wants ChatGPT - The ChatGPT brand is strong: …

: How Goodyear is trying to meet its “big, hairy, audacious goal” - time for tech execs to …

: Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud in Federal IT Modernization - More on the Broadcom private cloud …

: Expert Generalists - ”Traditional interview loops still revolve around product trivia - “Explain …

: My 2025 system prompt -

: Training LLMs on books judged as fair use - “In a nutshell, the judge says that legally …

: Three offensive robots Enterprise AI middleware & services with Tanzu Platform 10.2 There’s a big release for the platform …

: SB Payment Service Scales Applications with VMware Tanzu Platform - “SB Payment Service offers …

: Datadog DASH: A Revolving Door Of Operations And Security Announcements - This is probably a good …

: AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic -

: Creating a Communications Framework for Platform Engineering - Bryan covers internal community …

: Amazon bought Whole Foods eight years ago — now it’s bringing it deeper into the fold - This still …

: Broadcom’s answer to VMware pricing outrage: You’re using it wrong - IDC’s EMEA …

: OVHcloud chief in sovereignty talks with Euro Commission -

: Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It - “A few years ago, …

: Post-ZiRP Enterprise Self-care Checking in on the infinite workdayThis week’s Software Defined Talk episode: This week, we cover …

: Fatteh for Brunch, Cook’s Illustrated -

: As Consumers Turn To Agentic AI Use Cases, Businesses Must Adapt Or Be Left Behind - …

: Broadcom VMware hardens vDefend, drops Tanzu branding in VCF - The Tanzu Kubernetes stuff is renamed …

: Let’s talk about conversion optimisation and how we’re approaching it - Some web page marketing …

: Private Cloud’s Comeback: Driving the Enterprise IT Reset -

: Start small, win big: How to choose the right AI use cases - It may be the basics of any IT project, …

: Use Cases for VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 - Overview of …

: Is this your brain on ChatGPT? -

: Incremental AI is better than civilization changing AI Incremental AIFor every AI skeptic and alarmist, there are ten AI dreamers convinced AI will change …

: Why is digital sovereignty important right now? -

: Your Next Move: Capitalize on Marketing Your AI - Advice on marketing AI stuff.

: INFILTRATE. SURVEY. PERCEIVE by Reyes Makes Games - This is fun, kind of pranky game to play in a …

: ‘We’re done with Teams’: German state hits uninstall on Microsoft -

: Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Managers and the Allocation of Workers to Jobs by Virginia Minni …

: Edisum: Summarizing and Explaining Wikipedia Edits at Scale - A prompt for summarizing edits made to …

: UX Case Study: SubStack WIP - UI tricks.

: Detecting AI-Generated Text by Uncovering Its Statistical “Tells”Cloud - Community | Jun, 2025 | …

: ‘But I’m not creative’: The role of creativity and connection in content design - An overlooked part …

: How Kraft Heinz measures AI project value | CIO Dive - ”Team members use the platform to analyze …

: Digital News Report 2025, Reuters and Oxford - “These shows are filmed, with many people …

: Will Zero-Click Search Kill My B2B Website? - Make sure your marketing content gets picked up by the …

: The introverted traveler: Cologne A reliably good place for a mealArt museum restaurants and cafes can be a great place to hangout for …

: Gartner Predicts 50% of Organizations Will Abandon Plans to Reduce Customer Service Workforce Due to …

: Google Expands Sovereign Cloud to Address EU Data Sovereignty Requirements - “These …

: Introducing VMware Tanzu Greenplum 7.5: Enhanced Performance for Data-Intensive Workloads - VMware …

: Announcing The Forrester Wave™: DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025 - “GitHub Actions is becoming a de …

: Broadcom Q2 FY 2025 Sees Record Revenue, Solid AI and Software Growth - “Currently, over 87% …

: Platform Engineering: Evolution, Trends, and Future Impact on Software Delivery -

: Resume-driven Development Good wastebook list this episode, but first… Even the Germans suffer from RDDSome people actually …

: The European Sovereign Cloud Day Forecasts Stormy Weather For The Cloud Ecosystem - I watched this …

: FinOps Foundation’s FOCUS 1.2 Expands to SaaS, PaaS - Update from FinOps land. Still seems like a …

: AI in the Enterprise: Priorities, Pressures and Pragmatism - “38% of organizations have …

: OpenAI hits $10 billion in annualized revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth - “OpenAI has hit $10 …

: AI’s metrics question - “the real question, as I’ve hinted at a couple of times, is how …

: How Long Does It Take to Draw a Picture of Every Pub in London? - ”That was true in more ways than …

: Did we just make platform engineering much easier by shipping a cloud IDP?Architecture Musings - …

: Scaling Vibe-Coding in Enterprise IT: A CTO’s Guide to Navigating Architectural Complexity, …

: Three Dumb Studies for your consideration - Delightful ideas for scientific studies: …

: 1989: Japan Buys A Used President - This is an incredible piece of writing just one sample: …

: Patterns Across 5 Years of YC Investing - There’s always money in the Security Stand.

: Bluesky’s decline stems from never hearing from other side - ”When you never hear from the other …

: Starbucks to roll out Microsoft Azure OpenAI assistant for baristas - ”Instead of flipping through …

: OpenAI gives ChatGPT access to cloud-based documents and third-party research tools - The way to …

: Re: Still a lot of private cloud, numbers of cloud repatriation (higher than I thought) The CloudsYou know, I’ve never really looked at the Flexera State of Cloud surveys. I think they’re …

: PwC’s AI Agent Survey - ”Of the 300 senior executives in our May 2025 survey, 88% say their …

: Postfacto - Little utility to do team retros, from the Pivotal Labs folks. Open source, all that.

: Tips on prompting ChatGPT for UK technology secretary Peter Kyle - Good tips on working with AIs: …

: MCP Best Practices - Including unit tests!

: UK govt study: Copilot AI saved workers 26 minutes a day - Well, that’s one way to do the ROI …

: alto.index - Transform Your Apple Apps Data into AI-Ready Markdown - Export stuff from your Apple …

: The next bottleneck for enterprise AI: data Lots of links below, plus some sovereign cloud thinking from EU people in the Logoff. Access to data …

: The Triad of Agent Architecture: ADK, MCP, and Cloud Run -

: 6 Fixes For Your Solo TTRPG Campaign -

: The Prompt Engineering Playbook for Programmers -

: Just because Silicon Valley is pumped to make this junk doesn’t mean people will buy it - Not a fan …

: What do people do all day? - Possible “can AI can replace my job?” heuristic: how long …

: We waited 20 years for this! Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on an Informatica long game as growth …

: On the pleasure of reading private notebooks - Diaries (“journals”) and notebooks are …

: Broadcom’s Private Cloud Outlook 2025 Report Reveals Definitive Cloud Reset - “More than half …

: Beyond Launch - ‘In enterprise environments, silence gets interpreted as stagnation. …

: Red Hat Summit 2025: AI, Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud, And The Future Of Enterprise IT -

: Is AI just going to end up being about programming? - I think there’s about a 30% chance that …

: Cloud Repatriation is Getting Complicated - The repatriation thought-leading is taking hold. Even …

: Google Study: 65% of Developer Time Wasted Without Platforms - Better get a platform. // …

: Donald Trump’s digital landgrab - File under “sovereign cloud”: “The state …

: Nine Rules for Evaluating New Technology - It should be cheaper, better, and not cause a lot of …

: Moody Folkloric Fantasy – The Beast of Black Keep - This guy makes great, little adventures, …

: A New Look, A Clear Path - New IDC branding, logo, etc.

: Docling: An open-source tool kit for advanced document processing - Looks useful for getting …

: MCP Is the New Control Point in AI—Are CIOs Ready for the Lock-In Battle? - They get the date of the …

: Gartner Predicts by 2028, 80% of GenAI Business Apps Will Be Developed on Existing Data Management …

: How Ukraine’s Killer Drones Are Beating Russian Jamming - “A missile worth perhaps a million …

: United Airlines CEO: ‘We’re probably doing more AI than anyone’ - Finding what AI is useful for: …

: Snowflake must wait on customers' on-prem renewal cycles - You have to wait for the contract renewal …

: Broadcom reboots CloudHealth with enhancements to broaden FinOps use - SiliconANGLE -

: Making books that fly, fold, wrap, hide, pop up, twist, and turn : books for kids to make - …

: Still a lot - private cloud check-in, Spring 2025 Where are the workloads?Let’s check in on how much private there is nowadays. I think it’s somewhere …

: What are people asking for when they want to see your tech's ROI? I don't think they're asking for ROI at all. I’m thinking through the topic of ROI for infrastructure software again (obviously for our PaaS …

: Reinvent the Wheel - ”Reinvent for insight. Reuse for impact.

: Using ChatGPT as a therapist - …people like it.

: How to Lead an All-Hands After Delivering Bad News - “Create a shared mental model to make …

: MCP Is RSS for AI: More Use Cases for Model Context Protocol - I like this: “I’m …

: Dark leisure, eating sausage and vodka before a morning run Relative to your interestsLooks like it’s all AI except one link. Can you find it? Your First Spring …

: SEO for AI: A look at Generative Engine Optimization -

: Agentic AI delivers measurable value to early adopters - “More than one-quarter of …

: The luxury of saying no. - “Most people don’t get to say no. Not really. They’re …

: How does ChatGPT work? What is AI, really? - Good overview of the basics.

: Dark Leisure - ”in many orgs, there is too little incentive to pass on these productivity gains by …

: OpenAI consumer pivot shows AI isn’t B2B - Where are the business successes and mass …

: Azul CTO: Java at 30 Still Rules Enterprise Dev - Yes, and: Azul must have set a compare goal for …

: Opinions of using AI for solo role playing, reddit thread -

: Now's a great time to rediscover PaaS Norway, leaving OSL.My recap of Cloud Foundry Day is up on the Tanzu blog: check it out! I gave an …

: Google Translate Can Now Be Set as the Default Translation App on iOS - Set your Apple stuff to use …

: OpenAI updates its new Responses API rapidly with MCP support, GPT-4o native image gen, and more …

: Agents are models using tools in a loop - “Agents are models using tools in a loop,” …

: Google Translate Can Now Be Set as the Default Translation App on iOS - Set your Apple stuff to use …

: Exploited Kidfluencers: Dutch Cabinet wants stricter child labor rules for social media - ”Nobel …

: An example of coaching ChatGPT to be less wrong Here is an example of how you have to steer the robot (ChatGPT, below) to the right answer. You can …

: I really don’t like ChatGPT’s new memory dossier - Prompt to tell you what ChatGPT is …

: Gartner Survey Finds 77% of Engineering Leaders Identify AI Integration in Apps as a Major Challenge …

: It’s Not About “Nice” - ”So next time you read about organizations moving away from …

: Minimum Viable All the Things Max Ernst, 1934.Relative to your interestsMCP Authorization in practice with Spring AI and OAuth2 - …

: Generation Z leading shift toward GOP, survey shows - ”voters aged 18 to 21 now favor Republicans by …

: MCP Authorization in practice with Spring AI and OAuth2 - Filling in the missing piece of MCP: …

: Minimum Viable Humans. - “it’s only possible with algorithmic management taking over …

: morning computer sociomediapath - As ever, the way to improve productivity is stop interrupting …

: After months of coding with LLMs, I’m going back to using my brain - “I’m leveraging …

: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. - It’s still …

: Reports of Deno’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated - ”Most developers weren’t deploying …

: The Battle For Grounding Your AI Agents Has Begun - Data gravity considerations for AI.

: Proof (again!) of why enterprises need to focus on AI strategic value over cost-cutting - …

: The new economics of enterprise technology in an AI world - This is a strange collage of IT project …

: Patience, plumbing, and the pricing of everything Relative to your interestsWhen was peak message in a bottle? - Only 80s kids will get this: …

: The coyote trap. - “Call it whatever you will, I don’t care, but we’re on a new …

: Pricing: A List of Tactics - Some mind-tricks to play with pricing.

: Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor? - Checks out on both sides.

: When was peak message in a bottle? - Only 80s kids will get this: “grandfather clocks; suits …

: Anthropic closes $2.5 billion credit facility - “Annualized revenue reached $2 billion in the …

: Platform Engineering: Evolution or Rebranding? - Get yourself a PaaS. // “the idea of a …

: "the great murderer of boredom" My ContentTwo Software Defined episodes this week: "I used to eat 7-Eleven pizza," startups, open …

: Why so many IT projects go so horribly wrong - Latest in “why do IT projects fail?” …

: Mexico and China didn’t take manufacturing jobs from the Rust Belt - ”A big missing part of the …

: A2A Protocol: The Universal Language for AI Agents -

: Blitzscaling for tyrants - by Henry Farrell -

: AI agents drive Boomi’s vision for scalable automation - Adding MCP support.

: Shadow AI Isn’t a Threat: It’s a Wake-up Call - “Shadow AI isn’t the enemy – …

: Texas’ Regulatory Landscape | Mercatus Center - ”Texas is the 5th most regulated state in the US” // …

: Revisiting the clouds - “Fast forward to today, and the PaaS market has been significantly …

: Learning to Reason for Long-Form Story Generation - I can’t read Math-Greek, so don’t …

: Why is AI not in your productivity statistics? - I like one of the ideas here: when AI makes things …

: news that stays news - What’s old to you is completely new to younger people, no matter how …

: Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products -

: GenX - working as designed More on the Tanzu AI StackAs you may recall, along with several colleagues, I worked on the Tanzu …

: Why Gen X is the real loser generation - I was there for the design meetings. Works as designed. I …

: AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests -

: A CEO of AI Applications Marks a New Era of AI Competition - Digging the moats: “Like airplane …

: Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad’s founder has a second job with the VA - Fast Company - It’s always …

: Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women - …

: Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM - “Just over half (52 percent) of CEO …

: Three Reasons to Write More in an Age When Writing Means Less. - Write (and publish in the web) oto …

: iPad Goat Ears Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. This is more of a “smoke break chair,” but I’ll allow it.Relative to …

: William Gibson - September 1997 interview.

: It’s time we stopped asking for vases. - Most people cram their AI prompts with so many rules …

: mobygratis - Free Moby music to empower your creative projects - Free to use as long as you …

: Three Essential ROI Goals for Agentic AI Applications -

: The work at hand - “Vernacular institutions:” They are more useful than they are …

: 28 slightly rude notes on writing - by Adam Mastroianni - ”Somehow, whenever I finish a draft, my …

: What’s the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT? - “Developers burning through $100 of …

: VMware’s Kubernetes Evolution -

: Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going? - You know, I bet it has the effect of …

: Nine Emerging Developer Patterns for the AI Era -

: Why Bro Culture Still Holds Teams Back at Work -

: Has DOGE missed its opportunity? - This is general advice for digital transformation, too. // And, …

: PepsiCo taps AWS to accelerate digital transformation, AI adoption | CIO Dive - ”Enterprises across …

: A behind the scenes glimpse of the launch of GPT-4 - Fun anecdotes about OpenAI figuring out that …

: The Titan Who Couldn’t Let Go - Founder mode case study: “There’s a pattern here, and …

: Getting things “done” in large tech companies - If the executives don’t know you …

: How to make MCP Prompts in Java with Spring AI - Coding Model Context Protocol Prompts - Solo roleplaying D&D with agentic AI, #04 Let’s get the AI to build D&D adventures for us with a Model Context Protocol Prompt. I …

: How to create a Model Context Protocol Resource - Solo roleplaying D&D with agentic AI, #03 The AIs are good at being a Dungeon Master for Dungeons & Dragons, but their memory is limited. …

: Half-ass Vibe Coding I was on Cloud Foundry Weekly yesterday. We discussed “vibe coding.” More precisely, what I think of …

: Spy on the DM with Model Context Protocol Servers in Java - Solo roleplaying D&D with agentic AI, #02 Not only can you give more direction to the AI when you’re playing solo D&D with it, you …

: ChatGPT is very good at making D&D battle maps D&D battle maps are one of the funnest parts of D&D. Just looking at them is fun, finding …

: Make an oracle with an MCP Server in Java with Spring AI - Solo roleplaying D&D with agentic AI, #01 Playing D&D with ChatGPT, Claude, or whatever is fun. But sometime you want more control over …

: Broadcom’s Tanzu gets AI updates, but is definitely not Kubernetes - Purnima Padmanabhan, GM …

: A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs -

: VMware ups Tanzu’s gen AI support, sheds Kubernetes dependence - Tanzu Platform integrates …

: This 7,000-year-old mummy DNA has revealed a ‘ghost’ branch of humanity - A lost genetic line.

: Top 10 Platform Engineering Takeaways from PlatEngDay & KubeCon London 2025 - I should probably …

: Drew Struzan: The Man Behind Your Favorite Childhood Movie Posters -

: Augmented Coding: an Experience Report - Getting an app released requires so many things that humans …

: Keith McNally’s Regrets… and his Dazzling, Driven Life - Sounds like fun-good book. // …

: MCP Validator -

: AI in the enterprise: what’s already at your disposal...some of you, at least If you’re using Tanzu Platform, you have pretty much everything you need to start getting AI into …

: Docker introduces MCP Catalog and Toolkit as vendors scramble to support the protocol despite …

: Google Fi is launching a $35 / month unlimited plan - If you have the means, I highly recommend …

: Broadcom Helps GCI Transform Operations and Services on the Alaskan Frontier - “The …

: How to think about agent frameworks - Nerd fight?

: Diane, I wrote a lecture by talking about it (Interconnected) - Prompt for converting voice memo …

: Heroku’s Strategic Refresh Signals Renewed Investment from Salesforce - Overview of “the …

: The whole arc of OpenStack This was a fun discussion: Also, subscribe to the podcast! During the interview I realized that …

: OpenAI Requires Identity Verification For Access To Its Latest Models - Not sure what to think about …

: “Still Federating After All These Years”: The Realities Of EA Maturation - Letter from the …

: A Visit to Costco in France - I could feel my heart racing in excitement as I scrolled through this. …

: OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access - Ars Technica - Good overview …

: A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products – O’Reilly - Testing AI-driven software: you need to …

: money dysmorphia - To individuals, the economy is everyday, re-occurring costs and income, not …

: The average college student today - Us Gen-X’ers have fully entered the “you kids, get …

: Writing good docs is important for agentic AI and Model Context Protocol, and developers are terrible at writing good docs One quick things up-top: this week (tomorrow!), get an overview and demos of the private AI stack …

: Why Are All the Smart People So Bad at History? - “The structure of rationalist and …

: One year ago Redis changed its license – and lost most of its external contributors -

: The Agentic Evolution of Enterprise Applications -

: JavaOne 2025 Highlights Developer Productivity, Language Modernization - A quick overview of the …

: How agentic AI makes decisions and solves problems - ”In 2025, 25% of companies that use genAI will …

: Google Cloud engineering chief: that Kubernetes dev experience? Sorry about that… - ‘”McCleod, …

: IDC Predicts AI-driven Transformation By 2025 - “Key findings from the IDC report include a …

: IDC Publishes New, Actionable AI Research at Annual ‘Directions’ Event - “Currently, 51% of …

: Google boards the AI agent hype train - A summary of all the boring enterprise worries with AI. …

: KubeCon 2025: Technology Resilience, Sovereignty, And Security In An Era Of Political Change - …

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: Writing Examples - Good for itself, and probably good for instructing The AI.

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: RTO or GFTO - RTO is like a dress code.

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: Platform Engineering Reshapes Software Dev at Bechtle - Customer case or Bechtle using Humanitec.

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: Five Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Platform-as-a-Product - Text version of a good talk.

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: Measuring the impact of Developer Relations on Revenue - Figure out how to gather leads, and figure …

: Are platforms pointless? - ‘So much of “platform engineering” treats the …

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: DevRel’s Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon - A list of how to show marketing value.

: Jevons paradox - When you automate something very valuable (or just “costly”), people …

: How to blackmail your boss into adopting platform engineering, DevOps, agile, etc. This is a good talk listing some tactics for changing how organizations work. It’s targeted at …

: AI transforming banking, reports UBS executive - ”The Swiss bank has integrated AI into its …

: The World Is Eating Software - The software bubble. Also commentary on power steering.

: Accountability Sinks - ’“accountability sink”: a situation in which a human system delegates …

: Japan’s digital minister claims victory against floppy disks - ”Japan’s digital …

: The Blue-State Wealth Exodus Continues - State income tax flight: “The IRS last week …

: Frontline workers split on AI’s workplace impact - ”Nearly 3 in 5 workers using generative AI say …

: How To Measure Platform Engineering - Suggested metrics: “Market share. Onboarding time. Net …

: Join the public beta for GenAI on Tanzu Platform today! - Get your own private AI in a box sandbox …

: Why Supercloud Architectures Could Upend Cloud Computing – Or Not | IDC Blog - ”IDC’s March 2024 …

: DevOps Isn’t Dead, but It’s Not in Great Health Either - Round-up of surveys showing that the …

: Publishing an annual survey is a great marketing tool, even better for thought-leadership Using Surveys for MarketingWastebookThey dress like they’re Chaotic Good, but they’re totally Lawful …

: A Eulogy for DevOps - “Feels like somehow Developers got stuck with a lot more work and …

: Kubernetes Security Report: Evolving Landscape of DevSecOps - Red Hat Kubernetes surveys results, …

: Gartner Survey Shows 66% of Finance Leaders Think Generative AI Will Have Most Immediate Impact on …

: Don’t be results-oriented - Make sure your factory is functioning well.

: What to put in tech marketing newsletters I’m always telling my marketing friends that they should do more newsletters. They have so …

: What I do with AI, what I've given up on Consumer-grade Chat Gen-AI Churn UpdateOverall, the generative AI things have been a disappointment …

: Enterprise hits and misses - gen AI spending meets ROI pressure, AI readiness is a thing, and AR/VR …

: How Much Revenue Must a Company Generate to IPO? - “Before 2018, only one company IPOed with …

: YouTube dominates streaming, forces media companies to adapt - ’YouTube made up 9.7% of all …

: Tactics for having a good executive dinner I’ve hosted a lot of executive dinners for work - maybe 50 or 60 over the past several years…? These …

: I setup a page with most all of my Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam pictures: “most all” that …

: "Consistency" - the less platforms, the better Have you tried having less?Standardized. Centralized. Consistent. Those words I use over and over …

: AnythingLLM - Could this really be an easy to use, desktop ChatAI thing? Will check.

: Delivering Great Developer Experiences with Platform Engineering - A whole lot of first hand …

: Developer productivity metrics, 1970s sausage fonts, only the “grown and sexy” are welcome Once again, I am bringing you only links and funny pieces of text. Relative to your …

: Docker Launches 2024 State of Application Development Report - Survey for future newsletter …

: PDF to Podcast - Could be super cool.

: The breath of the gods - Video influencer technique: have the video format/style match the medium. …

: How CIOs can ease the generative AI transition for developers - “AI-powered coding tools are …

: Measuring Engineering Productivity, at Google, circa 2020 - “If the decider doesn’t believe …

: Developer Experience: What not to do - In summary: don’t be enterprise software. Less crass: …

: How to Evaluate Video Performance in Developer Relations - The answer: track CTAs.

: Zoom CEO envisions AI deepfakes attending meetings in your place - AIs “are terrible tools for …

: Cloud Native App Platforms: New Research Shows Struggles and Hope - Building your own (Kubernetes) …

: 9 Questions to Help You Figure Out Why You’re Burned Out - This is concise and good. Yes, and: what …

: Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped RTO would make staff quit - Also, people on the office feel the need …

: How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one - An overview …

: Against optimization - The idea that you need slack in the system intuitively makes sense, but it …

: 3 traits of an entrepreneurial mindset - Yes, and…how can executives setup a system where …

: Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix - So many business bullshit terms here!

: How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written - Fast to post, few approvals, technical …

: I have a beef with “content” - I think what they mean is “the cost of buying content is near …

: 65% of developers learning to live with Kubernetes State of Spring Survey 2024The State of Spring Survey 2024 is out, you can get it for free, of …

: What does the public in six countries think of generative AI in news? - Reuters Institute for the …

: AI Patterns - A marketer’s candy store of enterprise AI value-props and positioning. Also: …

: The Emerging Technologies That Will Drive The Future Of Payments - “A 2023 Forrester survey …

: "Right Now, It's Like This" Enterprise AI in HealthcareHere’s my interview with my co-worker, JT Perry, on actual uses (current …

: Excuse the navel-gazing - “TikTok heavily favors videos edited inside their app. YouTube is …

: The AI Trust Fall - Even though humans are more error prone than computers, we trust the work of …

: JPMorgan ramps up prompt engineering training, AI projects | CIO Dive …

: Training is not the same as chatting: ChatGPT and other LLMs don’t remember everything you say …

: HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm - Reverse engineering …

: Interview - WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana on being acquired by major investor - “In the last …

: Survey reveals generative AI employee fear - Lots of hopes and dream, not enough projects and …

: The Tanzu Platform - platform engineering in a box The Tanzu Platform - platform engineering in a box for private cloudThis week, at my work, we …

: "Be an active bystander." Just wastebook and links this episode. WastebookIf you’re a writing type suffering from imposter’s …

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: Taking a careful approach to AI in marketing - There’s a lot of analysis that we should all be …

: The Artists and Cartoonists Who Designed Pee-wee Herman’s World - “I remember feeling …

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: The purpose of enterprise airport ads The week so far, a selectionI don’t really know what “platform engineering” isLast episode I shared …

: What exactly is "developer experience"? Press PassI’m speaking at the SHIFT conference next week in Zadar, Croatia. Here’s some questions …

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: HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business - Extensive look into the HasiCorp …

: Forrester’s Impressions: VMware Explore 2023 - A brief overview of VMware’s strategy and …

: It’s Not You, It’s Me: What It Really Means When Budget Is The Reason For The Breakup - Something …

: The Works of Mars, 1671 - Fortification engineering.

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: Here’s Something Past Its Expiration Date: the Expiration Date Itself - “Food experts broadly …

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: What VMware’s AI Vision Means for Your Job - Figuring out how AI will affect tech stuff.

: Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT - 30% to 40% (for young adult …

: Man, Myth & Magic The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Mythology 21 Volumes In 1 - This is the kind …

: Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid - A lot more on dark mode than you thought …

: Mindsets and Tactics for New Leaders of Software Teams - Seems like good stuff.

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.

: IncrativeOps - or notes from a recovering thought-leader If you can’t be at DevOpsDays Des Moines later this week (or stackconf in Berlin next week) to …

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: Lots of Marvel super heroes this halloween, but a little more clowns than the last two years Not much today. Halloween Clown TailwindsFrom Chris Rogers at S&P Global Market Intelligence.“Among …

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: Halloween creeps a little closer: Seasonal supply chains accelerate - “Among outfits, the best …

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: ChatGPT finds a role playing Dungeons & Dragons - This is what spurred me to start using ChatGPT …

: Why We Glorify Overwork and Refuse to Rest - One of the better explanations of what’s …

: The new spreadsheet? OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Enterprise for businesses - Can handle longer …

: Europe’s new rules for Big Tech start today. Are they ready? - “Under the DSA digital …

: When "customer Value" is weird framing, if not dangerous Don’t get hung up on “customer value” and “business value”I feel like this metaphor of “customer …

: US judge: Art created solely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted - This is going to be …

: Generative AI dominates VMware Explore news - AI uses in the VMware stack.

: Developers Are the Future Of VMware (Part 2): Multi-Cloud and AI | by Torsten Volk - Good examples …

: I tried to get ChatGPT to summarize VMware Explore 2023 for me. I don’t know, it wasn’t …

: Rye Leafoot's Guide to Elderwood: The Lost Tribe Preface In the annals of Eldergrove’s tangled history, a formidable tapestry of culture and …

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: Pixie Mischief Pixies, those delightful and mischievous denizens of the Elderwood, are as much a part of the forest …

: Rye Leafoot's Guide to Elderwood: The Whispering Willow Ah, the Whispering Willow! Or just ‘The Willow’ if you’re trying to sound casual while nursing …

: Rye Leafoot's Guide to Elderwood: Aurel's Reach At the very heart of the Elderwood, Aurel’s Reach unfurls. Envision the central region of the …

: VMware Explore’s 5 Big Reveals: Updates To Tanzu, vSAN, NSX+, Workspaces And An AI Deal With Nvidia …

: Making vision and strategy practical Suggested episode theme song. How are things going for you?Avoid using Vision and Strategy as an …

: Culture vultures - “Traditional word-based culture—and, sure, I’ll stick Twitter into that …

: Non-knowing growing - “…non-knowing, growing. It’s what babies do when they learn to …

: It’s Time To Tell The Healthcare CX Story In Terms Of ROI - The focus is healthcare, here, but this …

: How Barbie Went Viral - “by creating meme-able content, centering your audience instead of …

: Necronomicon all’italiana - Fantastic stuff.

: Cloud-native approaches are now default software development practices - Highlights from a recent …

: The next generation of developer productivity – O’Reilly - As ever nowadays, developer productivity …

: Days Notes, August, 2023 I’ve been off the publishing grid for awhile, even off the consuming the Internet grid. This …

: 80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office - Hmm. It seems really hard to tell what …

: Bike maker VanMoof also files for bankruptcy in Germany - I had no idea that this luxury bike …

: As HashiCorp adopts the BSL, an era of open-source software might be ending - Is it too soon to say …

: Checking In On ChatGPT - Text-centric AI best used for text-centric toil: “The most common …

: PDFs vs. web pages: what’s better for users? - Bad things are bad, and using a thing for …

: Helen Garner on happiness: ‘It’s taken me 80 years to figure out it’s not a tranquil, sunlit realm’ …

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: Half-harpy I’ve had an unhealthy1 obsession with getting my kids to play D&D recently - they asked to! So, I …

: We try the Marks and Spencer Roast Beef and Onion Crisps, or Chips as us Americans would say.

: Money spent on containerized workloads is growing fast, but overall spend is still small compared to traditional infrastructure PSA: I recommend that you use your personal email address to subscribe to this newsletter. We're …

: What the New Relic Sale Means for SaaS - Time to go start Wily 3.

: Why haven’t internet creators become superstars? - “Internet stardom bestows no glamor.

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: Fantasy Meets Reality - “If it looks neat, people will want to take a photo with it. If it …

: Why is developer experience so bad if we all think software is so important? This week’s Tanzu Talk podcast (video above) is all about developer experience, and COBOL: "75% of …

: Forrester VMware Executive Checklist for DevEx - “75% of IT and business executives say that …

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: Free Lunch - Some strong Amsterdam type vibes here. // “Free Lunch is an all-caps display font …

: The DoD: A Compelling Case for Extreme Programming - Good overview of why/how the practices in …

: Waiting for the close of open - how long can the 2000s spirit of open source and open APIs last? Midjourney: Medieval serfs defending a castle from demons in the style of Hieronymus Bosch, from …

: Change takes a long time - This is my new thing after five years of talking with large companies …

: People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars - “Unsurprisingly, more …

: What connected-car services are consumers willing to pay for? - There’s some fun …

: Lines of Code - When there’s no perfect and easy measure, you have to (“end up”?) …

: The problem with t-shirt schwag at tech conferences Ever wonder why there’s not more t-shirts at tech conferences? Marketing people hate getting …

: A4 Issue 1 July 2022 – Notes from the Drawing Board - This kind of thing is fantastic.

: Throw someone a pep rally - Two thumbs up!

: 202306 - apenwarr - ’If you take a single pull request (PR) that adds a new feature, and launch it …

: IT spending soars, generative AI investments barely leave a mark - These forecasts have been …

: No one has an “appetite for risk” - “I think there is a better way to express what …

: If you’re so smart, why are we all still so dumb? We’re back from a three day weekend in London for our anniversary. I tried very hard to eliminate …

: personal organization - “Here’s my one piece of advice about personal organization: …

: What the Government Email Account Hack Says About the Future of Cybersecurity - Always be securing …

: IncrementalOps Beware of High Expectations in Enterprise TechHere are three charts. First, while everyone is …

: The mystery of how many developers there are in the world: is it 100 million, or more like 16 million? Finding an estimate of how many developers there are in the world is difficult. Oh, there’s plenty …

: Security Team Culture Matters - Being in security should be a happy job. // “Security and risk …

: Deploying the Swift Method to Modernize a Singapore Government Legacy System - Good description of …

: "Shift Left (and leave)" versus "Shift Left (and stay)" Only 22% of software developers say they have a clear understanding of what they need to do to …

: In the face of volatility, CFOs—and their organizations—adapt - Belt-tightening watch. Lots of …

: IBM takes on AWS, Google, and Microsoft with Watsonx - If it works, it lets enterprises build up …

: Beware the Digital Whiteboard - The assertion: writing with whiteboarding/Sticky notes is not good, …

: Summarizing Articles with ChatGPT Works Again Our final talk in our software stuff for financial organizations is coming up tomorrow. Above is a …

: Steve McQueen by, John Dominis - That guy made being cool look easy.

: Steve McQueen by, John Dominis - That guy made being cool look easy.

: Island Series: 6 Pack - These look like more amazing notebooks from a boutique shop.

: Adopt Platform Engineering to Scale Application Security Practices - “Gartner Survey Data …

: ChatGPT web traffic falls 10%, analytics show - Indeed. I think I’ve found the limitations. …

: Scratch Pad: Fireworks, Bootlegs, Spock - “I remain convinced that most categories of online …

: Porter’s Five Forces and the social web - There’s something interesting to do here in …

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam

: Less Upcoming Than Usual A bonus Sunday episode! Waking up this morning, my first thought was how different my job is now …

: If Books Could Kill - The Podcast Review #01 I listen to a lot of podcasts, and have for, I don’t know, over 20 years. I’ve made and make a lot …

: 2023-07-07 day note Put out a newsletter today. The musings on using ChatGPT for school obscure the real treat: me …

: Unleash developer productivity with generative AI, McKinsey survey - Their survey says it’s …

: Pulling On Threads - I forgot about the “bring your whole self” thing.

: How can my kids use ChatGPT to be better students? When a good teacher seems like cheatingAll of the worrying about cheating with ChatGPT is hiding its …

: Amazon Prime Video’s Microservices Move Doesn’t Lead to a Monolith after All - The New Stack - At …

: Rocky Linux project details how it will live on - “Nobody chooses RHEL because it’s …

: How legacy tech can kill recruiting efforts, increase attrition and ruin the employee experience, …

: Five Nos - “‘yeses’ matter more than ‘nos,’ and taking more chances …

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: The eternal first inning of cloud LEGACY SOFTWARE AT BANKS! That's the topic of the talk my colleague and I are giving tomorrow. You …

: Patterns vs Platforms - It’s all hard stuff. Instead of centralized platforms, perhaps …

: The Homework Apocalypse substack.com/inbox/pos… How to incorporate ChatGPT (etc.) in school …

: Confused Coté Corner: The RHEL Drama Recent picture of me trying to figure this all out. (I seem to have forgotten my toupee that …

: Midjourney and Adobe Stock - Using AI to make stock photography, etc.

: The real story of how Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google - …

: Gsma | Mobile Industry Eyes Five Billion ‘Dormant’ Phones Sitting In Desk Drawers For Reuse Or …

: Midjourney and Adobe Stock - Using AI to make stock photography, etc.

: ‘Zero trust’ was supposed to revolutionize cybersecurity. Here’s why that …

: Beyond belt-tightening: How marketing can drive resiliency during uncertain times | McKinsey - …

: 28 Questions to Ask Your Boss in Your One-on-Ones - Good things to talk about in your meetings if …

: A modern-era lift and shift: Danske Bank seeks massive cost-to-income ratio improvement with the …

: Software as strategy I really liked how this first talk in out three part series came out. I wanted to talk as much as …

: Lessons learned from Cloud Foundry for the platform engineering community Here’s my talk from Cloud Foundry Day, last week: The Cloud Foundry community has been around for a …

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: How's DevOps been going? Has DevOps reached its goals from way back in the late 2000’s: deploying multiple times a day and …

: It’s time for the Kubernetes value line - “There’s a reason the saying ‘culture eats …

: Link catsup I’m at Cloud Foundry Day today - travel, conference, etc. I realized I’m giving the last talk, which …

: Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? – Café Lob-On - Difficulty crossing the chasm. But, come on: …

: All those naked Greeks… - I think the conclusion is status, power, beauty, and sex.

: Bluesky Has Problems - Me: there aren’t enough people and, thus, communities yet. Also: …

: 2023-06-18 yesterday note Mid-day. For Father’s Day, Kim set me up with a nice hotel room that has a sauna in it. I …

: Rest for the restless - “Maybe it’s my low tolerance for boredom. I can’t help but do …

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: The past is not what’s normal, the present is.

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: Catching up on the HOT links Do you like words like: security - governance - PCI - regulation - SBOMs?! Then you should attend …

: Celebrity photographer Chris Floyd shares six pieces of career advice everyone can learn from - …

: Gartner’s Enterprise Value Equation for Business Value of Platform Engineering - Metrics and …

: What is platform engineering? - “Here are the key pillars of platform engineering, as I see …

: What Is Platform Engineering, and What Does It Do? - Lori Perri at Gartner defines platform …

: Citi to cut 5K jobs citing tech initiatives - Not good for the pro-AI crowd. // ‘Citi’s …

: Change Fatigue In Digital Transformation: Where Has All The Value Gone? - Ways to keep the digital …

: Change Management In Digital Transformation: There’s No Tunnel, There’s No Light - “21% of …

: The Quest for Better, Faster Deals - The highest quality deals are driven by strategy and vision …

: Singapore Bank DBS: A Blueprint For Digital Transformation In Finance - Nothing on how these changes …

: Reports Of OpenStack’s Death Greatly Exaggerated - Hmmm….I mean, I think it’s fairly …

: AI And B2B Marketing — Three Opportunities And Challenges To Ponder - “Half my advertising …

: 2023-06-13 day note What is the deal with Disney live action kid shows? Do they have a team that makes sure they all …

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: 2023-06-09 day note A lot of post-production video work today. Doing all the work after you film and then fully edit a …

: DevOps vs. Platform Engineering Midjourney: a Soviet style poster with a software developer standing triumpantly on-top of a pile of …

: Apple Savings Accounts Funds Withdrawal Concerns - “Customers who have requested withdrawals …

: Take care of your legacy software before it kills your ability to innovate I want to try a new video format: the Quick Comment. Just one “fact” or idea and 45 …

: Improving developer productivity with Platform as a Product, from PlatformCon 2023 - Great talk from …

: Microsoft Design - Wallpapers - Fun! Including the old XP one in 4K somewhere.

: Netherlands enables contactless payments on entire public transport network - Yup, it’s pretty …

: 2023-06-08 day note Today’s newsletter has just a few links, some quirky quotes, and a list of upcoming …

: You can't avoid lock-in I have a new video, opining on multi-cloud and how Kubernetes might could help with fears of lock-in …

: Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button - If you value writing by the time put into it …

: 7 Core Elements of an Internal Developer Platform - The reinvention of PaaS continues // The Eternal …

: The Care and Feeding of Internal Developer Platforms - Five benefits of monitoring and managing …

: Avoid cloud lock-in with Kubernetes, findings from the 2023 VMware State of Kubernetes Survey 76% of respondents in our State of Kubernetes 2023 survey say they use multiple clouds - …

: How to find an are.na RSS feed I like are.na - it’s fun, and not icky. Having to pay a little bit to post more than 200 items …

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: Monoliths, Microservervices and Mainframes – Reflections on Amazon Prime Video’s Monolith Move - …

: Escape the Legacy Trap: 5 Keys to Successful Application Modernization - Modernize those apps!

: 2023-06-07 day note Mid-day, when I have time. Another webinar in the can: my analysis of our 2023 State of Kubernetes …

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: 2023-06-05 day note I had two recordings today. One on the platform maturity model draft, a paper I got the chance to …

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: Are you a backpack only, or a carry on bag with wheels traveler? Mostly links today. I’ve been traveling this week and preparing and bunch of stuff to publish in the …

: 2023-06-02 day note Traveling back home, to Amsterdam, today. Yesterday’s VMUG Belgium talk went fine. Since it …

: 2023-05-31 day note The day’s not over yet, but I’ve got two but things coming up the rest of the evening …

: Maximizing value, controlling cost with cloud FinOps - “Among current users, 56% report that …

: Identity Crisis - A Tale of DevRel -

: Do You Shop Online? So Do Your B2B Buyers! - “75% of B2B buyers prefer a rep-free experience, …

: 2023-05-30 day note I recorded a podcast today on security in cloud native. Security can seem like an incomprehensible …

: Some UK digital transformation retros Just links this episode. Some fantastic #gartnercoreFrom “Technical Insights: Battle of the APIs — …

: What I did this summer, the PowerPoint - You should probably cut the first five slides of your deck

: An Infinite Game: Interview with Laurel Schwulst - “when I use ChatGPT, I’ve noticed …

: The Forbidden Zone - ’Back then, you were a webmaster, doing it all.

: European HVAC - Air conditioners to be big in Europe?

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: Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance? - Analysis of IBM’s AI stuff. Also, a good side point: …

: The Pessimism Problem Continues to Grow - It’s 60% now: ’Back in 2020, I wrote a post titled …

: A framework for council technology planning – SensibleTech - “We don’t have much – if any – …

: Touchpoints, coalescence and multi-platform engineering — thoughts from Kubecon 2023 - A sum up of …

: Retrospective of 10 years of digital in the UK government - Great overview of the past ten(?) years …

: Manage process before people - File under “must be nice…"

: Majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it - “Just 14% of U.S. adults have …

: Extending the Pivotal Labs Way: How Tanzu Labs Helps Organizations Deliver Great Software - All …

: How Ecosystems Are Changing Insurance CX - An example of using digital stuff to improve insurance, …

: Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) - As with most things, the whole …

: Don't wait until 2025, you should be using generative AI stuff for most all of your marketing work today Suggested theme song for this episode: 30% in 2025 implies low use in 2023 From the recent Gartner …

: Cutting Costs by Cutting Waste - Instead of removing travel, R&D, etc. (which were thought to be …

: How Agile Value Management Creates Value Faster - Some metrics for measuring progress.

: On-Premises Cloud Is a Failure. Google Has the Fix - Or you could run Cloud Foundry and call it a …

: Kubernetesless is just someone else’s Kubernetes Read to the end to see an illustration of the inner workings of cloud infrastructure. For all the …

: Qlik acquires Talend to solidify data governance and quality -

: First Attempt at Gathering DORA Metrics - Not easy.

: It’s the agile mindset that matters for local government - getting local government to do agile is …

: Day 868 and Chunks - Knowing what your or your organization’s goals are in enough difficult to …

: The secret of selling your product to enterprises - Sales is hard and expensive because of all the …

: Economist Daron Acemoglu: ‘When mistakes involve powerful technologies, you’re going to have …

: Dumping links like Galileo dumped the orange - There’s a lot going on here: ‘These are …

: Start Your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery - For when you’re doing …

: The Cult of the Founders - Operating a large tech company is a different set of skills than …

: “The Dead Silence of Goods”: Annie Ernaux and the Superstore - The culture of big box stores as seen …

: ICYMI: Instagram’s New App Could Be Here By June - Adding a microblog to Instagram?! // …

: Weird Chips Reviews: Two Farmers Herefordshire Sausage & Mustard Crisps LogoffSee y’all next time!

: - Innovator’s Dilemma dynamics - “while a $40 million company needs to find just $8 …

: Adding A Product-Led Growth Strategy To A Traditional B2B Organization - Among other things: …

: Josh Long at Devoxx UK: Showcasing Bootiful Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 - “In his humoristic …

: The 90s Obsession With Transparent Technology - Clearly a good read.

: Gartner Says Four Trends are Shaping the Future of Cloud, Data Center and Edge Infrastructure - Some …

: MariaDB walks tightrope between commerce and open source - “It recorded a 26 percent …

: AI Act: a step closer to the first rules on Artificial Intelligence - “AI systems with an …

: Eyecandy - Visual Technique Library - Different, fun camera techniques.

: Stop worrying about cloud-lock-in, and outages, Gartner - Perhaps there’s enough good in …

: A Formula For Pitching CIOs - Pretty good for any pitch.

: Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved - “Above $2-5M/year annual spend is where bringing …

: TP–7 - teenage engineering - This is the weirdest looking recording gear I’ve ever seen. …

: Twitter doesn’t drive many substuck views - “At the start of the year, Twitter on …

: IBM Watson missed the AI revolution, but Watsonx could become the heartbeat of the Generative …

: Gartner Says Layoffs May Ultimately Harm Shareholder Returns - After firing people to lower costs, …

: Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring -

: Monoliths vs micro-services, here we go again -

: Apple Makes More Fintech Moves With High-Yield Savings Account From Goldman Sachs - Very detailed …

: LCY station, London.

: VMware strives to become the multi-cloud leader - Overview of VMware’s current strategy, etc. …

: Introducing Kubecost Cloud: Now in Open Beta! - - FinOps!

: IBM looks to turn nearly 8,000 jobs over to artificial intelligence, CEO says - ’“I could easily see …

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: Bish at the Bank: Live in Baltimore by Walter Bishop Jr.

: KubeCon Europe 2023 highlights Kubernetes explosion and need for instant platform engineering, CNCF …

: Jeffrey Bernard put it when I went to interview him: “As if there was something romantic and …

: Setting the Record Straight on Cloud Computing ROI - Ability to add new features(quickly), access to …

: Why Are You Doing This? (Wrong Answers Only) - Some of these are mostly (only?) for companies …

: Use Forrester’s insights to calm depositors and prevent a bank run - Europeans are trusting …

: The Definition Of “More From Less” In B2B Content Strategy And Operations - The best tip here to …

: How To Be Resilient: 5 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard -

: Will Platform Engineering Get Loved To Death? -

: The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky : The Mystery of Everyday Life -

: Build A Platform Engineering Team To Support Your Organization’s Prize Talent -

: Scaling Beyond the Pilot in Public Sector Organizations -

: CD Foundation Releases Fourth State of Continuous Delivery Report, 2023 - In these surveys (based on …

: Enterprise interest in sovereign cloud on the rise, survey - “In a poll of 1,000 enterprise leaders …

: FinOps! Five Cost Management Tips for IT Leaders, IDC - Good chart of what people are doing to …

: I’m giving a talk about platform engineering lessons learned at Devoxx UK this week, May 10th …

: Spring Cloud Gateway: The Swiss Army Knife of Cloud Development - Hooking up your applications and …

: The Cloudcast: How AI will Impact Cloud-native - This is incredibly comprehensive.

: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam

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: Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.

: 1970s grocery store, wide angle. Midjourney.

: Another bank bites the dust. Three recommendations to wring opportunity out of this so-called …

: Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? - “Today, we find ourselves in a situation in which …

: News Minimalist - AI sends you only significant real-world news.

: Snacks stand, Amsterdam, 2021.

: In the Netherlands, a little bit of Texas for breakfast is still possible.

: 📹 Kubernetes is getting better for developers, especially as they manage it less themselves This is the first of a few videos and blog posts I have on our annual Kubernetes survey, which you …

: Managing Tech Debt Much like financial debt, technical debt is helpful when managed responsibly, but like real debt, …

: Everything is big in America & the men don't wear designer purses I’m a Texan living in Amsterdam, so when I come back to the States (Dallas and Austin this time), I …

: Urgency I’ve started writing this bit two times (see the community one and the one on ICs vs. managers …

: Publishing Versus Orchestrating The text contrasts short-term publishing with long-term orchestrating in work environments, …

: The community is moving The people in my tech community who talk about community find Twitter so vile that there’s …

: The "Be Nice" product and marketing strategy for open source enterprise stuff Early on in the life of a new open source project, some vendors will tell you it’s too complex …

: Open Source usage survey Some commentary on a recent survey commissioned from my work, VMware. Unsurprisingly, open source is …

: How to do fun and interesting executive dinners, round tables, etc. - online and in-person Here’s what I’ve learned in doing 30 (maybe more like 40?) executive events in person and online …

: Napkins, Ice, Toilets, and Passports Allow me to indulge in some trans-Atlantic compare/contrast’ing. I was back in Texas and Chicago for …

: Platform Engineering Probably Doesn’t Mess with CaaS and IaaS From the report “Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023: Platform Engineering,” Paul Delory and …

: Reluctance to change - Notebook I've proposed an open spaces for DevOpsDays Amsterdam, 2021. The idea is: The DevOps community …

: _Working Backwards_, recent book on how Amazon runs. Notes: central is thinking about product features, not business. The business funds the product, …

: Getting more eyeballs for your boring enterprise tech videos - analysis and LIFE HACKS from four months of long and tiny b2b videos by channel and numbers Looking at four months of numbers, here’s my theories of how to get more attention for my …

: Everyone knows their problems, so jump to the solution If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan. In …

: The newsletter: Coté's Wunderkammer For those RSS-nerds of you out there consuming this, I’d like to point out that most of my …

: The newsletter: Coté's Wunderkammer For those RSS-nerds of you out there consuming this, I’d like to point out that most of my …

: 🗂 Link: 'Rijksoverheid al 4 jaar in de clinch met Oracle' According to the confidential memo, Oracle's routine tactic is to threaten based on incompliance and …

: 🗂 Link: 'Rijksoverheid al 4 jaar in de clinch met Oracle' According to the confidential memo, Oracle's routine tactic is to threaten based on incompliance and …

: 🗂 Link: A spot of after-hours business email does you good, apparently Published in the Computers in Human Behaviour academic journal, the study enumerates no fewer than …

: 🗂 Link: A spot of after-hours business email does you good, apparently Published in the Computers in Human Behaviour academic journal, the study enumerates no fewer than …

: 🗂 Link: DevOps-Led Business Transformation The reality, though, is that many European organizations are only at the beginning of the journey to …

: 🗂 Link: DevOps-Led Business Transformation The reality, though, is that many European organizations are only at the beginning of the journey to …

: 🗂 Link: PE pads the payroll in HCM – Inorganic Growth Buyout shops have accounted for fully 59% of the HR-related tech deals we have captured in the …

: 🗂 Link: PE pads the payroll in HCM – Inorganic Growth Buyout shops have accounted for fully 59% of the HR-related tech deals we have captured in the …

: 🗂 Link: Deutsche Bank to set up innovation division to drive digital transformation The bank will create agile teams where “product owners in business and infrastructure divisions will …

: 🗂 Link: Deutsche Bank to set up innovation division to drive digital transformation The bank will create agile teams where “product owners in business and infrastructure divisions will …

: 🗂 Link: IBM i Clouds Proliferating At Rapid Clip - IT Jungle “We partnered with Google because Google wanted to partner with us and Amazon didn’t want to partner …

: 🗂 Link: IBM i Clouds Proliferating At Rapid Clip - IT Jungle “We partnered with Google because Google wanted to partner with us and Amazon didn’t want to partner …

: 🗂 Link: USAA uses Google Cloud machine learning to estimate vehicle repair costs - SiliconANGLE While Docker may be able to secure additional capital, it’s yet another company that finds itself in …

: 🗂 Link: USAA uses Google Cloud machine learning to estimate vehicle repair costs - SiliconANGLE While Docker may be able to secure additional capital, it’s yet another company that finds itself in …

: 🗂 Link: USAA uses Google Cloud machine learning to estimate vehicle repair costs - SiliconANGLE While Docker may be able to secure additional capital, it’s yet another company that finds itself in …

: 🗂 Link: USAA uses Google Cloud machine learning to estimate vehicle repair costs - SiliconANGLE While Docker may be able to secure additional capital, it’s yet another company that finds itself in …

: 🗂 Link: How Couples Share "Cognitive Labor" and Why it Matters - Behavioral Scientist When I sorted through the hundreds of examples that emerged, I found four primary activities …

: 🗂 Link: How Couples Share "Cognitive Labor" and Why it Matters - Behavioral Scientist When I sorted through the hundreds of examples that emerged, I found four primary activities …

: 🗂 Link: Kubernetes’ next step could be to try orchestrating everything else Could every element of an enterprise data center's infrastructure -- not just those newfangled …

: 🗂 Link: Kubernetes’ next step could be to try orchestrating everything else Could every element of an enterprise data center's infrastructure -- not just those newfangled …

: 🗂 Link: What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud The answer is that Anthos is not really a technology, but more of a brand, a wrapper around Google's …

: 🗂 Link: What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud The answer is that Anthos is not really a technology, but more of a brand, a wrapper around Google's …

: 🗂 Link: Developer Advocacy Inside and Outside a Business “I think a lot of times as engineers we can build something that’s super complicated and never …

: 🗂 Link: Developer Advocacy Inside and Outside a Business “I think a lot of times as engineers we can build something that’s super complicated and never …

: 🗂 Link: Top Quotes from Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2019 “We need to think about three things with Pivotal now that it is part of VMware: a common substrate …

: 🗂 Link: Top Quotes from Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2019 “We need to think about three things with Pivotal now that it is part of VMware: a common substrate …

: 🗂 Link: Uitsmijter In the south of Holland, where I grew up, uitsmijters would be served as the last "one for the road …

: 🗂 Link: Uitsmijter In the south of Holland, where I grew up, uitsmijters would be served as the last "one for the road …

: 🗂 Link: How low-code platforms are transforming software development The total market for low-code development platforms will hit $21.2 billion by 2022, growing at a …

: 🗂 Link: How low-code platforms are transforming software development The total market for low-code development platforms will hit $21.2 billion by 2022, growing at a …

: 🗂 Link: IT departments spend millions tackling performance issues in complex IT The vast majority of CIOs expect to deploy new technology stacks in the next 12 months. Most CIOs …

: 🗂 Link: IT departments spend millions tackling performance issues in complex IT The vast majority of CIOs expect to deploy new technology stacks in the next 12 months. Most CIOs …

: 🗂 Link: Restaurant Birdcall, looking to add 10 locations in two years, raises $9M for tech “The goal is to continue building the engineering team to focus on building technology that allows …

: 🗂 Link: Restaurant Birdcall, looking to add 10 locations in two years, raises $9M for tech “The goal is to continue building the engineering team to focus on building technology that allows …

: 🗂 Link: Bloomberg ](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-13/vw-in-8-billion-software-revamp-as-tech-shift-e …

: 🗂 Link: Bloomberg ](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-13/vw-in-8-billion-software-revamp-as-tech-shift-e …

: 🗂 Link: VMware CEO: IBM Paid Too Much for Red Hat “We’re going to own the Kubernetes stack,” Gelsinger said at the Deutsche Bank Conference. “We’re …

: 🗂 Link: VMware CEO: IBM Paid Too Much for Red Hat “We’re going to own the Kubernetes stack,” Gelsinger said at the Deutsche Bank Conference. “We’re …

: 🗂 Link: Goldman Sachs brings on co-CIO, CTO The strategy has four parts, according to the presentation. The investment bank wants to: Offer a …

: 🗂 Link: Goldman Sachs brings on co-CIO, CTO The strategy has four parts, according to the presentation. The investment bank wants to: Offer a …

: 🗂 Link: Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends “This allows an insurance broker to close and bind a product in real-time,” which also lowers the …

: 🗂 Link: Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends “This allows an insurance broker to close and bind a product in real-time,” which also lowers the …

: 🗂 Link: The superpower to change one thing about Kubernetes “It’s optimized for cloud native applications – those that follow the patterns that are in my book …

: 🗂 Link: The superpower to change one thing about Kubernetes “It’s optimized for cloud native applications – those that follow the patterns that are in my book …

: 🗂 Link: Waity K8-y no more Pivotal: We'll unhook Application Service from VMware "The urgency was more around understanding the long term vision than an immediate need," said …

: 🗂 Link: Waity K8-y no more Pivotal: We'll unhook Application Service from VMware "The urgency was more around understanding the long term vision than an immediate need," said …

: 🗂 Link: Experimenting with the UK’s first till-free grocery store Take-up was as we had expected – at peak times better than we’d expected – and it’s clear that not …

: 🗂 Link: Experimenting with the UK’s first till-free grocery store Take-up was as we had expected – at peak times better than we’d expected – and it’s clear that not …

: 🗂 Link: Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard! Daimler's Thomas Müller, platform architect, spoke this morning at the summit about his company's …

: 🗂 Link: Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard! Daimler's Thomas Müller, platform architect, spoke this morning at the summit about his company's …

: 🗂 Link: Seeing Around Corners — a book review A competitive arena, as opposed to an industry, is used as a primary lens through which to …

: 🗂 Link: Seeing Around Corners — a book review A competitive arena, as opposed to an industry, is used as a primary lens through which to …

: 🗂 Link: VMware Modernizes Its Approach to Kubernetes, Increasing Its Appeal to Developers and DevOps 36% of developers cited "resource allocation and management" as their chief impediment to …

: 🗂 Link: VMware Modernizes Its Approach to Kubernetes, Increasing Its Appeal to Developers and DevOps 36% of developers cited "resource allocation and management" as their chief impediment to …

: 🗂 Link: Why Fast Food Is the Ticking Time Bomb of Job Automation Source: Why Fast Food Is the Ticking Time Bomb of Job Automation

: 🗂 Link: Why Fast Food Is the Ticking Time Bomb of Job Automation Source: Why Fast Food Is the Ticking Time Bomb of Job Automation

: 🗂 Link: The Myth of Making It I don’t want to add patriarchy to this whole thing, but why not. It’s the part that genders success …

: 🗂 Link: The Myth of Making It I don’t want to add patriarchy to this whole thing, but why not. It’s the part that genders success …

: 🗂 Link: The Rise of Amazon the losses Amazon experienced in its first *21 quarters as a public company*. Over that time, …

: 🗂 Link: The Rise of Amazon the losses Amazon experienced in its first *21 quarters as a public company*. Over that time, …

: 🗂 Link: On-premise IT-voorziening komt nog steeds het meest voor in Nederland more than three-quarters of Dutch companies have an on-premise IT facility Source: On-premise …

: 🗂 Link: On-premise IT-voorziening komt nog steeds het meest voor in Nederland more than three-quarters of Dutch companies have an on-premise IT facility Source: On-premise …

: 🗂 Link: One Toolchain to Manage All the Development: A CI/CD-Vendor Obsession A 2019 Forrester study sponsored by GitLab quantified found that more than three-quarters of …

: 🗂 Link: One Toolchain to Manage All the Development: A CI/CD-Vendor Obsession A 2019 Forrester study sponsored by GitLab quantified found that more than three-quarters of …

: 🗂 Link: Digital banks on track to treble customers in next year but profits remain elusive .As they mature, digital startups are now turning their attention from customer acquisition to …

: 🗂 Link: Digital banks on track to treble customers in next year but profits remain elusive .As they mature, digital startups are now turning their attention from customer acquisition to …

: 🗂 Link: Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in Source: Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in

: 🗂 Link: Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in Source: Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in

: 🗂 Link: VMware emulates 1990s Microsoft, builds a horizontally integrated IT portfolio Source: VMware emulates 1990s Microsoft, builds a horizontally integrated IT portfolio

: 🗂 Link: VMware emulates 1990s Microsoft, builds a horizontally integrated IT portfolio Source: VMware emulates 1990s Microsoft, builds a horizontally integrated IT portfolio

: 🗂 Link: Comparing the Predictive Ability of the Net Promoter Score and Satisfaction in 12 Industries It’s behavioral intention vs. satisfaction. Another reason for why the NPS correlations with growth …

: 🗂 Link: Comparing the Predictive Ability of the Net Promoter Score and Satisfaction in 12 Industries It’s behavioral intention vs. satisfaction. Another reason for why the NPS correlations with growth …

: 🗂 Link: Older People Need Rides. Why Aren’t They Using Uber and Lyft? More than half of adults over 65 own smartphones, the Pew Research Center has reported. Yet among …

: 🗂 Link: Older People Need Rides. Why Aren’t They Using Uber and Lyft? More than half of adults over 65 own smartphones, the Pew Research Center has reported. Yet among …

: 🗂 Link: Tips for using Instagram as an artist Trying to get a gallery? Group shows are a great way for artists of all career levels to gain …

: 🗂 Link: Tips for using Instagram as an artist Trying to get a gallery? Group shows are a great way for artists of all career levels to gain …

: 🗂 Link: VMworld 2019: VMware expands its multicloud, security, Kubernetes strategies | ZDNet VMware in the span of seven days set its strategy to grab more multicloud deployments, positioned …

: 🗂 Link: VMworld 2019: VMware expands its multicloud, security, Kubernetes strategies | ZDNet VMware in the span of seven days set its strategy to grab more multicloud deployments, positioned …

: 🗂 Link: Waste Management dumps legacy processes, drives digital change | CIO We saw a spike of over 70% points for our new monthly bill-pay option. In the past, we’ve said that …

: 🗂 Link: Waste Management dumps legacy processes, drives digital change | CIO We saw a spike of over 70% points for our new monthly bill-pay option. In the past, we’ve said that …

: 🗂 Link: BBC - Future - What the voice inside your head says about you He compares it to parachuting into an otherwise undisturbed forest: a few small creatures might …

: 🗂 Link: BBC - Future - What the voice inside your head says about you He compares it to parachuting into an otherwise undisturbed forest: a few small creatures might …

: 🗂 Link: Pat Gelsinger and his calculated plan for VMware "Three years ago, your biggest risk was cloud; six years ago, your biggest risk was Open Stack. If …

: 🗂 Link: Pat Gelsinger and his calculated plan for VMware "Three years ago, your biggest risk was cloud; six years ago, your biggest risk was Open Stack. If …

: 🗂 Link: High on low-code Part of the reason for the rise is that buyers are reaching for larger targets. Kony projects its …

: 🗂 Link: High on low-code Part of the reason for the rise is that buyers are reaching for larger targets. Kony projects its …

: 🗂 Link: Which Language Is Richest In Words? https://blog.ititranslates.com/which-language-is-richest-in-words Source: Which Language Is Richest …

: 🗂 Link: Which Language Is Richest In Words? https://blog.ititranslates.com/which-language-is-richest-in-words Source: Which Language Is Richest …

: 🗂 Link: Datadog IPO | S-1 Breakdown Datadog is a rare company — every financial and business metric is best-in-class. Source: Datadog …

: 🗂 Link: Datadog IPO | S-1 Breakdown Datadog is a rare company — every financial and business metric is best-in-class. Source: Datadog …

: 🗂 Link: Introducing VMware Tanzu Mission Control to Bring Order to Cluster Chaos With VMware Tanzu Mission Control, we are providing customers with a powerful, API driven platform …

: 🗂 Link: Introducing VMware Tanzu Mission Control to Bring Order to Cluster Chaos With VMware Tanzu Mission Control, we are providing customers with a powerful, API driven platform …

: 🗂 Link: The Air Force Software Revolution For example, at Kessel Run, they tried different-sized teams before deciding that about eight people …

: 🗂 Link: The Air Force Software Revolution For example, at Kessel Run, they tried different-sized teams before deciding that about eight people …

: 🗂 Link: VMware Tanzu Completes the Modern Applications Picture help customers build modern applications, run Kubernetes consistently across environments and manage …

: 🗂 Link: VMware Tanzu Completes the Modern Applications Picture help customers build modern applications, run Kubernetes consistently across environments and manage …

: 🗂 Link: What Cloud Vendors Really Want From Their Customers How much a customer spends on an annual basis is absolutely an indicator of strength, both …

: 🗂 Link: What Cloud Vendors Really Want From Their Customers How much a customer spends on an annual basis is absolutely an indicator of strength, both …

: 🗂 Link: With Heptio and Pivotal, VMware Doubles Down on Kubernetes The company introduced VMware Tanzu, a marketing name for a portfolio of products and services, …

: 🗂 Link: With Heptio and Pivotal, VMware Doubles Down on Kubernetes The company introduced VMware Tanzu, a marketing name for a portfolio of products and services, …

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: 🗂 Link: Understanding the risk profile of your technical debt Debt powers our economy, and technical debt powers your business. If we look at it that way, it's a …

: 🗂 Link: Understanding the risk profile of your technical debt Debt powers our economy, and technical debt powers your business. If we look at it that way, it's a …

: 🗂 Link: VMware is bringing VMs and containers together, taking advantage of Heptio acquisition “Kubernetes is a way of bringing a control metaphor to modern IT processes. You provide an …

: 🗂 Link: VMware is bringing VMs and containers together, taking advantage of Heptio acquisition “Kubernetes is a way of bringing a control metaphor to modern IT processes. You provide an …

: 🗂 Link: VMware plan elevates Kubernetes to star enterprise status A swag at how many new apps will be created to run on kubernetes cloud stuff. I assume this is …

: 🗂 Link: VMware plan elevates Kubernetes to star enterprise status A swag at how many new apps will be created to run on kubernetes cloud stuff. I assume this is …

: Notes on the 2019 DevOps Report Some quick notes and callouts from this year’s 2019 DevOps Report: Four key metrics: lead …

: 🗂 Link: VMware Adds Containers to Its Cloud Provider Platform The platform also added an integration with VMware’s container orchestrator, Enterprise PKS, which …

: 🗂 Link: VMware Adds Containers to Its Cloud Provider Platform The platform also added an integration with VMware’s container orchestrator, Enterprise PKS, which …

: 🗂 Link: What the heck are content experiences, and why are we overhyping them? A skeptical riff The two "tent poles" of quality B2B content are: Thought-provoking stuff that stakes your industry …

: 🗂 Link: What the heck are content experiences, and why are we overhyping them? A skeptical riff The two "tent poles" of quality B2B content are: Thought-provoking stuff that stakes your industry …

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: 🗂 Link: No country for old men Lots of Chinese people ask to have their picture taken with my daughter. No one asks for a picture …

: 🗂 Link: No country for old men Lots of Chinese people ask to have their picture taken with my daughter. No one asks for a picture …

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: If you didn’t want the €1 beads, €15 knock off Converse, or s t-shirt with Einstein as a …

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: 🗂 Link: Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? The key insight was to stop trying to build a mechanical carriage, and instead build something more …

: 🗂 Link: Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? The key insight was to stop trying to build a mechanical carriage, and instead build something more …

: The Business Bottleneck, new book I’m working on a new book (check out the work in progress), here’s the premise: After at …

: 🗂 Link: IDC Survey Finds Artificial Intelligence to be a Priority for Organizations But Few Have Implemented an Enterprise-Wide Strategy An IDC "survey of global organizations that are already using artificial intelligence (AI) solutions …

: 🗂 Link: IDC Survey Finds Artificial Intelligence to be a Priority for Organizations But Few Have Implemented an Enterprise-Wide Strategy An IDC "survey of global organizations that are already using artificial intelligence (AI) solutions …

: 🗂 Link: Spending on Customer Experience Technologies Will Reach $641 Billion in 2022, According to New IDC Spending Guide Worldwide spending on customer experience (CX) technologies will total $508 billion in 2019, an …

: 🗂 Link: Spending on Customer Experience Technologies Will Reach $641 Billion in 2022, According to New IDC Spending Guide Worldwide spending on customer experience (CX) technologies will total $508 billion in 2019, an …

: Banking "disruption," or whatever - part 01 There’s near universal sentiment that traditional banks need to shift to improve and protect …

: 🗂 Link: Build Your Next-Generation Business Case Using A Lifecycle Too often, leaders think of a business case as a one-time checklist item. But the best practice — …

: 🗂 Link: Build Your Next-Generation Business Case Using A Lifecycle Too often, leaders think of a business case as a one-time checklist item. But the best practice — …

: 🗂 Link: Financial services and cloud: Delivering digital transformation in a highly regulated industry “The most difficult part of what was a 10-month programme of work was that we were working to …

: 🗂 Link: Financial services and cloud: Delivering digital transformation in a highly regulated industry “The most difficult part of what was a 10-month programme of work was that we were working to …

: 🗂 Link: Silicon Valley software techniques modernize 75-year-old plant Raytheon Systems Engineer Sam Sauers and her team spearheaded one of the latest DevOps …

: 🗂 Link: Silicon Valley software techniques modernize 75-year-old plant Raytheon Systems Engineer Sam Sauers and her team spearheaded one of the latest DevOps …

: 🗂 Link: The Cost of Banking Is About to Go Up: What the Capital One Breach at Amazon Could Mean for the Industry "The adoption of cloud platforms is a movement that will not be stopped," says Jerry Silva, research …

: 🗂 Link: The Cost of Banking Is About to Go Up: What the Capital One Breach at Amazon Could Mean for the Industry "The adoption of cloud platforms is a movement that will not be stopped," says Jerry Silva, research …

: 🗂 Link: Activist investor Carl Icahn shakes up Cloudera Source: Activist investor Carl Icahn shakes up Cloudera

: 🗂 Link: Activist investor Carl Icahn shakes up Cloudera Source: Activist investor Carl Icahn shakes up Cloudera

: 🗂 Link: Application Development Research Predicts Low-Code Tooling Takeover "By 2024, three-quarters of large enterprises will be using at least four low-code development tools …

: 🗂 Link: Application Development Research Predicts Low-Code Tooling Takeover "By 2024, three-quarters of large enterprises will be using at least four low-code development tools …

: 🗂 Link: Developers schetsen gitzwart beeld van Booking.com De Volkskrant spoke with fifteen (former) employees of the company in recent months. In the piece ' …

: 🗂 Link: Developers schetsen gitzwart beeld van Booking.com De Volkskrant spoke with fifteen (former) employees of the company in recent months. In the piece ' …

: 🗂 Link: VMware’s ‘Switzerland’ cloud partnership strategy will be a key focus at upcoming VMworld All the VMware/public cloud partnerships. Source: VMware’s ‘Switzerland’ cloud partnership strategy …

: 🗂 Link: VMware’s ‘Switzerland’ cloud partnership strategy will be a key focus at upcoming VMworld All the VMware/public cloud partnerships. Source: VMware’s ‘Switzerland’ cloud partnership strategy …

: 🗂 Link: Nissan CIO Driving Toward a Digital Future More than 80% of the organization was outsourced, which inhibited information sharing and collective …

: 🗂 Link: Nissan CIO Driving Toward a Digital Future More than 80% of the organization was outsourced, which inhibited information sharing and collective …

: 🗂 Link: Reporter's Toolkit If you know, say, that the Tibetan monks' ceremonial drumsticks were bamboo, yellow, and curved like …

: 🗂 Link: Reporter's Toolkit If you know, say, that the Tibetan monks' ceremonial drumsticks were bamboo, yellow, and curved like …

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: 🗂 Link: Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7B “Symantec will be left with its consumer product portfolio, which includes the Norton antivirus …

: 🗂 Link: Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7B “Symantec will be left with its consumer product portfolio, which includes the Norton antivirus …

: 🗂 Link: Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion There's yet to be any real evidence that Uber's business model will ever do anything other than burn …

: 🗂 Link: Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion There's yet to be any real evidence that Uber's business model will ever do anything other than burn …

: The Strategy Bottleneck This is a draft excerpt from a book I’m working on, tentatively titled The Business Bottleneck. If …

: 🗂 Link: Toyota is working to have 70% of new cars connected globally by 2020, with almost all of those in …

: 🗂 Link: Alternative Payment Methods Enable International Purchases If people from other countries already visit your site and make purchases, you might think it isn’t …

: 🗂 Link: Alternative Payment Methods Enable International Purchases If people from other countries already visit your site and make purchases, you might think it isn’t …

: 🗂 Link: Hashiconf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery “It’s 2019 so apparently everyone has a service mesh. Istio has been the most hyped – it has solid …

: 🗂 Link: Hashiconf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery “It’s 2019 so apparently everyone has a service mesh. Istio has been the most hyped – it has solid …

: 🗂 Link: Interviewing Users The critical failing of user interviews is that you're asking people to either remember past use or …

: 🗂 Link: Interviewing Users The critical failing of user interviews is that you're asking people to either remember past use or …

: 🗂 Link: Scale and velocity are driving the next generation of DevOps This massive growth in scale has required an evolution in practices and organization to achieve …

: 🗂 Link: Scale and velocity are driving the next generation of DevOps This massive growth in scale has required an evolution in practices and organization to achieve …

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: 🗂 Link: CIO interview: Simon McNamara, chief administrative officer, RBS Group Mobile banking is another key area of innovation, including NatWest’s personal finance app Mimo, …

: 🗂 Link: CIO interview: Simon McNamara, chief administrative officer, RBS Group Mobile banking is another key area of innovation, including NatWest’s personal finance app Mimo, …

: 🗂 Link: Rich countries must start planning for a cashless future These problems have three remedies. First, governments need to ensure that central banks’ monopoly …

: 🗂 Link: Rich countries must start planning for a cashless future These problems have three remedies. First, governments need to ensure that central banks’ monopoly …

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: Link: IBM fuses its software with Red Hat’s to launch hybrid-cloud juggernaut The effort has started with IBM bundling Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform …

: Link: IBM fuses its software with Red Hat’s to launch hybrid-cloud juggernaut The effort has started with IBM bundling Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform …

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: Link: Digital is helping Millennials shop around for auto coverage That’s according to TransUnion’s “Auto Insurance Shopping Index,” which found that 21.7% of …

: Link: Digital is helping Millennials shop around for auto coverage That’s according to TransUnion’s “Auto Insurance Shopping Index,” which found that 21.7% of …

: Link: How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site “According to research by Evercore Group L.L.C., Booking.com’s “testing drives conversions across …

: Link: How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site “According to research by Evercore Group L.L.C., Booking.com’s “testing drives conversions across …

: Link: Secret CSO: Amy Herzog, Pivotal Practitioners need to be positive and intelligent enough to see how a whole system could work. But …

: Link: Secret CSO: Amy Herzog, Pivotal Practitioners need to be positive and intelligent enough to see how a whole system could work. But …

: Link: Google debuts migration tool for its Anthos hybrid cloud platform Anthos applications are deployed in software containers, which are used to host the individual …

: Link: Google debuts migration tool for its Anthos hybrid cloud platform Anthos applications are deployed in software containers, which are used to host the individual …

: Link: How the subscription paradigm flips the cloud financials market In the subscription world, you must understand the lifetime relationship with the customer - all the …

: Link: How the subscription paradigm flips the cloud financials market In the subscription world, you must understand the lifetime relationship with the customer - all the …

: Link: Starbucks teases coffee traceability app feature, compostable cup trial This focus on the people behind the coffee beans could strengthen positive consumer sentiment around …

: Link: Starbucks teases coffee traceability app feature, compostable cup trial This focus on the people behind the coffee beans could strengthen positive consumer sentiment around …

: Link: Free Solo Other women have rebelled in smaller, more quotidian ways. “They expect you to get married,” Whoopi …

: Link: Free Solo Other women have rebelled in smaller, more quotidian ways. “They expect you to get married,” Whoopi …

: Link: Using 6 Page and 2 Page Documents To Make Organizational Decisions That being said Powerpoint is fine if it is more information being disseminated than information …

: Link: Using 6 Page and 2 Page Documents To Make Organizational Decisions That being said Powerpoint is fine if it is more information being disseminated than information …

: Link: IT outages in the financial sector: Legacy banks playing tech catch-up risk more outages, UK MPs told said 65 per cent of outages are in retail banks. She said the regulator received 853 notifications …

: Link: IT outages in the financial sector: Legacy banks playing tech catch-up risk more outages, UK MPs told said 65 per cent of outages are in retail banks. She said the regulator received 853 notifications …

: Link: What I Learned on Medieval Twitter Dorothy Kim has argued that Twitter activity, especially during conferences, enables scholars to …

: Link: What I Learned on Medieval Twitter Dorothy Kim has argued that Twitter activity, especially during conferences, enables scholars to …

: Link: Low Barr: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General Like the Obama administration before it, today's White House has made backdooring encryption a …

: Link: Low Barr: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General Like the Obama administration before it, today's White House has made backdooring encryption a …

: Link: Microsoft milestone: Tech giant’s cloud revenue now matches traditional products, analyst says “We estimate that FY 4Q 19 was the first time MSFT generated as much revenue from running software …

: Link: Microsoft milestone: Tech giant’s cloud revenue now matches traditional products, analyst says “We estimate that FY 4Q 19 was the first time MSFT generated as much revenue from running software …

: Link: The Art of Aphorism We don’t absorb aphorisms as esoteric wisdom; we test them against our own experience. The empirical …

: Link: The Art of Aphorism We don’t absorb aphorisms as esoteric wisdom; we test them against our own experience. The empirical …

: Link: We Need to Talk About Mental Health and Travel Taking some time out of your day to reflect on the good things you have in your life can be very …

: Link: We Need to Talk About Mental Health and Travel Taking some time out of your day to reflect on the good things you have in your life can be very …

: Link: Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding bad internal technology) In terms of the best integration architecture, what seems to me the only long-term solution is …

: Link: Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding bad internal technology) In terms of the best integration architecture, what seems to me the only long-term solution is …

: Link: AT&T’s ‘Public-Cloud First’ Proclamation a Stake in the Ground For AT&T to now start the process of adopting the public cloud for what are admittedly …

: Link: AT&T’s ‘Public-Cloud First’ Proclamation a Stake in the Ground For AT&T to now start the process of adopting the public cloud for what are admittedly …

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: Link: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on transparency, developers, multi-cloud The other thing that we're working with most of our enterprise customers is, what is an exit …

: Link: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on transparency, developers, multi-cloud The other thing that we're working with most of our enterprise customers is, what is an exit …

: Link: Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago, Dublin, Hamburg, Helsinki, Kaohsiung, London, Los …

: Link: Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago, Dublin, Hamburg, Helsinki, Kaohsiung, London, Los …

: Link: Pivotal Build Service, Now Alpha, Assembles and Updates Containers in Kubernetes The service provides the layer of automation and operational control enterprises need to utilize …

: Link: Pivotal Build Service, Now Alpha, Assembles and Updates Containers in Kubernetes The service provides the layer of automation and operational control enterprises need to utilize …

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: Link: IBM Takes A Hands Off Approach With Red Hat The reason for this hands-off attitude for such expensive acquisitions is simple: Both VMware and …

: Link: IBM Takes A Hands Off Approach With Red Hat The reason for this hands-off attitude for such expensive acquisitions is simple: Both VMware and …

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: Chris Aniszczyk on starting Open Source Foundations - Software Defined Interviews #82 Chris Aniszczyk is the CTO of the CNCF. We discuss how he got into open source, what it’s like …

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: Link: Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? You can't not make things dirty when you cook, but if you don't clean things quickly, muck dries up, …

: Link: Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? You can't not make things dirty when you cook, but if you don't clean things quickly, muck dries up, …

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: Link: CIO aan het woord: Sjoerd Blüm The only assignment I have is to ensure that my teams get the job done. It is an illusion that I can …

: Link: CIO aan het woord: Sjoerd Blüm The only assignment I have is to ensure that my teams get the job done. It is an illusion that I can …

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: "With the rise of Lean Startup, we began to focus on outcomes, yes, but we also started to celebrate …

: Link: Focus Your Optimistic Brand Message on a Smaller Circle of Consumer Influence Our research shows that time and again, consumers will express pessimism and frustration about the …

: Link: Focus Your Optimistic Brand Message on a Smaller Circle of Consumer Influence Our research shows that time and again, consumers will express pessimism and frustration about the …

: Link: Growing Acceptance of Smart Home Devices Will Drive Double-Digit Growth Through 2023, According to a New IDC Forecast Beyond the first quarter, IDC anticipates the global smart home market will reach 840.7 million …

: Link: Growing Acceptance of Smart Home Devices Will Drive Double-Digit Growth Through 2023, According to a New IDC Forecast Beyond the first quarter, IDC anticipates the global smart home market will reach 840.7 million …

: Link: How close are we to platform domination in healthcare’s digital business models? https://www.cio.com/article/3404529/how-close-are-we-to-platform-domination-in-healthcares-digital-b …

: Link: How close are we to platform domination in healthcare’s digital business models? https://www.cio.com/article/3404529/how-close-are-we-to-platform-domination-in-healthcares-digital-b …

: Link: Pivotal Software: bring digital fluidity to bricks-and-mortar retail The less time spent on logistics, logging product information (i.e. sell-by date) and/or ringing up …

: Link: Pivotal Software: bring digital fluidity to bricks-and-mortar retail The less time spent on logistics, logging product information (i.e. sell-by date) and/or ringing up …

: Link: Shipping giant Maersk on taking a cloud-first approach to disrupting the competition “When we moved to the cloud the first time, we cut down the lead time for an environment from 100 …

: Link: Shipping giant Maersk on taking a cloud-first approach to disrupting the competition “When we moved to the cloud the first time, we cut down the lead time for an environment from 100 …

: Link: The Future of Database Management Systems is Cloud! it confirms that more and more end-user organizations are deploying systems and applications to the …

: Link: The Future of Database Management Systems is Cloud! it confirms that more and more end-user organizations are deploying systems and applications to the …

: Link: Three Finnish banks, one core IT platform But if core systems are less of an advantage to any bank, where does the advantage now come from in …

: Link: Three Finnish banks, one core IT platform But if core systems are less of an advantage to any bank, where does the advantage now come from in …

: Link: Traffic tech company INRIX approaches its 15th birthday, looks to AI to drive its business Source: Traffic tech company INRIX approaches its 15th birthday, looks to AI to drive its business

: Link: Traffic tech company INRIX approaches its 15th birthday, looks to AI to drive its business Source: Traffic tech company INRIX approaches its 15th birthday, looks to AI to drive its business

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: Link: Camera scanning vehicles result in big jump in parking fines Before Amsterdam started using scanning vehicles in 2013, the Dutch capital issued 18.5 million …

: Link: Camera scanning vehicles result in big jump in parking fines Before Amsterdam started using scanning vehicles in 2013, the Dutch capital issued 18.5 million …

: Link: DICK’S Sporting Goods Poised to Continue its Successful Digital Transformation Journey Another important aspect of the new retail experience is buy-online, pickup in-store. This is an …

: Link: DICK’S Sporting Goods Poised to Continue its Successful Digital Transformation Journey Another important aspect of the new retail experience is buy-online, pickup in-store. This is an …

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: Link: Deconstructing Balenciaga’s Wacky Instagram Whereas most brand accounts in this sector, like Dior, share behind-the-scenes images along with …

: Link: Deconstructing Balenciaga’s Wacky Instagram Whereas most brand accounts in this sector, like Dior, share behind-the-scenes images along with …

: Link: Domino’s will start robot pizza deliveries in Houston this year Tasty. Source: Domino’s will start robot pizza deliveries in Houston this year

: Link: Domino’s will start robot pizza deliveries in Houston this year Tasty. Source: Domino’s will start robot pizza deliveries in Houston this year

: Link: Earwear and Watches Expected to Drive Wearables Market at a CAGR of 7.9%, Says IDC The market for wearable devices is on track to reach global shipments of 222.9 million units in …

: Link: Earwear and Watches Expected to Drive Wearables Market at a CAGR of 7.9%, Says IDC The market for wearable devices is on track to reach global shipments of 222.9 million units in …

: Link: Insurance startup Lemonade expands into Europe Now insure your Canadian Goose jacket through Instagram in Paris. Source: Insurance startup Lemonade …

: Link: Insurance startup Lemonade expands into Europe Now insure your Canadian Goose jacket through Instagram in Paris. Source: Insurance startup Lemonade …

: Link: System Integrator Risk Mitigation Processes Often Have the Opposite Effect How can it be that projects continue to go wildly over budget or result in significant business …

: Link: System Integrator Risk Mitigation Processes Often Have the Opposite Effect How can it be that projects continue to go wildly over budget or result in significant business …

: Link: Target’s same-day deliveries might break my Amazon Prime addiction Source: Target’s same-day deliveries might break my Amazon Prime addiction

: Link: Target’s same-day deliveries might break my Amazon Prime addiction Source: Target’s same-day deliveries might break my Amazon Prime addiction

: Link: Twelve IT Project Disasters Demonstrate There are No “Safe” Choices Laundry list of ERP project failures. Source: Twelve IT Project Disasters Demonstrate There are No …

: Link: Twelve IT Project Disasters Demonstrate There are No “Safe” Choices Laundry list of ERP project failures. Source: Twelve IT Project Disasters Demonstrate There are No …

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: While 94% of the 14,000 people in the survey said they used internet banking and 66% used mobile …

: Link: Agile and DevOps are Failing in Fortune 500 Companies - Plutora What all of those “unicorns” have in common are flat organizations with small teams that are …

: Link: Agile and DevOps are Failing in Fortune 500 Companies - Plutora What all of those “unicorns” have in common are flat organizations with small teams that are …

: Link: Applications of data science and machine learning in financial services There's a customer acquisition piece and then there's a customer retention piece. For customer …

: Link: Applications of data science and machine learning in financial services There's a customer acquisition piece and then there's a customer retention piece. For customer …

: Link: Electric car charging interoperability is the next big thing in mobility The arrangement doesn't mean EV owners need to run out and add a Hubject account. All of this should …

: Link: Electric car charging interoperability is the next big thing in mobility The arrangement doesn't mean EV owners need to run out and add a Hubject account. All of this should …

: Link: Exploring New Ways of Working in New Zealand Most, if not all, teams I have worked with (in the capacity as the Agile Coach in The Lab) do not …

: Link: Exploring New Ways of Working in New Zealand Most, if not all, teams I have worked with (in the capacity as the Agile Coach in The Lab) do not …

: Link: How Dick's Sporting Goods' CTO untangles spaghetti silos There's a level of empathy needed for those on the frontline when making business decisions, …

: Link: How Dick's Sporting Goods' CTO untangles spaghetti silos There's a level of empathy needed for those on the frontline when making business decisions, …

: Link: Is voice over-hyped? A new survey suggests lower adoption than previously thought Source: Is voice over-hyped? A new survey suggests lower adoption than previously thought

: Link: Is voice over-hyped? A new survey suggests lower adoption than previously thought Source: Is voice over-hyped? A new survey suggests lower adoption than previously thought

: Link: Police wasted €400,000 on 'redundant' emergency app: report Due to delays and setbacks, the deadline to launch the app in the spring of 2017 was never reached. …

: Link: Police wasted €400,000 on 'redundant' emergency app: report Due to delays and setbacks, the deadline to launch the app in the spring of 2017 was never reached. …

: Link: Research: For Better Brainstorming, Tell an Embarrassing Story we found that the “embarrassment” teams generated 26% more ideas spanning 15% more use categories …

: Link: Research: For Better Brainstorming, Tell an Embarrassing Story we found that the “embarrassment” teams generated 26% more ideas spanning 15% more use categories …

: Link: SAPPHIRENow 2019 - Coke’s secret IT formula revealed - ditch waterfall for DevOps You're basically breaking things down into smaller increments. I'm constantly getting in front of …

: Link: SAPPHIRENow 2019 - Coke’s secret IT formula revealed - ditch waterfall for DevOps You're basically breaking things down into smaller increments. I'm constantly getting in front of …

: Link: The Frozen Middle—Part Two: Thawing The key, I found, was to agree on new objectives. First, we tackled the question of documentation. …

: Link: The Frozen Middle—Part Two: Thawing The key, I found, was to agree on new objectives. First, we tackled the question of documentation. …

: Link: What if Instagram Got Rid of Likes? Instagram without quantified likes might have been nicer, in some way. But it would not have …

: Link: What if Instagram Got Rid of Likes? Instagram without quantified likes might have been nicer, in some way. But it would not have …

: Hunter Thompson called this “Frankenstein lighting.” He was referring to a news story about two …

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: Platform as a Product talk Here’s a recording of one of my talks. It’s on what the operations team does when …

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: Link: America is turning against facial-recognition software Sometimes scepticism about technology comes from the cops. Earlier this year the Washington Post …

: Link: America is turning against facial-recognition software Sometimes scepticism about technology comes from the cops. Earlier this year the Washington Post …

: Link: Technical Debt Can Be Good if it Drives Positive Business Outcomes Drewitz used the example of Discover Card, which was able to eliminate thousands of lines of legacy …

: Link: Technical Debt Can Be Good if it Drives Positive Business Outcomes Drewitz used the example of Discover Card, which was able to eliminate thousands of lines of legacy …

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: Link: The computers are too slow In the long run finance tends to proceed through logic and self-interest, but in the short run the …

: Link: The computers are too slow In the long run finance tends to proceed through logic and self-interest, but in the short run the …

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: Link: A Brief History of Agile, Part 1: The Rise of Waterfall Ultimately, Waterfall’s biggest failing is that it puts its trust in a system, not the people …

: Link: A Brief History of Agile, Part 1: The Rise of Waterfall Ultimately, Waterfall’s biggest failing is that it puts its trust in a system, not the people …

: Link: What’s Hot In Insurance Tech In 2019? The business backbone, the core systems, burden digital transformation strategies. Insurers spend …

: Link: What’s Hot In Insurance Tech In 2019? The business backbone, the core systems, burden digital transformation strategies. Insurers spend …

: Link: It’s Time To Transform Insurance Claims Protecting customers in times of duress is the basic purpose of insurance, and yet only 57% of US …

: Link: It’s Time To Transform Insurance Claims Protecting customers in times of duress is the basic purpose of insurance, and yet only 57% of US …

: Link: The Rise, Fall, And Rise Again Of The Integrated Developer Toolchain And this is where DevOps tool vendors now see opportunity. The mounting tax of maintaining tools has …

: Link: The Rise, Fall, And Rise Again Of The Integrated Developer Toolchain And this is where DevOps tool vendors now see opportunity. The mounting tax of maintaining tools has …

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: Link: Ignore the hysteria, Cloud Foundry is just fine Sure you can do a lot of things with Kubernetes. It’s great, but Cloud Foundry is designed to make …

: Link: Ignore the hysteria, Cloud Foundry is just fine Sure you can do a lot of things with Kubernetes. It’s great, but Cloud Foundry is designed to make …

: Link: Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech On a certain kind of team, where everyone shares that ethos, and there is very little power …

: Link: Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech On a certain kind of team, where everyone shares that ethos, and there is very little power …

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: Link: Red Hat shoves OpenShift in VMware's software-defined data centre stack Chris Wolf, VMware's CTO for the Americas, said Kubernetes will ultimately morph into the "modern …

: Link: Red Hat shoves OpenShift in VMware's software-defined data centre stack Chris Wolf, VMware's CTO for the Americas, said Kubernetes will ultimately morph into the "modern …

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: Link: Comic Relief switched from multi-cloud to serverless with AWS and saw a 93% cost reduction As a team, going serverless has given us a lot more velocity, we can rapidly release, we can test …

: Link: Comic Relief switched from multi-cloud to serverless with AWS and saw a 93% cost reduction As a team, going serverless has given us a lot more velocity, we can rapidly release, we can test …

: Link: Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift The OpenShift-Azure deal extends collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat that includes the …

: Link: Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift The OpenShift-Azure deal extends collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat that includes the …

: Link: On policy and delivery The benefits of ditching the paper driving licence have been clear for a decade, but because of a …

: Link: On policy and delivery The benefits of ditching the paper driving licence have been clear for a decade, but because of a …

: Link: Oracle Releases GraalVM Enterprise Oracle claims that the addition of these and other algorithms typically provide an additional 20% …

: Link: Oracle Releases GraalVM Enterprise Oracle claims that the addition of these and other algorithms typically provide an additional 20% …

: Link: SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA This week in data lakes... Source: SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA

: Link: SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA This week in data lakes... Source: SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA

: Link: A new player in a new game Like most other ‘new generation’ IT providers, Fastly plays up its growth rate while playing down …

: Link: A new player in a new game Like most other ‘new generation’ IT providers, Fastly plays up its growth rate while playing down …

: Link: BankingYoung people and their phones are shaking up banking In such scenarios incumbents risk ending up as “dumb pipes”, holding bloated balance-sheets and …

: Link: BankingYoung people and their phones are shaking up banking In such scenarios incumbents risk ending up as “dumb pipes”, holding bloated balance-sheets and …

: Link: Canonical Sharpens Focus on Red Hat, VMware; IPO Plans Remain Shuttleworth in a separate interview at the OIS event also said that Canonical remains on track for …

: Link: Canonical Sharpens Focus on Red Hat, VMware; IPO Plans Remain Shuttleworth in a separate interview at the OIS event also said that Canonical remains on track for …

: Link: How Airbnb took over the world “I feel the Airbnb sector gets unfairly blamed for many ills present long before this came about,” …

: Link: How Airbnb took over the world “I feel the Airbnb sector gets unfairly blamed for many ills present long before this came about,” …

: Link: Technical debt leading to a company crisis The power of focus. Before the crisis, each team worked on its own backlog and specialized in its …

: Link: Technical debt leading to a company crisis The power of focus. Before the crisis, each team worked on its own backlog and specialized in its …

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: Link: The problem with being a long-term expat Karen, a British citizen now in Malaysia, who prefers to be known only by her first name because her …

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: Link: Ahead of Zoom’s IPO, new report says Microsoft repeatedly tried to acquire video conferencing company A recent survey of IT pros found that Skype for Business is the most popular workplace collaboration …

: Link: Ahead of Zoom’s IPO, new report says Microsoft repeatedly tried to acquire video conferencing company A recent survey of IT pros found that Skype for Business is the most popular workplace collaboration …

: Link: Banking apps over banker handshakes There is an old-timey model in which the key elements of banking are, like, having a local branch, …

: Link: Banking apps over banker handshakes There is an old-timey model in which the key elements of banking are, like, having a local branch, …

: Link: Dutch now pay more on housing, healthcare and energy than before the crisis: ING In 2017 basic needs such as housing, healthcare, food and energy accounted for 41 percent of …

: Link: Dutch now pay more on housing, healthcare and energy than before the crisis: ING In 2017 basic needs such as housing, healthcare, food and energy accounted for 41 percent of …

: Link: Users forge ahead with Cloud Foundry-Kubernetes integration "There are a million solutions out there to your technical problems, but what we wanted was to solve …

: Link: Users forge ahead with Cloud Foundry-Kubernetes integration "There are a million solutions out there to your technical problems, but what we wanted was to solve …

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: Google Cloud stuff A brief overview: The expansion centers around Google’s new open-source hybrid cloud package called …

: Google Cloud stuff A brief overview: The expansion centers around Google’s new open-source hybrid cloud package called …

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: "Most people in contemporary society don’t believe in Athena" COWEN: When you translated the Odyssey — as a reader, I think of your approach as pretty clean and …

: "Most people in contemporary society don’t believe in Athena" COWEN: When you translated the Odyssey — as a reader, I think of your approach as pretty clean and …

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: Link: Fixing Europe’s zombie banks Unlike America, where banks have a return on equity of 12%, Europe does not have strongly positive …

: Link: Fixing Europe’s zombie banks Unlike America, where banks have a return on equity of 12%, Europe does not have strongly positive …

: Link: Assessing IBM i’s Role In Digital Transformation Making the financial case: "This is going to sound silly,” he says. “The hardest part isn’t …

: Link: Assessing IBM i’s Role In Digital Transformation Making the financial case: "This is going to sound silly,” he says. “The hardest part isn’t …

: Link: Cloud Foundry Project Eirini Inches the Group Closer to Kubernetes “A lot of work needs to be done for that but it’s evolving quickly,” Childers said of …

: Link: Cloud Foundry Project Eirini Inches the Group Closer to Kubernetes “A lot of work needs to be done for that but it’s evolving quickly,” Childers said of …

: Link: How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care MD Anderson Cancer Center partnered with IBM Watson to create an advisory tool for oncologists. The …

: Link: How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care MD Anderson Cancer Center partnered with IBM Watson to create an advisory tool for oncologists. The …

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: FDA wants to regular off-label use of ML-driven devices Obtaining FDA approval can be a difficult and long process. “The traditional paradigm of medical …

: FDA wants to regular off-label use of ML-driven devices Obtaining FDA approval can be a difficult and long process. “The traditional paradigm of medical …

: FDA wants to regular off-label use of ML-driven devices Obtaining FDA approval can be a difficult and long process. “The traditional paradigm of medical …

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: "Reasons were in short supply." And, sure, people always disappear into new people, and no one can stop the way new versions of …

: "Reasons were in short supply." And, sure, people always disappear into new people, and no one can stop the way new versions of …

: Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.5, Now GA, Harnesses the Power of Istio and Envoy to Make Your Developers More Productive Whole lotta features: > - Weighted routing uses Istio and Envoy to simplify blue-green …

: Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.5, Now GA, Harnesses the Power of Istio and Envoy to Make Your Developers More Productive Whole lotta features: > - Weighted routing uses Istio and Envoy to simplify blue-green …

: Link: SUSE on Cloud 9 for love-in with OpenStack and Kubernetes > With the Cloud Application Platform 1.4, SUSE has set its sights on a multi-cloud world laying …

: Link: SUSE on Cloud 9 for love-in with OpenStack and Kubernetes > With the Cloud Application Platform 1.4, SUSE has set its sights on a multi-cloud world laying …

: Link: Why Uber’s Business Model May Not Be Viable The sharing economy, fueled by the internet’s capacity to match small buyers and sellers, looks like …

: Link: Why Uber’s Business Model May Not Be Viable The sharing economy, fueled by the internet’s capacity to match small buyers and sellers, looks like …

: Link: Why Urban Millennials Love Uniqlo The question Uniqlo faces now is whether it can inherit the Gap’s empire without repeating its …

: Link: Why Urban Millennials Love Uniqlo The question Uniqlo faces now is whether it can inherit the Gap’s empire without repeating its …

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: a dream I could only watch instead of do She never brought up Daniel again, but it didn’t really matter. I’d already made it a habit to …

: a dream I could only watch instead of do She never brought up Daniel again, but it didn’t really matter. I’d already made it a habit to …

: An unused executive dinner speech I hosted an executive dinner a few weeks ago. I’d put together this opening talk, introducing …

: An unused executive dinner speech I hosted an executive dinner a few weeks ago. I’d put together this opening talk, introducing …

: An unused executive dinner speech I hosted an executive dinner a few weeks ago. I’d put together this opening talk, introducing …

: Link: Why Did WOW Air Fail? For one, there’s tons of competition on transatlantic routes. Not only from ultra low cost carriers, …

: Link: Why Did WOW Air Fail? For one, there’s tons of competition on transatlantic routes. Not only from ultra low cost carriers, …

: Speed, Accuracy, and Flexibility, IBM circa 1920 The purpose of a sales force is to bring a company’s value proposition—its “deal”—to customers. That …

: Speed, Accuracy, and Flexibility, IBM circa 1920 The purpose of a sales force is to bring a company’s value proposition—its “deal”—to customers. That …

: Speed, Accuracy, and Flexibility, IBM circa 1920 The purpose of a sales force is to bring a company’s value proposition—its “deal”—to customers. That …

: Link: Accenture has ~$1bn left for 2019 acquisitions Out of a $1.5bn pool for 2019. The deals align with “The New” — an Accenture strategy that pushes …

: Link: Accenture has ~$1bn left for 2019 acquisitions Out of a $1.5bn pool for 2019. The deals align with “The New” — an Accenture strategy that pushes …

: Link: Adobe Summit 2019 analysis – CX hype is countered by Chegg’s digital turnaround story Chegg isn’t digital-only today. They still ship five million textbooks a year – but their mission …

: Link: Adobe Summit 2019 analysis – CX hype is countered by Chegg’s digital turnaround story Chegg isn’t digital-only today. They still ship five million textbooks a year – but their mission …

: Link: Dick’s Tech Chief Goes All Out on In-House Software “Don’t get excited about shipping a feature—get excited about when the feature turns into revenue …

: Link: Dick’s Tech Chief Goes All Out on In-House Software “Don’t get excited about shipping a feature—get excited about when the feature turns into revenue …

: Link: Naspers plans to spin off its Tencent stake and other holdings Naspers, which started out as an Afrikaans newspaper group a century ago, has since gone on to …

: Link: Naspers plans to spin off its Tencent stake and other holdings Naspers, which started out as an Afrikaans newspaper group a century ago, has since gone on to …

: Link: The skills leaders need people tend to assume that confident individuals are competent, when there is no actual relationship …

: Link: The skills leaders need people tend to assume that confident individuals are competent, when there is no actual relationship …

: Maybe the legacy organization actually knows what they're doing Usually we’re told that improving IT means changing the old organization. I’ve been …

: Maybe the legacy organization actually knows what they're doing Usually we’re told that improving IT means changing the old organization. I’ve been …

: Maybe the legacy organization actually knows what they're doing Usually we’re told that improving IT means changing the old organization. I’ve been …

: Maybe the legacy organization actually knows what they're doing Usually we’re told that improving IT means changing the old organization. I’ve been …

: Maybe the legacy organization actually knows what they're doing Usually we’re told that improving IT means changing the old organization. I’ve been …

: Maybe the legacy organization actually knows what they're doing Usually we’re told that improving IT means changing the old organization. I’ve been …

: Maybe the legacy organization actually knows what they're doing Usually we’re told that improving IT means changing the old organization. I’ve been …

: The Mainframe Strangler - Software Defined Talk #172 There’s a new kubernetes, Oracle lay-offs, Zoom.US, and the problem with mainframe complainers. Also …

: Eirini - Bringing Cloud Foundry & Kubernetes Together Eirini For DevelopersFor Developers there are two big wins from Eirini. Firstly, if you want a Cloud …

: Eirini - Bringing Cloud Foundry & Kubernetes Together Eirini For DevelopersFor Developers there are two big wins from Eirini. Firstly, if you want a Cloud …

: Eirini - Bringing Cloud Foundry & Kubernetes Together Eirini For DevelopersFor Developers there are two big wins from Eirini. Firstly, if you want a Cloud …

: Eirini - Bringing Cloud Foundry & Kubernetes Together Eirini For DevelopersFor Developers there are two big wins from Eirini. Firstly, if you want a Cloud …

: Eirini - Bringing Cloud Foundry & Kubernetes Together Eirini For DevelopersFor Developers there are two big wins from Eirini. Firstly, if you want a Cloud …

: Eirini - Bringing Cloud Foundry & Kubernetes Together Eirini For DevelopersFor Developers there are two big wins from Eirini. Firstly, if you want a Cloud …

: Eirini - Bringing Cloud Foundry & Kubernetes Together Eirini For DevelopersFor Developers there are two big wins from Eirini. Firstly, if you want a Cloud …

: Link: Digital, Strategy and Design Strategy involves determining the company’s intent. Strategy is expressed in an understanding of the …

: Link: Digital, Strategy and Design Strategy involves determining the company’s intent. Strategy is expressed in an understanding of the …

: Link: Dirty Little Secrets of your System Integrator: Why Companies Still Go Over Budget File under: Enterprise computering considered difficult. Be careful what wish-contract for. Agility …

: Link: Dirty Little Secrets of your System Integrator: Why Companies Still Go Over Budget File under: Enterprise computering considered difficult. Be careful what wish-contract for. Agility …

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: Link: Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email With AMP for Email, those messages become interactive. That means you’ll be able to RSVP to an event …

: Link: Oracle's Georges Saab on the Impact of Faster Java Releases When the new six-month cadence was announced there was some talk about "release fatigue." Have you …

: Link: Oracle's Georges Saab on the Impact of Faster Java Releases When the new six-month cadence was announced there was some talk about "release fatigue." Have you …

: Link: SOA vs. EDA: Is Not Life Simply a Series of Events? to;dr: decouple your shit, fools. Source: SOA vs. EDA: Is Not Life Simply a Series of Events?

: Link: SOA vs. EDA: Is Not Life Simply a Series of Events? to;dr: decouple your shit, fools. Source: SOA vs. EDA: Is Not Life Simply a Series of Events?

: Link: Standard Bank contracts with AWS for mass migration to the cloud The bank has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider with the intention of porting its …

: Link: Standard Bank contracts with AWS for mass migration to the cloud The bank has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider with the intention of porting its …

: Link: The platform play: How to operate like a tech company One of the global leading banks created about 30 platforms. One such platform was payments, which …

: Link: The platform play: How to operate like a tech company One of the global leading banks created about 30 platforms. One such platform was payments, which …

: Link: Women more at risk of job automation In 2017, ONS found 1.5 million roles in England were at risk of having elements of their tasks …

: Link: Women more at risk of job automation In 2017, ONS found 1.5 million roles in England were at risk of having elements of their tasks …

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: Apple iOS 12.2, Apple News+, Apple Card Screen Time is pretty good, but can always use more. It has that very Apple feature cycle where you …

: Apple iOS 12.2, Apple News+, Apple Card Screen Time is pretty good, but can always use more. It has that very Apple feature cycle where you …

: Apple iOS 12.2, Apple News+, Apple Card Screen Time is pretty good, but can always use more. It has that very Apple feature cycle where you …

: Apple iOS 12.2, Apple News+, Apple Card Screen Time is pretty good, but can always use more. It has that very Apple feature cycle where you …

: Apple iOS 12.2, Apple News+, Apple Card Screen Time is pretty good, but can always use more. It has that very Apple feature cycle where you …

: Apple iOS 12.2, Apple News+, Apple Card Screen Time is pretty good, but can always use more. It has that very Apple feature cycle where you …

: Link: Exploring the “Unknown Unknowns” in IT-enabled Digital Transformation Estimates These low-ball estimates are sometimes provided by consultants working to get their foot in the …

: Link: Exploring the “Unknown Unknowns” in IT-enabled Digital Transformation Estimates These low-ball estimates are sometimes provided by consultants working to get their foot in the …

: Link: Instagram Is Changing How You Shop When you browse select posts from those brands, you’ll now see a blue “Checkout on Instagram” …

: Link: Instagram Is Changing How You Shop When you browse select posts from those brands, you’ll now see a blue “Checkout on Instagram” …

: Link: lots of capital, little control With all the money sloshing around looking to find a home, startup funding might be a bit of a …

: Link: lots of capital, little control With all the money sloshing around looking to find a home, startup funding might be a bit of a …

: Link: Oracle swings axe on cloud infrastructure corps amid possible bloodbath at Big Red These US-based layoffs are part of a broad round of job cuts around the globe this month, said to …

: Link: Oracle swings axe on cloud infrastructure corps amid possible bloodbath at Big Red These US-based layoffs are part of a broad round of job cuts around the globe this month, said to …

: Link: Please Hold An impressive 72% of millennials are more likely to be loyal to a brand that responds to feedback on …

: Link: Please Hold An impressive 72% of millennials are more likely to be loyal to a brand that responds to feedback on …

: Discussing the common "CIO agenda" I get asked to talk with “executives” more and more. That’s part of why Pivotal moved me over to …

: DevOps, monolithic architectures, craftsmanship - an unpublished interview I’m too wordy when I reply to reporters. This is mostly true everywhere I produce content. I …

: Link: One Simple Way to Eliminate Distractions in a Board Meeting The best board meetings are discussions and debates about the business yet many executive teams …

: Link: One Simple Way to Eliminate Distractions in a Board Meeting The best board meetings are discussions and debates about the business yet many executive teams …

: Link: The Fast and Slow of Design On the top layer there is rapid change. On the bottom, change happens at a glacial pace. It's this …

: Link: The Fast and Slow of Design On the top layer there is rapid change. On the bottom, change happens at a glacial pace. It's this …

: Management, as practiced by a young IBM Of course, there were countercurrents. Managers wanted to control activities. That impetus for …

: Link: Are security concerns over Huawei a boon for its European rivals? Between 2015 and 2018 Huawei’s share rose from 24% to 28%; Nokia’s dipped from 20% to 17% and …

: Link: Are security concerns over Huawei a boon for its European rivals? Between 2015 and 2018 Huawei’s share rose from 24% to 28%; Nokia’s dipped from 20% to 17% and …

: Assume that rivals will exercise their options If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don't want, assume the worst and …

: Assume that rivals will exercise their options If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don't want, assume the worst and …

: Assume that rivals will exercise their options If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don't want, assume the worst and …

: Assume that rivals will exercise their options If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don't want, assume the worst and …

: Assume that rivals will exercise their options If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don't want, assume the worst and …

: Assume that rivals will exercise their options If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don't want, assume the worst and …

: Assume that rivals will exercise their options If you give someone an option, even if it seems like one you don't want, assume the worst and …

: Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update - Software Defined Talk #171 SUSE is independent again, so we discuss what’s up with it and its uses. Open source, when mixed …

: Link: BMC Touches Clouds with Job Scheduler The new support for cloud platform as a service (PaaS) functions — including Lambda, step functions, …

: Link: BMC Touches Clouds with Job Scheduler The new support for cloud platform as a service (PaaS) functions — including Lambda, step functions, …

: Link: Elizabeth Holmes and her firm Theranos show why we must stop fetishising entrepreneurs As well as capturing enduring gender anxieties, the Theranos story is also a reflection of the …

: Link: Elizabeth Holmes and her firm Theranos show why we must stop fetishising entrepreneurs As well as capturing enduring gender anxieties, the Theranos story is also a reflection of the …

: Link: In Defense of YAML “Where it can go wrong is where we use YAML to describe behavior.” Actually doing the thing instead …

: Link: In Defense of YAML “Where it can go wrong is where we use YAML to describe behavior.” Actually doing the thing instead …

: Link: Europe and America must work to stop their relationship unravelling Yet, through its many ups and downs, the relationship has proved resilient. Trade flows between the …

: Link: Europe and America must work to stop their relationship unravelling Yet, through its many ups and downs, the relationship has proved resilient. Trade flows between the …

: Link: People read books for different reasons, beyond entertainment & learning One thing I’ve learned, writing books and then talking to people about those books and others, is …

: Link: People read books for different reasons, beyond entertainment & learning One thing I’ve learned, writing books and then talking to people about those books and others, is …

: Link: Facebook's local news project frustrated – by lack of local newspapers The definition of not enough: The company deems a community unsuitable for Today In if it cannot …

: Link: Facebook's local news project frustrated – by lack of local newspapers The definition of not enough: The company deems a community unsuitable for Today In if it cannot …

: Link: MOOvement: A track & trace system for cows An IoT use case, for tracking cows, that actually helps out the business (in addition to the …

: Link: MOOvement: A track & trace system for cows An IoT use case, for tracking cows, that actually helps out the business (in addition to the …

: Link: The Best Digital Transformers Choose When to Choose There’s a cost to all this choice: it delays decision making, causes distress, and it leads to …

: Link: The Best Digital Transformers Choose When to Choose There’s a cost to all this choice: it delays decision making, causes distress, and it leads to …

: Pumping the digital transformation bunny at the US Air Force, an interview with Bryon Kroger Few organizations have or rely on as much software the US Air Force. There’s plenty of it …

: CI/CD acquisitions Oracle acquired Werker - April 2017 GE Digital acquired Solano Labs - Oct 2017 Cloudbees acquired …

: CI/CD acquisitions Oracle acquired Werker - April 2017 GE Digital acquired Solano Labs - Oct 2017 Cloudbees acquired …

: CI/CD acquisitions Oracle acquired Werker - April 2017 GE Digital acquired Solano Labs - Oct 2017 Cloudbees acquired …

: CI/CD acquisitions Oracle acquired Werker - April 2017 GE Digital acquired Solano Labs - Oct 2017 Cloudbees acquired …

: CI/CD acquisitions Oracle acquired Werker - April 2017 GE Digital acquired Solano Labs - Oct 2017 Cloudbees acquired …

: CI/CD acquisitions Oracle acquired Werker - April 2017 GE Digital acquired Solano Labs - Oct 2017 Cloudbees acquired …

: CI/CD acquisitions Oracle acquired Werker - April 2017 GE Digital acquired Solano Labs - Oct 2017 Cloudbees acquired …

: How to Run an Effective Networking Dinner After the initial kibitzing, I recommend standing up and doing a small toast (if it’s a dinner …

: Q&A on the Book Evidence-Based Management The most important issue in organizational data quality is whether you have the data you need to …

: What do developers need/want to hear? How to use containers, even managing them. Being more autonomous - developers love freedom. Keeping …

: Why Wells Fargo Wants to ‘Repave’ Its Platform Every Day Wells Fargo, explains how the company is combating advanced persistent threats, as well as an …

: Tips for Michaels When Kim and I started living together, we had to figure out the shared rules of the house. Back in …

: Tips for Michaels When Kim and I started living together, we had to figure out the shared rules of the house. Back in …

: Tips for Michaels When Kim and I started living together, we had to figure out the shared rules of the house. Back in …

: Tips for Michaels When Kim and I started living together, we had to figure out the shared rules of the house. Back in …

: Tips for Michaels When Kim and I started living together, we had to figure out the shared rules of the house. Back in …

: Monolithic Transformation My booklet, Monolithic Transformation is finally out. It collects together the stories and …

: 🗂 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 …

: 🗂 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 …

: 🗂 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 …

: PayPal's IT catalog in 2014 > The new structure would include nine hundred applications, thirty thousand end-user devices, …

: 🗂 Money Stuff: $10,000 for reading the fine print > The conventional approach to form contracts is (1) no one reads them but (2) the company …

: 🗂 Money Stuff: $10,000 for reading the fine print > The conventional approach to form contracts is (1) no one reads them but (2) the company …

: 🗂 Money Stuff: $10,000 for reading the fine print > The conventional approach to form contracts is (1) no one reads them but (2) the company …

: 🗂 Why the eight-hour workday doesn't work > The ideal work-to-break ratio was 52 minutes of work, followed by 17 minutes of rest. …

: 🗂 Why the eight-hour workday doesn't work > The ideal work-to-break ratio was 52 minutes of work, followed by 17 minutes of rest. …

: 🗂 The CIO's role in M www.ciodive.com/news/the-…

: 🗂 The CIO's role in M www.ciodive.com/news/the-…

: 🗂 Pie-charts and proactive app introductions > Send in a mole: “Find one really smart engineering type in your IT organization and put them on …

: 🗂 Pie-charts and proactive app introductions > Send in a mole: “Find one really smart engineering type in your IT organization and put them on …

: 🗂 Coaching CD change leaders > Burke identified a few key architects who believed in the automated continuous delivery model …

: 🗂 Coaching CD change leaders > Burke identified a few key architects who believed in the automated continuous delivery model …

: 🗂 The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT > IBM used to be the bellwether, then it was HPE for a while when it was just called Hewlett …

: 🗂 The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT > IBM used to be the bellwether, then it was HPE for a while when it was just called Hewlett …

: 🗂 What happened to OpenStack? > So, you see, creating a viable, open source, hyperscale cloud software solution was against the …

: 🗂 What happened to OpenStack? > So, you see, creating a viable, open source, hyperscale cloud software solution was against the …

: 🗂 Agile Q Seems like a budget luxury, but sure: > In fact you have more time to focus on developing your …

: 🗂 Agile Q Seems like a budget luxury, but sure: > In fact you have more time to focus on developing your …

: 🗂 Geico Walks with Watson on AI Journey Replacing human agents with AI, matching it to the right sales workflow: > “So we watched how …

: 🗂 Geico Walks with Watson on AI Journey Replacing human agents with AI, matching it to the right sales workflow: > “So we watched how …

: 🗂 VMware offers pure open-source Kubernetes, no chaser Following the usual, clear portfolio for open source infrastructure. www.zdnet.com/article/v…

: 🗂 VMware offers pure open-source Kubernetes, no chaser Following the usual, clear portfolio for open source infrastructure. www.zdnet.com/article/v…

: 🗂 VMware’s ongoing reinvention Post server virtualization at VMware. www.networkworld.com/article/3…

: 🗂 VMware’s ongoing reinvention Post server virtualization at VMware. www.networkworld.com/article/3…

: 🗂 Duke Energy leases Tompkins Hall in Charlotte > Meant to be more funky and collaborative than typical uptown office space, about 400 Duke …

: 🗂 Duke Energy leases Tompkins Hall in Charlotte > Meant to be more funky and collaborative than typical uptown office space, about 400 Duke …

: 🗂 Execs think more optimistically about app dev practices than reality > The same HBR survey found that 61 percent expect software release cycles to be three months or …

: 🗂 Execs think more optimistically about app dev practices than reality > The same HBR survey found that 61 percent expect software release cycles to be three months or …

: 🗂 How Vans Keeps Its Cool > The company hopes that Vans will reach $5 billion in sales by 2023 — and it’s on track, …

: 🗂 How Vans Keeps Its Cool > The company hopes that Vans will reach $5 billion in sales by 2023 — and it’s on track, …

: 🗂 bol.com CIO interview > The strength of our IT department is that IT is fully integrated in our organization. About 400 …

: 🗂 bol.com CIO interview > The strength of our IT department is that IT is fully integrated in our organization. About 400 …

: 🗂 Karl Lagerfeld dead > “There is no secret to life,” Lagerfeld said. “The only secret is work. Get your act together, …

: 🗂 Karl Lagerfeld dead > “There is no secret to life,” Lagerfeld said. “The only secret is work. Get your act together, …

: 🗂 The new CEO of Google Cloud explains the updated master plan for taking on Amazon Web Services > “We’re going to specialize our sales team to talk to specific industries in the …

: 🗂 The new CEO of Google Cloud explains the updated master plan for taking on Amazon Web Services > “We’re going to specialize our sales team to talk to specific industries in the …

: 🗂 Video: To make 1997’s Blade Runner, Westwood first had to create the universe > The genre reached its peak in the early to mid 1990s, with some of the best-remembered …

: 🗂 Video: To make 1997’s Blade Runner, Westwood first had to create the universe > The genre reached its peak in the early to mid 1990s, with some of the best-remembered …

: 🗂 Digital Transformation, IT, and the Rest of the Company - The New Stack thenewstack.io/digital-t…

: 🗂 Digital Transformation, IT, and the Rest of the Company - The New Stack thenewstack.io/digital-t…

: 🗂 Imposter Syndrome and Finding Your Flow > I have wasted so much time and energy stalling on a task because I was questioning myself …

: 🗂 Imposter Syndrome and Finding Your Flow > I have wasted so much time and energy stalling on a task because I was questioning myself …

: 🗂 Kubernetes Culture Change > Thus we’ve seen a bunch of Kubernetes services spring up, run by the same people who …

: 🗂 Kubernetes Culture Change > Thus we’ve seen a bunch of Kubernetes services spring up, run by the same people who …

: 🗂 Software Chasms with Martin Casado > The unending chasm describes a mode in which an infrastructure company must function as both a …

: 🗂 Software Chasms with Martin Casado > The unending chasm describes a mode in which an infrastructure company must function as both a …

: 🗂 Speak up more > If you’re authentic and fully invested in making an impact while enhancing the experience of …

: 🗂 Speak up more > If you’re authentic and fully invested in making an impact while enhancing the experience of …

: 🗂 Evidence-Based Management Guide It’s all about that Unrealized Value. www.infoq.com/articles/…

: 🗂 Evidence-Based Management Guide It’s all about that Unrealized Value. www.infoq.com/articles/…

: 🗂 The Art of Booth > This may seem like overthinking, but the money, time, and opportunity cost that a booth …

: 🗂 The Art of Booth > This may seem like overthinking, but the money, time, and opportunity cost that a booth …

: 🗂 The digital winter turns apocalyptic News isn’t a growth business, but a business nonetheless. www.cjr.org/business_…

: 🗂 The digital winter turns apocalyptic News isn’t a growth business, but a business nonetheless. www.cjr.org/business_…

: 🗂 “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 …

: 🗂 “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 …

: 🗂 Focusing on Business Outcomes at Barclays: Overcoming the "Urgency Paradox" Spreading lean software in an enterprise: Get stakeholders to think in terms of the end-to-end …

: 🗂 Focusing on Business Outcomes at Barclays: Overcoming the "Urgency Paradox" Spreading lean software in an enterprise: Get stakeholders to think in terms of the end-to-end …

: 🗂 Kafka at Audi, IoT > When Audi wanted to build a system to manage the on-board telematics data in its vehicles, it …

: 🗂 Kafka at Audi, IoT > When Audi wanted to build a system to manage the on-board telematics data in its vehicles, it …

: 🗂 Oracle's priorities for 2019? Repeat this handy mantra: Applications! Automation! Integration! > Big Red, which has been struggling to gain foothold in the cloud market, is looking to make …

: 🗂 Oracle's priorities for 2019? Repeat this handy mantra: Applications! Automation! Integration! > Big Red, which has been struggling to gain foothold in the cloud market, is looking to make …

: 🗂 Microsoft signs cloud deal with Albertsons Cleaning up that grocery store game. www.cnbc.com/2019/01/2…

: 🗂 Microsoft signs cloud deal with Albertsons Cleaning up that grocery store game. www.cnbc.com/2019/01/2…

: 🗂 Achieving Multi-Cloud Flexibility Matt Baker’s concise history and path to the “multi-cloud” thought-technology: > “The definition …

: 🗂 Achieving Multi-Cloud Flexibility Matt Baker’s concise history and path to the “multi-cloud” thought-technology: > “The definition …

: 🗂 I went to a Skookum Tech Talk and learned how Duke Energy is staying on top of all things tech – and what that means for your energy services Doing software better at the south east’s largest power company. …

: 🗂 I went to a Skookum Tech Talk and learned how Duke Energy is staying on top of all things tech – and what that means for your energy services Doing software better at the south east’s largest power company. …

: 🗂 Multiple personality enterprise data > There is also the cost of different people thinking about data differently because they are …

: 🗂 Multiple personality enterprise data > There is also the cost of different people thinking about data differently because they are …

: 🗂 Switching Costs and Lock-In “Lock-in” is about switching costs (a Simon Phipps put it long ago, “the freedom to leave”) and can …

: 🗂 Switching Costs and Lock-In “Lock-in” is about switching costs (a Simon Phipps put it long ago, “the freedom to leave”) and can …

: 🗂 What startups should know about ITIL® > ITIL came from a very different IT setup compared to that of today’s startups. IT had a …

: 🗂 What startups should know about ITIL® > ITIL came from a very different IT setup compared to that of today’s startups. IT had a …

: 🗂 When is it Time to Say Goodbye to Accenture, Deloitte, IBM or KPMG? Short plan for getting rid of outsources. upperedge.com/system-in…

: 🗂 When is it Time to Say Goodbye to Accenture, Deloitte, IBM or KPMG? Short plan for getting rid of outsources. upperedge.com/system-in…

: 🗂 Why Do We Need Architectural Diagrams? > In practice, most stakeholders are not interested in detailed diagrams, but rather in one or …

: 🗂 Why Do We Need Architectural Diagrams? > In practice, most stakeholders are not interested in detailed diagrams, but rather in one or …

: 🗂 '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 …

: 🗂 '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 …

: 🗂 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 …

: 🗂 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 …

: 🗂 The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it Things are getting much better. ourworldindata.org/a-history…

: 🗂 The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it Things are getting much better. ourworldindata.org/a-history…

: 🗂 The U.S. Department of Defense on How To Detect ‘Agile BS’ Tips on finding good agile teams in large organizations: > Are teams delivering working software …

: 🗂 The U.S. Department of Defense on How To Detect ‘Agile BS’ Tips on finding good agile teams in large organizations: > Are teams delivering working software …

: 🗂 Keeping the Lines Open Tools and practices for remote agile stuff. builttoadapt.io/tk-65faab…

: 🗂 Keeping the Lines Open Tools and practices for remote agile stuff. builttoadapt.io/tk-65faab…

: 🗂 Open Source, Enterprise Software, and Free Lumber > Please believe me when I say that I totally agree with Holger’s assertion that this process …

: 🗂 Open Source, Enterprise Software, and Free Lumber > Please believe me when I say that I totally agree with Holger’s assertion that this process …

: 🗂 Q > When we create, we put forward a case for how we should interact with tech in future, and by …

: 🗂 Q > When we create, we put forward a case for how we should interact with tech in future, and by …

: 🗂 Knative Update Shows It’s Serious About Serverless www.sdxcentral.com/articles/…

: 🗂 Knative Update Shows It’s Serious About Serverless www.sdxcentral.com/articles/…

: 🗂 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. …

: 🗂 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. …

: 🗂 AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon's secretive low-code/no-code project > Earlier reports indicated that AWS has for some time been working on a cloud service that would …

: 🗂 AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon's secretive low-code/no-code project > Earlier reports indicated that AWS has for some time been working on a cloud service that would …

: 🗂 AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source > This leaves MongoDB Inc. not unlike the record companies after the advent of downloads: what …

: 🗂 AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source > This leaves MongoDB Inc. not unlike the record companies after the advent of downloads: what …

: 🗂 PKS - a Painkiller for Kubernetes The list of pains: One cluster is not enough Developers want clusters close to them, for low latency …

: 🗂 PKS - a Painkiller for Kubernetes The list of pains: One cluster is not enough Developers want clusters close to them, for low latency …

: 🗂 Production Guideline Checklists of things to check before deploying. medium.com@rakyll/production-guideline-9d5d10c8f1e

: 🗂 Production Guideline Checklists of things to check before deploying. medium.com@rakyll/production-guideline-9d5d10c8f1e

: 🗂 Why Is Storage On Kubernetes Is So Hard? Storage! softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/01/1…

: 🗂 Why Is Storage On Kubernetes Is So Hard? Storage! softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/01/1…

: 🗂 Fiction vs. Nonfiction > The only difference is that with nonfiction, every fact in the book must refer to a document or …

: 🗂 Fiction vs. Nonfiction > The only difference is that with nonfiction, every fact in the book must refer to a document or …

: 🗂 Only the good meetings > Finding a cadence upon which to work as an engineer can be difficult. As engineers are …

: 🗂 Only the good meetings > Finding a cadence upon which to work as an engineer can be difficult. As engineers are …

: 🗂 ‘Inbox infinity’: is ignoring all your emails the secret to a happy 2019? > Rather than trying to deal with every single email, let them pile up, and allow the digital …

: 🗂 ‘Inbox infinity’: is ignoring all your emails the secret to a happy 2019? > Rather than trying to deal with every single email, let them pile up, and allow the digital …

: 🗂 Culture > We need to work with each other. To do that, we need to trust each other. The Air Force needs …

: 🗂 Culture > We need to work with each other. To do that, we need to trust each other. The Air Force needs …

: 🗂 The Rise and Demise of RSS > Unfortunately, syndication on the modern web still only happens through one of a very small …

: 🗂 The Rise and Demise of RSS > Unfortunately, syndication on the modern web still only happens through one of a very small …

: 🗂 Why so many people who need the government hate it > I’ve come to the conclusion that relationships are more important. And I think organizations …

: 🗂 Why so many people who need the government hate it > I’ve come to the conclusion that relationships are more important. And I think organizations …

: 🗂 Kromhout Kubernetes Tour Why you’d use it, what it does, the parts, and the additional stuff you’ll need. …

: 🗂 Kromhout Kubernetes Tour Why you’d use it, what it does, the parts, and the additional stuff you’ll need. …

: 🗂 Steeltoe: Modernize .Net Apps for a Microservices Architecture Microservices for .Net. thenewstack.io/steeltoe-…

: 🗂 Steeltoe: Modernize .Net Apps for a Microservices Architecture Microservices for .Net. thenewstack.io/steeltoe-…

: 🗂 Simplifying kubernetes use > As a scheduler of containers, Kubernetes does a pretty good job. If you keep it focused on that …

: 🗂 Simplifying kubernetes use > As a scheduler of containers, Kubernetes does a pretty good job. If you keep it focused on that …

: 🗂 community, you keep using that word > Selling something for more than the cost is the only business model ever. Everything else is …

: 🗂 community, you keep using that word > Selling something for more than the cost is the only business model ever. Everything else is …

: 🗂 Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications It either means not having to worry about managing your middleware stack and/or a trigger-driven …

: 🗂 Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications It either means not having to worry about managing your middleware stack and/or a trigger-driven …

: 🗂 Is this the future of retail? We checked out the new high-tech store from Microsoft and Kroger You use an in-store device or you phone to scan items to buy: > The speed is most visible when a …

: 🗂 Is this the future of retail? We checked out the new high-tech store from Microsoft and Kroger You use an in-store device or you phone to scan items to buy: > The speed is most visible when a …

: 🗂 Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.4 Boosts Security With Compliance Scanner Two big features: > So how does zero downtime actually work in production? Seroter explained …

: 🗂 Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.4 Boosts Security With Compliance Scanner Two big features: > So how does zero downtime actually work in production? Seroter explained …

: 🗂 Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World Great philosophy discussion. overcast.fm PbpJYEvbA

: 🗂 Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World Great philosophy discussion. overcast.fm PbpJYEvbA

: 🗂 Avoiding worrying > What you see and how you perceive yourself is not really how anybody else sees you. There are …

: 🗂 Avoiding worrying > What you see and how you perceive yourself is not really how anybody else sees you. There are …

: 🗂 State of the World 2019, Bruce Sterling > The markets are waiting for the markets to stop being global markets. …

: 🗂 State of the World 2019, Bruce Sterling > The markets are waiting for the markets to stop being global markets. …

: 🗂 DBS banks on data to know what customers want before they themselves know > DBS built its API platform on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, which enabled it to upgrade or update the …

: 🗂 DBS banks on data to know what customers want before they themselves know > DBS built its API platform on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, which enabled it to upgrade or update the …

: 🗂 The future of Kubernetes is Virtual Machines Multi-tenancy ain’t easy: > The Kubernetes cluster itself becomes the line of “Hard Tenanacy”. …

: 🗂 The future of Kubernetes is Virtual Machines Multi-tenancy ain’t easy: > The Kubernetes cluster itself becomes the line of “Hard Tenanacy”. …

: 🗂 Keep kubernetes clusters small and dumb > Rule #2: take away the problem of scale from infrastructure, push it back on the apps — things …

: 🗂 Keep kubernetes clusters small and dumb > Rule #2: take away the problem of scale from infrastructure, push it back on the apps — things …

: 🗂 The Non-Compete Software Movement > If I want to grab a piece of software and build a business on top of it through my own labor, I …

: 🗂 The Non-Compete Software Movement > If I want to grab a piece of software and build a business on top of it through my own labor, I …

: 🗂 Life on the Road With Susan Orlean > How do you pass the time on a flight? > > Sometimes I’ll do tasks that are usually so …

: 🗂 Life on the Road With Susan Orlean > How do you pass the time on a flight? > > Sometimes I’ll do tasks that are usually so …

: 🗂 Pairing at DBS > There are various mechanisms and methods that we use to transform the skills of our incumbents. …

: 🗂 Pairing at DBS > There are various mechanisms and methods that we use to transform the skills of our incumbents. …

: 🗂 Two-thirds of federal email is now in the cloud > Quite a few departments have entirely moved their email to the cloud: Transportation, [HUD], …

: 🗂 Two-thirds of federal email is now in the cloud > Quite a few departments have entirely moved their email to the cloud: Transportation, [HUD], …

: 🗂 What’s next for 2019? Influencer marketing trends > Technology is not favoured on Instagram, accounting for just one percent of posts. A quarter of …

: 🗂 What’s next for 2019? Influencer marketing trends > Technology is not favoured on Instagram, accounting for just one percent of posts. A quarter of …

: 🗂 A lot of effort went into making this effortless > When Pablo Picasso was an old man, he was sitting in a café in Spain, doodling on a used …

: 🗂 A lot of effort went into making this effortless > When Pablo Picasso was an old man, he was sitting in a café in Spain, doodling on a used …

: 🗂 Kubernetes, what it’s for > The reason that Kubernetes is successful is because people look at it and they don’t understand …

: 🗂 Kubernetes, what it’s for > The reason that Kubernetes is successful is because people look at it and they don’t understand …

: 🗂 Learning the business from The Business > “The worse domain expert is the one whose expertise was built for the intricacies of existing …

: 🗂 Learning the business from The Business > “The worse domain expert is the one whose expertise was built for the intricacies of existing …

: 🗂 Does terrorism work? We studied 90 groups to get the answer > We found that only six of the 45 terror groups – that’s 13.3 percent – accomplished their …

: 🗂 Does terrorism work? We studied 90 groups to get the answer > We found that only six of the 45 terror groups – that’s 13.3 percent – accomplished their …

: 🗂 What's wrong with Huawei, and why are countries banning the Chinese telecommunications firm? > The focus of many security agencies and countries on Huawei’s involvement in 5G systems raises …

: 🗂 What's wrong with Huawei, and why are countries banning the Chinese telecommunications firm? > The focus of many security agencies and countries on Huawei’s involvement in 5G systems raises …

: 🗂 Why Ketchup in Mexico Tastes So Good > Take a look at the fare available in the typical convenience store. It should be called the …

: 🗂 Why Ketchup in Mexico Tastes So Good > Take a look at the fare available in the typical convenience store. It should be called the …

: 🗂 Cloud Comfort Level is Growing, Survey Finds > Cloud Foundry Foundation reported that more than 50 percent of companies it surveyed are …

: 🗂 Cloud Comfort Level is Growing, Survey Finds > Cloud Foundry Foundation reported that more than 50 percent of companies it surveyed are …

: 🗂 COTS kills container cornucopia > Where we are today, we have quite a bit of package software that we customize. And so we are …

: 🗂 COTS kills container cornucopia > Where we are today, we have quite a bit of package software that we customize. And so we are …

: 🗂 Meanwhile, does tumblr just burn cash? > The reality is that Tumblr is almost certainly a big money loser: the app was earning about $13 …

: 🗂 Meanwhile, does tumblr just burn cash? > The reality is that Tumblr is almost certainly a big money loser: the app was earning about $13 …

: 🗂 Projects versus products, dependency avoidance ed. > The project/product distinction is an important one for many reasons, so let’s touch on that …

: 🗂 Projects versus products, dependency avoidance ed. > The project/product distinction is an important one for many reasons, so let’s touch on that …

: 🗂 Synergies, industrial example > Berg said that over the past two years, under the ownership of GE, ServiceMax has been able to …

: 🗂 Synergies, industrial example > Berg said that over the past two years, under the ownership of GE, ServiceMax has been able to …

: 🗂 You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle Still swinging: > “Jeff Bezos gave the command, ‘I want to get off the Oracle …

: 🗂 You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle Still swinging: > “Jeff Bezos gave the command, ‘I want to get off the Oracle …

: 🗂 Congress Votes For Better Government Websites, Digital Services Make government apps that are actually useful on purpose: “Are designed around user needs with …

: 🗂 Congress Votes For Better Government Websites, Digital Services Make government apps that are actually useful on purpose: “Are designed around user needs with …

: 🗂 Singapore Airlines to innovate at Silicon Valley startup speed with Pivotal “Singapore Airlines (SIA) has collaborated with Pivotal Software to deliver what the two …

: 🗂 Singapore Airlines to innovate at Silicon Valley startup speed with Pivotal “Singapore Airlines (SIA) has collaborated with Pivotal Software to deliver what the two …

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: VMware uses NSX for Istio > The microservice architecture, which breaks complex applications into sets of single-purpose …

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: Link: Where there's cake, there's success I’m always trying to find a reference to Linda Rising’s cake law. Here it is! Original …

: Link: The Economists books of the year, 2018 That’s a lot of books, fiction even. Original source: The Economists books of the year, 2018

: Link: The Economists books of the year, 2018 That’s a lot of books, fiction even. Original source: The Economists books of the year, 2018

: Link: Virtualization software company Parallels reportedly to be acquired by Canada’s Corel Both companies are “time was” status. Clearly, just a VC roll-up of cash cows: Corel, once publicly …

: Link: Virtualization software company Parallels reportedly to be acquired by Canada’s Corel Both companies are “time was” status. Clearly, just a VC roll-up of cash cows: Corel, once publicly …

: Link: AWS’s Snowball Edge A private cloud box from Amazon: The Snowball Edge Compute Optimized with GPU includes an on-board …

: Link: AWS’s Snowball Edge A private cloud box from Amazon: The Snowball Edge Compute Optimized with GPU includes an on-board …

: Link: Google's new cloud chief has a culture clash ahead of him after 22 years at Oracle But when it comes to the big storage and core computing contracts, numerous industry experts, …

: Link: Google's new cloud chief has a culture clash ahead of him after 22 years at Oracle But when it comes to the big storage and core computing contracts, numerous industry experts, …

: Link: How Air France - KLM designed its PaaS Cloud Foundry "it was not a question of replacing our experts but of increasing the skills of the group's internal …

: Link: How Air France - KLM designed its PaaS Cloud Foundry "it was not a question of replacing our experts but of increasing the skills of the group's internal …

: Link: Exclusive poll: America sours on social media giants About 40% of Americans still feel that social media is a net positive for society. Overall, 65% of …

: Link: Exclusive poll: America sours on social media giants About 40% of Americans still feel that social media is a net positive for society. Overall, 65% of …

: Link: HSBC chief architect: Why machine learning is accelerating cloud adoption If you build it, you own it, big data ed.: “We got some value out of that but to be honest we found …

: Link: HSBC chief architect: Why machine learning is accelerating cloud adoption If you build it, you own it, big data ed.: “We got some value out of that but to be honest we found …

: Link: Is CX the new killer app for ERP vendors? I seriously doubt it All these analytics are nonsense if you don’t actually act on them, especially when it comes to …

: Link: Is CX the new killer app for ERP vendors? I seriously doubt it All these analytics are nonsense if you don’t actually act on them, especially when it comes to …

: Link: OpenStack 2018: Mark Shuttleworth chats to The Reg about 10-year support plans, Linus Torvalds and Russian rockets While he would obviously be very happy to welcome new customers to the Canonical fold, he points …

: Link: OpenStack 2018: Mark Shuttleworth chats to The Reg about 10-year support plans, Linus Torvalds and Russian rockets While he would obviously be very happy to welcome new customers to the Canonical fold, he points …

: Link: Greene steps down as Google Cloud CEO, to be replaced by Thomas Kurian "We have moved Google Cloud from having only two significant customers and a collection of startups …

: Link: Greene steps down as Google Cloud CEO, to be replaced by Thomas Kurian "We have moved Google Cloud from having only two significant customers and a collection of startups …

: Link: Mission capability delivered at startup speed More coverage of the US Air Force going all in on digital XP, lean design, and cloud native to …

: Link: Mission capability delivered at startup speed More coverage of the US Air Force going all in on digital XP, lean design, and cloud native to …

: Link: Salesforce makes undisclosed “strategic investment” in Docker, companies will cross-sell MuleSoft and Docker Enterprise As part of the new relationship between the companies, Docker and Salesforce’s recently acquired …

: Link: Salesforce makes undisclosed “strategic investment” in Docker, companies will cross-sell MuleSoft and Docker Enterprise As part of the new relationship between the companies, Docker and Salesforce’s recently acquired …

: Link: The computational legacy is Oracle's cloud opportunity today The company said it was saving most of its cloud-native announcements for KubeCon in December, but …

: Link: The computational legacy is Oracle's cloud opportunity today The company said it was saving most of its cloud-native announcements for KubeCon in December, but …

: Link: Enterprises to spend almost $2 trillion on digital transformation by 2022 “Industry spending on DX technologies is being driven by core innovation accelerator technologies …

: Link: Enterprises to spend almost $2 trillion on digital transformation by 2022 “Industry spending on DX technologies is being driven by core innovation accelerator technologies …

: Link: OpenStack Expands With New Projects, Canonical’s CEO Is Not Thril Round up of new projects in OpenStack land. Original source: OpenStack Expands With New Projects, …

: Link: OpenStack Expands With New Projects, Canonical’s CEO Is Not Thril Round up of new projects in OpenStack land. Original source: OpenStack Expands With New Projects, …

: Link: Rancher Labs Ropes Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei Support Into Containe “The market has really heated up this year, and clearly that is what’s driving the acquisitions,” …

: Link: Rancher Labs Ropes Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei Support Into Containe “The market has really heated up this year, and clearly that is what’s driving the acquisitions,” …

: Link: Singapore Airlines employees urged to innovate, fail without fear There needs to be a place where you can fail and there's no implication to your career. [The …

: Link: Singapore Airlines employees urged to innovate, fail without fear There needs to be a place where you can fail and there's no implication to your career. [The …

: Link: Waving goodbye to Wall Street the trend has accelerated in just the past half-decade as gigantic pools of private capital have, …

: Link: Waving goodbye to Wall Street the trend has accelerated in just the past half-decade as gigantic pools of private capital have, …

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: Link: Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives What it all comes down to is that a mindset is an interpretative process that tells us what is going …

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: Link: Writing addiction “I support your taking up tennis if you really want to play tennis,” he said. “But if you want to …

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: Link: It’s Not a Digital Transformation Without a Digital Culture Signaling change with symbolic acts that embody the new culture is a good way to activate leadership …

: Link: It’s Not a Digital Transformation Without a Digital Culture Signaling change with symbolic acts that embody the new culture is a good way to activate leadership …

: Link: Big Blue Puts on a Red Hat: IBM Acquires Red Hat While many organizations have extensive on and off premise infrastructure investments, comparatively …

: Link: Big Blue Puts on a Red Hat: IBM Acquires Red Hat While many organizations have extensive on and off premise infrastructure investments, comparatively …

: Link: Google Cloud Revenue When asked about Google’s on-premises strategy, Pichai said the company is “thoughtfully looking at …

: Link: Google Cloud Revenue When asked about Google’s on-premises strategy, Pichai said the company is “thoughtfully looking at …

: Link: Profile of XP and the workday at Pivotal, in German [E]very day starts with a shared breakfast. The buffet offers everything the empty stomach needs: …

: Link: Profile of XP and the workday at Pivotal, in German [E]very day starts with a shared breakfast. The buffet offers everything the empty stomach needs: …

: Link: DigitalOcean Survey Results Reveal the State of Open Source “Nearly three quarter of developers surveyed say that their company expects them to use open …

: Link: DigitalOcean Survey Results Reveal the State of Open Source “Nearly three quarter of developers surveyed say that their company expects them to use open …

: Link: Amazon move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in warehouse The outage, which lasted for hours on Prime Day, resulted in over 15,000 delayed packages and …

: Link: Amazon move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in warehouse The outage, which lasted for hours on Prime Day, resulted in over 15,000 delayed packages and …

: Link: Cloud Foundry Cult Owen covers CF Summit Basel: “The users we spoke with didn't just see it as a PaaS – it was the …

: Link: Cloud Foundry Cult Owen covers CF Summit Basel: “The users we spoke with didn't just see it as a PaaS – it was the …

: Link: Oracle OpenWorld 2018 - making the cloud friendly for enterprises that distrust cloud Good summary and analysis. Original source: Oracle OpenWorld 2018 - making the cloud friendly for …

: Link: Oracle OpenWorld 2018 - making the cloud friendly for enterprises that distrust cloud Good summary and analysis. Original source: Oracle OpenWorld 2018 - making the cloud friendly for …

: Link: THE EMERGING THREE-TIER PRICING MODEL FOR PRIVATE CLOUD Private clouds owned and self-managed by enterprises can be cheaper than public cloud. The magic …

: Link: THE EMERGING THREE-TIER PRICING MODEL FOR PRIVATE CLOUD Private clouds owned and self-managed by enterprises can be cheaper than public cloud. The magic …

: Link: The State of Agile Software in 2018 The third thing that I want to stress is the importance of getting rid of software projects as a …

: Link: The State of Agile Software in 2018 The third thing that I want to stress is the importance of getting rid of software projects as a …

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: Link: Software was important, but civics hacking is the real enabler Techmeme’s summary is all you need to read: Three recent books argue that big tech became powerful …

: Link: Cyber Airmen fuel innovation Any problems discovered in the software can be more easily corrected, a small failure being …

: Link: Cyber Airmen fuel innovation Any problems discovered in the software can be more easily corrected, a small failure being …

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: Link: When Culture Doesn’t Translate Unfortunately, the Thai manager told me, his U.S. colleagues usually didn’t send the agenda until an …

: Link: 2018 Day One Recap: The “Project To Product” Movement Is In Full Swing It doesn’t matter if DevOps has accelerated development. You need to accelerate the entire lead …

: Link: 2018 Day One Recap: The “Project To Product” Movement Is In Full Swing It doesn’t matter if DevOps has accelerated development. You need to accelerate the entire lead …

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: Link: Digital Transformation: Why Culture Is So Key Culture is the most important factor, way more important than technology, for example. By culture, …

: Link: Why Digital Workplace Apps Are Not Producing Great Customer Experiences 16 percent of respondents rate their digital experience offering in the top 25 percent. 26 percent …

: Link: Why Digital Workplace Apps Are Not Producing Great Customer Experiences 16 percent of respondents rate their digital experience offering in the top 25 percent. 26 percent …

: Link: A useful big data story In 2011 Friedberg decided to sell exclusively to farmers, and WeatherBill changed its name to The …

: Link: A useful big data story In 2011 Friedberg decided to sell exclusively to farmers, and WeatherBill changed its name to The …

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: Link: DOJ approves $69B CVS-Aetna merger as healthcare industry restructures CVS, which racked up about $185 billion in revenue last year, runs the country’s largest …

: Link: Private cloud spending is increasing, not decreasing By end of the year, IDC projects public cloud spending will account for 68.2 percent of total IT …

: Link: Private cloud spending is increasing, not decreasing By end of the year, IDC projects public cloud spending will account for 68.2 percent of total IT …

: Link: The new tech effecting culture outline The trajectory of books about new technologies follows a similar pattern: first, hype; then, …

: Link: The new tech effecting culture outline The trajectory of books about new technologies follows a similar pattern: first, hype; then, …

: Link: 'The gulf between apps and infrastructure is blurring' says boss of DevOps darling Puppet Their portfolio: Puppet Bolt, the company's simplified open source automation framework, hit …

: Link: 'The gulf between apps and infrastructure is blurring' says boss of DevOps darling Puppet Their portfolio: Puppet Bolt, the company's simplified open source automation framework, hit …

: Link: SRE: The Biggest Lie Since Kanban That’s why SRE is a Big Lie – because it enables people to say they’re doing a thing that could help …

: Link: SRE: The Biggest Lie Since Kanban That’s why SRE is a Big Lie – because it enables people to say they’re doing a thing that could help …

: Link: The Demise of Blockbuster, and Other Failure Fairy Tales Strategy is hard, execution at the middle-management later is harder. What’s missing from the story …

: Link: The Demise of Blockbuster, and Other Failure Fairy Tales Strategy is hard, execution at the middle-management later is harder. What’s missing from the story …

: Link: Hadoop Needs To Be A Business, Not Just A Platform Financial goop on Cloudera and HortonWorks merging: The deal for the merger of the two companies is …

: Link: Hadoop Needs To Be A Business, Not Just A Platform Financial goop on Cloudera and HortonWorks merging: The deal for the merger of the two companies is …

: Link: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless Despite attempts to educate the market, we still believe the word “serverless” connotes many …

: Link: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless Despite attempts to educate the market, we still believe the word “serverless” connotes many …

: Link: Square expands its bank-like offerings, letting sellers charge customers in installments Disrupters gonna disrupt, loans edition: This type of loan is typically reserved for retailers who …

: Link: Square expands its bank-like offerings, letting sellers charge customers in installments Disrupters gonna disrupt, loans edition: This type of loan is typically reserved for retailers who …

: Link: Air Force wants to make 'Kessel Run' standard in tech acquisition “You’re probably going to see maybe a directive from us that basically says every acquisition …

: Link: Air Force wants to make 'Kessel Run' standard in tech acquisition “You’re probably going to see maybe a directive from us that basically says every acquisition …

: Link: eBooks vs. Whitepapers Tirone expanded further by saying that whitepapers are often used by marketers to highlight the …

: Link: eBooks vs. Whitepapers Tirone expanded further by saying that whitepapers are often used by marketers to highlight the …

: Link: Here’s what happened when the IRS’s electronic filing system crashed on Tax Day From the referenced report: Tax Day, April 17, 2018, the IRS experienced a storage outage due to a …

: Link: Here’s what happened when the IRS’s electronic filing system crashed on Tax Day From the referenced report: Tax Day, April 17, 2018, the IRS experienced a storage outage due to a …

: Link: PCF and New Relic at West “Thomas said he plans to migrate hundreds of existing applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, which …

: Link: PCF and New Relic at West “Thomas said he plans to migrate hundreds of existing applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, which …

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: Link: Pivotal and New Relic Deliver Visibility, Value, and Velocity A nice listing of some metrics to monitor out of the box in PCF, and just performance metrics, but …

: Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3 A laundry list of new feature and services in the software I market around. There’s a lot of .Net …

: Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3 A laundry list of new feature and services in the software I market around. There’s a lot of .Net …

: Link: Lessons from the UK Government's Digital Transformation Journey It’s probably OK: In any organisation that’s been around for a while, ways of doing things …

: Link: Lessons from the UK Government's Digital Transformation Journey It’s probably OK: In any organisation that’s been around for a while, ways of doing things …

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: Link: Steel cut oats The calories are basically the same as those in instant. The biggest difference is that when you …

: Link: USAF's plans for agile, DevOps, cloud Brief, but some names of apps they’ve modernized and high-level thinking in the broader portfolio …

: Link: USAF's plans for agile, DevOps, cloud Brief, but some names of apps they’ve modernized and high-level thinking in the broader portfolio …

: Link: How to have a good conversation What is conversation for anyway? I don’t even recommend being charming, or trying to be charming, …

: Link: How to have a good conversation What is conversation for anyway? I don’t even recommend being charming, or trying to be charming, …

: Link: Container Orchestration Market - Global Forecast to 2023, from Research and Markets The global container orchestration market size is expected to grow from USD 326.1 million in 2018 to …

: Link: Container Orchestration Market - Global Forecast to 2023, from Research and Markets The global container orchestration market size is expected to grow from USD 326.1 million in 2018 to …

: Link: Barely a third of outsourcing deals are now safe: Window-dressing legacy engagements is over - Enterprise Irregulars People want to change the nature of outsourcing: As this year’s State of Operations and Outsourcing …

: Link: Barely a third of outsourcing deals are now safe: Window-dressing legacy engagements is over - Enterprise Irregulars People want to change the nature of outsourcing: As this year’s State of Operations and Outsourcing …

: Link: Google making private cloud stuff Google is responding to enterprise computing needs by making custom-designed computers to run in …

: Link: Google making private cloud stuff Google is responding to enterprise computing needs by making custom-designed computers to run in …

: Link: Mesosphere revenue, etc. “Last year in Q4 we issued news about hitting a $50m+ run rate and this year’s Q2 marks our biggest …

: Link: Mesosphere revenue, etc. “Last year in Q4 we issued news about hitting a $50m+ run rate and this year’s Q2 marks our biggest …

: Link: Quest Software Enhances Kace Systems Management Appliance The all in one, mid-market systems management appliance. Original source: Quest Software Enhances …

: Link: Quest Software Enhances Kace Systems Management Appliance The all in one, mid-market systems management appliance. Original source: Quest Software Enhances …

: Link: High churn rate in the S&P 500 Innosight’s third study of company’s ability to maintain leadership positions estimates …

: Link: High churn rate in the S&P 500 Innosight’s third study of company’s ability to maintain leadership positions estimates …

: Link: Exploring the map – Wardley Maps Wardley’s take on riding the diffusion or understand curve: The uncharted space is where no-one …

: Link: Exploring the map – Wardley Maps Wardley’s take on riding the diffusion or understand curve: The uncharted space is where no-one …

: Link: The Air Force Will Treat Computer Coding Like a Foreign Language For example, when Defense Innovation Unit went to air operations centers in Middle East, the defense …

: Link: The Air Force Will Treat Computer Coding Like a Foreign Language For example, when Defense Innovation Unit went to air operations centers in Middle East, the defense …

: Link: “Gartner also found that there was a greater reliance on third-party developers in governments than other sectors, with more than half saying they used them. This is in contrast to 41 per cent over all the six industries surveyed, which compris Just over half of government IT work relies on outsourcing, 10% higher than private sector average: …

: Link: “Gartner also found that there was a greater reliance on third-party developers in governments than other sectors, with more than half saying they used them. This is in contrast to 41 per cent over all the six industries surveyed, which compris Just over half of government IT work relies on outsourcing, 10% higher than private sector average: …

: Two Types of Digital Transformation There are two types of digital transformation. First, literally. You had an analog process (booking …

: Link: Data center staff are aging faster than the equipment “New skills, such as overseeing and managing SLAs for off-premises workloads, are needed, but …

: Link: Data center staff are aging faster than the equipment “New skills, such as overseeing and managing SLAs for off-premises workloads, are needed, but …

: Link: After Sondergaard, analyst firms must take stock “Analysts become dancers and performers, with all the good and bad that involves. They can …

: Link: After Sondergaard, analyst firms must take stock “Analysts become dancers and performers, with all the good and bad that involves. They can …

: Link: Agile processes can transform companies from unexpected places: The VGZ success story At the topic of agile, lean, DevOps, and all that “digital transformation” stuff is a renewed focus …

: Link: Agile processes can transform companies from unexpected places: The VGZ success story At the topic of agile, lean, DevOps, and all that “digital transformation” stuff is a renewed focus …

: Link: Broadcom CEO Dangles CA Technologies Bait, Investors Bite Tan told investors during the company’s third fiscal quarter of 2018 conference call Thursday that …

: Link: Broadcom CEO Dangles CA Technologies Bait, Investors Bite Tan told investors during the company’s third fiscal quarter of 2018 conference call Thursday that …

: Link: New Common Sense Media survey finds more positives than negatives in teen use of social media ‘“Overall, Common Sense said teens are more likely to view social media as a good thing in their …

: Link: New Common Sense Media survey finds more positives than negatives in teen use of social media ‘“Overall, Common Sense said teens are more likely to view social media as a good thing in their …

: Link: New Tech Spotlight: Fintech Investments Reach All-Time High In Q2 2018 “In Q2 of this year, fintech startups raked in a total of $19 billion in funding, pushing the …

: Link: New Tech Spotlight: Fintech Investments Reach All-Time High In Q2 2018 “In Q2 of this year, fintech startups raked in a total of $19 billion in funding, pushing the …

: Link: VMworld 2018: Pivotal Container Service and the Long Road to NoOps [Swisscom’s] Massalt polled the audience, asking how many of them had experience with updating their …

: Link: VMworld 2018: Pivotal Container Service and the Long Road to NoOps [Swisscom’s] Massalt polled the audience, asking how many of them had experience with updating their …

: Link: When Concorde was the future “Concorde was pitched at the business set of the 1970s, with all of its 106 seats priced at …

: Link: When Concorde was the future “Concorde was pitched at the business set of the 1970s, with all of its 106 seats priced at …

: Link: Taking Agile Transformations Beyond the Tipping Point Creating the process itself is agile. Also, a chart with activities and a suggested timeline. …

: Link: Taking Agile Transformations Beyond the Tipping Point Creating the process itself is agile. Also, a chart with activities and a suggested timeline. …

: Link: Why Starting With End-to-End Customer Journeys Isn't Good For The Customer ‘Here’s how to make the argument to a stakeholder on your team that really wants to see that …

: Link: Why Starting With End-to-End Customer Journeys Isn't Good For The Customer ‘Here’s how to make the argument to a stakeholder on your team that really wants to see that …

: Link: Enterprise Software Priorities for the Next Decade Original source: Enterprise Software Priorities for the Next Decade

: Link: Enterprise Software Priorities for the Next Decade Original source: Enterprise Software Priorities for the Next Decade

: Link: Impressions from VMworld “VMware’s ability to strategically partner to respond to shifting market forces is an impressive …

: Link: Impressions from VMworld “VMware’s ability to strategically partner to respond to shifting market forces is an impressive …

: Link: Internal Product Management: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Black Swan Farming For internal products, the “customer” is the enterprise, usually their strategy and execution, aka, …

: Link: Internal Product Management: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Black Swan Farming For internal products, the “customer” is the enterprise, usually their strategy and execution, aka, …

: Link: ITSM’s own “DevOps renaissance” won’t come from copying DevOps “Service management” considered legacy thing. Original source: ITSM’s own “DevOps renaissance” won’t …

: Link: ITSM’s own “DevOps renaissance” won’t come from copying DevOps “Service management” considered legacy thing. Original source: ITSM’s own “DevOps renaissance” won’t …

: Link: No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it's Going to Look Different Ops, still a thing. Original source: No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it’s Going to …

: Link: No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it's Going to Look Different Ops, still a thing. Original source: No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it’s Going to …

: Link: Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition “Consider this: how well can you discern different shades of blue? If you speak Russian, Greek, …

: Link: Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition “Consider this: how well can you discern different shades of blue? If you speak Russian, Greek, …

: Link: VMworld 2018: VMware Wants to Re-Architect Your Containers for NSX - The New Stack “The developer shouldn’t have to know how to program NSX, or know what the security isolation …

: Link: VMworld 2018: VMware Wants to Re-Architect Your Containers for NSX - The New Stack “The developer shouldn’t have to know how to program NSX, or know what the security isolation …

: Link: New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round “The company says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in recent months” Original …

: Link: New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round “The company says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in recent months” Original …

: Link: Three imperatives for federal agencies to capitalize on digital transformation Just getting some basic design-think in there would probably solve most problems: ‘Nine in 10 …

: Link: Three imperatives for federal agencies to capitalize on digital transformation Just getting some basic design-think in there would probably solve most problems: ‘Nine in 10 …

: Link: Transform Your Corporate Culture With These 5 Proven Steps “A 2017 Gallup report found only 33 percent of US employees said they were engaged at work. This …

: Link: Transform Your Corporate Culture With These 5 Proven Steps “A 2017 Gallup report found only 33 percent of US employees said they were engaged at work. This …

: Link: With Emerging Technology Comes Emerging Data Problems “Enterprises need to think about data traffic patterns in their organizations, Vincent said, and …

: Link: With Emerging Technology Comes Emerging Data Problems “Enterprises need to think about data traffic patterns in their organizations, Vincent said, and …

: Link: Amsterdam Houses on a canal. Original source: Amsterdam

: Link: Amsterdam Houses on a canal. Original source: Amsterdam

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: Link: Avocado toast, with spinach Original source: Avocado toast, with spinach

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: Link: croissant on a phone This is what the kids are up to. Original source: croissant on a phone

: Link: Potato Chips Market Share, Size, Growth and Analysis 2018-2023 “In the past 7 years, the market for good ol’ fried tater chips has grown at a snackable rate …

: Link: Potato Chips Market Share, Size, Growth and Analysis 2018-2023 “In the past 7 years, the market for good ol’ fried tater chips has grown at a snackable rate …

: Don't call me an "evangelist" - Software Defined Interviews #75 Coté talks about his job being an “evangelist,” a word people no longer seem to use but …

: Link: Airmen given direct access to AOC development process “Air Force acquisition leaders recognized the current acquisition strategy, in progress since …

: Link: Airmen given direct access to AOC development process “Air Force acquisition leaders recognized the current acquisition strategy, in progress since …

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: Link: Diplomacy and delusion: books to understand differences between Brits and Americans As it says, some books. Original source: Diplomacy and delusion: books to understand differences …

: Link: Transforming the Air Force into a software company with more airpower “We have a small team that was tired of working this way and tired of not being able to provide this …

: Link: Transforming the Air Force into a software company with more airpower “We have a small team that was tired of working this way and tired of not being able to provide this …

: Link: VMware's vision - your multi-cloud substrate for enterprise applications “Support for VMware’s NSX virtual network over AWS Direct Connect links that allow extending network …

: Link: VMware's vision - your multi-cloud substrate for enterprise applications “Support for VMware’s NSX virtual network over AWS Direct Connect links that allow extending network …

: Link: Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Harbor Into CNCF Sandbox “Harbor is a privately hosted registry, which allows running either on-premises or in any of the …

: Link: Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Harbor Into CNCF Sandbox “Harbor is a privately hosted registry, which allows running either on-premises or in any of the …

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: Link: Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman review – the travails of being an MP | Books | The Guardian Sounds like a (rightly) sympathetic, interesting take on being a representative. Original source: …

: Link: SUSE Builds Momentum with Innovative Open Source Offerings, Revenue Growth and Commitment to Enterprise Customers “For the six months ending April 30, 2018, SUSE saw revenues of $182.9 million, which represents …

: Link: SUSE Builds Momentum with Innovative Open Source Offerings, Revenue Growth and Commitment to Enterprise Customers “For the six months ending April 30, 2018, SUSE saw revenues of $182.9 million, which represents …

: Link: Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞) “It’s too soon to have a good sample size. But it seems to usually work. I think it works because …

: Link: Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞) “It’s too soon to have a good sample size. But it seems to usually work. I think it works because …

: Link: Google sets Kubernetes free with $9m in its pocket for expenses “CNCF has reason to be magnanimous beyond the Chocolate Factory prize money – cloud-oriented …

: Link: Google sets Kubernetes free with $9m in its pocket for expenses “CNCF has reason to be magnanimous beyond the Chocolate Factory prize money – cloud-oriented …

: Link: Project management vs. product management ‘That discussion starts with a very concise and useful distinction between project management (the …

: Link: Project management vs. product management ‘That discussion starts with a very concise and useful distinction between project management (the …

: Link: Project vs. product management, in government Good discussion of doing product management instead of project management. Also, discussion of user …

: Link: Project vs. product management, in government Good discussion of doing product management instead of project management. Also, discussion of user …

: Link: Army’s newest command looks to the future from downtown Austin “For too long we have focused only on cost, schedule and performance,” Murray said Friday in his …

: Link: Army’s newest command looks to the future from downtown Austin “For too long we have focused only on cost, schedule and performance,” Murray said Friday in his …

: Link: Defense Innovation Board Metrics for Software Development Version 0.9, last modified 9 Jul 2018 Suggested metrics for DoD software projects to track, and what they mean Original source: Defense …

: Link: Defense Innovation Board Metrics for Software Development Version 0.9, last modified 9 Jul 2018 Suggested metrics for DoD software projects to track, and what they mean Original source: Defense …

: Link: Defense Innovation Board proposes new metrics for assessing DOD software development “The metrics can be broken down into four broad categories — deployment rate metrics, response …

: Link: Defense Innovation Board proposes new metrics for assessing DOD software development “The metrics can be broken down into four broad categories — deployment rate metrics, response …

: Link: Defense Innovation Board unveils ‘Ten Commandments of Software’ “It seems to me that in our meetings so far we’ve seen many many helper-types — supporters, …

: Link: Defense Innovation Board unveils ‘Ten Commandments of Software’ “It seems to me that in our meetings so far we’ve seen many many helper-types — supporters, …

: Link: Investors Have Misdiagnosed Amazon’s Push Into The Pharmacy Business “The preponderance of drugs in the U.S. is consumed by an older population, whose habits change …

: Link: Investors Have Misdiagnosed Amazon’s Push Into The Pharmacy Business “The preponderance of drugs in the U.S. is consumed by an older population, whose habits change …

: Link: Media Availability with Secretary Mattis at DIUx, transcript “And one of the ways you make certain that you don’t have bad processes eat up good …

: Link: Media Availability with Secretary Mattis at DIUx, transcript “And one of the ways you make certain that you don’t have bad processes eat up good …

: Link: ‘No longer an experiment’ — DIUx becomes DIU, permanent Pentagon unit ‘“There is no doubt in my mind that DIUx will not only continue to exist, it will actually — …

: Link: ‘No longer an experiment’ — DIUx becomes DIU, permanent Pentagon unit ‘“There is no doubt in my mind that DIUx will not only continue to exist, it will actually — …

: Link: Think in Products, Not Projects “In a high level, projects are local optimization efforts. We get a group of people who create new …

: Link: Think in Products, Not Projects “In a high level, projects are local optimization efforts. We get a group of people who create new …

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: Link: Redis Pulls Back on Open Source Licensing, Citing Stingy Cloud Services “The modules in question are used to help create managed services on top of Redis, namely …

: Link: Redis Pulls Back on Open Source Licensing, Citing Stingy Cloud Services “The modules in question are used to help create managed services on top of Redis, namely …

: Link: Digital operating mode “So to apply this to a public service, first map your value chain. Identify those areas where you …

: Link: Digital operating mode “So to apply this to a public service, first map your value chain. Identify those areas where you …

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: Link: The P Rules [for meetings] Targeted at design, but fits for any BigCo meeting. Original source: The P Rules [for meetings]

: Link: Farmers Insurance’s New CIO Sees AI Improving Claims Process ‘Fast, easy interactions are key for customers who have become accustomed to the ease of use …

: Link: Farmers Insurance’s New CIO Sees AI Improving Claims Process ‘Fast, easy interactions are key for customers who have become accustomed to the ease of use …

: Link: Forrester SVP: VMware Is One Of The 'Exciting' Stars Of IT Automation Era ‘O’Donnell called VMware and Pivotal the “crown jewels” of Dell’s $70 …

: Link: Forrester SVP: VMware Is One Of The 'Exciting' Stars Of IT Automation Era ‘O’Donnell called VMware and Pivotal the “crown jewels” of Dell’s $70 …

: Link: Government CIOs Must Resist Transformation Hype and Focus on Digital Optimization Some points: focus on using existing data more, in new ways. usually, it’s jus optimization good …

: Link: Government CIOs Must Resist Transformation Hype and Focus on Digital Optimization Some points: focus on using existing data more, in new ways. usually, it’s jus optimization good …

: Link: Language barrier won’t hold back chatbots in the Netherlands “BB lives on Facebook Messenger, where it helps travellers find and book flights, as well as …

: Link: Language barrier won’t hold back chatbots in the Netherlands “BB lives on Facebook Messenger, where it helps travellers find and book flights, as well as …

: Link: Employee Engagement In The Digital Age “Communication is essential to employee engagement. We are all plugged in and on our phones; we are …

: Link: Employee Engagement In The Digital Age “Communication is essential to employee engagement. We are all plugged in and on our phones; we are …

: Link: People don’t trust HR “More than 70% of employees surveyed in tech do not trust HR, according to a new Blind survey. Only …

: Link: People don’t trust HR “More than 70% of employees surveyed in tech do not trust HR, according to a new Blind survey. Only …

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: Link: GKE On-Prem Networking considered hard: “The amusing thing is that they wanted to connect a GKE On-Prem install …

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: Link: How Pivotal hopes to make cloud mavens of us all A brief description of Pivotal Labs work to improve customer’s agile capabilities. Original source: …

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: Link: What Will Be the Real Impact From Knative? “Knative is using the market momentum behind Kubernetes to provide an established platform on which …

: Link: Ferry risky “Ms Murphy’s own firm is a perfect example. It operates four refrigerated trucks that bring Irish …

: Link: Ferry risky “Ms Murphy’s own firm is a perfect example. It operates four refrigerated trucks that bring Irish …

: Link: Amazon takes aim at U.K. insurance market | Digital Insurance ‘Amazon has “all the tools to succeed” and is a bigger threat than Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which …

: Link: Amazon takes aim at U.K. insurance market | Digital Insurance ‘Amazon has “all the tools to succeed” and is a bigger threat than Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which …

: Link: Google Cloud rolls out prepackaged AI services aimed at business functions “Add it up and AI cloud services may veer from the typical vertical selling approach deployed by …

: Link: Google Cloud rolls out prepackaged AI services aimed at business functions “Add it up and AI cloud services may veer from the typical vertical selling approach deployed by …

: Link: We need to talk about organizational change management “Treat them with the same respect and reverence and results will follow. Treat them as a resource …

: Link: Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices “The latter piece can be the tricky one when using containers to develop microservices. How do you …

: Link: Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices “The latter piece can be the tricky one when using containers to develop microservices. How do you …

: Link: How Companies are Saving Millions with Pivotal Cloud Foundry “A recent Forrester study commissioned by Pivotal which analyzed the benefits PCF customers …

: Link: How Companies are Saving Millions with Pivotal Cloud Foundry “A recent Forrester study commissioned by Pivotal which analyzed the benefits PCF customers …

: Link: Penn Jillette, In Conversation “The things I worry about the most is that I’m completely uneducated. You couldn’t even really give …

: Link: Penn Jillette, In Conversation “The things I worry about the most is that I’m completely uneducated. You couldn’t even really give …

: Link: The New Affluents Time to reap: “Several traits about the new affluents distinguish them as ideal prospective …

: Link: The New Affluents Time to reap: “Several traits about the new affluents distinguish them as ideal prospective …

: Link: The tech project survival guide “you must ask yourself whether your funky way of reconciling payments to the bank or your six-step …

: Link: The tech project survival guide “you must ask yourself whether your funky way of reconciling payments to the bank or your six-step …

: Link: Do you need a corporate vision in government IT? “In an organisation like a local authority this is especially tough as they are such disparate …

: Link: Do you need a corporate vision in government IT? “In an organisation like a local authority this is especially tough as they are such disparate …

: Link: Without a formal mandate “In almost every case there are stakeholders who are moved by quantitative data (say the percentage …

: Link: Without a formal mandate “In almost every case there are stakeholders who are moved by quantitative data (say the percentage …

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: Link: Configuring your release pipelines for safe deployments “Also, it is recommended to not deploy to all production environments in one go, exposing all the …

: Link: Configuring your release pipelines for safe deployments “Also, it is recommended to not deploy to all production environments in one go, exposing all the …

: Link: Kubernetes for the Kubernewbie - The Journey “Kubernetes was created to bring the idea of dynamic, container-centric, managed, scheduled-cluster …

: Link: Kubernetes for the Kubernewbie - The Journey “Kubernetes was created to bring the idea of dynamic, container-centric, managed, scheduled-cluster …

: Link: Progressive Delivery, a History…. Condensed “On the business side, Progressive Delivery involves two core changes in the delivery model: Release …

: Link: Progressive Delivery, a History…. Condensed “On the business side, Progressive Delivery involves two core changes in the delivery model: Release …

: Link: Why You Need To Know About Low-Code, Even If You're Not Responsible For Software Delivery “Low-code [uses] declarative techniques instead of traditional lines of programming… Common features …

: Link: Why You Need To Know About Low-Code, Even If You're Not Responsible For Software Delivery “Low-code [uses] declarative techniques instead of traditional lines of programming… Common features …

: Link: “Let’s think about control. I’d struggle to find any engineers operating within a DevOps mindset eschew control of their production systems. I encourage the use of a CMDB, but again, it’s live, automatically updated, and software-based. It’s ca “Let’s think about control. I’d struggle to find any engineers operating within a DevOps mindset …

: Link: “Let’s think about control. I’d struggle to find any engineers operating within a DevOps mindset eschew control of their production systems. I encourage the use of a CMDB, but again, it’s live, automatically updated, and software-based. It’s ca “Let’s think about control. I’d struggle to find any engineers operating within a DevOps mindset …

: Link: Airplane Maintenance is Offshored “ I don’t worry much about where maintenance occurs. Indeed, if maintenance can be done for less we …

: Link: Airplane Maintenance is Offshored “ I don’t worry much about where maintenance occurs. Indeed, if maintenance can be done for less we …

: Link: Broadcom can’t get there from here “The tiny margin in CA’s enterprise software business, which contrasts with its richly profitable …

: Link: Broadcom can’t get there from here “The tiny margin in CA’s enterprise software business, which contrasts with its richly profitable …

: Link: Q&A on the Book Enterprise Agility “Getting feedback on the effectiveness of the initiatives, and acting on it quickly to refine the …

: Link: Q&A on the Book Enterprise Agility “Getting feedback on the effectiveness of the initiatives, and acting on it quickly to refine the …

: Link: Architectural and operations minimalism “Software that you install is software that you have to operate.” Original source: Architectural and …

: Link: Architectural and operations minimalism “Software that you install is software that you have to operate.” Original source: Architectural and …

: Link: Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 29.5 Percent in 2017 “The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 …

: Link: Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 29.5 Percent in 2017 “The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 …

: Link: The Trouble with Cloud “Repatriation” “Forty-seven (47%) percent of them said improving performance/availability was one of the main …

: Link: The Trouble with Cloud “Repatriation” “Forty-seven (47%) percent of them said improving performance/availability was one of the main …

: Link: Towards Progressive Delivery “Progressive Delivery” - wrapping analyst-think and a sprinkle of business operations around rolling …

: Link: Towards Progressive Delivery “Progressive Delivery” - wrapping analyst-think and a sprinkle of business operations around rolling …

: Link: Google Cloud Platform Blog: Cloud Services Platform: bringing the best of the cloud to you Round-up of developer related stuff from Google. Original source: Google Cloud Platform Blog: Cloud …

: Link: Google Cloud Platform Blog: Cloud Services Platform: bringing the best of the cloud to you Round-up of developer related stuff from Google. Original source: Google Cloud Platform Blog: Cloud …

: Link: TUTORIAL - Deploying Software on PKS: Creating a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Spinnaker “I can see how on larger teams with meaningful applications it could add a ton of value and …

: Link: TUTORIAL - Deploying Software on PKS: Creating a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Spinnaker “I can see how on larger teams with meaningful applications it could add a ton of value and …

: Link: Istio sets sail as Red Hat renovates OpenShift container ship “The software serves as a management mechanism for distributed microservices, providing capabilities …

: Link: Istio sets sail as Red Hat renovates OpenShift container ship “The software serves as a management mechanism for distributed microservices, providing capabilities …

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: Link: Lessons from Elad Gil and High Growth Handbook It’d be useful at some point to compare the “how to be a startup” advice to “how to modernize and …

: Link: Lessons from Elad Gil and High Growth Handbook It’d be useful at some point to compare the “how to be a startup” advice to “how to modernize and …

: Link: Cloud Next 18 - HSBC to run business banking on Kubernetes in Google Cloud “HSBC plans to build its all-new business banking service to run on a Kubernetes-managed container …

: Link: Cloud Next 18 - HSBC to run business banking on Kubernetes in Google Cloud “HSBC plans to build its all-new business banking service to run on a Kubernetes-managed container …

: Link: Facebook’s facing limits “By most estimates, the entire global ad market (digital and offline) sits at roughly …

: Link: Facebook’s facing limits “By most estimates, the entire global ad market (digital and offline) sits at roughly …

: Link: Here are five hidden trends in corporate America’s travel and expenses as online services take over Spending in the $1.4 trillion business travel market, of the non-travel type: “Starbucks is clearly …

: Link: Here are five hidden trends in corporate America’s travel and expenses as online services take over Spending in the $1.4 trillion business travel market, of the non-travel type: “Starbucks is clearly …

: Link: Serverless survey “Serverless is growing, and fast. Several key adoption metrics are 2x what they were last year. And …

: Link: Serverless survey “Serverless is growing, and fast. Several key adoption metrics are 2x what they were last year. And …

: Link: This is the Amazon everyone should have feared — and it has nothing to do with its retail business “the massive online retailer once again posted its largest quarterly profit in history — $2.5 …

: Link: This is the Amazon everyone should have feared — and it has nothing to do with its retail business “the massive online retailer once again posted its largest quarterly profit in history — $2.5 …

: Link: Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent $1.6bn profit, before taxes and such I’m sure. Original source: Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 …

: Link: Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent $1.6bn profit, before taxes and such I’m sure. Original source: Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 …

: Link: Poor listening “Back in 1997, I wrote an article for my consulting colleagues about blockers to listening. As I’m a …

: Link: Poor listening “Back in 1997, I wrote an article for my consulting colleagues about blockers to listening. As I’m a …

: Link: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration and delivery platform Managed CI/CD from Google. Original source: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous …

: Link: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration and delivery platform Managed CI/CD from Google. Original source: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous …

: Link: Knative Enables Portable Serverless Platforms on Kubernetes, for Any Cloud “Knative is an open source software layer that helps cloud service providers and enterprise platform …

: Link: Knative Enables Portable Serverless Platforms on Kubernetes, for Any Cloud “Knative is an open source software layer that helps cloud service providers and enterprise platform …

: Link: Amazon launches Part Finder, built by technology it acquired from Partpic in 2016 Machine learning is turning out to be more practical than apocalyptic. Original source: Amazon …

: Link: Amazon launches Part Finder, built by technology it acquired from Partpic in 2016 Machine learning is turning out to be more practical than apocalyptic. Original source: Amazon …

: Link: Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors ‘Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Target “is migrating key areas of its business to the Google Cloud …

: Link: Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors ‘Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Target “is migrating key areas of its business to the Google Cloud …

: Link: Agile Strategy: Short-Cycle Strategy Development and Execution Kind of a good list of how to align short, agile cycles to longer, strategic planning. Key, I think, …

: Link: Agile Strategy: Short-Cycle Strategy Development and Execution Kind of a good list of how to align short, agile cycles to longer, strategic planning. Key, I think, …

: Link: Agile Strategy: Short-Cycle Strategy Development and Execution Kind of a good list of how to align short, agile cycles to longer, strategic planning. Key, I think, …

: Link: Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy Original source: Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy

: Link: Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy Original source: Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy

: Link: Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy Original source: Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy

: Link: Google Banks on Kubernetes in Cloud Wars Putting 3rd party middleware into Google Cloud: “Among the commercial applications included in the …

: Link: Google Banks on Kubernetes in Cloud Wars Putting 3rd party middleware into Google Cloud: “Among the commercial applications included in the …

: Link: Store scanning robots will get AI, object recognition boost with recent acquisition “Savvides is charged with advancing Bossa Nova’s product recognition capabilities at scale and …

: Link: Store scanning robots will get AI, object recognition boost with recent acquisition “Savvides is charged with advancing Bossa Nova’s product recognition capabilities at scale and …

: Link: The My Health Record story no politician should miss “Early signs of Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia would mean the end of a …

: Link: The My Health Record story no politician should miss “Early signs of Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia would mean the end of a …

: Link: The blockchain begins finding its way in the enterprise “if you don’t require immutability, trust and tokenization, you might want to consider a different …

: Link: The blockchain begins finding its way in the enterprise “if you don’t require immutability, trust and tokenization, you might want to consider a different …

: Link: The blockchain begins finding its way in the enterprise “if you don’t require immutability, trust and tokenization, you might want to consider a different …

: Link: Employees should work on hard things, not easy things ‘For a business to thrive, each employee must ultimately be worth three times their wages to the …

: Link: Employees should work on hard things, not easy things ‘For a business to thrive, each employee must ultimately be worth three times their wages to the …

: Link: Employees should work on hard things, not easy things ‘For a business to thrive, each employee must ultimately be worth three times their wages to the …

: Link: Get Up, Stand Up! Changing the world with posters Those are some good looking posters. Original source: Get Up, Stand Up! Changing the world with …

: Link: Get Up, Stand Up! Changing the world with posters Those are some good looking posters. Original source: Get Up, Stand Up! Changing the world with …

: Link: Get Up, Stand Up! Changing the world with posters Those are some good looking posters. Original source: Get Up, Stand Up! Changing the world with …

: Link: On Preferring A to B, while also preferring B to A ‘There is a tendency to think that joint evaluation is always better since it is the “full …

: Link: On Preferring A to B, while also preferring B to A ‘There is a tendency to think that joint evaluation is always better since it is the “full …

: Link: On Preferring A to B, while also preferring B to A ‘There is a tendency to think that joint evaluation is always better since it is the “full …

: Link: Res Obscura: Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs. Historians “But again, leaving these points aside - Taleb is arguing with a nonexistent group of people here. …

: Link: Res Obscura: Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs. Historians “But again, leaving these points aside - Taleb is arguing with a nonexistent group of people here. …

: Link: Res Obscura: Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs. Historians “But again, leaving these points aside - Taleb is arguing with a nonexistent group of people here. …

: Link: IBM earnings Q2 2018 “This marks IBM’s third consecutive quarter of revenue growth, following five years of …

: Link: IBM earnings Q2 2018 “This marks IBM’s third consecutive quarter of revenue growth, following five years of …

: Link: IBM earnings Q2 2018 “This marks IBM’s third consecutive quarter of revenue growth, following five years of …

: Link: The Book Is a Time Machine Books as information tool and lifestyle are complex. “Displayed books gesture forward and backward …

: Link: The Book Is a Time Machine Books as information tool and lifestyle are complex. “Displayed books gesture forward and backward …

: Link: The Book Is a Time Machine Books as information tool and lifestyle are complex. “Displayed books gesture forward and backward …

: Link: Why Mexico has not become more prosperous—and how it could “In other words, workers end up in jobs where they are less productive than they might be. Too many …

: Link: Why Mexico has not become more prosperous—and how it could “In other words, workers end up in jobs where they are less productive than they might be. Too many …

: Link: Why Mexico has not become more prosperous—and how it could “In other words, workers end up in jobs where they are less productive than they might be. Too many …

: Link: WSO2 CEO Tyler Jewell: Ballerina and the End of Middleware ‘About that same time, Quest was getting acquired by Dell. And then Vinny calls up one day. He was …

: Link: WSO2 CEO Tyler Jewell: Ballerina and the End of Middleware ‘About that same time, Quest was getting acquired by Dell. And then Vinny calls up one day. He was …

: Link: WSO2 CEO Tyler Jewell: Ballerina and the End of Middleware ‘About that same time, Quest was getting acquired by Dell. And then Vinny calls up one day. He was …

: Link: Aquarelo: A Beautifully-Designed Mac Color Utility Original source: Aquarelo: A Beautifully-Designed Mac Color Utility

: Link: Aquarelo: A Beautifully-Designed Mac Color Utility Original source: Aquarelo: A Beautifully-Designed Mac Color Utility

: Link: Aquarelo: A Beautifully-Designed Mac Color Utility Original source: Aquarelo: A Beautifully-Designed Mac Color Utility

: Link: How to take, and benefit from criticism “Taking criticism is the search for actionable feedback.” Related: curiosity is a good shield …

: Link: How to take, and benefit from criticism “Taking criticism is the search for actionable feedback.” Related: curiosity is a good shield …

: Link: How to take, and benefit from criticism “Taking criticism is the search for actionable feedback.” Related: curiosity is a good shield …

: Link: Stop Playing Devil’s Advocate, and Other Advice for Better Decision Making I think the idea is, they know the devil’s advocate is a game, so they don’t take it seriously …

: Link: Stop Playing Devil’s Advocate, and Other Advice for Better Decision Making I think the idea is, they know the devil’s advocate is a game, so they don’t take it seriously …

: Link: Stop Playing Devil’s Advocate, and Other Advice for Better Decision Making I think the idea is, they know the devil’s advocate is a game, so they don’t take it seriously …

: Link: Syllabi - Marie Hicks books Original source: Syllabi - Marie Hicks books

: Link: Syllabi - Marie Hicks books Original source: Syllabi - Marie Hicks books

: Link: Syllabi - Marie Hicks books Original source: Syllabi - Marie Hicks books

: Link: Try to Resist Misinterpreting the Marshmallow Test If you’re poor in options in the present, you’re less likely to wait for long term profits. …

: Link: Try to Resist Misinterpreting the Marshmallow Test If you’re poor in options in the present, you’re less likely to wait for long term profits. …

: Link: Try to Resist Misinterpreting the Marshmallow Test If you’re poor in options in the present, you’re less likely to wait for long term profits. …

: Link: What makes a good deal? “The rule of thumb is that there should be at least a 20 percent discount. That’s the number people …

: Link: What makes a good deal? “The rule of thumb is that there should be at least a 20 percent discount. That’s the number people …

: Link: What makes a good deal? “The rule of thumb is that there should be at least a 20 percent discount. That’s the number people …

: Link: Ask the Engineer: Fix Your Phone Tape “To eliminate this unnecessary “junk,” you will use two of my favorite tools: a high-pass and …

: Link: Ask the Engineer: Fix Your Phone Tape “To eliminate this unnecessary “junk,” you will use two of my favorite tools: a high-pass and …

: Link: Ask the Engineer: Fix Your Phone Tape “To eliminate this unnecessary “junk,” you will use two of my favorite tools: a high-pass and …

: Link: Datical automates database deployments; it's DevOps for data “The vendor has been adding to its stable of paying customers and now has more than 40, many …

: Link: Datical automates database deployments; it's DevOps for data “The vendor has been adding to its stable of paying customers and now has more than 40, many …

: Link: Datical automates database deployments; it's DevOps for data “The vendor has been adding to its stable of paying customers and now has more than 40, many …

: Link: DockerCon coverage from 451: security focus “Steve Singh took over as CEO a year ago and has presided over a growing number of customers – more …

: Link: DockerCon coverage from 451: security focus “Steve Singh took over as CEO a year ago and has presided over a growing number of customers – more …

: Link: DockerCon coverage from 451: security focus “Steve Singh took over as CEO a year ago and has presided over a growing number of customers – more …

: Link: Microsoft’s Container Strategy Continues To Evolve Overview of Microsoft’s history with containers, in Windows. Original source: Microsoft’s Container …

: Link: Microsoft’s Container Strategy Continues To Evolve Overview of Microsoft’s history with containers, in Windows. Original source: Microsoft’s Container …

: Link: Microsoft’s Container Strategy Continues To Evolve Overview of Microsoft’s history with containers, in Windows. Original source: Microsoft’s Container …

: Link: Oracle plans to end Java serialization, but that’s not the end of the story ‘Oracle’s chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization …

: Link: Oracle plans to end Java serialization, but that’s not the end of the story ‘Oracle’s chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization …

: Link: Oracle plans to end Java serialization, but that’s not the end of the story ‘Oracle’s chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization …

: Link: Thoughts on DockerCon 2018 “Docker is focusing on enterprise buyers and legacy workloads.” Original source: Thoughts on …

: Link: Thoughts on DockerCon 2018 “Docker is focusing on enterprise buyers and legacy workloads.” Original source: Thoughts on …

: Link: Thoughts on DockerCon 2018 “Docker is focusing on enterprise buyers and legacy workloads.” Original source: Thoughts on …

: Link: Walmart pick Microsoft Azure for cloud “Walmart plans to deploy Microsoft’s machine-learning, artificial-intelligence and other services to …

: Link: Walmart pick Microsoft Azure for cloud “Walmart plans to deploy Microsoft’s machine-learning, artificial-intelligence and other services to …

: Link: Walmart pick Microsoft Azure for cloud “Walmart plans to deploy Microsoft’s machine-learning, artificial-intelligence and other services to …

: Link: What is “digital”? “I tend to (rather crudely) break down what digital transformation could mean into three broad …

: Link: What is “digital”? “I tend to (rather crudely) break down what digital transformation could mean into three broad …

: Link: What is “digital”? “I tend to (rather crudely) break down what digital transformation could mean into three broad …

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: Link: Two great tastes that taste great together Original source: Two great tastes that taste great together

: Link: Two great tastes that taste great together Original source: Two great tastes that taste great together

: Link: US wages have been flat, despite growing economy “The conundrum of stuck wages [for “non-managerial workers”?] has vexed economists for more than a …

: Link: US wages have been flat, despite growing economy “The conundrum of stuck wages [for “non-managerial workers”?] has vexed economists for more than a …

: Link: US wages have been flat, despite growing economy “The conundrum of stuck wages [for “non-managerial workers”?] has vexed economists for more than a …

: Link: IT vendors slash prices in LatAm as users seek savings “the uptake of offerings like cloud [$3.9bn market in LATAM] is still timid across the region. …

: Link: IT vendors slash prices in LatAm as users seek savings “the uptake of offerings like cloud [$3.9bn market in LATAM] is still timid across the region. …

: Link: IT vendors slash prices in LatAm as users seek savings “the uptake of offerings like cloud [$3.9bn market in LATAM] is still timid across the region. …

: Link: Kubernetes is the new app server Indeed! ‘Then there’s the whole cloud angle. Kubernetes has “quickly become the central …

: Link: Kubernetes is the new app server Indeed! ‘Then there’s the whole cloud angle. Kubernetes has “quickly become the central …

: Link: Kubernetes is the new app server Indeed! ‘Then there’s the whole cloud angle. Kubernetes has “quickly become the central …

: Link: Australia’s Digital Transformation Stumbles Badly “Many Australians, especially the poor, now see their government using digital technology as an …

: Link: Australia’s Digital Transformation Stumbles Badly “Many Australians, especially the poor, now see their government using digital technology as an …

: Link: Australia’s Digital Transformation Stumbles Badly “Many Australians, especially the poor, now see their government using digital technology as an …

: Link: Farmers Insurance Tests AI, Automation’s Potential For Speeding Up Claims Process “AI-powered image recognition couldhelp speed up the claims process for damages related to, for …

: Link: Farmers Insurance Tests AI, Automation’s Potential For Speeding Up Claims Process “AI-powered image recognition couldhelp speed up the claims process for damages related to, for …

: Link: Farmers Insurance Tests AI, Automation’s Potential For Speeding Up Claims Process “AI-powered image recognition couldhelp speed up the claims process for damages related to, for …

: Link: How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 14th Century's Answer to Tumblr Original source: How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 14th Century's Answer to Tumblr

: Link: How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 14th Century's Answer to Tumblr Original source: How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 14th Century's Answer to Tumblr

: Link: How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 14th Century's Answer to Tumblr Original source: How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 14th Century's Answer to Tumblr

: Link: The DNA of adaptability: How Kubernetes hosts and manages a plethora of different workloads Overview of what kubernetes is, sort of for management-types. Original source: The DNA of …

: Link: The DNA of adaptability: How Kubernetes hosts and manages a plethora of different workloads Overview of what kubernetes is, sort of for management-types. Original source: The DNA of …

: Link: The DNA of adaptability: How Kubernetes hosts and manages a plethora of different workloads Overview of what kubernetes is, sort of for management-types. Original source: The DNA of …

: Link: Happy 10th birthday, Evernote: You have survived Google and Microsoft. For your next challenge... Original source: Happy 10th birthday, Evernote: You have survived Google and Microsoft. For your …

: Link: Happy 10th birthday, Evernote: You have survived Google and Microsoft. For your next challenge... Original source: Happy 10th birthday, Evernote: You have survived Google and Microsoft. For your …

: Link: Happy 10th birthday, Evernote: You have survived Google and Microsoft. For your next challenge... Original source: Happy 10th birthday, Evernote: You have survived Google and Microsoft. For your …

: Link: Investors Gave Snap a Gift ‘You might point out that you own a share in the company that grows in value as the company …

: Link: Investors Gave Snap a Gift ‘You might point out that you own a share in the company that grows in value as the company …

: Link: Investors Gave Snap a Gift ‘You might point out that you own a share in the company that grows in value as the company …

: Link: Micro Focus belches as it struggles to digest HPE Software • The Register “Operational difficulties fed into the financial results for Micro Focus’s half-year …

: Link: Micro Focus belches as it struggles to digest HPE Software • The Register “Operational difficulties fed into the financial results for Micro Focus’s half-year …

: Link: Micro Focus belches as it struggles to digest HPE Software • The Register “Operational difficulties fed into the financial results for Micro Focus’s half-year …

: Link: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies Broadcom buying CA for US$18.9bn. “Mainframe solutions dominate CA’s income, pulling nearly …

: Link: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies Broadcom buying CA for US$18.9bn. “Mainframe solutions dominate CA’s income, pulling nearly …

: Link: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies Broadcom buying CA for US$18.9bn. “Mainframe solutions dominate CA’s income, pulling nearly …

: Link: AT&T to Acquire AlienVault | AlienVault “The acquisition will combine AlienVault’s expertise in threat intelligence with AT&T’s …

: Link: AT&T to Acquire AlienVault | AlienVault “The acquisition will combine AlienVault’s expertise in threat intelligence with AT&T’s …

: Link: AT&T to Acquire AlienVault | AlienVault “The acquisition will combine AlienVault’s expertise in threat intelligence with AT&T’s …

: Link: Containers and serverless functions - a modern architecture needs both and more “While it’s unclear whether cost savings are the primary motivation for PaaS adoption, 62 percent of …

: Link: Containers and serverless functions - a modern architecture needs both and more “While it’s unclear whether cost savings are the primary motivation for PaaS adoption, 62 percent of …

: Link: Containers and serverless functions - a modern architecture needs both and more “While it’s unclear whether cost savings are the primary motivation for PaaS adoption, 62 percent of …

: Link: Employee Surveys Are Still One of the Best Ways to Measure Engagement If people don’t fill out the HR survey, there’s a higher chance they’re about to punch-out: “People …

: Link: Employee Surveys Are Still One of the Best Ways to Measure Engagement If people don’t fill out the HR survey, there’s a higher chance they’re about to punch-out: “People …

: Link: Employee Surveys Are Still One of the Best Ways to Measure Engagement If people don’t fill out the HR survey, there’s a higher chance they’re about to punch-out: “People …

: Link: Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar “Briefly, microservices is a service-oriented software architecture in which server-side …

: Link: Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar “Briefly, microservices is a service-oriented software architecture in which server-side …

: Link: Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar “Briefly, microservices is a service-oriented software architecture in which server-side …

: Link: Red Hat's James Talks About the Importance of Open Source Innovat People always want MSPs is to add higher level services, to become more like public cloud. Also, …

: Link: Red Hat's James Talks About the Importance of Open Source Innovat People always want MSPs is to add higher level services, to become more like public cloud. Also, …

: Link: Red Hat's James Talks About the Importance of Open Source Innovat People always want MSPs is to add higher level services, to become more like public cloud. Also, …

: Link: VW using PCF and OpenStack Just a press release mentioning that in passing. Original source: VW using PCF and OpenStack

: Link: VW using PCF and OpenStack Just a press release mentioning that in passing. Original source: VW using PCF and OpenStack

: Link: VW using PCF and OpenStack Just a press release mentioning that in passing. Original source: VW using PCF and OpenStack

: Link: Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading List) Self-help/improvement type-stuff, mostly. Original source: Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading …

: Link: Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading List) Self-help/improvement type-stuff, mostly. Original source: Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading …

: Link: Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading List) Self-help/improvement type-stuff, mostly. Original source: Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading …

: Link: Online Community building books “Lately, I’ve been reading several really good books about building communities and thought I’d …

: Link: Online Community building books “Lately, I’ve been reading several really good books about building communities and thought I’d …

: Link: Online Community building books “Lately, I’ve been reading several really good books about building communities and thought I’d …

: Link: Technology Spending by the Numbers: From Public Cloud to Security Measures - TheStreet Nifty chart. Original source: Technology Spending by the Numbers: From Public Cloud to Security …

: Link: Technology Spending by the Numbers: From Public Cloud to Security Measures - TheStreet Nifty chart. Original source: Technology Spending by the Numbers: From Public Cloud to Security …

: Link: Technology Spending by the Numbers: From Public Cloud to Security Measures - TheStreet Nifty chart. Original source: Technology Spending by the Numbers: From Public Cloud to Security …

: Link: "An astonishing paper that may explain why it’s so difficult to patch." The most important thing is to be able to fix The Broken quickly, not make sure it never breaks. …

: Link: "An astonishing paper that may explain why it’s so difficult to patch." The most important thing is to be able to fix The Broken quickly, not make sure it never breaks. …

: Link: "An astonishing paper that may explain why it’s so difficult to patch." The most important thing is to be able to fix The Broken quickly, not make sure it never breaks. …

: Link: How to Monitor the SRE Golden Signals [Summary from the post of metrics to use:] Rate — Request rate, in requests/sec Errors — Error rate, …

: Link: How to Monitor the SRE Golden Signals [Summary from the post of metrics to use:] Rate — Request rate, in requests/sec Errors — Error rate, …

: Link: How to Monitor the SRE Golden Signals [Summary from the post of metrics to use:] Rate — Request rate, in requests/sec Errors — Error rate, …

: Link: Monitoring SRE's Golden Signals Lists out how to get the metrics from various systems and software. Original source: Monitoring …

: Link: Monitoring SRE's Golden Signals Lists out how to get the metrics from various systems and software. Original source: Monitoring …

: Link: Monitoring SRE's Golden Signals Lists out how to get the metrics from various systems and software. Original source: Monitoring …

: Link: Preliminary Analysis of the Site Reliability Engineer Survey If the response takes too long to get to your phone, the system might as well be …

: Link: Preliminary Analysis of the Site Reliability Engineer Survey If the response takes too long to get to your phone, the system might as well be …

: Link: Preliminary Analysis of the Site Reliability Engineer Survey If the response takes too long to get to your phone, the system might as well be …

: Link: The Smart, the Stupid, and the Catastrophically Scary “Part of me likes being a programmer—because we’re the last job. I can see a future—if we …

: Link: The Smart, the Stupid, and the Catastrophically Scary “Part of me likes being a programmer—because we’re the last job. I can see a future—if we …

: Link: The Smart, the Stupid, and the Catastrophically Scary “Part of me likes being a programmer—because we’re the last job. I can see a future—if we …

: Link: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups ‘“a lack of connection between innovation teams and their parent organization. Teams form/and are …

: Link: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups ‘“a lack of connection between innovation teams and their parent organization. Teams form/and are …

: Link: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups ‘“a lack of connection between innovation teams and their parent organization. Teams form/and are …

: Link: The New CIO: Leading IT the Mark Schwartz Way “As the company decides on its objectives and turns them into a definition of business value, the …

: Link: The New CIO: Leading IT the Mark Schwartz Way “As the company decides on its objectives and turns them into a definition of business value, the …

: Link: The New CIO: Leading IT the Mark Schwartz Way “As the company decides on its objectives and turns them into a definition of business value, the …

: Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat “The UK Government Digital Service recently wrote about how they understand legacy and suggested a …

: Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat “The UK Government Digital Service recently wrote about how they understand legacy and suggested a …

: Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat “The UK Government Digital Service recently wrote about how they understand legacy and suggested a …

: Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat “The UK Government Digital Service recently wrote about how they understand legacy and suggested a …

: Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat “The UK Government Digital Service recently wrote about how they understand legacy and suggested a …

: Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat “The UK Government Digital Service recently wrote about how they understand legacy and suggested a …

: Link: What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like “Once a list of innovation ideas has been refined by curation, it needs to be prioritized. One of …

: Link: What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like “Once a list of innovation ideas has been refined by curation, it needs to be prioritized. One of …

: Link: What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like “Once a list of innovation ideas has been refined by curation, it needs to be prioritized. One of …

: Link: Chick-fil-A: Milking the most out of thousands of kubernetes clusteres Kubernetes in-store, and such. Original source: Chick-fil-A: Milking the most out of thousands of …

: Link: Chick-fil-A: Milking the most out of thousands of kubernetes clusteres Kubernetes in-store, and such. Original source: Chick-fil-A: Milking the most out of thousands of …

: Link: Chick-fil-A: Milking the most out of thousands of kubernetes clusteres Kubernetes in-store, and such. Original source: Chick-fil-A: Milking the most out of thousands of …

: Link: Revenge of the PMO ‘But it’s just a marketing strategy. Mostly they just redefine the meaning of these terms to obscure …

: Link: Revenge of the PMO ‘But it’s just a marketing strategy. Mostly they just redefine the meaning of these terms to obscure …

: Link: Revenge of the PMO ‘But it’s just a marketing strategy. Mostly they just redefine the meaning of these terms to obscure …

: Link: The still-coherent culture that is the United States Social stuff: ‘Maybe this is the most important result: since 1976 there has not been much …

: Link: The still-coherent culture that is the United States Social stuff: ‘Maybe this is the most important result: since 1976 there has not been much …

: Link: The still-coherent culture that is the United States Social stuff: ‘Maybe this is the most important result: since 1976 there has not been much …

: Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat With some ideas of what to do at the end. Original source: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy …

: Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat With some ideas of what to do at the end. Original source: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy …

: Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat With some ideas of what to do at the end. Original source: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy …

: Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat With some ideas of what to do at the end. Original source: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy …

: Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat With some ideas of what to do at the end. Original source: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy …

: Link: Below the surface, Amsterdam Centuries of stuff found in the ground. Original source: Below the surface, Amsterdam

: Link: Below the surface, Amsterdam Centuries of stuff found in the ground. Original source: Below the surface, Amsterdam

: Link: Below the surface, Amsterdam Centuries of stuff found in the ground. Original source: Below the surface, Amsterdam

: Link: Will Containers Replace VMs? “One of the most important benefits containers provide is that once you have a containerized …

: Link: Will Containers Replace VMs? “One of the most important benefits containers provide is that once you have a containerized …

: Link: Will Containers Replace VMs? “One of the most important benefits containers provide is that once you have a containerized …

: Link: Don't Have Children “After this novel, he patiently explained, there would be a second one to write, and second novels …

: Link: Don't Have Children “After this novel, he patiently explained, there would be a second one to write, and second novels …

: Link: Don't Have Children “After this novel, he patiently explained, there would be a second one to write, and second novels …

: Link: Gartner Says Employees in Germany Report Lower Discretionary Effort than Global Average “German employees’ discretionary effort fell below the global industry average, according to the …

: Link: Gartner Says Employees in Germany Report Lower Discretionary Effort than Global Average “German employees’ discretionary effort fell below the global industry average, according to the …

: Link: Gartner Says Employees in Germany Report Lower Discretionary Effort than Global Average “German employees’ discretionary effort fell below the global industry average, according to the …

: Link: Oracle Gets Cloudy: What’s Behind Their Change in Financial Reporting? “Oracle did announce during the earnings call that cloud revenue was $1.7B for the quarter, but …

: Link: Oracle Gets Cloudy: What’s Behind Their Change in Financial Reporting? “Oracle did announce during the earnings call that cloud revenue was $1.7B for the quarter, but …

: Link: Oracle Gets Cloudy: What’s Behind Their Change in Financial Reporting? “Oracle did announce during the earnings call that cloud revenue was $1.7B for the quarter, but …

: Link: Press 1 for automagic K8s cluster. Press 2 or 3 for complex Kubernetes “many developers want to adopt Kubernetes, but have little interest in provisioning the …

: Link: Press 1 for automagic K8s cluster. Press 2 or 3 for complex Kubernetes “many developers want to adopt Kubernetes, but have little interest in provisioning the …

: Link: Press 1 for automagic K8s cluster. Press 2 or 3 for complex Kubernetes “many developers want to adopt Kubernetes, but have little interest in provisioning the …

: Link: IT Spending To Boom In 2018, Tails Off In 2019 For if you need some IT TAM time. Original source: IT Spending To Boom In 2018, Tails Off In 2019

: Link: IT Spending To Boom In 2018, Tails Off In 2019 For if you need some IT TAM time. Original source: IT Spending To Boom In 2018, Tails Off In 2019

: Link: IT Spending To Boom In 2018, Tails Off In 2019 For if you need some IT TAM time. Original source: IT Spending To Boom In 2018, Tails Off In 2019

: Link: The Travel Industry’s Data Dilemma: Turning Insights into Action “Further complicating matters, a large amount of customer data still lives in departmental silos, …

: Link: The Travel Industry’s Data Dilemma: Turning Insights into Action “Further complicating matters, a large amount of customer data still lives in departmental silos, …

: Link: The Travel Industry’s Data Dilemma: Turning Insights into Action “Further complicating matters, a large amount of customer data still lives in departmental silos, …

: Link: Embracing Kubernetes Doesn't Have to Mean OPERATING Kubernetes - Container Solutions “You can now embrace Kubernetes without managing all the pain yourself. AKS going GA yesterday was …

: Link: Embracing Kubernetes Doesn't Have to Mean OPERATING Kubernetes - Container Solutions “You can now embrace Kubernetes without managing all the pain yourself. AKS going GA yesterday was …

: Link: Embracing Kubernetes Doesn't Have to Mean OPERATING Kubernetes - Container Solutions “You can now embrace Kubernetes without managing all the pain yourself. AKS going GA yesterday was …

: Link: Galloping greenback rocks Red Hat “30 per cent growth in emerging technologies came in part from 100 new customers signing up …

: Link: Galloping greenback rocks Red Hat “30 per cent growth in emerging technologies came in part from 100 new customers signing up …

: Link: Galloping greenback rocks Red Hat “30 per cent growth in emerging technologies came in part from 100 new customers signing up …

: Link: IBM Drops Cloud Management Platform Onto Kubernetes “The CMS platform is used by organizations to manage enterprise applications. Those applications …

: Link: IBM Drops Cloud Management Platform Onto Kubernetes “The CMS platform is used by organizations to manage enterprise applications. Those applications …

: Link: IBM Drops Cloud Management Platform Onto Kubernetes “The CMS platform is used by organizations to manage enterprise applications. Those applications …

: Link: The association of lifetime alcohol use with mortality and cancer risk in older adults: A cohort study “In comparison to lifetime light alcohol drinkers (1–3 drinks per week), lifetime never or …

: Link: The association of lifetime alcohol use with mortality and cancer risk in older adults: A cohort study “In comparison to lifetime light alcohol drinkers (1–3 drinks per week), lifetime never or …

: Link: The association of lifetime alcohol use with mortality and cancer risk in older adults: A cohort study “In comparison to lifetime light alcohol drinkers (1–3 drinks per week), lifetime never or …

: Link: The Bezos-Buffett-Dimon health care venture: Eliminate the middlemen “There’s ample room to replicate that success in health care, because the system in the U.S. has …

: Link: The Bezos-Buffett-Dimon health care venture: Eliminate the middlemen “There’s ample room to replicate that success in health care, because the system in the U.S. has …

: Link: The Bezos-Buffett-Dimon health care venture: Eliminate the middlemen “There’s ample room to replicate that success in health care, because the system in the U.S. has …

: Link: Agile at DOD -- going beyond sticky notes and standing meetings A summary of the US Air Force’s recent Pivot to agile. Original source: Agile at DOD – going …

: Link: Agile at DOD -- going beyond sticky notes and standing meetings A summary of the US Air Force’s recent Pivot to agile. Original source: Agile at DOD – going …

: Link: Agile at DOD -- going beyond sticky notes and standing meetings A summary of the US Air Force’s recent Pivot to agile. Original source: Agile at DOD – going …

: Link: Gartner Cool Vendor 2018 release: Things are changing... How Gartner “cool vendors” are selected. Original source: Gartner Cool Vendor 2018 release: Things …

: Link: Gartner Cool Vendor 2018 release: Things are changing... How Gartner “cool vendors” are selected. Original source: Gartner Cool Vendor 2018 release: Things …

: Link: Gartner Cool Vendor 2018 release: Things are changing... How Gartner “cool vendors” are selected. Original source: Gartner Cool Vendor 2018 release: Things …

: Link: Grocers Partner For Digital Growth “Digital grocery is growing at a CAGR of 17% globally but remains less than 3% of the US …

: Link: Grocers Partner For Digital Growth “Digital grocery is growing at a CAGR of 17% globally but remains less than 3% of the US …

: Link: Grocers Partner For Digital Growth “Digital grocery is growing at a CAGR of 17% globally but remains less than 3% of the US …

: Link: How Tech Companies Conquered America’s Cities “But what Uber lacked in political support it made up for in local popularity. Through its app, the …

: Link: How Tech Companies Conquered America’s Cities “But what Uber lacked in political support it made up for in local popularity. Through its app, the …

: Link: How Tech Companies Conquered America’s Cities “But what Uber lacked in political support it made up for in local popularity. Through its app, the …

: Link: Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture ‘Sharples said the main interest stems from an enterprise love of microservices, where incremental …

: Link: Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture ‘Sharples said the main interest stems from an enterprise love of microservices, where incremental …

: Link: Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture ‘Sharples said the main interest stems from an enterprise love of microservices, where incremental …

: Link: Why software giants are failing Should have done cloud earlier. There’s another angle: when and how does a product manager …

: Link: Why software giants are failing Should have done cloud earlier. There’s another angle: when and how does a product manager …

: Link: Why software giants are failing Should have done cloud earlier. There’s another angle: when and how does a product manager …

: Link: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features “The GA release of AKS includes a set of new features available in all regions like the Kubernetes …

: Link: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features “The GA release of AKS includes a set of new features available in all regions like the Kubernetes …

: Link: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features “The GA release of AKS includes a set of new features available in all regions like the Kubernetes …

: Link: Splunk acquires VictorOps to take it – and you – into site reliability engineering “Adding these tools to Splunk’s roster, Mann said, means it can now monitor apps, provide an …

: Link: Splunk acquires VictorOps to take it – and you – into site reliability engineering “Adding these tools to Splunk’s roster, Mann said, means it can now monitor apps, provide an …

: Link: Splunk acquires VictorOps to take it – and you – into site reliability engineering “Adding these tools to Splunk’s roster, Mann said, means it can now monitor apps, provide an …

: Link: The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes “In practice and actual fact, what really matters for older Kubernetes version support is the …

: Link: The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes “In practice and actual fact, what really matters for older Kubernetes version support is the …

: Link: The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes “In practice and actual fact, what really matters for older Kubernetes version support is the …

: Link: Hey Boss, You Don’t Want Your Employees to Meditate “Mindfulness might be unhelpful for dealing with difficult assignments at work, but it may be …

: Link: Hey Boss, You Don’t Want Your Employees to Meditate “Mindfulness might be unhelpful for dealing with difficult assignments at work, but it may be …

: Link: Hey Boss, You Don’t Want Your Employees to Meditate “Mindfulness might be unhelpful for dealing with difficult assignments at work, but it may be …

: Link: CIOs planning to snub Oracle for other cloudy vendors – analyst “Murphy has told clients that a survey of 154 CIOs revealed negative spending intentions towards …

: Link: CIOs planning to snub Oracle for other cloudy vendors – analyst “Murphy has told clients that a survey of 154 CIOs revealed negative spending intentions towards …

: Link: CIOs planning to snub Oracle for other cloudy vendors – analyst “Murphy has told clients that a survey of 154 CIOs revealed negative spending intentions towards …

: Link: Docker Enterprise Edition Offers Multicloud App Management “More than 50 percent of Docker’s customers are using Windows containers for modernizing legacy …

: Link: Docker Enterprise Edition Offers Multicloud App Management “More than 50 percent of Docker’s customers are using Windows containers for modernizing legacy …

: Link: Docker Enterprise Edition Offers Multicloud App Management “More than 50 percent of Docker’s customers are using Windows containers for modernizing legacy …

: Link: Docker seeks Golden State burnish for cloud container expansion Original source: Docker seeks Golden State burnish for cloud container expansion

: Link: Docker seeks Golden State burnish for cloud container expansion Original source: Docker seeks Golden State burnish for cloud container expansion

: Link: Docker seeks Golden State burnish for cloud container expansion Original source: Docker seeks Golden State burnish for cloud container expansion

: Link: Marriott CEO on Tech Giants: 'We Are in an Absolute War for Who Owns the Customer' All the tech-driven competition in hotels: “We have seen more and more business shift to our direct …

: Link: Marriott CEO on Tech Giants: 'We Are in an Absolute War for Who Owns the Customer' All the tech-driven competition in hotels: “We have seen more and more business shift to our direct …

: Link: Marriott CEO on Tech Giants: 'We Are in an Absolute War for Who Owns the Customer' All the tech-driven competition in hotels: “We have seen more and more business shift to our direct …

: Link: Enterprises taking path of greatest resistance to cloud, survey shows Still a lot of stuff on-premises, and people want to move it to public cloud: ‘More than 80 …

: Link: Enterprises taking path of greatest resistance to cloud, survey shows Still a lot of stuff on-premises, and people want to move it to public cloud: ‘More than 80 …

: Link: Enterprises taking path of greatest resistance to cloud, survey shows Still a lot of stuff on-premises, and people want to move it to public cloud: ‘More than 80 …

: Link: Investors High on Low-Code Developers “OutSystems cited other market forecasts that estimate the global low-code market is worth as much …

: Link: Investors High on Low-Code Developers “OutSystems cited other market forecasts that estimate the global low-code market is worth as much …

: Link: Investors High on Low-Code Developers “OutSystems cited other market forecasts that estimate the global low-code market is worth as much …

: Link: The Cost of Developers That’s a lot of money. “on the other side of the spectrum, purely enterprise-focused companies like …

: Link: The Cost of Developers That’s a lot of money. “on the other side of the spectrum, purely enterprise-focused companies like …

: Link: The Cost of Developers That’s a lot of money. “on the other side of the spectrum, purely enterprise-focused companies like …

: Link: CNCF Brings the Helm Package Manager for Kubernetes into the Fold “The software allows users to share applications as Kubernetes charts. The applications themselves, …

: Link: CNCF Brings the Helm Package Manager for Kubernetes into the Fold “The software allows users to share applications as Kubernetes charts. The applications themselves, …

: Link: CNCF Brings the Helm Package Manager for Kubernetes into the Fold “The software allows users to share applications as Kubernetes charts. The applications themselves, …

: Link: What’s the Value of CI/CD? Original source: What’s the Value of CI/CD?

: Link: What’s the Value of CI/CD? Original source: What’s the Value of CI/CD?

: Link: What’s the Value of CI/CD? Original source: What’s the Value of CI/CD?

: Link: Kubernetes won – so now what? “Kubernetes has in fact already lost the war to serverless.” All the cool kids are …

: Link: Kubernetes won – so now what? “Kubernetes has in fact already lost the war to serverless.” All the cool kids are …

: Link: Kubernetes won – so now what? “Kubernetes has in fact already lost the war to serverless.” All the cool kids are …

: Link: The Kubernetes ‘fork’: Open source purists miss the point | InfoWorld “Enterprises want stuff that works. As much as we in the open source world chatter and fret about …

: Link: The Kubernetes ‘fork’: Open source purists miss the point | InfoWorld “Enterprises want stuff that works. As much as we in the open source world chatter and fret about …

: Link: The Kubernetes ‘fork’: Open source purists miss the point | InfoWorld “Enterprises want stuff that works. As much as we in the open source world chatter and fret about …

: Link: The State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem Overview of the (vendor) players. Also: "According to predictions from 451 Research, the market is …

: Link: The State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem Overview of the (vendor) players. Also: "According to predictions from 451 Research, the market is …

: Link: The State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem Overview of the (vendor) players. Also: "According to predictions from 451 Research, the market is …

: Link: What’s really driving digital transformation globally? IDC has answers IDC survey on digital transformation says organizations are motivated to get more “productivity” and …

: Link: What’s really driving digital transformation globally? IDC has answers IDC survey on digital transformation says organizations are motivated to get more “productivity” and …

: Link: What’s really driving digital transformation globally? IDC has answers IDC survey on digital transformation says organizations are motivated to get more “productivity” and …

: Link: ​Red Hat's only business plan is to keep changing plans | ZDNet A full on digital transformation pitch from Red Hat’s CEO. Original source: ​Red Hat’s only …

: Link: ​Red Hat's only business plan is to keep changing plans | ZDNet A full on digital transformation pitch from Red Hat’s CEO. Original source: ​Red Hat’s only …

: Link: ​Red Hat's only business plan is to keep changing plans | ZDNet A full on digital transformation pitch from Red Hat’s CEO. Original source: ​Red Hat’s only …

: Link: Dear Journalists: Please Stop Calling Media Companies “Big Tech” Yup. Original source: Dear Journalists: Please Stop Calling Media Companies “Big Tech”

: Link: Dear Journalists: Please Stop Calling Media Companies “Big Tech” Yup. Original source: Dear Journalists: Please Stop Calling Media Companies “Big Tech”

: Link: Dear Journalists: Please Stop Calling Media Companies “Big Tech” Yup. Original source: Dear Journalists: Please Stop Calling Media Companies “Big Tech”

: Link: From Pink Milk to Smart Questions, How to Be a Rebel Leader “We underestimate how flattering it is to be asked for advice. By asking questions, we give others …

: Link: From Pink Milk to Smart Questions, How to Be a Rebel Leader “We underestimate how flattering it is to be asked for advice. By asking questions, we give others …

: Link: From Pink Milk to Smart Questions, How to Be a Rebel Leader “We underestimate how flattering it is to be asked for advice. By asking questions, we give others …

: Link: Five Minute Finance A fantastic, quick overview for understanding all those finance numbers and sheets. Original source: …

: Link: Five Minute Finance A fantastic, quick overview for understanding all those finance numbers and sheets. Original source: …

: Link: Five Minute Finance A fantastic, quick overview for understanding all those finance numbers and sheets. Original source: …

: Link: Full Cycle Developers at Netflix How Netflix thinks about standardized platforms and tools, plus their adaptation of DevOps and SRE. …

: Link: Full Cycle Developers at Netflix How Netflix thinks about standardized platforms and tools, plus their adaptation of DevOps and SRE. …

: Link: Full Cycle Developers at Netflix How Netflix thinks about standardized platforms and tools, plus their adaptation of DevOps and SRE. …

: Link: Understanding legacy technology in government Defining and dealing with legacy IT, from a UK government perspective: “Most organisations have an …

: Link: Understanding legacy technology in government Defining and dealing with legacy IT, from a UK government perspective: “Most organisations have an …

: Link: Understanding legacy technology in government Defining and dealing with legacy IT, from a UK government perspective: “Most organisations have an …

: Link: Kubernetes and the Challenge of Adding Persistent Storage Storage options in kubernetes land. Original source: Kubernetes and the Challenge of Adding …

: Link: Kubernetes and the Challenge of Adding Persistent Storage Storage options in kubernetes land. Original source: Kubernetes and the Challenge of Adding …

: Link: Kubernetes and the Challenge of Adding Persistent Storage Storage options in kubernetes land. Original source: Kubernetes and the Challenge of Adding …

: Link: 6 questions with winner of the 2018 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Leadership Award “They won’t get comfortable with failure if you make a very big deal about it and keep …

: Link: 6 questions with winner of the 2018 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Leadership Award “They won’t get comfortable with failure if you make a very big deal about it and keep …

: Link: 6 questions with winner of the 2018 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Leadership Award “They won’t get comfortable with failure if you make a very big deal about it and keep …

: Link: Management Support in Agile Adoption “In the global survey 82% of respondents reported that getting more support and commitment from all …

: Link: Management Support in Agile Adoption “In the global survey 82% of respondents reported that getting more support and commitment from all …

: Link: Management Support in Agile Adoption “In the global survey 82% of respondents reported that getting more support and commitment from all …

: Link: Why Do Meeting Cancellations Say "I'm Giving You Back 30 Minutes ... You're Welcome"? ‘If the meeting was for your benefit the organizer would not word the cancellation that way. That’s …

: Link: Why Do Meeting Cancellations Say "I'm Giving You Back 30 Minutes ... You're Welcome"? ‘If the meeting was for your benefit the organizer would not word the cancellation that way. That’s …

: Link: Why Do Meeting Cancellations Say "I'm Giving You Back 30 Minutes ... You're Welcome"? ‘If the meeting was for your benefit the organizer would not word the cancellation that way. That’s …

: Link: NASA faces ‘significant’ IT management weaknesses, GAO says ‘GAO seems to concur with the IG’s assessment. “Until NASA addresses these [IT governance] …

: Link: NASA faces ‘significant’ IT management weaknesses, GAO says ‘GAO seems to concur with the IG’s assessment. “Until NASA addresses these [IT governance] …

: Link: NASA faces ‘significant’ IT management weaknesses, GAO says ‘GAO seems to concur with the IG’s assessment. “Until NASA addresses these [IT governance] …

: Link: Can IT finally deliver innovation without busting its own budget? Docker's CEO says yes. “What we’re seeing at companies like MetLife or Northern Trust is they’re taking their app and …

: Link: Can IT finally deliver innovation without busting its own budget? Docker's CEO says yes. “What we’re seeing at companies like MetLife or Northern Trust is they’re taking their app and …

: Link: Can IT finally deliver innovation without busting its own budget? Docker's CEO says yes. “What we’re seeing at companies like MetLife or Northern Trust is they’re taking their app and …

: Link: Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth takes aim at VMware and Red Hat at OpenStack Summit “A lot of institutions are figuring out that Ubuntu and upstream Kubernetes gives them 80% of what …

: Link: Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth takes aim at VMware and Red Hat at OpenStack Summit “A lot of institutions are figuring out that Ubuntu and upstream Kubernetes gives them 80% of what …

: Link: Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth takes aim at VMware and Red Hat at OpenStack Summit “A lot of institutions are figuring out that Ubuntu and upstream Kubernetes gives them 80% of what …

: Link: Ride-hailing app Grab partners Maybank for mobile wallet launch To be a little Friedman in a taxi here: when I was in Jakarta, you could see the huge banking …

: Link: Ride-hailing app Grab partners Maybank for mobile wallet launch To be a little Friedman in a taxi here: when I was in Jakarta, you could see the huge banking …

: Link: Ride-hailing app Grab partners Maybank for mobile wallet launch To be a little Friedman in a taxi here: when I was in Jakarta, you could see the huge banking …

: Link: ​Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud “If you want OpenStack and Kubernetes support with vendor independence at a low price, Canonical is …

: Link: ​Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud “If you want OpenStack and Kubernetes support with vendor independence at a low price, Canonical is …

: Link: ​Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud “If you want OpenStack and Kubernetes support with vendor independence at a low price, Canonical is …

: Link: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT? Original source: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT?

: Link: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT? Original source: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT?

: Link: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT? Original source: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT?

: Link: Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency ‘Whiteboards are a tool used by a certain type of person to “take over” a meeting. Simply going to …

: Link: Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency ‘Whiteboards are a tool used by a certain type of person to “take over” a meeting. Simply going to …

: Link: Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency ‘Whiteboards are a tool used by a certain type of person to “take over” a meeting. Simply going to …

: Link: Air Force looks to rapidly develop software with Project Kessel Run More coverage of the USAF modernizing their approach to software. Here, what some of the apps are: …

: Link: Air Force looks to rapidly develop software with Project Kessel Run More coverage of the USAF modernizing their approach to software. Here, what some of the apps are: …

: Link: Air Force looks to rapidly develop software with Project Kessel Run More coverage of the USAF modernizing their approach to software. Here, what some of the apps are: …

: Link: CoreOS Is New Linux, Not A RHEL Classic Killer ‘Importantly, the OpenShift platform cloud software, which included Red Hat’s own implementation of …

: Link: CoreOS Is New Linux, Not A RHEL Classic Killer ‘Importantly, the OpenShift platform cloud software, which included Red Hat’s own implementation of …

: Link: CoreOS Is New Linux, Not A RHEL Classic Killer ‘Importantly, the OpenShift platform cloud software, which included Red Hat’s own implementation of …

: Link: CIOs Must Use EAs To Be Successful In Their Digital Transformations “Developing a portfolio of architecture products to articulate the firm’s enterprise architecture. …

: Link: CIOs Must Use EAs To Be Successful In Their Digital Transformations “Developing a portfolio of architecture products to articulate the firm’s enterprise architecture. …

: Link: CIOs Must Use EAs To Be Successful In Their Digital Transformations “Developing a portfolio of architecture products to articulate the firm’s enterprise architecture. …

: Link: Narrowing questions “What is the thing I made most confusing today?” Original source: Narrowing questions

: Link: Narrowing questions “What is the thing I made most confusing today?” Original source: Narrowing questions

: Link: Narrowing questions “What is the thing I made most confusing today?” Original source: Narrowing questions

: Rethinking Enterprise Architecture In the cloud, DevOps, agile, whatever is hot and new era, the role of enterprise architects is …

: Rethinking Enterprise Architecture In the cloud, DevOps, agile, whatever is hot and new era, the role of enterprise architects is …

: Link: Government services must go digital, lawmakers urge in new bill “The bill text points to an Internal Revenue Service report in which the agency shares that, for the …

: Link: Government services must go digital, lawmakers urge in new bill “The bill text points to an Internal Revenue Service report in which the agency shares that, for the …

: Link: Government services must go digital, lawmakers urge in new bill “The bill text points to an Internal Revenue Service report in which the agency shares that, for the …

: Link: Stoicism made simple Aside from the last, this is good advice for any advice format, I including the hustle-medium of …

: Link: Stoicism made simple Aside from the last, this is good advice for any advice format, I including the hustle-medium of …

: Link: Stoicism made simple Aside from the last, this is good advice for any advice format, I including the hustle-medium of …

: Link: Mad Magazine's clout may have faded, but its ethos matters more than ever before “As strange as it sounds, I believe the “usual gang of idiots” that produced Mad was performing a …

: Link: Mad Magazine's clout may have faded, but its ethos matters more than ever before “As strange as it sounds, I believe the “usual gang of idiots” that produced Mad was performing a …

: Link: Mad Magazine's clout may have faded, but its ethos matters more than ever before “As strange as it sounds, I believe the “usual gang of idiots” that produced Mad was performing a …

: Link: Does Your Company Have an AI Strategy, Really? “A global survey of more than 3,000 executives by the Boston Consulting Group and MIT’s Sloan …

: Link: Does Your Company Have an AI Strategy, Really? “A global survey of more than 3,000 executives by the Boston Consulting Group and MIT’s Sloan …

: Link: Does Your Company Have an AI Strategy, Really? “A global survey of more than 3,000 executives by the Boston Consulting Group and MIT’s Sloan …

: Link: Bringing CoreOS technology to Red Hat OpenShift to deliver a next-generation automated Kubernetes platform “With the acquisition, Container Linux will be reborn as Red Hat CoreOS, a new entry into the Red …

: Link: Bringing CoreOS technology to Red Hat OpenShift to deliver a next-generation automated Kubernetes platform “With the acquisition, Container Linux will be reborn as Red Hat CoreOS, a new entry into the Red …

: Link: Bringing CoreOS technology to Red Hat OpenShift to deliver a next-generation automated Kubernetes platform “With the acquisition, Container Linux will be reborn as Red Hat CoreOS, a new entry into the Red …

: Link: CA Technologies Begins Site, Workforce Consolidation ‘Part of this shift is driven by a site consolidation strategy “to move more of our people into our …

: Link: CA Technologies Begins Site, Workforce Consolidation ‘Part of this shift is driven by a site consolidation strategy “to move more of our people into our …

: Link: CA Technologies Begins Site, Workforce Consolidation ‘Part of this shift is driven by a site consolidation strategy “to move more of our people into our …

: Link: Google and the new punk era of IT 2006! Original source: Google and the new punk era of IT

: Link: Google and the new punk era of IT 2006! Original source: Google and the new punk era of IT

: Link: Google and the new punk era of IT 2006! Original source: Google and the new punk era of IT

: Link: Microsoft sees Red ...Hat for OpenShift-on-Azure public cloud offering ‘Rollout of the partnership will occur in two phases, with Azure support for OpenShift Container …

: Link: Microsoft sees Red ...Hat for OpenShift-on-Azure public cloud offering ‘Rollout of the partnership will occur in two phases, with Azure support for OpenShift Container …

: Link: Microsoft sees Red ...Hat for OpenShift-on-Azure public cloud offering ‘Rollout of the partnership will occur in two phases, with Azure support for OpenShift Container …

: Link: Adam Smith, Misanthrope ‘The feminist writer Katrine Marcal recently wrote a critique of modern economics under the title …

: Link: Adam Smith, Misanthrope ‘The feminist writer Katrine Marcal recently wrote a critique of modern economics under the title …

: Link: Adam Smith, Misanthrope ‘The feminist writer Katrine Marcal recently wrote a critique of modern economics under the title …

: Link: Dell EMC Merger Required Its Own Digital Transformation Program “It was not like we went from three days to two days to one day. We went from three days to 18 …

: Link: Dell EMC Merger Required Its Own Digital Transformation Program “It was not like we went from three days to two days to one day. We went from three days to 18 …

: Link: Dell EMC Merger Required Its Own Digital Transformation Program “It was not like we went from three days to two days to one day. We went from three days to 18 …

: Link: IBM, Red Hat couple containers for hybrid cloud deployments Also contains a chronology of IBM/RedHat partnerships. Original source: IBM, Red Hat couple …

: Link: IBM, Red Hat couple containers for hybrid cloud deployments Also contains a chronology of IBM/RedHat partnerships. Original source: IBM, Red Hat couple …

: Link: IBM, Red Hat couple containers for hybrid cloud deployments Also contains a chronology of IBM/RedHat partnerships. Original source: IBM, Red Hat couple …

: Link: Mesosphere’s Investors Bet on Multicloud “being used in production by more than 125 companies.” Original source: Mesosphere’s Investors Bet …

: Link: Mesosphere’s Investors Bet on Multicloud “being used in production by more than 125 companies.” Original source: Mesosphere’s Investors Bet …

: Link: Mesosphere’s Investors Bet on Multicloud “being used in production by more than 125 companies.” Original source: Mesosphere’s Investors Bet …

: Link: Write it down “Whenever someone asks me to do something that I think seems ill-conceived in some way, I ask them …

: Link: Write it down “Whenever someone asks me to do something that I think seems ill-conceived in some way, I ask them …

: Link: Write it down “Whenever someone asks me to do something that I think seems ill-conceived in some way, I ask them …

: Link: Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes? “[I]f you live in the Hamptons and have nothing to do in the afternoon, you fill out consumer …

: Link: Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes? “[I]f you live in the Hamptons and have nothing to do in the afternoon, you fill out consumer …

: Link: Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes? “[I]f you live in the Hamptons and have nothing to do in the afternoon, you fill out consumer …

: Link: Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain “Software company Pivotal, backed by Dell EMC, VMWare, GE, Microsoft and Ford, has developed a …

: Link: Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain “Software company Pivotal, backed by Dell EMC, VMWare, GE, Microsoft and Ford, has developed a …

: Link: Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain “Software company Pivotal, backed by Dell EMC, VMWare, GE, Microsoft and Ford, has developed a …

: Link: Warren Buffett says cryptocurrency attracts charlatans, AI won’t change investing “We were not ideally located to be high-tech wizards,” Munger said, adding “I have been to Google …

: Link: Warren Buffett says cryptocurrency attracts charlatans, AI won’t change investing “We were not ideally located to be high-tech wizards,” Munger said, adding “I have been to Google …

: Link: Warren Buffett says cryptocurrency attracts charlatans, AI won’t change investing “We were not ideally located to be high-tech wizards,” Munger said, adding “I have been to Google …

: Link: Digital transformation in power generation and delivery “Over the next decade, the electricity industry is predicted to unlock approximately $1.3 …

: Link: Digital transformation in power generation and delivery “Over the next decade, the electricity industry is predicted to unlock approximately $1.3 …

: Link: Digital transformation in power generation and delivery “Over the next decade, the electricity industry is predicted to unlock approximately $1.3 …

: Link: Is the internet good or bad for society? Americans are having a tougher time deciding. “The percentage of people who think the internet is good for society is shrinking. Roughly 70 …

: Link: Is the internet good or bad for society? Americans are having a tougher time deciding. “The percentage of people who think the internet is good for society is shrinking. Roughly 70 …

: Link: Is the internet good or bad for society? Americans are having a tougher time deciding. “The percentage of people who think the internet is good for society is shrinking. Roughly 70 …

: Link: Walmart's Blockchain Program May Transform the Way We Use Data Verifying claims (like organic) and tracking in the supply gain, but not explanation of how or how …

: Link: Walmart's Blockchain Program May Transform the Way We Use Data Verifying claims (like organic) and tracking in the supply gain, but not explanation of how or how …

: Link: Walmart's Blockchain Program May Transform the Way We Use Data Verifying claims (like organic) and tracking in the supply gain, but not explanation of how or how …

: Link: Walmart, IBM, and blockchaining the supply chain A longer piece, including some alternative suggestions from Gartner: ‘When it comes to supply …

: Link: Walmart, IBM, and blockchaining the supply chain A longer piece, including some alternative suggestions from Gartner: ‘When it comes to supply …

: Link: Walmart, IBM, and blockchaining the supply chain A longer piece, including some alternative suggestions from Gartner: ‘When it comes to supply …

: Link: Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture ‘What is changing, I argue, are the cultural formats people are using for discussion — the carrier …

: Link: Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture ‘What is changing, I argue, are the cultural formats people are using for discussion — the carrier …

: Link: Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture ‘What is changing, I argue, are the cultural formats people are using for discussion — the carrier …

: Link: Authenticity Wins Put user generated content in your Web 2.0 hustling mix: “The study also highlights other social …

: Link: Authenticity Wins Put user generated content in your Web 2.0 hustling mix: “The study also highlights other social …

: Link: Authenticity Wins Put user generated content in your Web 2.0 hustling mix: “The study also highlights other social …

: Link: Bed, Bath & Beyond - when you wish upon a digital vision...your share price collapses Pretty extensive layout of a strategy and plans for doing Omni-channel at such a retailer. Original …

: Link: Bed, Bath & Beyond - when you wish upon a digital vision...your share price collapses Pretty extensive layout of a strategy and plans for doing Omni-channel at such a retailer. Original …

: Link: Bed, Bath & Beyond - when you wish upon a digital vision...your share price collapses Pretty extensive layout of a strategy and plans for doing Omni-channel at such a retailer. Original …

: Link: More Firms Look for Revenue Boost from Tech Innovation, CIOs “In a survey of 767 business executives at tech-focused firms around the world, revenue growth was …

: Link: More Firms Look for Revenue Boost from Tech Innovation, CIOs “In a survey of 767 business executives at tech-focused firms around the world, revenue growth was …

: Link: More Firms Look for Revenue Boost from Tech Innovation, CIOs “In a survey of 767 business executives at tech-focused firms around the world, revenue growth was …

: Link: Security basics “If you’re in the field of cybersecurity, a lot of what we’re preaching will sound extraordinarily …

: Link: Security basics “If you’re in the field of cybersecurity, a lot of what we’re preaching will sound extraordinarily …

: Link: Security basics “If you’re in the field of cybersecurity, a lot of what we’re preaching will sound extraordinarily …

: Link: Amy Chozick’s book is about Hillary Clinton — and all the things reporters don’t write in their stories about Hillary Clinton “I think her career is going to be such a symbol of how we viewed powerful women in this period of …

: Link: Amy Chozick’s book is about Hillary Clinton — and all the things reporters don’t write in their stories about Hillary Clinton “I think her career is going to be such a symbol of how we viewed powerful women in this period of …

: Link: Amy Chozick’s book is about Hillary Clinton — and all the things reporters don’t write in their stories about Hillary Clinton “I think her career is going to be such a symbol of how we viewed powerful women in this period of …

: Link: European privacy regulations predicted to damage digital advertising revenue “Citi cites forecasts that ePrivacy could trigger a 70% reduction in European display ad revenue, …

: Link: European privacy regulations predicted to damage digital advertising revenue “Citi cites forecasts that ePrivacy could trigger a 70% reduction in European display ad revenue, …

: Link: European privacy regulations predicted to damage digital advertising revenue “Citi cites forecasts that ePrivacy could trigger a 70% reduction in European display ad revenue, …

: Link: Whoa, Gartner drops a truth bomb: Blockchain is overhyped and top IT bods don't want it “In its annual survey of IT leaders, the analyst firm found that just 1 per cent are already using …

: Link: Whoa, Gartner drops a truth bomb: Blockchain is overhyped and top IT bods don't want it “In its annual survey of IT leaders, the analyst firm found that just 1 per cent are already using …

: Link: Whoa, Gartner drops a truth bomb: Blockchain is overhyped and top IT bods don't want it “In its annual survey of IT leaders, the analyst firm found that just 1 per cent are already using …

: Link: A New Study on Design Thinking is Great News for Designers “Forrester has determined that teams that are applying IBM’s design thinking practice and are …

: Link: A New Study on Design Thinking is Great News for Designers “Forrester has determined that teams that are applying IBM’s design thinking practice and are …

: Link: A New Study on Design Thinking is Great News for Designers “Forrester has determined that teams that are applying IBM’s design thinking practice and are …

: Link: Code Complexity is a Design Problem ‘A lot of my fellow designers get frustrated when engineering doesn’t want to build their …

: Link: Code Complexity is a Design Problem ‘A lot of my fellow designers get frustrated when engineering doesn’t want to build their …

: Link: Code Complexity is a Design Problem ‘A lot of my fellow designers get frustrated when engineering doesn’t want to build their …

: Link: Curing Handoff-itis “I feel like it is just making our products so much better and so much more usable and user …

: Link: Curing Handoff-itis “I feel like it is just making our products so much better and so much more usable and user …

: Link: Curing Handoff-itis “I feel like it is just making our products so much better and so much more usable and user …

: Link: Measuring Trust and Its Impact on Leadership and Organisational Change ‘trust enables teams to “make decisions faster (and revisit them less often).” He …

: Link: Measuring Trust and Its Impact on Leadership and Organisational Change ‘trust enables teams to “make decisions faster (and revisit them less often).” He …

: Link: Measuring Trust and Its Impact on Leadership and Organisational Change ‘trust enables teams to “make decisions faster (and revisit them less often).” He …

: Link: The End of Enterprise IT, ING org. structure “They chose to adopt an organizational structure in which small teams – ING calls them squads – …

: Link: The End of Enterprise IT, ING org. structure “They chose to adopt an organizational structure in which small teams – ING calls them squads – …

: Link: The End of Enterprise IT, ING org. structure “They chose to adopt an organizational structure in which small teams – ING calls them squads – …

: Link: The Top Challenges Kubernetes Users Face with Deployment “The results show that complexity — a common criticism of Kubernetes — is only the fifth most cited …

: Link: The Top Challenges Kubernetes Users Face with Deployment “The results show that complexity — a common criticism of Kubernetes — is only the fifth most cited …

: Link: The Top Challenges Kubernetes Users Face with Deployment “The results show that complexity — a common criticism of Kubernetes — is only the fifth most cited …

: Link: Volkswagen CIO Martin Hofmann: IT experts in our labs work the Silicon Valley way - Automotive World ‘Hofmann commented that at the same time Volkswagen was establishing new workstyles which are …

: Link: Volkswagen CIO Martin Hofmann: IT experts in our labs work the Silicon Valley way - Automotive World ‘Hofmann commented that at the same time Volkswagen was establishing new workstyles which are …

: Link: Volkswagen CIO Martin Hofmann: IT experts in our labs work the Silicon Valley way - Automotive World ‘Hofmann commented that at the same time Volkswagen was establishing new workstyles which are …

: Link: Ways We Work: Pivotal Labs Overview of how Pivotal Labs does design. Nina Mehta: “You have a buddy to basically share the mind …

: Link: Ways We Work: Pivotal Labs Overview of how Pivotal Labs does design. Nina Mehta: “You have a buddy to basically share the mind …

: Link: Ways We Work: Pivotal Labs Overview of how Pivotal Labs does design. Nina Mehta: “You have a buddy to basically share the mind …

: Link: Wellness market size “A study from Women’s Marketing found that between fitness, beauty, health, anti-aging, and …

: Link: Wellness market size “A study from Women’s Marketing found that between fitness, beauty, health, anti-aging, and …

: Link: Wellness market size “A study from Women’s Marketing found that between fitness, beauty, health, anti-aging, and …

: Link: Digital is a long-term objective, CEOs warned “If you remember the shift from WAP banking to app banking – this took eight years, and it was a …

: Link: Digital is a long-term objective, CEOs warned “If you remember the shift from WAP banking to app banking – this took eight years, and it was a …

: Link: Digital is a long-term objective, CEOs warned “If you remember the shift from WAP banking to app banking – this took eight years, and it was a …

: Link: Making public policy in the digital age – digital HKS When you can put our releases weekly, how do you channel the feedback to government policy and laws? …

: Link: Making public policy in the digital age – digital HKS When you can put our releases weekly, how do you channel the feedback to government policy and laws? …

: Link: Making public policy in the digital age – digital HKS When you can put our releases weekly, how do you channel the feedback to government policy and laws? …

: Link: Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think “Fully one in six of the projects we studied was a black swan, with a cost overrun of 200%, on …

: Link: Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think “Fully one in six of the projects we studied was a black swan, with a cost overrun of 200%, on …

: Link: Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think “Fully one in six of the projects we studied was a black swan, with a cost overrun of 200%, on …

: Link: Avengers: Infinity War: Marvel’s Superhero Hair Is Full of Secrets “To put it in a nutshell, the shorter the hair, the more precarious a character’s relationship with …

: Link: Avengers: Infinity War: Marvel’s Superhero Hair Is Full of Secrets “To put it in a nutshell, the shorter the hair, the more precarious a character’s relationship with …

: Link: Avengers: Infinity War: Marvel’s Superhero Hair Is Full of Secrets “To put it in a nutshell, the shorter the hair, the more precarious a character’s relationship with …

: Link: CF Summit Boston — Day 2 Wrap-Up – Brian McClain – Medium In their PCF setup, T-Mobile has only 10 operators supporting 18,000 containers doing 10,000 …

: Link: CF Summit Boston — Day 2 Wrap-Up – Brian McClain – Medium In their PCF setup, T-Mobile has only 10 operators supporting 18,000 containers doing 10,000 …

: Link: CF Summit Boston — Day 2 Wrap-Up – Brian McClain – Medium In their PCF setup, T-Mobile has only 10 operators supporting 18,000 containers doing 10,000 …

: Link: Domino's CEO's parting shot - we're going to be 100% digital ‘If you figure today we are north of 60% on our digital orders and about 10% of our orders are …

: Link: Domino's CEO's parting shot - we're going to be 100% digital ‘If you figure today we are north of 60% on our digital orders and about 10% of our orders are …

: Link: Domino's CEO's parting shot - we're going to be 100% digital ‘If you figure today we are north of 60% on our digital orders and about 10% of our orders are …

: Link: My Interoperable Opinions of Cloud Foundry Summit 2018 “[I]n my previous life working in IT, I’ll admit I wasn’t in the opinionated camp. I didn’t …

: Link: My Interoperable Opinions of Cloud Foundry Summit 2018 “[I]n my previous life working in IT, I’ll admit I wasn’t in the opinionated camp. I didn’t …

: Link: My Interoperable Opinions of Cloud Foundry Summit 2018 “[I]n my previous life working in IT, I’ll admit I wasn’t in the opinionated camp. I didn’t …

: Link: Marco’s makeover I’m shocked, shocked that only stock buy-backs are occurring! (Oh, thank you for my dividend): …

: Link: Marco’s makeover I’m shocked, shocked that only stock buy-backs are occurring! (Oh, thank you for my dividend): …

: Link: Marco’s makeover I’m shocked, shocked that only stock buy-backs are occurring! (Oh, thank you for my dividend): …

: Link: The sky’s the limit ‘But China could add 13% to its GDP by 2025, relative to a baseline, if it increased women’s …

: Link: The sky’s the limit ‘But China could add 13% to its GDP by 2025, relative to a baseline, if it increased women’s …

: Link: The sky’s the limit ‘But China could add 13% to its GDP by 2025, relative to a baseline, if it increased women’s …

: Link: The Sorry State of Digital Transformation in 2018 Organizations talk a lot about transformation, but their actions don’t always back it up: …

: Link: The Sorry State of Digital Transformation in 2018 Organizations talk a lot about transformation, but their actions don’t always back it up: …

: Link: The Sorry State of Digital Transformation in 2018 Organizations talk a lot about transformation, but their actions don’t always back it up: …

: Link: Recruiting The Puppet Masters Of Infrastructure A lengthy profile of Puppet. Original source: Recruiting The Puppet Masters Of Infrastructure

: Link: Recruiting The Puppet Masters Of Infrastructure A lengthy profile of Puppet. Original source: Recruiting The Puppet Masters Of Infrastructure

: Link: Recruiting The Puppet Masters Of Infrastructure A lengthy profile of Puppet. Original source: Recruiting The Puppet Masters Of Infrastructure

: Link: Estimated Nest revenue and losses “But a one-time accounting change, detailed in Alphabet’s first-quarter results today, reveals that …

: Link: Estimated Nest revenue and losses “But a one-time accounting change, detailed in Alphabet’s first-quarter results today, reveals that …

: Link: Estimated Nest revenue and losses “But a one-time accounting change, detailed in Alphabet’s first-quarter results today, reveals that …

: Link: Future of Jakarta Is in the Cloud, Not with the JCP: One-on-One with Mike Milinkovich “Q: Just to be clear, the Eclipse Jakarta EE Working Group is where the new specification process is …

: Link: Future of Jakarta Is in the Cloud, Not with the JCP: One-on-One with Mike Milinkovich “Q: Just to be clear, the Eclipse Jakarta EE Working Group is where the new specification process is …

: Link: Future of Jakarta Is in the Cloud, Not with the JCP: One-on-One with Mike Milinkovich “Q: Just to be clear, the Eclipse Jakarta EE Working Group is where the new specification process is …

: Link: HPE Denies It’s Partnering with Huawei, Taps Crisis Public Relati It’s hard to be Huawei in the US already, and under Trump it must be unbearable. Meanwhile, I hear …

: Link: HPE Denies It’s Partnering with Huawei, Taps Crisis Public Relati It’s hard to be Huawei in the US already, and under Trump it must be unbearable. Meanwhile, I hear …

: Link: HPE Denies It’s Partnering with Huawei, Taps Crisis Public Relati It’s hard to be Huawei in the US already, and under Trump it must be unbearable. Meanwhile, I hear …

: Link: IBM’s big bet on blockchain “For example: The recent E. coli outbreak led to mass disposal of lettuce in many places. Using a …

: Link: IBM’s big bet on blockchain “For example: The recent E. coli outbreak led to mass disposal of lettuce in many places. Using a …

: Link: IBM’s big bet on blockchain “For example: The recent E. coli outbreak led to mass disposal of lettuce in many places. Using a …

: Link: Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt. Nice chart, template for plan to modernize code. Original source: Migrations: the sole scalable fix …

: Link: Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt. Nice chart, template for plan to modernize code. Original source: Migrations: the sole scalable fix …

: Link: Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt. Nice chart, template for plan to modernize code. Original source: Migrations: the sole scalable fix …

: Link: Allstate Technology Chief Develops The Uber Of Roadside Assistance Success: “The Good Hands Rescue Network digital platform was launched in August 2016. Since …

: Link: Allstate Technology Chief Develops The Uber Of Roadside Assistance Success: “The Good Hands Rescue Network digital platform was launched in August 2016. Since …

: Link: Allstate Technology Chief Develops The Uber Of Roadside Assistance Success: “The Good Hands Rescue Network digital platform was launched in August 2016. Since …

: Link: How Insurance Giant Allstate Is Using Cloud Tech to Build New Businesses “When you’re an 86-year-old company things have done a certain way, there are rules in place because …

: Link: How Insurance Giant Allstate Is Using Cloud Tech to Build New Businesses “When you’re an 86-year-old company things have done a certain way, there are rules in place because …

: Link: How Insurance Giant Allstate Is Using Cloud Tech to Build New Businesses “When you’re an 86-year-old company things have done a certain way, there are rules in place because …

: Link: Jeff Bezos admits Amazon has 'the weirdest meeting culture you will ever encounter', Business Insider In the letter, he explained that writing a brilliant, long memo requires the writer to understand …

: Link: Jeff Bezos admits Amazon has 'the weirdest meeting culture you will ever encounter', Business Insider In the letter, he explained that writing a brilliant, long memo requires the writer to understand …

: Link: Jeff Bezos admits Amazon has 'the weirdest meeting culture you will ever encounter', Business Insider In the letter, he explained that writing a brilliant, long memo requires the writer to understand …

: Link: Yahoo! dismemberment! begins! as! Oath! offloads! Flickr! “Yahoo! acquired Flickr in 2005 and planned to fold it into the Yahoo! Photos service. But the …

: Link: Yahoo! dismemberment! begins! as! Oath! offloads! Flickr! “Yahoo! acquired Flickr in 2005 and planned to fold it into the Yahoo! Photos service. But the …

: Link: Yahoo! dismemberment! begins! as! Oath! offloads! Flickr! “Yahoo! acquired Flickr in 2005 and planned to fold it into the Yahoo! Photos service. But the …

: Link: Shaking up Scotiabank: Three exclusive insights into CEO Brian Porter’s revolution - The Globe and Mail “We’re in the technology business. Our product happens to be banking, but largely that’s delivered …

: Link: Shaking up Scotiabank: Three exclusive insights into CEO Brian Porter’s revolution - The Globe and Mail “We’re in the technology business. Our product happens to be banking, but largely that’s delivered …

: Link: Shaking up Scotiabank: Three exclusive insights into CEO Brian Porter’s revolution - The Globe and Mail “We’re in the technology business. Our product happens to be banking, but largely that’s delivered …

: Link: The Contradictions Of IBM’s Platform Strategy “IBM is a systems company with a very large portion of its revenues and an even larger part of its …

: Link: The Contradictions Of IBM’s Platform Strategy “IBM is a systems company with a very large portion of its revenues and an even larger part of its …

: Link: The Contradictions Of IBM’s Platform Strategy “IBM is a systems company with a very large portion of its revenues and an even larger part of its …

: Link: Oracle Kills JavaOne Ran from 1996 to 2010 as it’s own conference, and the as part of Oracle OpenWorld. Now to be focused …

: Link: Oracle Kills JavaOne Ran from 1996 to 2010 as it’s own conference, and the as part of Oracle OpenWorld. Now to be focused …

: Link: Oracle Kills JavaOne Ran from 1996 to 2010 as it’s own conference, and the as part of Oracle OpenWorld. Now to be focused …

: Link: Modeling the future enterprise: people, purpose, and profit “One answer is in a straightforward metric—how new technologies like cloud, cognitive, mobile, …

: Link: Modeling the future enterprise: people, purpose, and profit “One answer is in a straightforward metric—how new technologies like cloud, cognitive, mobile, …

: Link: Modeling the future enterprise: people, purpose, and profit “One answer is in a straightforward metric—how new technologies like cloud, cognitive, mobile, …

: Link: Subscription businesses, McKinsey “The subscription e-commerce market has grown by more than 100 percent a year over the past five …

: Link: Subscription businesses, McKinsey “The subscription e-commerce market has grown by more than 100 percent a year over the past five …

: Link: Subscription businesses, McKinsey “The subscription e-commerce market has grown by more than 100 percent a year over the past five …

: Link: Zuora IPO and how subscriptions changed how we do business “Curation services, with 55% of total subscriptions, are by far the most popular, suggesting a …

: Link: Zuora IPO and how subscriptions changed how we do business “Curation services, with 55% of total subscriptions, are by far the most popular, suggesting a …

: Link: Zuora IPO and how subscriptions changed how we do business “Curation services, with 55% of total subscriptions, are by far the most popular, suggesting a …

: Link: ​AppDynamics touts the agility of a startup with the pocket of a global giant “Our ability to close a customer when Cisco is involved is up to 50 percent faster.” One …

: Link: ​AppDynamics touts the agility of a startup with the pocket of a global giant “Our ability to close a customer when Cisco is involved is up to 50 percent faster.” One …

: Link: ​AppDynamics touts the agility of a startup with the pocket of a global giant “Our ability to close a customer when Cisco is involved is up to 50 percent faster.” One …

: Link: Home Depot is launching its biggest tech hiring spree ever to protect its lead over Amazon “Home Depot plans to add more than 1,000 new hires to its technology teams in 2018” adding to the …

: Link: Home Depot is launching its biggest tech hiring spree ever to protect its lead over Amazon “Home Depot plans to add more than 1,000 new hires to its technology teams in 2018” adding to the …

: Link: Home Depot is launching its biggest tech hiring spree ever to protect its lead over Amazon “Home Depot plans to add more than 1,000 new hires to its technology teams in 2018” adding to the …

: Link: The axes of HomePod evolution: don’t judge what you can’t yet see “it’s important to bear in mind how every single Apple product tends to evolve: from MVP, aka …

: Link: The axes of HomePod evolution: don’t judge what you can’t yet see “it’s important to bear in mind how every single Apple product tends to evolve: from MVP, aka …

: Link: The axes of HomePod evolution: don’t judge what you can’t yet see “it’s important to bear in mind how every single Apple product tends to evolve: from MVP, aka …

: Link: Microsoft has designed an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip. Repeat, an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip An edge device in every home, office, street corner, etc. “The way it works is like this: Microsoft …

: Link: Microsoft has designed an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip. Repeat, an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip An edge device in every home, office, street corner, etc. “The way it works is like this: Microsoft …

: Link: Microsoft has designed an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip. Repeat, an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip An edge device in every home, office, street corner, etc. “The way it works is like this: Microsoft …

: Link: OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong “Ames says the real question isn’t whether laptop programs help students, but whether they’re more …

: Link: OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong “Ames says the real question isn’t whether laptop programs help students, but whether they’re more …

: Link: OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong “Ames says the real question isn’t whether laptop programs help students, but whether they’re more …

: Link: After Months of Development, B3i’s Blockchain Prototype Is Ready for Testing More using blockchain for tracking and validating insurance policies: “With the advent of smart …

: Link: After Months of Development, B3i’s Blockchain Prototype Is Ready for Testing More using blockchain for tracking and validating insurance policies: “With the advent of smart …

: Link: After Months of Development, B3i’s Blockchain Prototype Is Ready for Testing More using blockchain for tracking and validating insurance policies: “With the advent of smart …

: Link: HCL buys into hybrid data management with majority stake in Actian “Actian told us in March that revenue was back up to more than $100m while headcount totaled …

: Link: HCL buys into hybrid data management with majority stake in Actian “Actian told us in March that revenue was back up to more than $100m while headcount totaled …

: Link: HCL buys into hybrid data management with majority stake in Actian “Actian told us in March that revenue was back up to more than $100m while headcount totaled …

: Link: Insurance industry making the leap to blockchain Using the decentralized, assertion verification system in blockchain stuff to keep track of …

: Link: Insurance industry making the leap to blockchain Using the decentralized, assertion verification system in blockchain stuff to keep track of …

: Link: Insurance industry making the leap to blockchain Using the decentralized, assertion verification system in blockchain stuff to keep track of …

: Link: Liberty Mutual embraces AI, blockchain “The Boston insurer is also testing blockchain software to develop a platform intended to …

: Link: Liberty Mutual embraces AI, blockchain “The Boston insurer is also testing blockchain software to develop a platform intended to …

: Link: Liberty Mutual embraces AI, blockchain “The Boston insurer is also testing blockchain software to develop a platform intended to …

: Link: Managing Data in Microservices Original source: Managing Data in Microservices

: Link: Managing Data in Microservices Original source: Managing Data in Microservices

: Link: Managing Data in Microservices Original source: Managing Data in Microservices

: Link: Monitoring continues to be a valuable part of the hybrid cloud, as Sensu raises $10M “Sensu Enterprise is the commercial version of that project, and it costs between $99 and $999 …

: Link: Monitoring continues to be a valuable part of the hybrid cloud, as Sensu raises $10M “Sensu Enterprise is the commercial version of that project, and it costs between $99 and $999 …

: Link: Monitoring continues to be a valuable part of the hybrid cloud, as Sensu raises $10M “Sensu Enterprise is the commercial version of that project, and it costs between $99 and $999 …

: Link: Q&A on the Book Agile Management “Most of the available maturity models measure the degree to which the agile techniques and tools …

: Link: Q&A on the Book Agile Management “Most of the available maturity models measure the degree to which the agile techniques and tools …

: Link: The only way is Ethics: UK Lords fret about AI 'moral panic' Original source: The only way is Ethics: UK Lords fret about AI 'moral panic'

: Link: The only way is Ethics: UK Lords fret about AI 'moral panic' Original source: The only way is Ethics: UK Lords fret about AI 'moral panic'

: Link: The only way is Ethics: UK Lords fret about AI 'moral panic' Original source: The only way is Ethics: UK Lords fret about AI 'moral panic'

: Link: The Platform Matters More Than Ever, The Operating System Less So “Windows Server 2019 is a case in point, and going through the highlights shows it. Back in the day, …

: Link: The Platform Matters More Than Ever, The Operating System Less So “Windows Server 2019 is a case in point, and going through the highlights shows it. Back in the day, …

: Link: The Platform Matters More Than Ever, The Operating System Less So “Windows Server 2019 is a case in point, and going through the highlights shows it. Back in the day, …

: Link: What Trump's Fight with Amazon Signals for American Business “All nations, of course, suffer some degree of corruption. Mathurin told me a simple test to …

: Link: What Trump's Fight with Amazon Signals for American Business “All nations, of course, suffer some degree of corruption. Mathurin told me a simple test to …

: Link: What Trump's Fight with Amazon Signals for American Business “All nations, of course, suffer some degree of corruption. Mathurin told me a simple test to …

: Link: “The Lazy River” “I heard one man with a fashionable haircut say he could swim the whole length backward. I heard his …

: Link: “The Lazy River” “I heard one man with a fashionable haircut say he could swim the whole length backward. I heard his …

: Link: “The Lazy River” “I heard one man with a fashionable haircut say he could swim the whole length backward. I heard his …

: Link: DellEMC/ESG survey on digital transformation The usual “transform of die” types of points, intermixed with some analysis of cost-savings. It …

: Link: DellEMC/ESG survey on digital transformation The usual “transform of die” types of points, intermixed with some analysis of cost-savings. It …

: Link: DellEMC/ESG survey on digital transformation The usual “transform of die” types of points, intermixed with some analysis of cost-savings. It …

: Link: Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 21.4 Percent in 2018 “The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 21.4 percent in 2018 to total …

: Link: Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 21.4 Percent in 2018 “The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 21.4 percent in 2018 to total …

: Link: Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 21.4 Percent in 2018 “The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 21.4 percent in 2018 to total …

: Link: The chemistry of enthusiasm “In our view, too many companies try to raise engagement by launching disconnected initiatives like …

: Link: The chemistry of enthusiasm “In our view, too many companies try to raise engagement by launching disconnected initiatives like …

: Link: The chemistry of enthusiasm “In our view, too many companies try to raise engagement by launching disconnected initiatives like …

: Link: Gartner: IT spending to hit $3.7 trillion thanks to record 6.2% growth in 2018 “This is the highest annual growth rate that Gartner has forecast since 2007 and would be a sign of …

: Link: Gartner: IT spending to hit $3.7 trillion thanks to record 6.2% growth in 2018 “This is the highest annual growth rate that Gartner has forecast since 2007 and would be a sign of …

: Link: Gartner: IT spending to hit $3.7 trillion thanks to record 6.2% growth in 2018 “This is the highest annual growth rate that Gartner has forecast since 2007 and would be a sign of …

: Link: GDPR Seen Slowing AI Innovation Given all the Facebook stuff, I think less balancing towards the side of the robots would probably …

: Link: GDPR Seen Slowing AI Innovation Given all the Facebook stuff, I think less balancing towards the side of the robots would probably …

: Link: GDPR Seen Slowing AI Innovation Given all the Facebook stuff, I think less balancing towards the side of the robots would probably …

: Link: Serverless Architectures: A Paradigm Shift in ... “One of the biggest security upsides to developing on serverless architectures is that organizations …

: Link: Serverless Architectures: A Paradigm Shift in ... “One of the biggest security upsides to developing on serverless architectures is that organizations …

: Link: Serverless Architectures: A Paradigm Shift in ... “One of the biggest security upsides to developing on serverless architectures is that organizations …

: Satish Kodukula on Product Management - Software Defined Interviews #70 Brandon interviews Satish Kodukula about product management. We compare product management at large …

: Satish Kodukula on Product Management - Software Defined Interviews #70 Brandon interviews Satish Kodukula about product management. We compare product management at large …

: Link: Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook “There is no other way to interpret Facebook’s privacy invading moves over the years—even if it’s …

: Link: Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook “There is no other way to interpret Facebook’s privacy invading moves over the years—even if it’s …

: Link: Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook “There is no other way to interpret Facebook’s privacy invading moves over the years—even if it’s …

: Link: A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home “the robust, nearly two-year study showed an astounding productivity boost among the telecommuters …

: Link: A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home “the robust, nearly two-year study showed an astounding productivity boost among the telecommuters …

: Link: A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home “the robust, nearly two-year study showed an astounding productivity boost among the telecommuters …

: Link: Dell Technologies’ “essential infrastructure” strategy “We divested Dell services. We divested [VMware’s] vCloud Air, and really began to clean up …

: Link: Dell Technologies’ “essential infrastructure” strategy “We divested Dell services. We divested [VMware’s] vCloud Air, and really began to clean up …

: Link: Dell Technologies’ “essential infrastructure” strategy “We divested Dell services. We divested [VMware’s] vCloud Air, and really began to clean up …

: Link: Digital Disruption at Volkswagen Group: Is It All About Cars? Some actual good, interesting applications for ML stuff here, in industrial design. Check out the …

: Link: Digital Disruption at Volkswagen Group: Is It All About Cars? Some actual good, interesting applications for ML stuff here, in industrial design. Check out the …

: Link: Digital Disruption at Volkswagen Group: Is It All About Cars? Some actual good, interesting applications for ML stuff here, in industrial design. Check out the …

: Link: Eden: The Tech That’s Bringing Fresher Groceries to You Wal-mart using ML and analytics to keep food fresher: “For example, take everybody’s favorite, the …

: Link: Eden: The Tech That’s Bringing Fresher Groceries to You Wal-mart using ML and analytics to keep food fresher: “For example, take everybody’s favorite, the …

: Link: Eden: The Tech That’s Bringing Fresher Groceries to You Wal-mart using ML and analytics to keep food fresher: “For example, take everybody’s favorite, the …

: Link: How To Run A Good Presentation Tips on presenting, the infrastructure parts. Original source: How To Run A Good Presentation

: Link: How To Run A Good Presentation Tips on presenting, the infrastructure parts. Original source: How To Run A Good Presentation

: Link: How To Run A Good Presentation Tips on presenting, the infrastructure parts. Original source: How To Run A Good Presentation

: Link: Inside Synchrony Financial's Innovation Lab “One thing that was great to see was that cross-functional barriers went away” once the …

: Link: Inside Synchrony Financial's Innovation Lab “One thing that was great to see was that cross-functional barriers went away” once the …

: Link: Inside Synchrony Financial's Innovation Lab “One thing that was great to see was that cross-functional barriers went away” once the …

: Link: Insurers go all-out on mobile, but what comes next is elusive “74% of Canadians begin their insurance research journey online, with 25% of those using a …

: Link: Insurers go all-out on mobile, but what comes next is elusive “74% of Canadians begin their insurance research journey online, with 25% of those using a …

: Link: Insurers go all-out on mobile, but what comes next is elusive “74% of Canadians begin their insurance research journey online, with 25% of those using a …

: Link: U.S. CIO Suzette Kent: Don’t change IT modernization plan; ‘turbo boost’ it When it comes to digital transformation, the goal of businesses is to drive profit, or more broadly, …

: Link: U.S. CIO Suzette Kent: Don’t change IT modernization plan; ‘turbo boost’ it When it comes to digital transformation, the goal of businesses is to drive profit, or more broadly, …

: Link: U.S. CIO Suzette Kent: Don’t change IT modernization plan; ‘turbo boost’ it When it comes to digital transformation, the goal of businesses is to drive profit, or more broadly, …

: Link: When AI meets digital transformation: 4 areas where AI fits now | The Enterprisers Project Still no case studies of enterprises actually using AI/ML, but some interesting examples of “boring” …

: Link: When AI meets digital transformation: 4 areas where AI fits now | The Enterprisers Project Still no case studies of enterprises actually using AI/ML, but some interesting examples of “boring” …

: Link: When AI meets digital transformation: 4 areas where AI fits now | The Enterprisers Project Still no case studies of enterprises actually using AI/ML, but some interesting examples of “boring” …

: Link: ‘Blockchain’ is meaningless, government edition A laundry list of other content about blockchain in government. ‘Lemieux is also well-acquainted …

: Link: ‘Blockchain’ is meaningless, government edition A laundry list of other content about blockchain in government. ‘Lemieux is also well-acquainted …

: Link: ‘Blockchain’ is meaningless, government edition A laundry list of other content about blockchain in government. ‘Lemieux is also well-acquainted …

: Link: 6 Challenges of Agile at Scale for ERP The problems with taking an agile approach to outsourcing your COTS projects. Among the problems: …

: Link: 6 Challenges of Agile at Scale for ERP The problems with taking an agile approach to outsourcing your COTS projects. Among the problems: …

: Link: 6 Challenges of Agile at Scale for ERP The problems with taking an agile approach to outsourcing your COTS projects. Among the problems: …

: Link: For Women and Minorities to Get Ahead, Managers Must Assign Work Fairly “For many women, the disparity in assignments comes back to what we’ve called maternal wall bias — a …

: Link: For Women and Minorities to Get Ahead, Managers Must Assign Work Fairly “For many women, the disparity in assignments comes back to what we’ve called maternal wall bias — a …

: Link: For Women and Minorities to Get Ahead, Managers Must Assign Work Fairly “For many women, the disparity in assignments comes back to what we’ve called maternal wall bias — a …

: Link: Gartner Survey Reveals Business Value or Benefits Realization Is the Leading IT Cost-Optimization Priority for CIOs Saving money to spend it on new, growth driving projects: “The survey findings highlight how …

: Link: Gartner Survey Reveals Business Value or Benefits Realization Is the Leading IT Cost-Optimization Priority for CIOs Saving money to spend it on new, growth driving projects: “The survey findings highlight how …

: Link: Gartner Survey Reveals Business Value or Benefits Realization Is the Leading IT Cost-Optimization Priority for CIOs Saving money to spend it on new, growth driving projects: “The survey findings highlight how …

: Link: It’s time to get in to more meaningful “bar fights” Use the functioning meatware for your n-mode silos, just make sure you don’t apply the same process …

: Link: It’s time to get in to more meaningful “bar fights” Use the functioning meatware for your n-mode silos, just make sure you don’t apply the same process …

: Link: It’s time to get in to more meaningful “bar fights” Use the functioning meatware for your n-mode silos, just make sure you don’t apply the same process …

: Link: Merrill Corporation alongside Leading Technology Companies, Launch New Category for M&A Professionals “Merrill uses MongoDB technology to build horizontal applications on top of four key pillars: a …

: Link: Merrill Corporation alongside Leading Technology Companies, Launch New Category for M&A Professionals “Merrill uses MongoDB technology to build horizontal applications on top of four key pillars: a …

: Link: Merrill Corporation alongside Leading Technology Companies, Launch New Category for M&A Professionals “Merrill uses MongoDB technology to build horizontal applications on top of four key pillars: a …

: Link: Veteran Tech Analyst Aims to Change the Research Game in Tesla and Others The pressures of being public drive bad research management decisions, this dude believes: “If you …

: Link: Veteran Tech Analyst Aims to Change the Research Game in Tesla and Others The pressures of being public drive bad research management decisions, this dude believes: “If you …

: Link: Veteran Tech Analyst Aims to Change the Research Game in Tesla and Others The pressures of being public drive bad research management decisions, this dude believes: “If you …

: Analyst Relations, with Rita Manachi - Software Defined Interviews #69 Getting familiar with analyst relations is a key component of an enterprise software business. …

: Analyst Relations, with Rita Manachi - Software Defined Interviews #69 Getting familiar with analyst relations is a key component of an enterprise software business. …

: Link: Re-Hermit “I can run a lot of windows on my screen, but eventually the screen fills up and I’m doing more …

: Link: Re-Hermit “I can run a lot of windows on my screen, but eventually the screen fills up and I’m doing more …

: Link: Re-Hermit “I can run a lot of windows on my screen, but eventually the screen fills up and I’m doing more …

: Link: Misunderstanding "Open Tracing" for the Enterprise Enterprise systems management software is hard. “OpenTracing doesn’t solve the …

: Link: Misunderstanding "Open Tracing" for the Enterprise Enterprise systems management software is hard. “OpenTracing doesn’t solve the …

: Link: Misunderstanding "Open Tracing" for the Enterprise Enterprise systems management software is hard. “OpenTracing doesn’t solve the …

: Link: "Do They Have AI?" or That Rant on AI in Security ‘It turns out that our AI analysts often use the phrase “AI” to mean “top techniques from the field …

: Link: "Do They Have AI?" or That Rant on AI in Security ‘It turns out that our AI analysts often use the phrase “AI” to mean “top techniques from the field …

: Link: "Do They Have AI?" or That Rant on AI in Security ‘It turns out that our AI analysts often use the phrase “AI” to mean “top techniques from the field …

: Link: How Does Advertising Work? ‘It is also SELECTIVE … because, apparently, we have always been overwhelmed by sensory data and …

: Link: How Does Advertising Work? ‘It is also SELECTIVE … because, apparently, we have always been overwhelmed by sensory data and …

: Link: How Does Advertising Work? ‘It is also SELECTIVE … because, apparently, we have always been overwhelmed by sensory data and …

: Link: On Salesforce’s acquisition of MuleSoft “[H]aving a decent integration platform in its arsenal enables Salesforce to tell better stories …

: Link: On Salesforce’s acquisition of MuleSoft “[H]aving a decent integration platform in its arsenal enables Salesforce to tell better stories …

: Link: On Salesforce’s acquisition of MuleSoft “[H]aving a decent integration platform in its arsenal enables Salesforce to tell better stories …

: Link: Serverless at Bustle ‘Probably the biggest is: how do you deal with the migration of legacy things? At Bustle we ended up …

: Link: Serverless at Bustle ‘Probably the biggest is: how do you deal with the migration of legacy things? At Bustle we ended up …

: Link: Serverless at Bustle ‘Probably the biggest is: how do you deal with the migration of legacy things? At Bustle we ended up …

: Link: Survey Shows Cloud and DevOps Complexity and Culture Concerns “The findings, based on more than 1,300 responses from DevOps and IT professionals, showed the …

: Link: Survey Shows Cloud and DevOps Complexity and Culture Concerns “The findings, based on more than 1,300 responses from DevOps and IT professionals, showed the …

: Link: Survey Shows Cloud and DevOps Complexity and Culture Concerns “The findings, based on more than 1,300 responses from DevOps and IT professionals, showed the …

: Link: The Insurance Industry Is A Prime Target For AI Technologies And Solutions Quote below: Technologies Oriented & Experience Focused: Experience related AI technologies …

: Link: The Insurance Industry Is A Prime Target For AI Technologies And Solutions Quote below: Technologies Oriented & Experience Focused: Experience related AI technologies …

: Link: The Insurance Industry Is A Prime Target For AI Technologies And Solutions Quote below: Technologies Oriented & Experience Focused: Experience related AI technologies …

: Link: There is no “technology industry” ‘But today, the major players in what’s called the “tech industry” are enormous conglomerates that …

: Link: There is no “technology industry” ‘But today, the major players in what’s called the “tech industry” are enormous conglomerates that …

: Link: There is no “technology industry” ‘But today, the major players in what’s called the “tech industry” are enormous conglomerates that …

: Link: Understanding technology today “Technology isn’t an industry, it’s a method of transforming the culture and economics of existing …

: Link: Understanding technology today “Technology isn’t an industry, it’s a method of transforming the culture and economics of existing …

: Link: Understanding technology today “Technology isn’t an industry, it’s a method of transforming the culture and economics of existing …

: Link: Windows chief leaving Microsoft as CEO Satya Nadella rolls out massive engineering reorg ‘The reorg includes the creation of two large new engineering groups inside Microsoft, focused on …

: Link: Windows chief leaving Microsoft as CEO Satya Nadella rolls out massive engineering reorg ‘The reorg includes the creation of two large new engineering groups inside Microsoft, focused on …

: Link: Windows chief leaving Microsoft as CEO Satya Nadella rolls out massive engineering reorg ‘The reorg includes the creation of two large new engineering groups inside Microsoft, focused on …

: Link: Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case • The Register “To sum up, then: Google knew it needed a licence, didn’t get one, and tried to bluff it out.” …

: Link: Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case • The Register “To sum up, then: Google knew it needed a licence, didn’t get one, and tried to bluff it out.” …

: Link: Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case • The Register “To sum up, then: Google knew it needed a licence, didn’t get one, and tried to bluff it out.” …

: Link: Media vs. Facebook: This time it's personal “Facebook and Google execs privately complain about the barrage of critical coverage they face, …

: Link: Media vs. Facebook: This time it's personal “Facebook and Google execs privately complain about the barrage of critical coverage they face, …

: Link: Media vs. Facebook: This time it's personal “Facebook and Google execs privately complain about the barrage of critical coverage they face, …

: Link: 'Big Tech' isn't one big monopoly – it's 5 companies all in different businesses ‘But despite simple perception of them all as “tech” companies, their core revenue sources are …

: Link: 'Big Tech' isn't one big monopoly – it's 5 companies all in different businesses ‘But despite simple perception of them all as “tech” companies, their core revenue sources are …

: Link: 'Big Tech' isn't one big monopoly – it's 5 companies all in different businesses ‘But despite simple perception of them all as “tech” companies, their core revenue sources are …

: Link: As it shifts cloud focus to platform services, Oracle tries to hold on to its database legacy ‘“the way Oracle plans on differentiating itself from Amazon is by offering a complete suite of …

: Link: As it shifts cloud focus to platform services, Oracle tries to hold on to its database legacy ‘“the way Oracle plans on differentiating itself from Amazon is by offering a complete suite of …

: Link: As it shifts cloud focus to platform services, Oracle tries to hold on to its database legacy ‘“the way Oracle plans on differentiating itself from Amazon is by offering a complete suite of …

: Link: Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM “ProPublica estimates that in the past five years alone, IBM has eliminated more than 20,000 …

: Link: Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM “ProPublica estimates that in the past five years alone, IBM has eliminated more than 20,000 …

: Link: Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM “ProPublica estimates that in the past five years alone, IBM has eliminated more than 20,000 …

: Link: Docker founder Solomon Hykes leaving company, cites need for enterprise-focused CTO “To take advantage of this opportunity, we need a CTO by Steve’s side with decades of experience …

: Link: Docker founder Solomon Hykes leaving company, cites need for enterprise-focused CTO “To take advantage of this opportunity, we need a CTO by Steve’s side with decades of experience …

: Link: Docker founder Solomon Hykes leaving company, cites need for enterprise-focused CTO “To take advantage of this opportunity, we need a CTO by Steve’s side with decades of experience …

: Link: Kubernetes 1.10 Release Hits Storage, Security, and Networking “a stronger focus on storage, security, and networking as it hits double digits.” Original source: …

: Link: Kubernetes 1.10 Release Hits Storage, Security, and Networking “a stronger focus on storage, security, and networking as it hits double digits.” Original source: …

: Link: Kubernetes 1.10 Release Hits Storage, Security, and Networking “a stronger focus on storage, security, and networking as it hits double digits.” Original source: …

: Link: My advice for a Paris visit “If you want to spend forty euros for a very good but not revelatory lunch, find a “cool” area with …

: Link: My advice for a Paris visit “If you want to spend forty euros for a very good but not revelatory lunch, find a “cool” area with …

: Link: My advice for a Paris visit “If you want to spend forty euros for a very good but not revelatory lunch, find a “cool” area with …

: Link: Worldwide Spending on Security Solutions Forecast to Reach $91 Billion in 2018, According to a New IDC Spending Guide “Worldwide spending on security-related hardware, software, and services is forecast to reach $91.4 …

: Link: Worldwide Spending on Security Solutions Forecast to Reach $91 Billion in 2018, According to a New IDC Spending Guide “Worldwide spending on security-related hardware, software, and services is forecast to reach $91.4 …

: Link: Worldwide Spending on Security Solutions Forecast to Reach $91 Billion in 2018, According to a New IDC Spending Guide “Worldwide spending on security-related hardware, software, and services is forecast to reach $91.4 …

: Link: “Google’s use of the Java API packages was not fair,” appeals court rules I’ve never understood what’s going on here. I think it’s that Google decided to arrange Android …

: Link: “Google’s use of the Java API packages was not fair,” appeals court rules I’ve never understood what’s going on here. I think it’s that Google decided to arrange Android …

: Link: “Google’s use of the Java API packages was not fair,” appeals court rules I’ve never understood what’s going on here. I think it’s that Google decided to arrange Android …

: Link: A look inside American Family Insurance's digital transformation office “More specifically, our definition will include leveraging technologies, such as AI, machine …

: Link: A look inside American Family Insurance's digital transformation office “More specifically, our definition will include leveraging technologies, such as AI, machine …

: Link: A look inside American Family Insurance's digital transformation office “More specifically, our definition will include leveraging technologies, such as AI, machine …

: Link: IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs Gartner “predicted that, by 2020, 75% of organisations will experience visible business disruptions …

: Link: IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs Gartner “predicted that, by 2020, 75% of organisations will experience visible business disruptions …

: Link: IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs Gartner “predicted that, by 2020, 75% of organisations will experience visible business disruptions …

: Link: Putting the transformation into digital “Too many people are claiming that there is digital transformation happening – when really it is …

: Link: Putting the transformation into digital “Too many people are claiming that there is digital transformation happening – when really it is …

: Link: Putting the transformation into digital “Too many people are claiming that there is digital transformation happening – when really it is …

: Link: Red Hat is in the pink: Cracks $3bn revenue run rate as subs take off “Full fiscal year subscription revenue hit $2.6 billion, up 21 per cent year-over-year” Original …

: Link: Red Hat is in the pink: Cracks $3bn revenue run rate as subs take off “Full fiscal year subscription revenue hit $2.6 billion, up 21 per cent year-over-year” Original …

: Link: Red Hat is in the pink: Cracks $3bn revenue run rate as subs take off “Full fiscal year subscription revenue hit $2.6 billion, up 21 per cent year-over-year” Original …

: Lineworkers and developers working side-by-side to improve Duke Energy’s software, with John Mitchell - Software Defined Interviews #68 This is a great conversation with John Mitchell about Duke Energy improving it’s software …

: Lineworkers and developers working side-by-side to improve Duke Energy’s software, with John Mitchell - Software Defined Interviews #68 This is a great conversation with John Mitchell about Duke Energy improving it’s software …

: Link: Amazon is coming for the insurance industry – should we be worried? “While UK insurers are investing in tech and providing digital services, the majority are light …

: Link: Amazon is coming for the insurance industry – should we be worried? “While UK insurers are investing in tech and providing digital services, the majority are light …

: Link: Amazon is coming for the insurance industry – should we be worried? “While UK insurers are investing in tech and providing digital services, the majority are light …

: Link: Amazon pushes further into insurance with its latest investment “Amazon’s Indian venture is probably a springboard for a move towards more established …

: Link: Amazon pushes further into insurance with its latest investment “Amazon’s Indian venture is probably a springboard for a move towards more established …

: Link: Amazon pushes further into insurance with its latest investment “Amazon’s Indian venture is probably a springboard for a move towards more established …

: Link: Insurers lag behind other financial services in adopting digital technologies “Health insurance companies are the most positive about their digital transformation, with 20% …

: Link: Insurers lag behind other financial services in adopting digital technologies “Health insurance companies are the most positive about their digital transformation, with 20% …

: Link: Insurers lag behind other financial services in adopting digital technologies “Health insurance companies are the most positive about their digital transformation, with 20% …

: Link: Finally, a more coherent IBM story? ‘IBM is pushing their cloud hard than ever before. Even though it is mostly IBM Cloud Private, this …

: Link: Finally, a more coherent IBM story? ‘IBM is pushing their cloud hard than ever before. Even though it is mostly IBM Cloud Private, this …

: Link: Finally, a more coherent IBM story? ‘IBM is pushing their cloud hard than ever before. Even though it is mostly IBM Cloud Private, this …

: Link: Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence “Local-Variable Type Inference: Enhances the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations …

: Link: Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence “Local-Variable Type Inference: Enhances the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations …

: Link: Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence “Local-Variable Type Inference: Enhances the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations …

: Link: Salesforce agrees to buy MuleSoft in $6.5 billion deal 36% premium. Open spire, Middleware, POW! Original source: Salesforce agrees to buy MuleSoft in $6.5 …

: Link: Salesforce agrees to buy MuleSoft in $6.5 billion deal 36% premium. Open spire, Middleware, POW! Original source: Salesforce agrees to buy MuleSoft in $6.5 …

: Link: Salesforce agrees to buy MuleSoft in $6.5 billion deal 36% premium. Open spire, Middleware, POW! Original source: Salesforce agrees to buy MuleSoft in $6.5 …

: Link: WhatsApp founder says to delete Facebook “Acton, who is worth $6.5 billion” Original source: WhatsApp founder says to delete Facebook

: Link: WhatsApp founder says to delete Facebook “Acton, who is worth $6.5 billion” Original source: WhatsApp founder says to delete Facebook

: Link: WhatsApp founder says to delete Facebook “Acton, who is worth $6.5 billion” Original source: WhatsApp founder says to delete Facebook

: Link: Windows Server 2019 Cloud, security, running Linux, and more. Also: “Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI): HCI is one of …

: Link: Windows Server 2019 Cloud, security, running Linux, and more. Also: “Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI): HCI is one of …

: Link: Windows Server 2019 Cloud, security, running Linux, and more. Also: “Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI): HCI is one of …

: Link: Facebook Stock Plunges “This Cambridge Analytica scandal proves that Facebook ought to be heavily regulated, and that’s not …

: Link: Facebook Stock Plunges “This Cambridge Analytica scandal proves that Facebook ought to be heavily regulated, and that’s not …

: Link: Facebook Stock Plunges “This Cambridge Analytica scandal proves that Facebook ought to be heavily regulated, and that’s not …

: Link: IBM's cloud strategy revolves around multi-cloud support, grabbing new workloads ‘Among the moving parts from IBM: -The IBM Cloud Private platform will get cloud-migration tools …

: Link: IBM's cloud strategy revolves around multi-cloud support, grabbing new workloads ‘Among the moving parts from IBM: -The IBM Cloud Private platform will get cloud-migration tools …

: Link: IBM's cloud strategy revolves around multi-cloud support, grabbing new workloads ‘Among the moving parts from IBM: -The IBM Cloud Private platform will get cloud-migration tools …

: Javvad Malik on security &amp; being an industry analyst - Software Defined Interviews #67 Security, security, security! Everyone wants security, at least they say so. How it’s actually …

: Javvad Malik on security &amp; being an industry analyst - Software Defined Interviews #67 Security, security, security! Everyone wants security, at least they say so. How it’s actually …

: Link: How vulture capitalists ate Toys 'R' Us “Just before the buyout, the company had $2.2 billion in cash and cash-equivalents. By 2017, its …

: Link: How vulture capitalists ate Toys 'R' Us “Just before the buyout, the company had $2.2 billion in cash and cash-equivalents. By 2017, its …

: Link: How vulture capitalists ate Toys 'R' Us “Just before the buyout, the company had $2.2 billion in cash and cash-equivalents. By 2017, its …

: Link: Products Over Projects “Product owners prove actual benefits either with data from A/B testing, analytics, user surveys, …

: Link: Products Over Projects “Product owners prove actual benefits either with data from A/B testing, analytics, user surveys, …

: Link: Products Over Projects “Product owners prove actual benefits either with data from A/B testing, analytics, user surveys, …

: Link: Aqua Extends Container Security Platform to Kubernetes, Cloud Services “With Aqua 3.0, users can create fine-grained user access control roles and policies. Access to …

: Link: Aqua Extends Container Security Platform to Kubernetes, Cloud Services “With Aqua 3.0, users can create fine-grained user access control roles and policies. Access to …

: Link: Aqua Extends Container Security Platform to Kubernetes, Cloud Services “With Aqua 3.0, users can create fine-grained user access control roles and policies. Access to …

: Link: Fintech Has Grown Up “Fintech has lost its direct-to-consumer ambition. Previous editions of Finovate have seen …

: Link: Fintech Has Grown Up “Fintech has lost its direct-to-consumer ambition. Previous editions of Finovate have seen …

: Link: Fintech Has Grown Up “Fintech has lost its direct-to-consumer ambition. Previous editions of Finovate have seen …

: Link: IBM Brings Kubernetes Service To Bare Metal ‘By extending its managed service to dedicated servers, IBM can deliver Kubernetes in a form that …

: Link: IBM Brings Kubernetes Service To Bare Metal ‘By extending its managed service to dedicated servers, IBM can deliver Kubernetes in a form that …

: Link: IBM Brings Kubernetes Service To Bare Metal ‘By extending its managed service to dedicated servers, IBM can deliver Kubernetes in a form that …

: Link: Using VMware’s Harbor with PKS (and Why Kubernetes Needs a Container Registry) “A container registry is the repository for all your container images. Since your core business …

: Link: Using VMware’s Harbor with PKS (and Why Kubernetes Needs a Container Registry) “A container registry is the repository for all your container images. Since your core business …

: Link: Using VMware’s Harbor with PKS (and Why Kubernetes Needs a Container Registry) “A container registry is the repository for all your container images. Since your core business …

: Link: Broadcom/Qualcomm stopped by Trump ‘For capital markets, this is unprecedented. A deal that didn’t even exist has been blocked by …

: Link: Broadcom/Qualcomm stopped by Trump ‘For capital markets, this is unprecedented. A deal that didn’t even exist has been blocked by …

: Link: Broadcom/Qualcomm stopped by Trump ‘For capital markets, this is unprecedented. A deal that didn’t even exist has been blocked by …

: Link: Container orchestration top trumps: Let's just pretend you don't use Kubernetes already Overview of container orchestration and platform options, brief. Original source: Container …

: Link: Container orchestration top trumps: Let's just pretend you don't use Kubernetes already Overview of container orchestration and platform options, brief. Original source: Container …

: Link: Container orchestration top trumps: Let's just pretend you don't use Kubernetes already Overview of container orchestration and platform options, brief. Original source: Container …

: Link: Digital Twin initiatives set to take enterprise center stage: Gartner “Gartner revealed the results of a survey which suggests that 48 percent of companies which are …

: Link: Digital Twin initiatives set to take enterprise center stage: Gartner “Gartner revealed the results of a survey which suggests that 48 percent of companies which are …

: Link: Digital Twin initiatives set to take enterprise center stage: Gartner “Gartner revealed the results of a survey which suggests that 48 percent of companies which are …

: Link: Finland government buys a slice of Nokia “Between 1998 and 2007, Nokia was responsible for nearly 4 per cent of Finland’s annual GDP, while …

: Link: Finland government buys a slice of Nokia “Between 1998 and 2007, Nokia was responsible for nearly 4 per cent of Finland’s annual GDP, while …

: Link: Finland government buys a slice of Nokia “Between 1998 and 2007, Nokia was responsible for nearly 4 per cent of Finland’s annual GDP, while …

: Link: Mayor of London Calls for Regulation of the Tech Industry “Tech companies, innovators, must take responsibilities for how their platforms are used, Khan said. …

: Link: Mayor of London Calls for Regulation of the Tech Industry “Tech companies, innovators, must take responsibilities for how their platforms are used, Khan said. …

: Link: Mayor of London Calls for Regulation of the Tech Industry “Tech companies, innovators, must take responsibilities for how their platforms are used, Khan said. …

: Link: Moogsoft gets $40m round D “Moogsoft claims to have more than doubled revenue in the past year thanks to new customer wins. The …

: Link: Moogsoft gets $40m round D “Moogsoft claims to have more than doubled revenue in the past year thanks to new customer wins. The …

: Link: Moogsoft gets $40m round D “Moogsoft claims to have more than doubled revenue in the past year thanks to new customer wins. The …

: Link: Slack/Concur integration “the bots will give users the ability to approve expense reports right from Slack, upload expense …

: Link: Slack/Concur integration “the bots will give users the ability to approve expense reports right from Slack, upload expense …

: Link: Slack/Concur integration “the bots will give users the ability to approve expense reports right from Slack, upload expense …

: Link: Web inventor wants regulation of web “What’s more, the fact that power is concentrated among so few companies has made it possible to …

: Link: Web inventor wants regulation of web “What’s more, the fact that power is concentrated among so few companies has made it possible to …

: Link: Web inventor wants regulation of web “What’s more, the fact that power is concentrated among so few companies has made it possible to …

: Link: The game has changed: survive the cloud era with these five simple rules Owen says cloud pricing is hard. Also, wants you to send him your pricing. Original source: The game …

: Link: The game has changed: survive the cloud era with these five simple rules Owen says cloud pricing is hard. Also, wants you to send him your pricing. Original source: The game …

: Link: The game has changed: survive the cloud era with these five simple rules Owen says cloud pricing is hard. Also, wants you to send him your pricing. Original source: The game …

: Link: Keep a common place book “Wisdom, not facts. We’re not just looking random pieces of information. What’s the point of that? …

: Link: Keep a common place book “Wisdom, not facts. We’re not just looking random pieces of information. What’s the point of that? …

: Link: Keep a common place book “Wisdom, not facts. We’re not just looking random pieces of information. What’s the point of that? …

: Link: Uber Spent $10.7 Billion in Nine Years. Does It Have Enough to Show for It? “Amazon.com Inc. is famous for its losses over the years. But even in the heyday of the dot-com …

: Link: Uber Spent $10.7 Billion in Nine Years. Does It Have Enough to Show for It? “Amazon.com Inc. is famous for its losses over the years. But even in the heyday of the dot-com …

: Link: Uber Spent $10.7 Billion in Nine Years. Does It Have Enough to Show for It? “Amazon.com Inc. is famous for its losses over the years. But even in the heyday of the dot-com …

: Dominic Wellington on machine learning, or, shadows in the datacenter - Software Defined Interviews #66 If you only followed the daily headlines, AI and machine learning seem like a magical technologies …

: Dominic Wellington on machine learning, or, shadows in the datacenter - Software Defined Interviews #66 If you only followed the daily headlines, AI and machine learning seem like a magical technologies …

: Link: Why are antiques now so cheap? ‘eBay and the internet have increased supply more than demand. It is much easier to sell an estate, …

: Link: Why are antiques now so cheap? ‘eBay and the internet have increased supply more than demand. It is much easier to sell an estate, …

: Link: Why are antiques now so cheap? ‘eBay and the internet have increased supply more than demand. It is much easier to sell an estate, …

: Link: Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” World “If you’ve ever had to plan a long project — getting to the end state can seem so difficult and …

: Link: Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” World “If you’ve ever had to plan a long project — getting to the end state can seem so difficult and …

: Link: Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” World “If you’ve ever had to plan a long project — getting to the end state can seem so difficult and …

: Link: Ethics? Yeah, that's great, but do they scale? “We’re not hand-crafting dovetail joints here. To be ethical engineers in a hyperscale world …

: Link: Ethics? Yeah, that's great, but do they scale? “We’re not hand-crafting dovetail joints here. To be ethical engineers in a hyperscale world …

: Link: Ethics? Yeah, that's great, but do they scale? “We’re not hand-crafting dovetail joints here. To be ethical engineers in a hyperscale world …

: Link: How to build a business case for DevOps transformation “Here are a few signs that your company should consider transitioning to DevOps: Does it take a long …

: Link: How to build a business case for DevOps transformation “Here are a few signs that your company should consider transitioning to DevOps: Does it take a long …

: Link: How to build a business case for DevOps transformation “Here are a few signs that your company should consider transitioning to DevOps: Does it take a long …

: Link: Millennials: A tale of two generations ‘The oldest Millennials are now in their mid 30s and finally “settling down,” which …

: Link: Millennials: A tale of two generations ‘The oldest Millennials are now in their mid 30s and finally “settling down,” which …

: Link: Millennials: A tale of two generations ‘The oldest Millennials are now in their mid 30s and finally “settling down,” which …

: Link: Technologist’s Hippocratic Oath “Even with the formidable power we wield on day-to-day lives as engineers, designers, product …

: Link: Technologist’s Hippocratic Oath “Even with the formidable power we wield on day-to-day lives as engineers, designers, product …

: Link: Technologist’s Hippocratic Oath “Even with the formidable power we wield on day-to-day lives as engineers, designers, product …

: Link: To Build a More Capable Cyber Policy Field, Teach Policy to Technologists If you want to change government with IT, first make sure you understand how government works before …

: Link: To Build a More Capable Cyber Policy Field, Teach Policy to Technologists If you want to change government with IT, first make sure you understand how government works before …

: Link: To Build a More Capable Cyber Policy Field, Teach Policy to Technologists If you want to change government with IT, first make sure you understand how government works before …

: Link: Why Haier Is Reorganizing Itself around the Internet of Things There’s of course Halo Effect to look at over 5 years with this kind of thing, but here’s a …

: Link: Why Haier Is Reorganizing Itself around the Internet of Things There’s of course Halo Effect to look at over 5 years with this kind of thing, but here’s a …

: Link: Why Haier Is Reorganizing Itself around the Internet of Things There’s of course Halo Effect to look at over 5 years with this kind of thing, but here’s a …

: Link: Why should Kubernetes be scared of AWS? The scenario of AWS out-kubernetes kubernetes by layering another abstraction layer on-top of it to …

: Link: Why should Kubernetes be scared of AWS? The scenario of AWS out-kubernetes kubernetes by layering another abstraction layer on-top of it to …

: Link: Why should Kubernetes be scared of AWS? The scenario of AWS out-kubernetes kubernetes by layering another abstraction layer on-top of it to …

: Link: Will open source software become a 'tragedy of the commons'? I love this concept of tragedy of the anti-commons: “Strong management can stop this overuse. But …

: Link: Will open source software become a 'tragedy of the commons'? I love this concept of tragedy of the anti-commons: “Strong management can stop this overuse. But …

: Link: Will open source software become a 'tragedy of the commons'? I love this concept of tragedy of the anti-commons: “Strong management can stop this overuse. But …

: Link: Being a Sober Parent in a Wine Mom Culture Parenting is hard, so take a bath and get ice cream. Original source: Being a Sober Parent in a Wine …

: Link: Being a Sober Parent in a Wine Mom Culture Parenting is hard, so take a bath and get ice cream. Original source: Being a Sober Parent in a Wine …

: Link: Being a Sober Parent in a Wine Mom Culture Parenting is hard, so take a bath and get ice cream. Original source: Being a Sober Parent in a Wine …

: Link: How a holding company that sold pool chemicals pivoted into a $20B coffee empire “In recent years, JAB has quietly plunked down majority stakes in some of the biggest coffee …

: Link: How a holding company that sold pool chemicals pivoted into a $20B coffee empire “In recent years, JAB has quietly plunked down majority stakes in some of the biggest coffee …

: Link: How a holding company that sold pool chemicals pivoted into a $20B coffee empire “In recent years, JAB has quietly plunked down majority stakes in some of the biggest coffee …

: Link: Technology that we don’t realize we’re thankful for ‘To start with, there are the infrastructural systems that fill out the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid …

: Link: Technology that we don’t realize we’re thankful for ‘To start with, there are the infrastructural systems that fill out the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid …

: Link: Technology that we don’t realize we’re thankful for ‘To start with, there are the infrastructural systems that fill out the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid …

: Link: Why Software Developers Should Take Ethics Into Consideration “[Developers are ]not asking themselves, what are the ethical consequences of this? Who could get …

: Link: Why Software Developers Should Take Ethics Into Consideration “[Developers are ]not asking themselves, what are the ethical consequences of this? Who could get …

: Link: Why Software Developers Should Take Ethics Into Consideration “[Developers are ]not asking themselves, what are the ethical consequences of this? Who could get …

: Link: A/B Testing in Marketing: The Customer's Always Right “Gartner’s Marketing Technology Survey of 206 marketers found that only 33% were regularly using A/B …

: Link: A/B Testing in Marketing: The Customer's Always Right “Gartner’s Marketing Technology Survey of 206 marketers found that only 33% were regularly using A/B …

: Link: A/B Testing in Marketing: The Customer's Always Right “Gartner’s Marketing Technology Survey of 206 marketers found that only 33% were regularly using A/B …

: Link: CI/CD is possible “By deploying applications to cloud.gov, agencies can take care of 269 of the 325 controls required …

: Link: CI/CD is possible “By deploying applications to cloud.gov, agencies can take care of 269 of the 325 controls required …

: Link: CI/CD is possible “By deploying applications to cloud.gov, agencies can take care of 269 of the 325 controls required …

: Link: Cigna acquiring Express Scripts Consolidation in healthcare: “Cigna has agreed to buy pharmacy benefit giant Express Scripts for $52 …

: Link: Cigna acquiring Express Scripts Consolidation in healthcare: “Cigna has agreed to buy pharmacy benefit giant Express Scripts for $52 …

: Link: Cigna acquiring Express Scripts Consolidation in healthcare: “Cigna has agreed to buy pharmacy benefit giant Express Scripts for $52 …

: Link: Datadog log monitoring software branches out as DevOps spreads ‘Enterprises initially implemented DevOps within specialized groups that owned a specific …

: Link: Datadog log monitoring software branches out as DevOps spreads ‘Enterprises initially implemented DevOps within specialized groups that owned a specific …

: Link: Datadog log monitoring software branches out as DevOps spreads ‘Enterprises initially implemented DevOps within specialized groups that owned a specific …

: Link: DevOps success is about culture, culture culture As ever, just getting a build pipeline in place is the big, important first step that most need to …

: Link: DevOps success is about culture, culture culture As ever, just getting a build pipeline in place is the big, important first step that most need to …

: Link: DevOps success is about culture, culture culture As ever, just getting a build pipeline in place is the big, important first step that most need to …

: Link: Global race for 5G heats up with latest US Congress bill “Prices vary widely across the United States but the average cost of installing equipment on a pole …

: Link: Global race for 5G heats up with latest US Congress bill “Prices vary widely across the United States but the average cost of installing equipment on a pole …

: Link: Global race for 5G heats up with latest US Congress bill “Prices vary widely across the United States but the average cost of installing equipment on a pole …

: Link: Info Commissioner tears into Google's 'call us journalists' trial defence ‘This argument enraged the ICO, which said in the submission: “The concept of …

: Link: Info Commissioner tears into Google's 'call us journalists' trial defence ‘This argument enraged the ICO, which said in the submission: “The concept of …

: Link: Info Commissioner tears into Google's 'call us journalists' trial defence ‘This argument enraged the ICO, which said in the submission: “The concept of …

: Link: Survey: people want tech more regulated “A majority of Americans are now concerned that the government won’t do enough to regulate how …

: Link: Survey: people want tech more regulated “A majority of Americans are now concerned that the government won’t do enough to regulate how …

: Link: Survey: people want tech more regulated “A majority of Americans are now concerned that the government won’t do enough to regulate how …

: Link: Why is Everything a "Platform"? Manage IT as a product, not a project, and things will go better: “we are finding the concepts of …

: Link: Why is Everything a "Platform"? Manage IT as a product, not a project, and things will go better: “we are finding the concepts of …

: Link: Why is Everything a "Platform"? Manage IT as a product, not a project, and things will go better: “we are finding the concepts of …

: Link: Worldwide SMB IT Spending to Pass $600 Billion in 2018, Driven by Mid-Market Demand for Software and Services, According to IDC For companies under 1,000 people, IDC “forecasts total IT spending by small and medium-size …

: Link: Worldwide SMB IT Spending to Pass $600 Billion in 2018, Driven by Mid-Market Demand for Software and Services, According to IDC For companies under 1,000 people, IDC “forecasts total IT spending by small and medium-size …

: Link: Worldwide SMB IT Spending to Pass $600 Billion in 2018, Driven by Mid-Market Demand for Software and Services, According to IDC For companies under 1,000 people, IDC “forecasts total IT spending by small and medium-size …

: Link: Your Omnichannel Roadmap It’s got a quadrant chart. Original source: Your Omnichannel Roadmap

: Link: Your Omnichannel Roadmap It’s got a quadrant chart. Original source: Your Omnichannel Roadmap

: Link: Your Omnichannel Roadmap It’s got a quadrant chart. Original source: Your Omnichannel Roadmap

: Link: Java EE Becomes Jakarta EE “In addition Jakarta EE naturally shortens to “JEE” (or even “EE”) and jakarta.servlet.http looks …

: Link: Java EE Becomes Jakarta EE “In addition Jakarta EE naturally shortens to “JEE” (or even “EE”) and jakarta.servlet.http looks …

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: Link: The Hidden Costs of Cloud Adoption Despite it being aw some, you still have to pay for public cloud, and it’s pay as you go: …

: Link: The Hidden Costs of Cloud Adoption Despite it being aw some, you still have to pay for public cloud, and it’s pay as you go: …

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: Link: VMware’s Roadmap, Hybrid, Is the Future Revenue mix (estimates?) for VMware. Original source: VMware’s Roadmap, Hybrid, Is the Future

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: Link: Why men need more consideration in the women in tech debate Having to watch the kids is a big problem For gender imbalance in the workforce. Maybe dads can step …

: Link: Why men need more consideration in the women in tech debate Having to watch the kids is a big problem For gender imbalance in the workforce. Maybe dads can step …

: Link: Will 2018 be the year of the neo-luddite? ‘More significantly, the whole of society seems to have woken up to the fact there is a …

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: Link: Yes, DevOps is all about business growth, especially the digital variety Vendor survey, but whatever: “A survey of 1,300 executives just released by CA Technologies and …

: Link: Yes, DevOps is all about business growth, especially the digital variety Vendor survey, but whatever: “A survey of 1,300 executives just released by CA Technologies and …

: Link: Yes, DevOps is all about business growth, especially the digital variety Vendor survey, but whatever: “A survey of 1,300 executives just released by CA Technologies and …

: Link: Foreign-Born Engineers Dominate Bay Area Tech Jobs “Nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valley women who work in computer, mathematical, architectural, …

: Link: Foreign-Born Engineers Dominate Bay Area Tech Jobs “Nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valley women who work in computer, mathematical, architectural, …

: Link: Foreign-Born Engineers Dominate Bay Area Tech Jobs “Nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valley women who work in computer, mathematical, architectural, …

: Link: The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech “[W]e shouldn’t have to depend on journalism to do the tedious, serious work of understanding the …

: Link: The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech “[W]e shouldn’t have to depend on journalism to do the tedious, serious work of understanding the …

: Link: The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech “[W]e shouldn’t have to depend on journalism to do the tedious, serious work of understanding the …

: Link: The Kubernetes Lesson “In modern software development organizations, however, what gets used in development and testing …

: Link: The Kubernetes Lesson “In modern software development organizations, however, what gets used in development and testing …

: Link: The Kubernetes Lesson “In modern software development organizations, however, what gets used in development and testing …

: Link: Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups Original source: Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups

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: Link: Working remotely, 4 years in Yup, this is the thing: “I think this is actually a really important point to understand about …

: Link: Working remotely, 4 years in Yup, this is the thing: “I think this is actually a really important point to understand about …

: Link: Working remotely, 4 years in Yup, this is the thing: “I think this is actually a really important point to understand about …

: Link: Trump’s Tariff Plan Leaves Blue-Collar Winners and Losers “The mills and smelters that supply the raw material, and that would directly benefit from the …

: Link: Trump’s Tariff Plan Leaves Blue-Collar Winners and Losers “The mills and smelters that supply the raw material, and that would directly benefit from the …

: Link: Trump’s Tariff Plan Leaves Blue-Collar Winners and Losers “The mills and smelters that supply the raw material, and that would directly benefit from the …

: Link: How Tech Companies Became a Political Force “When tech leaders prophesy a utopia of connectedness and freely flowing information, they do so as …

: Link: How Tech Companies Became a Political Force “When tech leaders prophesy a utopia of connectedness and freely flowing information, they do so as …

: Link: How Tech Companies Became a Political Force “When tech leaders prophesy a utopia of connectedness and freely flowing information, they do so as …

: Link: OpenStack 'Queens' struts into the spotlight Original source: OpenStack 'Queens' struts into the spotlight

: Link: OpenStack 'Queens' struts into the spotlight Original source: OpenStack 'Queens' struts into the spotlight

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: Link: OpenStack Queens expands support for software containers and virtual graphics chips GPU, containers, kubernetes, and edge stuff. Original source: OpenStack Queens expands support for …

: Link: OpenStack Queens expands support for software containers and virtual graphics chips GPU, containers, kubernetes, and edge stuff. Original source: OpenStack Queens expands support for …

: Link: OpenStack Queens expands support for software containers and virtual graphics chips GPU, containers, kubernetes, and edge stuff. Original source: OpenStack Queens expands support for …

: Link: Ordering from voice tubes “Purchases made through devices such as Google Home and Amazon’s Echo are projected to …

: Link: Ordering from voice tubes “Purchases made through devices such as Google Home and Amazon’s Echo are projected to …

: Link: Ordering from voice tubes “Purchases made through devices such as Google Home and Amazon’s Echo are projected to …

: Link: Federal Reserve chair says ‘Amazon effect’ could be responsible for low inflation ‘The “Amazon effect” refers to the decline in traditional retail employment despite expansion in the …

: Link: Federal Reserve chair says ‘Amazon effect’ could be responsible for low inflation ‘The “Amazon effect” refers to the decline in traditional retail employment despite expansion in the …

: Link: Federal Reserve chair says ‘Amazon effect’ could be responsible for low inflation ‘The “Amazon effect” refers to the decline in traditional retail employment despite expansion in the …

: Link: The Server Market Booms, And It Could Last For A While “Datacenters certainly came to the fourth quarter of last year hungry, and according to the latest …

: Link: The Server Market Booms, And It Could Last For A While “Datacenters certainly came to the fourth quarter of last year hungry, and according to the latest …

: Link: The Server Market Booms, And It Could Last For A While “Datacenters certainly came to the fourth quarter of last year hungry, and according to the latest …

: Link: VMware might just have cracked the container market with NSX “But perhaps the most significant news was that VMware has started to see customers buy its NSX …

: Link: VMware might just have cracked the container market with NSX “But perhaps the most significant news was that VMware has started to see customers buy its NSX …

: Link: VMware might just have cracked the container market with NSX “But perhaps the most significant news was that VMware has started to see customers buy its NSX …

: Link: Microservices: It’s All About the Events ‘The traditional server request/response model for computing comes from an imperative programming …

: Link: Microservices: It’s All About the Events ‘The traditional server request/response model for computing comes from an imperative programming …

: Link: Microservices: It’s All About the Events ‘The traditional server request/response model for computing comes from an imperative programming …

: Link: PKS: The answer for “everything else” in your data center “PKS will provide a comfortable environment to run freshly containerized legacy workloads and …

: Link: PKS: The answer for “everything else” in your data center “PKS will provide a comfortable environment to run freshly containerized legacy workloads and …

: Link: PKS: The answer for “everything else” in your data center “PKS will provide a comfortable environment to run freshly containerized legacy workloads and …

: Link: The History of the Service Mesh Gotta find and manage all that middleware. Original source: The History of the Service Mesh

: Link: The History of the Service Mesh Gotta find and manage all that middleware. Original source: The History of the Service Mesh

: Link: The History of the Service Mesh Gotta find and manage all that middleware. Original source: The History of the Service Mesh

: Link: The New HPE Sheriff Lays Down The Hybrid IT Law “The larger problem, as we have pointed out before, is that it is very difficult to make a buck in …

: Link: The New HPE Sheriff Lays Down The Hybrid IT Law “The larger problem, as we have pointed out before, is that it is very difficult to make a buck in …

: Link: The New HPE Sheriff Lays Down The Hybrid IT Law “The larger problem, as we have pointed out before, is that it is very difficult to make a buck in …

: Link: The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? “I had experienced being judged as a mother, when I periodically left my son with my husband from …

: Link: The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? “I had experienced being judged as a mother, when I periodically left my son with my husband from …

: Link: The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? “I had experienced being judged as a mother, when I periodically left my son with my husband from …

: Link: Warren Buffett reveals more details about healthcare venture with JPMorgan and Amazon “We have got a huge, competitive disadvantage in American businesses, far more important than any …

: Link: Warren Buffett reveals more details about healthcare venture with JPMorgan and Amazon “We have got a huge, competitive disadvantage in American businesses, far more important than any …

: Link: Warren Buffett reveals more details about healthcare venture with JPMorgan and Amazon “We have got a huge, competitive disadvantage in American businesses, far more important than any …

: Link: Dropbox S-1 Analysis - The King of Freemium “Founded in 2007, Dropbox epitomizes the freemium go-to-market. Dropbox has grown from 0 to 500 …

: Link: Dropbox S-1 Analysis - The King of Freemium “Founded in 2007, Dropbox epitomizes the freemium go-to-market. Dropbox has grown from 0 to 500 …

: Link: Dropbox S-1 Analysis - The King of Freemium “Founded in 2007, Dropbox epitomizes the freemium go-to-market. Dropbox has grown from 0 to 500 …

: Link: Why Are We Still Talking About the 'Millennial Problem' in the Workfor “All the ‘demands’ millennials have that people think are so outrageous are things everyone …

: Link: Why Are We Still Talking About the 'Millennial Problem' in the Workfor “All the ‘demands’ millennials have that people think are so outrageous are things everyone …

: Link: Why Are We Still Talking About the 'Millennial Problem' in the Workfor “All the ‘demands’ millennials have that people think are so outrageous are things everyone …

: Link: Your favourite article on The Register, and what that says about technology and the media Original source: Your favourite article on The Register, and what that says about technology and …

: Link: Your favourite article on The Register, and what that says about technology and the media Original source: Your favourite article on The Register, and what that says about technology and …

: Link: Your favourite article on The Register, and what that says about technology and the media Original source: Your favourite article on The Register, and what that says about technology and …

: Link: Dropbox IPO and financials “Dropbox made $1.106 billion in revenue in the year ending in December, and lost $111.7 million on a …

: Link: Dropbox IPO and financials “Dropbox made $1.106 billion in revenue in the year ending in December, and lost $111.7 million on a …

: Link: Dropbox IPO and financials “Dropbox made $1.106 billion in revenue in the year ending in December, and lost $111.7 million on a …

: Link: Why isn't digital fixing the productivity puzzle? “In addition, stagnant wages had implications for limiting demand growth. In our sector …

: Link: Why isn't digital fixing the productivity puzzle? “In addition, stagnant wages had implications for limiting demand growth. In our sector …

: Link: Why isn't digital fixing the productivity puzzle? “In addition, stagnant wages had implications for limiting demand growth. In our sector …

: Link: Dell EMC's Chad Sakac Takes New Role At Pivotal Software To Align Dell's Cloud, Software, Hardware - Page: 1 | CRN “The job is simple – helping make our aligned Dell Technologies developer platform come …

: Link: Dell EMC's Chad Sakac Takes New Role At Pivotal Software To Align Dell's Cloud, Software, Hardware - Page: 1 | CRN “The job is simple – helping make our aligned Dell Technologies developer platform come …

: Link: Dell EMC's Chad Sakac Takes New Role At Pivotal Software To Align Dell's Cloud, Software, Hardware - Page: 1 | CRN “The job is simple – helping make our aligned Dell Technologies developer platform come …

: Link: How technology is designed to bring out the worst in us Don’t let the computers control you. Also, Silicon Valley’s obsession with mindfulness. Original …

: Link: How technology is designed to bring out the worst in us Don’t let the computers control you. Also, Silicon Valley’s obsession with mindfulness. Original …

: Link: How technology is designed to bring out the worst in us Don’t let the computers control you. Also, Silicon Valley’s obsession with mindfulness. Original …

: Link: 'Amazon-proof' Home Depot builds on its DIY digital foundations “Versus prior year, our online sales grew 21% in the fourth quarter and 21.5% in fiscal 2017, now …

: Link: 'Amazon-proof' Home Depot builds on its DIY digital foundations “Versus prior year, our online sales grew 21% in the fourth quarter and 21.5% in fiscal 2017, now …

: Link: 'Amazon-proof' Home Depot builds on its DIY digital foundations “Versus prior year, our online sales grew 21% in the fourth quarter and 21.5% in fiscal 2017, now …

: Link: The gender wage gap is really a child care penalty “In Denmark, childbearing creates a 20 percent gender wage gap.” Original source: The gender wage …

: Link: The gender wage gap is really a child care penalty “In Denmark, childbearing creates a 20 percent gender wage gap.” Original source: The gender wage …

: Link: The gender wage gap is really a child care penalty “In Denmark, childbearing creates a 20 percent gender wage gap.” Original source: The gender wage …

: Link: Brexit could see UK lose status as global business leader “The study also suggests that software might be the solution to these upcoming problems. Almost all …

: Link: Brexit could see UK lose status as global business leader “The study also suggests that software might be the solution to these upcoming problems. Almost all …

: Link: Brexit could see UK lose status as global business leader “The study also suggests that software might be the solution to these upcoming problems. Almost all …

: Link: Design for Regulatory Approval as Carefully as You Design Your Automation - Keith Rodwell Original source: Design for Regulatory Approval as Carefully as You Design Your Automation - Keith …

: Link: Design for Regulatory Approval as Carefully as You Design Your Automation - Keith Rodwell Original source: Design for Regulatory Approval as Carefully as You Design Your Automation - Keith …

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: Link: This idea I had about the Shitty Media Men List, but on the blockchain, a.k.a. the Razor of Shit Original source: This idea I had about the Shitty Media Men List, but on the blockchain, a.k.a. the …

: Link: Will UK lose global business and tech leader status post-Brexit? ‘James Governor, Analyst at RedMonk said: “Brexit will be the biggest systemic shock to British …

: Link: Will UK lose global business and tech leader status post-Brexit? ‘James Governor, Analyst at RedMonk said: “Brexit will be the biggest systemic shock to British …

: Link: Will UK lose global business and tech leader status post-Brexit? ‘James Governor, Analyst at RedMonk said: “Brexit will be the biggest systemic shock to British …

: Link: The cost of reporting while female ‘Priddy’s particular safety is also a matter of local specificity: Most residents think she’s on …

: Link: The cost of reporting while female ‘Priddy’s particular safety is also a matter of local specificity: Most residents think she’s on …

: Link: 9 rules of design research “Only after you have a goal will you know what you need to know. And you have to know your question …

: Link: 9 rules of design research “Only after you have a goal will you know what you need to know. And you have to know your question …

: Link: 9 rules of design research “Only after you have a goal will you know what you need to know. And you have to know your question …

: Link: Almost half of CIOs plan to deploy artificial intelligence enterprise solutions | ZDNet “According to the CIO agenda survey, four percent of CIOs have already implemented AI in some …

: Link: Almost half of CIOs plan to deploy artificial intelligence enterprise solutions | ZDNet “According to the CIO agenda survey, four percent of CIOs have already implemented AI in some …

: Link: Almost half of CIOs plan to deploy artificial intelligence enterprise solutions | ZDNet “According to the CIO agenda survey, four percent of CIOs have already implemented AI in some …

: Link: Gartner Survey Shows Why Projects Fail Original source: Gartner Survey Shows Why Projects Fail

: Link: Gartner Survey Shows Why Projects Fail Original source: Gartner Survey Shows Why Projects Fail

: Link: Gartner Survey Shows Why Projects Fail Original source: Gartner Survey Shows Why Projects Fail

: Link: Heptio readies its customers and community for Kubernetes critical mass Includes some packaging/pricing: “HKS is offered in four tiers including Starter, with one supported …

: Link: Heptio readies its customers and community for Kubernetes critical mass Includes some packaging/pricing: “HKS is offered in four tiers including Starter, with one supported …

: Link: Heptio readies its customers and community for Kubernetes critical mass Includes some packaging/pricing: “HKS is offered in four tiers including Starter, with one supported …

: Link: The dangers of faith in data “Faith in data grows in relation to your distance from the collection of it.” And other traps of …

: Link: The dangers of faith in data “Faith in data grows in relation to your distance from the collection of it.” And other traps of …

: Link: The dangers of faith in data “Faith in data grows in relation to your distance from the collection of it.” And other traps of …

: Link: The State of the Cloud Industry in 2018 “We believe good companies grow from $1 million to $10 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in …

: Link: The State of the Cloud Industry in 2018 “We believe good companies grow from $1 million to $10 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in …

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: Link: Vivisectionary by Kate Lacour | Study Group Comic Books Weird, fun drawings. Original source: Vivisectionary by Kate Lacour | Study Group Comic Books

: Link: Vivisectionary by Kate Lacour | Study Group Comic Books Weird, fun drawings. Original source: Vivisectionary by Kate Lacour | Study Group Comic Books

: Link: Nietzsche on Depression and the Rehabilitation of Hope ‘“The gray drizzle induced by depression,” William Styron wrote in his classic memoir of what …

: Link: Nietzsche on Depression and the Rehabilitation of Hope ‘“The gray drizzle induced by depression,” William Styron wrote in his classic memoir of what …

: Link: Oracle expands its autonomous technology across its cloud platform “In a nutshell, Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform will aim to automate patching, tuning and even data …

: Link: Oracle expands its autonomous technology across its cloud platform “In a nutshell, Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform will aim to automate patching, tuning and even data …

: Link: Oracle expands its autonomous technology across its cloud platform “In a nutshell, Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform will aim to automate patching, tuning and even data …

: Link: The great experiment I don’t really understand much of this, as usual, but it’s one of the rare economic pieces that I …

: Link: The great experiment I don’t really understand much of this, as usual, but it’s one of the rare economic pieces that I …

: Link: The great experiment I don’t really understand much of this, as usual, but it’s one of the rare economic pieces that I …

: Link: Don't dream big when taking on industrial or enterprise IoT Stacey says that, even with IoT projects, starting small is good to prove long term ROI. She also …

: Link: Don't dream big when taking on industrial or enterprise IoT Stacey says that, even with IoT projects, starting small is good to prove long term ROI. She also …

: Link: Don't dream big when taking on industrial or enterprise IoT Stacey says that, even with IoT projects, starting small is good to prove long term ROI. She also …

: Link: Largest insurers plan biggest IT budget increases “Thirty-six percent of those reported premium over $1 billion per year; those companies also …

: Link: Largest insurers plan biggest IT budget increases “Thirty-six percent of those reported premium over $1 billion per year; those companies also …

: Link: Largest insurers plan biggest IT budget increases “Thirty-six percent of those reported premium over $1 billion per year; those companies also …

: Link: Cisco says virtually all data center workloads will be based in the cloud by 2021 Vendor report, but fun numbers: “One of the main drivers fueling this race to the cloud is the …

: Link: Cisco says virtually all data center workloads will be based in the cloud by 2021 Vendor report, but fun numbers: “One of the main drivers fueling this race to the cloud is the …

: Link: Cisco says virtually all data center workloads will be based in the cloud by 2021 Vendor report, but fun numbers: “One of the main drivers fueling this race to the cloud is the …

: Link: Gin Sling, Recipe and History ‘Gin sling. What a suggestive cocktail name. If it evokes the image of tossing back a drink, …

: Link: Gin Sling, Recipe and History ‘Gin sling. What a suggestive cocktail name. If it evokes the image of tossing back a drink, …

: Link: Gin Sling, Recipe and History ‘Gin sling. What a suggestive cocktail name. If it evokes the image of tossing back a drink, …

: Link: How dating sites spy on you “Dating app users provide sensitive information like drug usage habits and sexual preferences …

: Link: How dating sites spy on you “Dating app users provide sensitive information like drug usage habits and sexual preferences …

: Link: Look at stupid, sexy Kubernetes with all the cloud firms hanging off its musclebound arms “I think that a lot of companies find themselves using Kubernetes because it’s going to …

: Link: Look at stupid, sexy Kubernetes with all the cloud firms hanging off its musclebound arms “I think that a lot of companies find themselves using Kubernetes because it’s going to …

: Link: Look at stupid, sexy Kubernetes with all the cloud firms hanging off its musclebound arms “I think that a lot of companies find themselves using Kubernetes because it’s going to …

: Link: New Relic CEO Lew Cirne - "Digital is the new front door" for business “For its third quarter non-GAAP operating income was $2.7 million compared to an operating loss of …

: Link: New Relic CEO Lew Cirne - "Digital is the new front door" for business “For its third quarter non-GAAP operating income was $2.7 million compared to an operating loss of …

: Link: New Relic CEO Lew Cirne - "Digital is the new front door" for business “For its third quarter non-GAAP operating income was $2.7 million compared to an operating loss of …

: Link: Books on design Recommend by Pivotal’s design practice lead. Original source: Books on design

: Link: Books on design Recommend by Pivotal’s design practice lead. Original source: Books on design

: Link: Books on design Recommend by Pivotal’s design practice lead. Original source: Books on design

: Link: Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics Still waiting for BI👉analytics👉big data👉AI/ML to hit the big time: “The global survey asked …

: Link: Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics Still waiting for BI👉analytics👉big data👉AI/ML to hit the big time: “The global survey asked …

: Link: Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics Still waiting for BI👉analytics👉big data👉AI/ML to hit the big time: “The global survey asked …

: Link: Internet usage among the kids ‘Forty percent of children ages 0-8 have their own tablet device, up from less than 1% in 2011, …

: Link: Internet usage among the kids ‘Forty percent of children ages 0-8 have their own tablet device, up from less than 1% in 2011, …

: Link: Internet usage among the kids ‘Forty percent of children ages 0-8 have their own tablet device, up from less than 1% in 2011, …

: Link: The rise and fall of 18F “By most metrics, 18F is withering away.” Original source: The rise and fall of 18F

: Link: The rise and fall of 18F “By most metrics, 18F is withering away.” Original source: The rise and fall of 18F

: Link: The rise and fall of 18F “By most metrics, 18F is withering away.” Original source: The rise and fall of 18F

: Link: Docker Who? By Acquiring CoreOS, Red Hat Aims to Be the Kubernetes Company “So while this deal clearly changes the playing field for Kubernetes in the developer space, and …

: Link: Docker Who? By Acquiring CoreOS, Red Hat Aims to Be the Kubernetes Company “So while this deal clearly changes the playing field for Kubernetes in the developer space, and …

: Link: Docker Who? By Acquiring CoreOS, Red Hat Aims to Be the Kubernetes Company “So while this deal clearly changes the playing field for Kubernetes in the developer space, and …

: Link: Is Microsoft Azure really making up ground on AWS? In terms of raw figures, not growth, Azure is still a way behind. Even a generous assumption of …

: Link: Is Microsoft Azure really making up ground on AWS? In terms of raw figures, not growth, Azure is still a way behind. Even a generous assumption of …

: Link: Is Microsoft Azure really making up ground on AWS? In terms of raw figures, not growth, Azure is still a way behind. Even a generous assumption of …

: Link: Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring – Adron Hall “key in understanding the difference in monitoring — the combing of data to determine the state or …

: Link: Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring – Adron Hall “key in understanding the difference in monitoring — the combing of data to determine the state or …

: Link: Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring – Adron Hall “key in understanding the difference in monitoring — the combing of data to determine the state or …

: Link: Women Once Ruled Computers. When Did the Valley Become Brotopia? “There is another story to tell: that Google’s success had at least as much to do with women like …

: Link: Women Once Ruled Computers. When Did the Valley Become Brotopia? “There is another story to tell: that Google’s success had at least as much to do with women like …

: Link: Women Once Ruled Computers. When Did the Valley Become Brotopia? “There is another story to tell: that Google’s success had at least as much to do with women like …

: Link: ​Open source is 20: How it changed programming and business forever “I look at ‘closed source’ as a blip in time. Original source: ​Open source is 20: …

: Link: ​Open source is 20: How it changed programming and business forever “I look at ‘closed source’ as a blip in time. Original source: ​Open source is 20: …

: Link: ​Open source is 20: How it changed programming and business forever “I look at ‘closed source’ as a blip in time. Original source: ​Open source is 20: …

: Link: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Try to Disrupt Health Care Good example of lots of context for a story. Original source: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and …

: Link: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Try to Disrupt Health Care Good example of lots of context for a story. Original source: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and …

: Link: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Try to Disrupt Health Care Good example of lots of context for a story. Original source: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and …

: Link: The big tech backlash | Technology | The Guardian Original source: The big tech backlash | Technology | The Guardian

: Link: The big tech backlash | Technology | The Guardian Original source: The big tech backlash | Technology | The Guardian

: Link: The big tech backlash | Technology | The Guardian Original source: The big tech backlash | Technology | The Guardian

: Rule 1: Don’t go to meetings. Rule 2: See rule 1 Coffee is for coders. Whether you’re doing waterfall, DevOps, PRINCE, SAFe, PMBOK, ITIL, or whatever …

: Link: 5 Ways Red Hat's Acquisition Of CoreOS Will Shake Up The Container Tech Landscape | CRN Mobile Love those CRN 500 word stories spread over six pages. Original source: 5 Ways Red Hat’s …

: Link: 5 Ways Red Hat's Acquisition Of CoreOS Will Shake Up The Container Tech Landscape | CRN Mobile Love those CRN 500 word stories spread over six pages. Original source: 5 Ways Red Hat’s …

: Link: 5 Ways Red Hat's Acquisition Of CoreOS Will Shake Up The Container Tech Landscape | CRN Mobile Love those CRN 500 word stories spread over six pages. Original source: 5 Ways Red Hat’s …

: Link: Microsoft results show a distributed computing future “The company reported 98% Azure revenue growth this quarter and commercial cloud revenue growth of …

: Link: Microsoft results show a distributed computing future “The company reported 98% Azure revenue growth this quarter and commercial cloud revenue growth of …

: Link: Microsoft results show a distributed computing future “The company reported 98% Azure revenue growth this quarter and commercial cloud revenue growth of …

: Link: Red Hat tries CoreOS on for size – and buys ‘The elder open source software biz sees the younger firm’s technology helping it automate and …

: Link: Red Hat tries CoreOS on for size – and buys ‘The elder open source software biz sees the younger firm’s technology helping it automate and …

: Link: Red Hat tries CoreOS on for size – and buys ‘The elder open source software biz sees the younger firm’s technology helping it automate and …

: Link: Strong financial results from Microsoft as it aims for breadth of services “strong results such as these show how the company can succeed by continuing to migrate its business …

: Link: Strong financial results from Microsoft as it aims for breadth of services “strong results such as these show how the company can succeed by continuing to migrate its business …

: Link: Strong financial results from Microsoft as it aims for breadth of services “strong results such as these show how the company can succeed by continuing to migrate its business …

: Link: AI Is Not the End of Software Developers Some ideas of what ML could do to help coders. Original source: AI Is Not the End of Software …

: Link: AI Is Not the End of Software Developers Some ideas of what ML could do to help coders. Original source: AI Is Not the End of Software …

: Link: AI Is Not the End of Software Developers Some ideas of what ML could do to help coders. Original source: AI Is Not the End of Software …

: Link: America's bias against working moms comes down to one question: Do you value your female employees or not? Based on a 2013 survey, but still, fucked up: “According to Pew, some 40% of Americans believe it is …

: Link: America's bias against working moms comes down to one question: Do you value your female employees or not? Based on a 2013 survey, but still, fucked up: “According to Pew, some 40% of Americans believe it is …

: Link: Bazaarvoice acquisition gets shareholder approval “Bazaarvoice’s board agreed in November to be acquired by Marlin Equity Partners in a …

: Link: Bazaarvoice acquisition gets shareholder approval “Bazaarvoice’s board agreed in November to be acquired by Marlin Equity Partners in a …

: Link: Bazaarvoice acquisition gets shareholder approval “Bazaarvoice’s board agreed in November to be acquired by Marlin Equity Partners in a …

: Link: Cisco jumps on the Kubernetes bandwagon with its new Container Platform “The company said the Container Platform takes care of the “setup, orchestration, authentication, …

: Link: Cisco jumps on the Kubernetes bandwagon with its new Container Platform “The company said the Container Platform takes care of the “setup, orchestration, authentication, …

: Link: Cisco jumps on the Kubernetes bandwagon with its new Container Platform “The company said the Container Platform takes care of the “setup, orchestration, authentication, …

: Link: DevOps, Software-Defined Infrastructure, and the CMDB’s Perception Problem “Unfortunately, the ITSM community often seems to suffer from a collective lack of awareness and …

: Link: DevOps, Software-Defined Infrastructure, and the CMDB’s Perception Problem “Unfortunately, the ITSM community often seems to suffer from a collective lack of awareness and …

: Link: DevOps, Software-Defined Infrastructure, and the CMDB’s Perception Problem “Unfortunately, the ITSM community often seems to suffer from a collective lack of awareness and …

: Link: GDPR requests to take thousands of hours a month, says survey “Large enterprises expect to get an average 246 GDPR enquiries per month, for which they will need …

: Link: GDPR requests to take thousands of hours a month, says survey “Large enterprises expect to get an average 246 GDPR enquiries per month, for which they will need …

: Link: GDPR requests to take thousands of hours a month, says survey “Large enterprises expect to get an average 246 GDPR enquiries per month, for which they will need …

: Link: ICE to begin tracking vehicle license plates Original source: ICE to begin tracking vehicle license plates

: Link: ICE to begin tracking vehicle license plates Original source: ICE to begin tracking vehicle license plates

: Link: ICE to begin tracking vehicle license plates Original source: ICE to begin tracking vehicle license plates

: Link: Key metrics for RabbitMQ monitoring Instructive look at monitoring middleware, metrics and explanation of why you’d do it. Original …

: Link: Key metrics for RabbitMQ monitoring Instructive look at monitoring middleware, metrics and explanation of why you’d do it. Original …

: Link: Key metrics for RabbitMQ monitoring Instructive look at monitoring middleware, metrics and explanation of why you’d do it. Original …

: Cloud Native Works in Government — the IRS, US Air Force, and contractors “We have already slashed the time needed to implement new ideas by 70 percent while avoiding …

: Link: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan form health care mega-company ‘There aren’t many, but the announcement says this new entity focuses on “technology solutions …

: Link: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan form health care mega-company ‘There aren’t many, but the announcement says this new entity focuses on “technology solutions …

: Link: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan form health care mega-company ‘There aren’t many, but the announcement says this new entity focuses on “technology solutions …

: Link: Appian survey: Big obstacles to digital transformation Vendor survey done with 463 respondants over on DevOps.com, good news topics: “A lack of IT …

: Link: Appian survey: Big obstacles to digital transformation Vendor survey done with 463 respondants over on DevOps.com, good news topics: “A lack of IT …

: Link: Appian survey: Big obstacles to digital transformation Vendor survey done with 463 respondants over on DevOps.com, good news topics: “A lack of IT …

: Link: Apple Pay accepted at 1 out of 2 U.S. stores, says Apple VP Jennifer Bailey “Apple Pay availability was limited to about 3 percent of stores in the U.S. when it launched in …

: Link: Apple Pay accepted at 1 out of 2 U.S. stores, says Apple VP Jennifer Bailey “Apple Pay availability was limited to about 3 percent of stores in the U.S. when it launched in …

: Link: Apple Pay accepted at 1 out of 2 U.S. stores, says Apple VP Jennifer Bailey “Apple Pay availability was limited to about 3 percent of stores in the U.S. when it launched in …

: Link: Google takes $1.1bn chomp out of HTC, smacks lips, burps Google still looking to crack into hardware. Maybe getting a clutch of regular, steady performers …

: Link: Google takes $1.1bn chomp out of HTC, smacks lips, burps Google still looking to crack into hardware. Maybe getting a clutch of regular, steady performers …

: Link: Google takes $1.1bn chomp out of HTC, smacks lips, burps Google still looking to crack into hardware. Maybe getting a clutch of regular, steady performers …

: Link: IoT and the end of business as usual “if today’s business leaders want to use their influence to promote this society they are so …

: Link: IoT and the end of business as usual “if today’s business leaders want to use their influence to promote this society they are so …

: Link: IoT and the end of business as usual “if today’s business leaders want to use their influence to promote this society they are so …

: Link: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS, Expanding its Kubernetes and Containers Leadership Price of $250m - “an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions.” Original …

: Link: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS, Expanding its Kubernetes and Containers Leadership Price of $250m - “an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions.” Original …

: Link: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS, Expanding its Kubernetes and Containers Leadership Price of $250m - “an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions.” Original …

: Link: Start a nuclear war? There's an app for that - US military teams up with Silicon Valley to revolutionise the battlefield ‘And they ended up saving $1million in fuel per week - but more importantly speeding up …

: Link: Start a nuclear war? There's an app for that - US military teams up with Silicon Valley to revolutionise the battlefield ‘And they ended up saving $1million in fuel per week - but more importantly speeding up …

: Link: Start a nuclear war? There's an app for that - US military teams up with Silicon Valley to revolutionise the battlefield ‘And they ended up saving $1million in fuel per week - but more importantly speeding up …

: Link: The path to self-sovereign digital identity starts with blockchain “We don’t think that blockchain is the universal solution to the identity problem; …

: Link: The path to self-sovereign digital identity starts with blockchain “We don’t think that blockchain is the universal solution to the identity problem; …

: Link: The path to self-sovereign digital identity starts with blockchain “We don’t think that blockchain is the universal solution to the identity problem; …

: Link: Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They'd Be - WIRED Early excitement around what Apple’s podcast analytics is saying about podcast listeners: “At …

: Link: Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They'd Be - WIRED Early excitement around what Apple’s podcast analytics is saying about podcast listeners: “At …

: Link: Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They'd Be - WIRED Early excitement around what Apple’s podcast analytics is saying about podcast listeners: “At …

: Link: The era of the cloud’s total dominance is drawing to a close - Life on the edge A bit of an over-statement. What they want to say is “lots of new computing from IoT and …

: Link: The era of the cloud’s total dominance is drawing to a close - Life on the edge A bit of an over-statement. What they want to say is “lots of new computing from IoT and …

: Link: The era of the cloud’s total dominance is drawing to a close - Life on the edge A bit of an over-statement. What they want to say is “lots of new computing from IoT and …

: Link: Considering “Digital Transformation” “That’s why agile methodologies such as DevOps are so important, not in themselves (yes, that would …

: Link: Considering “Digital Transformation” “That’s why agile methodologies such as DevOps are so important, not in themselves (yes, that would …

: Link: Considering “Digital Transformation” “That’s why agile methodologies such as DevOps are so important, not in themselves (yes, that would …

: Link: Dell EMC Restructures Infrastructure Organizations To 'Streamline' Product Road Maps, Speed Go-To-Market “In a major initiative to streamline Dell EMC’s infrastructure product road maps and …

: Link: Dell EMC Restructures Infrastructure Organizations To 'Streamline' Product Road Maps, Speed Go-To-Market “In a major initiative to streamline Dell EMC’s infrastructure product road maps and …

: Link: Dell EMC Restructures Infrastructure Organizations To 'Streamline' Product Road Maps, Speed Go-To-Market “In a major initiative to streamline Dell EMC’s infrastructure product road maps and …

: Link: Meet Kate Garman, Seattle’s smart cities coordinator, tasked with making the city more efficient Examples of what a city would do with IoT: “The private sector has pushed cities in a lot of ways,” …

: Link: Meet Kate Garman, Seattle’s smart cities coordinator, tasked with making the city more efficient Examples of what a city would do with IoT: “The private sector has pushed cities in a lot of ways,” …

: Link: Meet Kate Garman, Seattle’s smart cities coordinator, tasked with making the city more efficient Examples of what a city would do with IoT: “The private sector has pushed cities in a lot of ways,” …

: Link: Uber, Lyft & the roads of hell “I can live without Facebook. I can mange without Google, but given my inability to (and more …

: Link: Uber, Lyft & the roads of hell “I can live without Facebook. I can mange without Google, but given my inability to (and more …

: Link: Uber, Lyft & the roads of hell “I can live without Facebook. I can mange without Google, but given my inability to (and more …

: Building trust with internal marketing, large and small Most companies don’t realize the amount of work required to fully transform their approach to …

: Link: Pivotal: innovative partnership saves big on US Air Force fuel costs “The tanker refuelling system software for the air force – which runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry – was …

: Link: Pivotal: innovative partnership saves big on US Air Force fuel costs “The tanker refuelling system software for the air force – which runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry – was …

: Link: Pivotal: innovative partnership saves big on US Air Force fuel costs “The tanker refuelling system software for the air force – which runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry – was …

: Link: Should that be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind Also, a long section on matching your culture to the stuff. Original source: Should that be a …

: Link: Should that be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind Also, a long section on matching your culture to the stuff. Original source: Should that be a …

: Link: Should that be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind Also, a long section on matching your culture to the stuff. Original source: Should that be a …

: Link: The Cost Center Trap - LeanEssays “Accounting drives metrics. Metrics drive culture. Culture eats process for lunch.” Don’t let …

: Link: The Cost Center Trap - LeanEssays “Accounting drives metrics. Metrics drive culture. Culture eats process for lunch.” Don’t let …

: Link: The Cost Center Trap - LeanEssays “Accounting drives metrics. Metrics drive culture. Culture eats process for lunch.” Don’t let …

: Link: The Majority of Top Performing IPOs Were Never Unicorns | Jeff Richards | Pulse | LinkedIn “Given the data we shared at the beginning of this post – 75% of the top 20 performing IPOs from the …

: Link: The Majority of Top Performing IPOs Were Never Unicorns | Jeff Richards | Pulse | LinkedIn “Given the data we shared at the beginning of this post – 75% of the top 20 performing IPOs from the …

: Link: The Majority of Top Performing IPOs Were Never Unicorns | Jeff Richards | Pulse | LinkedIn “Given the data we shared at the beginning of this post – 75% of the top 20 performing IPOs from the …

: Link: VMware and Pivotal’s PKS Distribution Marries Kubernetes with BOSH “When we look at differentiators, I would say that there are a few and NSX-T, which provides …

: Link: VMware and Pivotal’s PKS Distribution Marries Kubernetes with BOSH “When we look at differentiators, I would say that there are a few and NSX-T, which provides …

: Link: VMware and Pivotal’s PKS Distribution Marries Kubernetes with BOSH “When we look at differentiators, I would say that there are a few and NSX-T, which provides …

: Link: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower Automate all the DevOps. Original source: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — …

: Link: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower Automate all the DevOps. Original source: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — …

: Link: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower Automate all the DevOps. Original source: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — …

: Link: Apple bringing medical records to iPhone, Apple Watch “It all works when a user opens the iPhone’s health app, navigates to the health record …

: Link: Apple bringing medical records to iPhone, Apple Watch “It all works when a user opens the iPhone’s health app, navigates to the health record …

: Link: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0 “Oracle’s positioning is that its later start to the cloud has provided the chance to learn …

: Link: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0 “Oracle’s positioning is that its later start to the cloud has provided the chance to learn …

: Link: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0 “Oracle’s positioning is that its later start to the cloud has provided the chance to learn …

: Link: AI Begins to Infiltrate the Enterprise It could be a better list, sourced from companies, but good nonetheless: “Some of that confusion may …

: Link: AI Begins to Infiltrate the Enterprise It could be a better list, sourced from companies, but good nonetheless: “Some of that confusion may …

: Link: AI Begins to Infiltrate the Enterprise It could be a better list, sourced from companies, but good nonetheless: “Some of that confusion may …

: Link: Amazon HQ2 blamed for high real-estate, rent, and traffic in Seattle ‘High demand and low inventory creates bidding wars and animosity among those who can’t even …

: Link: Amazon HQ2 blamed for high real-estate, rent, and traffic in Seattle ‘High demand and low inventory creates bidding wars and animosity among those who can’t even …

: Link: Amazon HQ2 blamed for high real-estate, rent, and traffic in Seattle ‘High demand and low inventory creates bidding wars and animosity among those who can’t even …

: Link: An argument against Amazon HQ2 tax breaks, sort of ‘“The bidding process with Amazon shows why we need the federal government to help support cities …

: Link: An argument against Amazon HQ2 tax breaks, sort of ‘“The bidding process with Amazon shows why we need the federal government to help support cities …

: Link: An argument against Amazon HQ2 tax breaks, sort of ‘“The bidding process with Amazon shows why we need the federal government to help support cities …

: Link: Apple’s Siri-equipped HomePod comes to your home on February 9 Apple is pretty cool consistent in anemic features versus alternatives, but like the Windows says. …

: Link: Apple’s Siri-equipped HomePod comes to your home on February 9 Apple is pretty cool consistent in anemic features versus alternatives, but like the Windows says. …

: Link: Apple’s Siri-equipped HomePod comes to your home on February 9 Apple is pretty cool consistent in anemic features versus alternatives, but like the Windows says. …

: Link: Richard Florida predicts Amazon HQ2 location ‘At the top of the list, I would place New York, the greatest headquarters city in the world, and …

: Link: Richard Florida predicts Amazon HQ2 location ‘At the top of the list, I would place New York, the greatest headquarters city in the world, and …

: Link: Richard Florida predicts Amazon HQ2 location ‘At the top of the list, I would place New York, the greatest headquarters city in the world, and …

: Link: Seattle’s complaints about Amazon HQ1 People say Amazon isn’t good for Seattle, here’s a summary of the issues: ‘Housing prices in Seattle …

: Link: Seattle’s complaints about Amazon HQ1 People say Amazon isn’t good for Seattle, here’s a summary of the issues: ‘Housing prices in Seattle …

: Link: Seattle’s complaints about Amazon HQ1 People say Amazon isn’t good for Seattle, here’s a summary of the issues: ‘Housing prices in Seattle …

: Link: The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin “Austin’s tech talent pool has become increasingly tight, and it would be better for our economy to …

: Link: The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin “Austin’s tech talent pool has become increasingly tight, and it would be better for our economy to …

: Link: The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin “Austin’s tech talent pool has become increasingly tight, and it would be better for our economy to …

: Link: The Problem With Courting Amazon ‘The question of whether, or how much, incentives actually spark a community’s economic growth is …

: Link: The Problem With Courting Amazon ‘The question of whether, or how much, incentives actually spark a community’s economic growth is …

: Link: The Problem With Courting Amazon ‘The question of whether, or how much, incentives actually spark a community’s economic growth is …

: Link: Why you city should avoid Amazon HQ2 Just too much growth, too fast, and raising costs which kicks lower income people to the curb: …

: Link: Why you city should avoid Amazon HQ2 Just too much growth, too fast, and raising costs which kicks lower income people to the curb: …

: Link: Why you city should avoid Amazon HQ2 Just too much growth, too fast, and raising costs which kicks lower income people to the curb: …

: Link: Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities, moving to next phase in contest for $5B economic prize “Toronto, Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago, Denver, Nashville, Los Angeles, Dallas, Austin, …

: Link: Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities, moving to next phase in contest for $5B economic prize “Toronto, Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago, Denver, Nashville, Los Angeles, Dallas, Austin, …

: Link: Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities, moving to next phase in contest for $5B economic prize “Toronto, Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago, Denver, Nashville, Los Angeles, Dallas, Austin, …

: Link: Curated list of awesome lists A directory of interesting stuff for computer nerds. Original source: Curated list of awesome lists

: Link: Curated list of awesome lists A directory of interesting stuff for computer nerds. Original source: Curated list of awesome lists

: Link: Curated list of awesome lists A directory of interesting stuff for computer nerds. Original source: Curated list of awesome lists

: Link: Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy They want to be more responsible. Original source: Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded …

: Link: Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy They want to be more responsible. Original source: Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded …

: Link: Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy They want to be more responsible. Original source: Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded …

: Link: GDPR compliance – here are the 14 things you actually need to do Exciting new audit needs ahead, hoss: “Organisations should review their IT systems and procedures …

: Link: GDPR compliance – here are the 14 things you actually need to do Exciting new audit needs ahead, hoss: “Organisations should review their IT systems and procedures …

: Link: GDPR compliance – here are the 14 things you actually need to do Exciting new audit needs ahead, hoss: “Organisations should review their IT systems and procedures …

: Link: Google’s AutoML lets you train custom machine learning models without having to code “The basic idea here, Google says, is to allow virtually anybody to bring their images, upload …

: Link: Google’s AutoML lets you train custom machine learning models without having to code “The basic idea here, Google says, is to allow virtually anybody to bring their images, upload …

: Link: Google’s AutoML lets you train custom machine learning models without having to code “The basic idea here, Google says, is to allow virtually anybody to bring their images, upload …

: Link: Meltdown and Spectre underscore the ongoing need for infrastructure automation “In the Cloud Foundry scenario, these are embodied by BOSH to automate the infrastructure …

: Link: Meltdown and Spectre underscore the ongoing need for infrastructure automation “In the Cloud Foundry scenario, these are embodied by BOSH to automate the infrastructure …

: Link: Meltdown and Spectre underscore the ongoing need for infrastructure automation “In the Cloud Foundry scenario, these are embodied by BOSH to automate the infrastructure …

: Link: New Economy, Meet Old Continent ‘This is not “sharing” economy; these are fully professionalised marketplaces.’ Original …

: Link: New Economy, Meet Old Continent ‘This is not “sharing” economy; these are fully professionalised marketplaces.’ Original …

: Link: New Economy, Meet Old Continent ‘This is not “sharing” economy; these are fully professionalised marketplaces.’ Original …

: Link: On the Rise of Digital Addiction Activism - Study Hacks - Cal Newport “At the core of almost everything negative about the smartphone era is the attention economy …

: Link: On the Rise of Digital Addiction Activism - Study Hacks - Cal Newport “At the core of almost everything negative about the smartphone era is the attention economy …

: Link: On the Rise of Digital Addiction Activism - Study Hacks - Cal Newport “At the core of almost everything negative about the smartphone era is the attention economy …

: Link: Rupert Murdoch says Facebook needs to pay publishers the way cable companies do “The publishers are obviously enhancing the value and integrity of Facebook through their news and …

: Link: Rupert Murdoch says Facebook needs to pay publishers the way cable companies do “The publishers are obviously enhancing the value and integrity of Facebook through their news and …

: Link: Rupert Murdoch says Facebook needs to pay publishers the way cable companies do “The publishers are obviously enhancing the value and integrity of Facebook through their news and …

: Link: Squeezing more out of slippery big tech may even take tax reforms “One-off moves don’t change the fact that tech giants are likely to continue to make vast amounts of …

: Link: Squeezing more out of slippery big tech may even take tax reforms “One-off moves don’t change the fact that tech giants are likely to continue to make vast amounts of …

: Link: Squeezing more out of slippery big tech may even take tax reforms “One-off moves don’t change the fact that tech giants are likely to continue to make vast amounts of …

: Link: The critics are wrong about AWS’s open source approach “Is AWS selfish? Sure. Does that selfishness translate into greater developer productivity …

: Link: The critics are wrong about AWS’s open source approach “Is AWS selfish? Sure. Does that selfishness translate into greater developer productivity …

: Link: The critics are wrong about AWS’s open source approach “Is AWS selfish? Sure. Does that selfishness translate into greater developer productivity …

: Link: The New York Times’ stock jumped following Facebook’s “trustworthy” news announcement Wall Street likes it. Original source: The New York Times’ stock jumped following Facebook’s …

: Link: The New York Times’ stock jumped following Facebook’s “trustworthy” news announcement Wall Street likes it. Original source: The New York Times’ stock jumped following Facebook’s …

: Link: The New York Times’ stock jumped following Facebook’s “trustworthy” news announcement Wall Street likes it. Original source: The New York Times’ stock jumped following Facebook’s …

: Link: WSO2: Our 2017 Results and 2018 Plan 2% profit margin is much better than no- or negative-percent. “In 2017, we will exit our …

: Link: WSO2: Our 2017 Results and 2018 Plan 2% profit margin is much better than no- or negative-percent. “In 2017, we will exit our …

: Link: WSO2: Our 2017 Results and 2018 Plan 2% profit margin is much better than no- or negative-percent. “In 2017, we will exit our …

: So what exactly should IBM do, and have done? Now that IBM has ended its revenue losing streak, we’re ready to stick a halo on it: There is …

: Link: Tolerating distraction “The modern anxiety about distraction betrays a good deal about us. Insofar as we associate …

: Link: Tolerating distraction “The modern anxiety about distraction betrays a good deal about us. Insofar as we associate …

: Link: Tolerating distraction “The modern anxiety about distraction betrays a good deal about us. Insofar as we associate …

: Link: Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Forecast to Reach $160 Billion This Year, According to IDC Includes an interesting chart that lists the types of services/features (like data management and …

: Link: Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Forecast to Reach $160 Billion This Year, According to IDC Includes an interesting chart that lists the types of services/features (like data management and …

: Link: Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Forecast to Reach $160 Billion This Year, According to IDC Includes an interesting chart that lists the types of services/features (like data management and …

: Link: Building the convincing PaaS business case Pretty good check-in on current studies showing productivity and ROI from using PaaS. Original …

: Link: Building the convincing PaaS business case Pretty good check-in on current studies showing productivity and ROI from using PaaS. Original …

: Link: Building the convincing PaaS business case Pretty good check-in on current studies showing productivity and ROI from using PaaS. Original …

: Link: Dropbox files for IPO -- and their numbers are looking solid “doing over $1B in annualized sales and are cash flow positive." Original source: Dropbox …

: Link: Dropbox files for IPO -- and their numbers are looking solid “doing over $1B in annualized sales and are cash flow positive." Original source: Dropbox …

: Link: Dropbox files for IPO -- and their numbers are looking solid “doing over $1B in annualized sales and are cash flow positive." Original source: Dropbox …

: Link: What is Developer Advocacy? “Developer Advocacy has many names. You may have heard it referred to as Developer Relations or …

: Link: What is Developer Advocacy? “Developer Advocacy has many names. You may have heard it referred to as Developer Relations or …

: Link: What is Developer Advocacy? “Developer Advocacy has many names. You may have heard it referred to as Developer Relations or …

: Link: Whither the DBA “In every case in which a CIO or other executive has driven or authorized substantial investments in …

: Link: Whither the DBA “In every case in which a CIO or other executive has driven or authorized substantial investments in …

: Link: Whither the DBA “In every case in which a CIO or other executive has driven or authorized substantial investments in …

: Link: Who's using 2FA? Sweet FA. Less than 1 in 10 Gmail users enable two-factor authentication “less than 10 per cent of active Google accounts use two-step authentication to lock down their …

: Link: Who's using 2FA? Sweet FA. Less than 1 in 10 Gmail users enable two-factor authentication “less than 10 per cent of active Google accounts use two-step authentication to lock down their …

: Link: Who's using 2FA? Sweet FA. Less than 1 in 10 Gmail users enable two-factor authentication “less than 10 per cent of active Google accounts use two-step authentication to lock down their …

: Link: All the president’s tweets Now that’s how to chart. Original source: All the president’s tweets

: Link: All the president’s tweets Now that’s how to chart. Original source: All the president’s tweets

: Link: All the president’s tweets Now that’s how to chart. Original source: All the president’s tweets

: Link: Amazon lost cloud market share to Microsoft in the fourth quarter: KeyBanc For 4Q2017: “Amazon Web Services had 62 percent market share in the quarter, down from 68 percent a …

: Link: Amazon lost cloud market share to Microsoft in the fourth quarter: KeyBanc For 4Q2017: “Amazon Web Services had 62 percent market share in the quarter, down from 68 percent a …

: Link: Amazon lost cloud market share to Microsoft in the fourth quarter: KeyBanc For 4Q2017: “Amazon Web Services had 62 percent market share in the quarter, down from 68 percent a …

: Link: App development teams brace for big change in 2018 “The rush is on for enterprises to build and deploy better software faster, and that’s …

: Link: App development teams brace for big change in 2018 “The rush is on for enterprises to build and deploy better software faster, and that’s …

: Link: App development teams brace for big change in 2018 “The rush is on for enterprises to build and deploy better software faster, and that’s …

: Link: Comparing Kubernetes to Pivotal Cloud Foundry — A Developer’s Perspective Exactly what it says. The install and ops experiences are not covered, of course. Original source: …

: Link: Comparing Kubernetes to Pivotal Cloud Foundry — A Developer’s Perspective Exactly what it says. The install and ops experiences are not covered, of course. Original source: …

: Link: Comparing Kubernetes to Pivotal Cloud Foundry — A Developer’s Perspective Exactly what it says. The install and ops experiences are not covered, of course. Original source: …

: Link: Complexity bolsters valuations for infrastructure software In a recent 451 Research survey: “between 2017 and 2019 the amount of IT workloads running on the …

: Link: Complexity bolsters valuations for infrastructure software In a recent 451 Research survey: “between 2017 and 2019 the amount of IT workloads running on the …

: Link: Complexity bolsters valuations for infrastructure software In a recent 451 Research survey: “between 2017 and 2019 the amount of IT workloads running on the …

: Link: Creative ways to encourage the integration of DevOps processes ‘Teams come into the dojo with a backlog of real work they are trying to deliver and are paired with …

: Link: Creative ways to encourage the integration of DevOps processes ‘Teams come into the dojo with a backlog of real work they are trying to deliver and are paired with …

: Link: Creative ways to encourage the integration of DevOps processes ‘Teams come into the dojo with a backlog of real work they are trying to deliver and are paired with …

: Link: Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018 - SiliconANGLE Gartner says: “businesses will spend nearly $3.7 trillion on information technology hardware, …

: Link: Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018 - SiliconANGLE Gartner says: “businesses will spend nearly $3.7 trillion on information technology hardware, …

: Link: Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018 - SiliconANGLE Gartner says: “businesses will spend nearly $3.7 trillion on information technology hardware, …

: Link: Green light for IT spending in 2018 “fully 50% of the 872 respondents said their company is giving a ‘green light’ for IT spending. That …

: Link: Green light for IT spending in 2018 “fully 50% of the 872 respondents said their company is giving a ‘green light’ for IT spending. That …

: Link: Green light for IT spending in 2018 “fully 50% of the 872 respondents said their company is giving a ‘green light’ for IT spending. That …

: Link: The latest media pivot: voice “30% of web browsing will be done via voice by 2020, according to the technology research firm …

: Link: The latest media pivot: voice “30% of web browsing will be done via voice by 2020, according to the technology research firm …

: Link: The latest media pivot: voice “30% of web browsing will be done via voice by 2020, according to the technology research firm …

: Link: To detractors, he's a buffoon; to dealmakers, he's a boon “By a more than two-to-one margin, respondents to the 451 Research Tech Corporate Development …

: Link: To detractors, he's a buffoon; to dealmakers, he's a boon “By a more than two-to-one margin, respondents to the 451 Research Tech Corporate Development …

: Link: To detractors, he's a buffoon; to dealmakers, he's a boon “By a more than two-to-one margin, respondents to the 451 Research Tech Corporate Development …

: Link: With Loggly, SolarWinds scoops up another log service “With the acquisition of Loggly, SolarWinds obtains an asset that was slow in getting started but …

: Link: With Loggly, SolarWinds scoops up another log service “With the acquisition of Loggly, SolarWinds obtains an asset that was slow in getting started but …

: Link: With Loggly, SolarWinds scoops up another log service “With the acquisition of Loggly, SolarWinds obtains an asset that was slow in getting started but …

: Link: Cisco is strengthening its 'cloud first' posture Finally, an explanation of that Cisco/Google partnership: “CloudCenter is key to the hybrid cloud …

: Link: Cisco is strengthening its 'cloud first' posture Finally, an explanation of that Cisco/Google partnership: “CloudCenter is key to the hybrid cloud …

: Link: Cisco is strengthening its 'cloud first' posture Finally, an explanation of that Cisco/Google partnership: “CloudCenter is key to the hybrid cloud …

: Link: Microsoft gets serious about monitoring “Microsoft’s vision is to deliver tools that can offer a holistic view of services to …

: Link: Microsoft gets serious about monitoring “Microsoft’s vision is to deliver tools that can offer a holistic view of services to …

: Link: Microsoft gets serious about monitoring “Microsoft’s vision is to deliver tools that can offer a holistic view of services to …

: Link: People love Google’s new feature that matches your selfie to a famous painting Oh, so that’s what all those pictures are. Original source: People love Google’s new feature that …

: Link: People love Google’s new feature that matches your selfie to a famous painting Oh, so that’s what all those pictures are. Original source: People love Google’s new feature that …

: Link: People love Google’s new feature that matches your selfie to a famous painting Oh, so that’s what all those pictures are. Original source: People love Google’s new feature that …

: Link: The Spectre And Meltdown Server Tax Bill Original source: The Spectre And Meltdown Server Tax Bill

: Link: The Spectre And Meltdown Server Tax Bill Original source: The Spectre And Meltdown Server Tax Bill

: Link: The Spectre And Meltdown Server Tax Bill Original source: The Spectre And Meltdown Server Tax Bill

: Link: API’s and Mainframes “When looking at exploiting them from the web, if you let “imagineers” run away with what they …

: Link: API’s and Mainframes “When looking at exploiting them from the web, if you let “imagineers” run away with what they …

: Link: API’s and Mainframes “When looking at exploiting them from the web, if you let “imagineers” run away with what they …

: Link: Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product? Figuring out product management for home automation/IoT. Plus a sampling of market-sizing and …

: Link: Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product? Figuring out product management for home automation/IoT. Plus a sampling of market-sizing and …

: Link: Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product? Figuring out product management for home automation/IoT. Plus a sampling of market-sizing and …

: Link: Taking Stock of Cloud Application Platforms Basically, he expects it to all go kubernetes. Original source: Taking Stock of Cloud Application …

: Link: Taking Stock of Cloud Application Platforms Basically, he expects it to all go kubernetes. Original source: Taking Stock of Cloud Application …

: Link: Taking Stock of Cloud Application Platforms Basically, he expects it to all go kubernetes. Original source: Taking Stock of Cloud Application …

: Link: The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students While I don’t disagree with this kind of ASTOUNDING FINDING, what it usually means that in addition …

: Link: The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students While I don’t disagree with this kind of ASTOUNDING FINDING, what it usually means that in addition …

: Link: The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students While I don’t disagree with this kind of ASTOUNDING FINDING, what it usually means that in addition …

: Big Ben spycraft Each news programme opened with a live broadcast of Big Ben tolling the hour –the magical sound of …

: Multi-Cloud Begets Confusion, Calls for Automation One reason is confusion over how enterprises define multi-cloud: Just over half of those polled …

: A more pragmatic morality The capitalist–consumerist ethic is revolutionary in another respect. Most previous ethical systems …

: Link: Feel like a little kid in the container world? Welcome to the club “industry adoption more accurately reflected in 451 Research’s survey data that pegs adoption …

: Link: Feel like a little kid in the container world? Welcome to the club “industry adoption more accurately reflected in 451 Research’s survey data that pegs adoption …

: Link: Feel like a little kid in the container world? Welcome to the club “industry adoption more accurately reflected in 451 Research’s survey data that pegs adoption …

: Link: Thoughts…. “Vendor lock-in is not the hardest thing to overcome, Architectural lock-in is harder to overcome. …

: Link: Thoughts…. “Vendor lock-in is not the hardest thing to overcome, Architectural lock-in is harder to overcome. …

: Link: Thoughts…. “Vendor lock-in is not the hardest thing to overcome, Architectural lock-in is harder to overcome. …

: Link: Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? ‘between 2011 and 2012, the polling company Gallup conducted the most detailed study ever carried …

: Link: Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? ‘between 2011 and 2012, the polling company Gallup conducted the most detailed study ever carried …

: Link: Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? ‘between 2011 and 2012, the polling company Gallup conducted the most detailed study ever carried …

: Link: Annual Letter from Planet Earth A pretty good moral tent-pole for tech. Link to original

: Link: Annual Letter from Planet Earth A pretty good moral tent-pole for tech. Link to original

: Link: Annual Letter from Planet Earth A pretty good moral tent-pole for tech. Link to original

: Link: Apple App Store Continues to Grow “Since the App Store launched in July 2008, iOS developers have earned over $86 billion.” Link to …

: Link: Apple App Store Continues to Grow “Since the App Store launched in July 2008, iOS developers have earned over $86 billion.” Link to …

: Link: Apple App Store Continues to Grow “Since the App Store launched in July 2008, iOS developers have earned over $86 billion.” Link to …

: Link: Clever calculator Review of a book on Fermi. Link to original

: Link: Clever calculator Review of a book on Fermi. Link to original

: Link: Clever calculator Review of a book on Fermi. Link to original

: Link: Fewer Americans rely on TV news; what type they watch varies by who they are - Pew Research Center Older people watch a lot more TV news than younger people. Link to original

: Link: Fewer Americans rely on TV news; what type they watch varies by who they are - Pew Research Center Older people watch a lot more TV news than younger people. Link to original

: Link: Fewer Americans rely on TV news; what type they watch varies by who they are - Pew Research Center Older people watch a lot more TV news than younger people. Link to original

: Link: How smart speakers stole the show from smartphones “In the first nine months of 2017, 17.1m smart speakers shipped worldwide, according to …

: Link: How smart speakers stole the show from smartphones “In the first nine months of 2017, 17.1m smart speakers shipped worldwide, according to …

: Link: How smart speakers stole the show from smartphones “In the first nine months of 2017, 17.1m smart speakers shipped worldwide, according to …

: Link: Productivity in 2017: What we learned from analyzing 225 million hours Writers work in the morning, coders in the afternoon. Link to original

: Link: Productivity in 2017: What we learned from analyzing 225 million hours Writers work in the morning, coders in the afternoon. Link to original

: Link: Productivity in 2017: What we learned from analyzing 225 million hours Writers work in the morning, coders in the afternoon. Link to original

: Link: Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign “During that first month, Walsh’s disbelief and even fear about what was happening in the White …

: Link: Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign “During that first month, Walsh’s disbelief and even fear about what was happening in the White …

: Link: Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign “During that first month, Walsh’s disbelief and even fear about what was happening in the White …

: Link: How to Become Insanely Well-Connected Link to original

: Link: How to Become Insanely Well-Connected Link to original

: Link: How to Become Insanely Well-Connected Link to original

: Link: What Successful Digital Transformations Have in Common Some good little zingers, if you trust the interpretation which is a bit wild at times. Link to …

: Link: What Successful Digital Transformations Have in Common Some good little zingers, if you trust the interpretation which is a bit wild at times. Link to …

: Link: What Successful Digital Transformations Have in Common Some good little zingers, if you trust the interpretation which is a bit wild at times. Link to …

: Link: 451 JFrog update “JFrog reports more than 4,000 paying customers… 451 Research estimates JFrog’s …

: Link: 451 JFrog update “JFrog reports more than 4,000 paying customers… 451 Research estimates JFrog’s …

: Link: 451 JFrog update “JFrog reports more than 4,000 paying customers… 451 Research estimates JFrog’s …

: Link: Google Cloud Platform services engage corporate IT Overview of 2017 stuff that enterprises might like. Link to original

: Link: Google Cloud Platform services engage corporate IT Overview of 2017 stuff that enterprises might like. Link to original

: Link: Google Cloud Platform services engage corporate IT Overview of 2017 stuff that enterprises might like. Link to original

: Link: Lots of M&A in 2017 “Worldwide, more than 50k deals went down, worth in excess of $3.5T. More than a quarter of these …

: Link: Lots of M&A in 2017 “Worldwide, more than 50k deals went down, worth in excess of $3.5T. More than a quarter of these …

: Link: Lots of M&A in 2017 “Worldwide, more than 50k deals went down, worth in excess of $3.5T. More than a quarter of these …

: Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs Kubernetes: Choosing The Right Cloud-Native Application Deployment Platform Link to original

: Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs Kubernetes: Choosing The Right Cloud-Native Application Deployment Platform Link to original

: Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs Kubernetes: Choosing The Right Cloud-Native Application Deployment Platform Link to original

: Link: Private cloud TCO and such, from 451 “private cloud can be a less expensive option for enterprises than public cloud. Forty-one percent …

: Link: Private cloud TCO and such, from 451 “private cloud can be a less expensive option for enterprises than public cloud. Forty-one percent …

: Link: Private cloud TCO and such, from 451 “private cloud can be a less expensive option for enterprises than public cloud. Forty-one percent …

: Link: These Kubernetes developments make the platform ripe to explode in 2018 Matt takes stock ok kubernetes. Link to original

: Link: These Kubernetes developments make the platform ripe to explode in 2018 Matt takes stock ok kubernetes. Link to original

: Link: These Kubernetes developments make the platform ripe to explode in 2018 Matt takes stock ok kubernetes. Link to original

: Link: Vendors talk about why AzureStack is good for their markets This is especially true in “industrial Internet of Things” applications, where the likes of ABB and …

: Link: Vendors talk about why AzureStack is good for their markets This is especially true in “industrial Internet of Things” applications, where the likes of ABB and …

: Link: Vendors talk about why AzureStack is good for their markets This is especially true in “industrial Internet of Things” applications, where the likes of ABB and …

: Link: WP Engine Attracts $250 Million Silver Lake Investment “WP Engine also announced it reached more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue with over …

: Link: WP Engine Attracts $250 Million Silver Lake Investment “WP Engine also announced it reached more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue with over …

: Link: WP Engine Attracts $250 Million Silver Lake Investment “WP Engine also announced it reached more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue with over …

: Link: “Hat on a hat” Don’t be redundant. Link to original

: Link: “Hat on a hat” Don’t be redundant. Link to original

: Link: “Hat on a hat” Don’t be redundant. Link to original

: Link: Explaining the problems in The Last Jedi “It is a movie about knowing what’s right and doing that, even though everything else in the …

: Link: Explaining the problems in The Last Jedi “It is a movie about knowing what’s right and doing that, even though everything else in the …

: Link: Explaining the problems in The Last Jedi “It is a movie about knowing what’s right and doing that, even though everything else in the …

: Link: The economics of serverless cloud computing “direct expenditure on serverless can be cheaper than on VMs, but only where the number of times the …

: Link: The economics of serverless cloud computing “direct expenditure on serverless can be cheaper than on VMs, but only where the number of times the …

: Link: The economics of serverless cloud computing “direct expenditure on serverless can be cheaper than on VMs, but only where the number of times the …

: Link: Towards a bra-free Instagram experience - Lauren Hallden It’s hard to add the “don’t do dumb shit” filter to ML. Link to original

: Link: Towards a bra-free Instagram experience - Lauren Hallden It’s hard to add the “don’t do dumb shit” filter to ML. Link to original

: Link: Books in 2017 From Señior Wordpress. Link to original

: Link: Books in 2017 From Señior Wordpress. Link to original

: Link: Books in 2017 From Señior Wordpress. Link to original

: Link: How to Interview a Celebrity Like a Celebrity Link to original

: Link: How to Interview a Celebrity Like a Celebrity Link to original

: Link: How to Interview a Celebrity Like a Celebrity Link to original

: Link: Kroger is taking a direct shot at Amazon and Walmart and making checkout lanes obsolete - Business Insider “In 2018, [Kroger] is rolling out a new service to 400 stores that will enable shoppers to scan and …

: Link: Kroger is taking a direct shot at Amazon and Walmart and making checkout lanes obsolete - Business Insider “In 2018, [Kroger] is rolling out a new service to 400 stores that will enable shoppers to scan and …

: Link: Kroger is taking a direct shot at Amazon and Walmart and making checkout lanes obsolete - Business Insider “In 2018, [Kroger] is rolling out a new service to 400 stores that will enable shoppers to scan and …

: Link: There's a Trick To Getting Entitled Employees to Stop Complaining and Do Their Jobs - Management Matters - Management - GovExec.com Getting jerks to do their job by having their peers manage them. Link to original

: Link: There's a Trick To Getting Entitled Employees to Stop Complaining and Do Their Jobs - Management Matters - Management - GovExec.com Getting jerks to do their job by having their peers manage them. Link to original

: Link: There's a Trick To Getting Entitled Employees to Stop Complaining and Do Their Jobs - Management Matters - Management - GovExec.com Getting jerks to do their job by having their peers manage them. Link to original

: Link: Your Uber Car Creates Congestion. That May Cost You More To Ride. - New York Times “About 103,000 for-hire vehicles operate in the city, more than double the roughly 47,000 in 2013, …

: Link: Your Uber Car Creates Congestion. That May Cost You More To Ride. - New York Times “About 103,000 for-hire vehicles operate in the city, more than double the roughly 47,000 in 2013, …

: Link: Your Uber Car Creates Congestion. That May Cost You More To Ride. - New York Times “About 103,000 for-hire vehicles operate in the city, more than double the roughly 47,000 in 2013, …

: In 2018, Clear Out Your Portfolio Underbrush Before You Have to Burn it All Down Some advice on fixing up your technical debt and such to start off the new year right.

: Link: Datical cozies up to Pivotal for synchronized database updates ‘Datical automatically examines SQL scripts created by developers and aligns them with a …

: Link: Datical cozies up to Pivotal for synchronized database updates ‘Datical automatically examines SQL scripts created by developers and aligns them with a …

: Link: Datical cozies up to Pivotal for synchronized database updates ‘Datical automatically examines SQL scripts created by developers and aligns them with a …

: Link: Developers, developers, developers: How 'serverless' crowd dropped ops like it's hot “Serverless is all about giving developers the ability to execute code without requiring …

: Link: Developers, developers, developers: How 'serverless' crowd dropped ops like it's hot “Serverless is all about giving developers the ability to execute code without requiring …

: Link: Developers, developers, developers: How 'serverless' crowd dropped ops like it's hot “Serverless is all about giving developers the ability to execute code without requiring …

: Link: Diversity in Tech Remains Elusive Due to Racism, Lack of Representation and Cultural Differences ‘As a self-proclaimed Black “nerd” and active social media user, Moore also cites cultural …

: Link: Diversity in Tech Remains Elusive Due to Racism, Lack of Representation and Cultural Differences ‘As a self-proclaimed Black “nerd” and active social media user, Moore also cites cultural …

: Link: FedEx aims to deliver on Blockchain, autonomous vehicles and tougher security Link

: Link: FedEx aims to deliver on Blockchain, autonomous vehicles and tougher security Link

: Link: FedEx aims to deliver on Blockchain, autonomous vehicles and tougher security Link

: Link: How Culture Affects Depression “[B]y virtue of prioritizing emotions and personal happiness, in contexts like the U.S., we …

: Link: How Culture Affects Depression “[B]y virtue of prioritizing emotions and personal happiness, in contexts like the U.S., we …

: Link: How Culture Affects Depression “[B]y virtue of prioritizing emotions and personal happiness, in contexts like the U.S., we …

: Link: How value stream analysis unclogs DevOps workflows “It’s not about productivity; it’s about value-tivity. Productivity represents the …

: Link: How value stream analysis unclogs DevOps workflows “It’s not about productivity; it’s about value-tivity. Productivity represents the …

: Link: How value stream analysis unclogs DevOps workflows “It’s not about productivity; it’s about value-tivity. Productivity represents the …

: ​Link: Red Hat on its way to becoming the first billion-dollar-a-quarter open-source company ‘I’ll tell you something that’s not fantasy. In the next few years, Red Hat will become …

: Mirantis eyes continuous integration of all the things Mirantis therefore thinks it can do a similar job for other combinations of open source software and …

: OpenStack Continues to Grow Both Public and Private Cloud Deployments Four years ago, in October 2013, 451 Research reported that OpenStack cloud revenues were …

: We fear change - staff resistant to digital transformation Introducing new technology in the workplace is making the majority of people - three in five - feel …

: Platforms are hard to sell, apps easier Kevin Ichhpurani, executive vice president of global ecosystem and channels at GE Digital, and …

: IBM’s new Private Cloud Stack, it’s got the Kubernetes & Containers This week, Big Blue rolled out its new IBM Cloud Private software platform that is designed to …

: Telstra speeds up its release cycles with all the great cloud native stuff According to Telstra, in some cases, its software development time has decreased from 6-8 months to …

: Fixing government procurement one process at a time Part of the problem, according to the General Services Administration's Bill Zielinski, is that many …

: Better details on the Cisco/Google partnership around kubernetes and Istio The cloud initiative combines Google’s de facto standard Kubernetes cluster orchestration platform …

: Fidelity’s cloud native stacks "The company builds its apps in Docker containers. Apps that need to stay on the company’s premises …

: Good, simple explanation of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) SLOs are objectives that your business aspires to meet and intends to take action to defend; just …

: HashiCorp has raised $74m, cumulative  The developer of cloud-agnostic solutions has raised $74 million in total since its founding in …

: Oracle interview on cloud: on-premise, enterprise tech not a perfect fit for AWS & co. Oracle’s view is simple: SaaS suites win in the long term. Source: How is the big switch to the …

: US Army is dead-set to be more agile in IT "One of the problems that we've got -- it's not the problem but it's a problem -- you develop a …

: All those eyeballs The economics of attention markets focuses on three features. First it focuses on time as the key …

: Finding talent in tech My column this month in The Register looks at “the skills gap” most hiring managers see …

: Companies that loose billions have a hard time being successful How all these unprofitable companies sustaining high valuations: bending reality today has three …

: People get upset when others make more money, and they don’t Between 1990 and 2010 the rate of economic convergence across American states slowed to less than …

: Atlassian revenue up 47% y/y The enterprise collaboration software vendor said it earned 12 cents a share, three cents ahead of …

: Oracle’s public cloud momentum Oracle reports its PaaS and IaaS revenue together, which makes understanding its IaaS growth …

: ScienceLogic momentum The company targets very large users, with 60% of its customers being MSPs, followed by enterprises …

: Docker and kubernetes Dave Bartoletti, an analyst with IT consultancy Forrester, said it’s clear that Kubernetes has won …

: Cloud Foundry, Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless: how it all fits together Ian Andrews explains and whiteboards out how all the cloud-native infrastructure fits together: …

: Stateless apps in one, stateful apps in the other It happens to be the case that CF — because it’s an app platform and wants to let the user focus on …

: Culture, schmulture I have an extra piece in The Register this month. I was asked to frame the history of software …

: Google, IBM and others launch an open source API for keeping tabs on software supply chains You probably still want to know who actually built a given container and what’s running in it. …

: Small experiments to solve big problems Try to go beyond hand waving and opinions and find out what really is happening. A good way to start …

: Bloomberg on kubernetes in Cloud Foundry On overview of how Bloomberg is looking at the likes of Pivotal Container Services: "Many …

: FIXED! MOLLE all the dongles, DevOps snipe hunting, &amp; Docker (claims it) cuts cost by 50% - Software Defined Talk #108 Has everyone gone kubernetes crazy? It seems like most buyers and sellers at least want it as an …

: FIXED! MOLLE all the dongles, DevOps snipe hunting, &amp; Docker (claims it) cuts cost by 50% - Software Defined Talk #108 Has everyone gone kubernetes crazy? It seems like most buyers and sellers at least want it as an …

: Training developers in person, then going back home From an interview with Jeffrey Hammond and Marc Cecere on developer skills gaps. Here, the trend to …

: Chef Launches Habitat Build, a Cloud-Native Application Packaging Service Source: Chef Launches Habitat Build, a Cloud-Native Application Packaging Service

: Docker CEO Steve Singh Interview: All About That Migration To Cloud The single biggest one is the move to public cloud, and this is where Docker is focused today. This …

: Oracle Emulates Google, AWS On Its Cloud Oracle all over that public kubernetes service. Source: Oracle Emulates Google, AWS On Its Cloud

: Private cloud: avoiding an existential crisis 451 Research's data points suggest that some workloads are likely to remain on private cloud …

: Puppet’s new pipeline & kubernetes tools The three new Puppet products based on Distelli's technology are Puppet Pipelines for Apps, which …

: The Serverless Revolution Will Make Us All Developers Consider the case of the connected cows. The grand unified, cloud/AI/IoT/serverless theory: That was …

: What is Microsoft Doing? Paying premium bucks to hire influencers for the big cloud migration wars. Source: What is Microsoft …

: Latest public cloud market-sizing from Gartner Lots of growth, it’s all just public cloud, though. Source: Public Cloud Doesn’t Dominate IT …

: Starbucks CEO explains how company ties together a physical store experience with digital innovation Some momentum updates. Source: Starbucks CEO explains how company ties together a physical store …

: TIBCO agrees to acquire Cisco's data virtualization business - 451 The details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but we would be surprised if Cisco made back any …

: TIBCO agrees to acquire Cisco's data virtualization business - 451 The details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but we would be surprised if Cisco made back any …

: TIBCO agrees to acquire Cisco's data virtualization business - 451 The details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but we would be surprised if Cisco made back any …

: TIBCO agrees to acquire Cisco's data virtualization business - 451 The details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but we would be surprised if Cisco made back any …

: TIBCO agrees to acquire Cisco's data virtualization business - 451 The details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but we would be surprised if Cisco made back any …

: TIBCO agrees to acquire Cisco's data virtualization business - 451 The details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but we would be surprised if Cisco made back any …

: TIBCO agrees to acquire Cisco's data virtualization business - 451 The details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but we would be surprised if Cisco made back any …

: TechCrunch whiffs out the possibility that private cloud is a thing “We’re seeing a big trend among customers to move cloud stacks inside customer’s data center for …

: IBM's declining revenue twitter.com/valleyhac…

: US Air Force & Pivotal digitizing flight-ops together - $2.7m contract The $2.7 million contract involved in the program is between the Air Force and a Silicon Valley …

: US Air Force & Pivotal digitizing flight-ops together - $2.7m contract The $2.7 million contract involved in the program is between the Air Force and a Silicon Valley …

: US Air Force & Pivotal digitizing flight-ops together - $2.7m contract The $2.7 million contract involved in the program is between the Air Force and a Silicon Valley …

: US Air Force & Pivotal digitizing flight-ops together - $2.7m contract The $2.7 million contract involved in the program is between the Air Force and a Silicon Valley …

: US Air Force & Pivotal digitizing flight-ops together - $2.7m contract The $2.7 million contract involved in the program is between the Air Force and a Silicon Valley …

: US Air Force & Pivotal digitizing flight-ops together - $2.7m contract The $2.7 million contract involved in the program is between the Air Force and a Silicon Valley …

: US Air Force & Pivotal digitizing flight-ops together - $2.7m contract The $2.7 million contract involved in the program is between the Air Force and a Silicon Valley …

: What's in Microsoft Azure Stack Some BOM’ing of Azure Stack: Azure Stack is made of two basic components, the underlying …

: What's in Microsoft Azure Stack Some BOM’ing of Azure Stack: Azure Stack is made of two basic components, the underlying …

: What's in Microsoft Azure Stack Some BOM’ing of Azure Stack: Azure Stack is made of two basic components, the underlying …

: What's in Microsoft Azure Stack Some BOM’ing of Azure Stack: Azure Stack is made of two basic components, the underlying …

: What's in Microsoft Azure Stack Some BOM’ing of Azure Stack: Azure Stack is made of two basic components, the underlying …

: What's in Microsoft Azure Stack Some BOM’ing of Azure Stack: Azure Stack is made of two basic components, the underlying …

: What's in Microsoft Azure Stack Some BOM’ing of Azure Stack: Azure Stack is made of two basic components, the underlying …

: AWS's private cloud stuff to day, plus VMware Good round-up of AWS’s private cloud stuff: AWS added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy …

: AWS's private cloud stuff to day, plus VMware Good round-up of AWS’s private cloud stuff: AWS added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy …

: AWS's private cloud stuff to day, plus VMware Good round-up of AWS’s private cloud stuff: AWS added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy …

: AWS's private cloud stuff to day, plus VMware Good round-up of AWS’s private cloud stuff: AWS added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy …

: AWS's private cloud stuff to day, plus VMware Good round-up of AWS’s private cloud stuff: AWS added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy …

: AWS's private cloud stuff to day, plus VMware Good round-up of AWS’s private cloud stuff: AWS added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy …

: AWS's private cloud stuff to day, plus VMware Good round-up of AWS’s private cloud stuff: AWS added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy …

: Book: Crooked Little Vein The writing in this book is good, and I’m always a sucker for noir. But it gets tiresome after …

: Book: Crooked Little Vein The writing in this book is good, and I’m always a sucker for noir. But it gets tiresome after …

: Book: Crooked Little Vein The writing in this book is good, and I’m always a sucker for noir. But it gets tiresome after …

: Book: Crooked Little Vein The writing in this book is good, and I’m always a sucker for noir. But it gets tiresome after …

: Book: Crooked Little Vein The writing in this book is good, and I’m always a sucker for noir. But it gets tiresome after …

: Book: Crooked Little Vein The writing in this book is good, and I’m always a sucker for noir. But it gets tiresome after …

: Book: Crooked Little Vein The writing in this book is good, and I’m always a sucker for noir. But it gets tiresome after …

: James Governor: The incredible shrinking time to legacy. On Time to Suck as a metric for dev and ops  Turns out of course it’s not just Developer Time To Suck that is shrinking. Operations is heading …

: James Governor: The incredible shrinking time to legacy. On Time to Suck as a metric for dev and ops  Turns out of course it’s not just Developer Time To Suck that is shrinking. Operations is heading …

: James Governor: The incredible shrinking time to legacy. On Time to Suck as a metric for dev and ops  Turns out of course it’s not just Developer Time To Suck that is shrinking. Operations is heading …

: James Governor: The incredible shrinking time to legacy. On Time to Suck as a metric for dev and ops  Turns out of course it’s not just Developer Time To Suck that is shrinking. Operations is heading …

: James Governor: The incredible shrinking time to legacy. On Time to Suck as a metric for dev and ops  Turns out of course it’s not just Developer Time To Suck that is shrinking. Operations is heading …

: James Governor: The incredible shrinking time to legacy. On Time to Suck as a metric for dev and ops  Turns out of course it’s not just Developer Time To Suck that is shrinking. Operations is heading …

: James Governor: The incredible shrinking time to legacy. On Time to Suck as a metric for dev and ops  Turns out of course it’s not just Developer Time To Suck that is shrinking. Operations is heading …

: Rackspace partners with Pivotal to launch managed services for Cloud Foundry “Managed Pivotal Cloud Foundry is Rackspace’s first step into the managed platform space, as we move …

: Rediscovering the art of software development Pivotal is at the epicenter of how enormous companies rediscover the art of software development. …

: Not Actually a DevOps Talk - Austin DevOps Meetup www.youtube.com/watch A recent rendition of one of my standard talks at the Austin DevOps Meetup. …

: American Airlines is a good profile of enterprise cloud buyer's needs, hopes & dreams - Notebook Application types: “The first result is that the airline will migrate to the IBM Cloud some of …

: Avoiding your rival's cloud with multi-cloud capabilities [O]ne well-publicized case in that vein, they said, was Home Depot directly working with Pivotal …

: Resetting belief systems The 20th century was a graveyard for old, tested, and, yes, diverse belief systems and moral …

: How to avoid getting hoodwinked by a DevOps hustler - My June Register column This month’s column is on finding and vetting consultants. Check out the piece!

: Apple makes major podcast updates, tracking how much user's actually listen Apple said today that it will be using (anonymized) data from the app to show podcasters how many …

: DevOps at Disney, management lessons learned - Notebook New types of software and delivery mechanisms (SaaS, mobile) mean new problems and scale: “We were …

: In finance, large banks seem to be fast followers, not disruption victims Eventually every advisor will be a robo-advisor, which means there will be convergence. Without …

: Karl Lagerfeld's daily routine, circa 2012 Who doesn’t like a good what’s in bag/what I do each day post? I used to fax a lot, but …

: Startup options are a crap-shoot Compensation is much cheaper if you can convince people to take an arbitrary number of lottery …

: The Internet is still the wild-west Good pointing out of needing some law and ethics to catch up to the Internet: The Internet brought …

: Amazon has almost 6% of US(?) apparel market While department stores are sinking, sales of apparel and accessories on Amazon are skyrocketing, …

: Ansible driving millions in sales “Ansible, a DevOps automation engine that's often used with Kubernetes deployments, was big, …

: Core DevOps (tech) metrics, from Nicole Forsgren Everyone always wants to know metrics. While the answer is always a solid “it depends - I …

: How's HPE doing? Shrinking on purpose & otherwise Many quotes of HPE’s CEO, Meg Whitman, explaining the state of HPE, 18 months after all the …

: Internet mattress momentum: Casper had ~$200m in 2016 sales Casper had been out raising a large round of funding when the talks started, sources said. The …

: Introducing microservices There’s some good “how do I actually get my organization do all this unicorn …

: Trumponomics: focusing on weird things with a small staff From The Economist a few weeks back: The real difference is that Trumponomics (unlike, say, …

: Appian and tech IPO's for horses Appian raised just $48m as a private company, compared with $163m for Alteryx, $220m for Okta, $259m …

: Telcos becoming cloud providers doesn't seem to work Since the late 2000’s, one of the cloud strategy theories was that existing telcos and network …

: Canonical refocusing on IPO'ing, momentum in cloud-native - Highlights flic.kr/p/nJR5oK There’s a few stories out about Canonical, likely centered around some PR campaign …

: HPE/Micro Focus numbers: HP(E) software revenue down $870m since 2012 In a brief write-up of HPE/Micro Focus from Paul Kunert: Shareholders will also be asked to approve …

: HSBC's Google Cloud use A brief note, from William Fellows at 451, on HSBC’s use of Google Cloud’s big …

: Banks are handling disruption well - Highlights Thus far, it seems like the large banks are fending off digital disruption, perhaps embracing some …

: The fight for money between states and cities The miniature culture wars fought between cities and states—such as North Carolina’s tussle with …

: Twitter's video deals mean it's giving up on business model innovation So says Ben Thompson in his newsletter today: This is why Twitter’s increased focus on securing …

: Twitter's video deals mean it's giving up on business model innovation So says Ben Thompson in his newsletter today: This is why Twitter’s increased focus on securing …

: Twitter's video deals mean it's giving up on business model innovation So says Ben Thompson in his newsletter today: This is why Twitter’s increased focus on securing …

: Twitter's video deals mean it's giving up on business model innovation So says Ben Thompson in his newsletter today: This is why Twitter’s increased focus on securing …

: Twitter's video deals mean it's giving up on business model innovation So says Ben Thompson in his newsletter today: This is why Twitter’s increased focus on securing …

: Twitter's video deals mean it's giving up on business model innovation So says Ben Thompson in his newsletter today: This is why Twitter’s increased focus on securing …

: Twitter's video deals mean it's giving up on business model innovation So says Ben Thompson in his newsletter today: This is why Twitter’s increased focus on securing …

: Red Hat OpenShift Momentum - Highlights Brian Gracely of Red Hat (and formally an analyst who did some of the best …

: Red Hat OpenShift Momentum - Highlights Brian Gracely of Red Hat (and formally an analyst who did some of the best …

: Red Hat OpenShift Momentum - Highlights Brian Gracely of Red Hat (and formally an analyst who did some of the best …

: Red Hat OpenShift Momentum - Highlights Brian Gracely of Red Hat (and formally an analyst who did some of the best …

: Red Hat OpenShift Momentum - Highlights Brian Gracely of Red Hat (and formally an analyst who did some of the best …

: Red Hat OpenShift Momentum - Highlights Brian Gracely of Red Hat (and formally an analyst who did some of the best …

: Red Hat OpenShift Momentum - Highlights Brian Gracely of Red Hat (and formally an analyst who did some of the best …

: Why Pivotal Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees Free food, during a limited, half-hour window, both saves people some hassle and gets them to show …

: Why Pivotal Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees Free food, during a limited, half-hour window, both saves people some hassle and gets them to show …

: Why Pivotal Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees Free food, during a limited, half-hour window, both saves people some hassle and gets them to show …

: Why Pivotal Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees Free food, during a limited, half-hour window, both saves people some hassle and gets them to show …

: Why Pivotal Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees Free food, during a limited, half-hour window, both saves people some hassle and gets them to show …

: Why Pivotal Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees Free food, during a limited, half-hour window, both saves people some hassle and gets them to show …

: Why Pivotal Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees Free food, during a limited, half-hour window, both saves people some hassle and gets them to show …

: Cloud-native at Comcast, working with Pivotal - Highlights I’m doing a podcast with Comcast in a few weeks, so I’ve been going over all their …

: Reactions to Cloudera's IPO, prospects - Notebook There’s lots of opinions on Cloudera’s IPO today. Here’s some that I’ve …

: Ode to Airports An airport is a time pause. It’s an excuse to not stress or try. You’re trapped in the …

: The news from Docker-land, plus, the money being fought over - Notebook With DockerCon this week, there’s no end of Docker quotables and items. Here’s my collection General …

: Picking off the slow-movers: $15bn for tech PE now sloshing around at Silverlake, more to come Silver Lake plans to announce on Tuesday that it has closed its fifth buyout fund at $15 billion, …

: Picking off the slow-movers: $15bn for tech PE now sloshing around at Silverlake, more to come Silver Lake plans to announce on Tuesday that it has closed its fifth buyout fund at $15 billion, …

: Picking off the slow-movers: $15bn for tech PE now sloshing around at Silverlake, more to come Silver Lake plans to announce on Tuesday that it has closed its fifth buyout fund at $15 billion, …

: Picking off the slow-movers: $15bn for tech PE now sloshing around at Silverlake, more to come Silver Lake plans to announce on Tuesday that it has closed its fifth buyout fund at $15 billion, …

: Picking off the slow-movers: $15bn for tech PE now sloshing around at Silverlake, more to come Silver Lake plans to announce on Tuesday that it has closed its fifth buyout fund at $15 billion, …

: Picking off the slow-movers: $15bn for tech PE now sloshing around at Silverlake, more to come Silver Lake plans to announce on Tuesday that it has closed its fifth buyout fund at $15 billion, …

: Picking off the slow-movers: $15bn for tech PE now sloshing around at Silverlake, more to come Silver Lake plans to announce on Tuesday that it has closed its fifth buyout fund at $15 billion, …

: With no competition, government websites often have no incentive to be good In contrast to agile, private-sector companies, the public sector does not face any pressure from …

: With no competition, government websites often have no incentive to be good In contrast to agile, private-sector companies, the public sector does not face any pressure from …

: With no competition, government websites often have no incentive to be good In contrast to agile, private-sector companies, the public sector does not face any pressure from …

: With no competition, government websites often have no incentive to be good In contrast to agile, private-sector companies, the public sector does not face any pressure from …

: With no competition, government websites often have no incentive to be good In contrast to agile, private-sector companies, the public sector does not face any pressure from …

: With no competition, government websites often have no incentive to be good In contrast to agile, private-sector companies, the public sector does not face any pressure from …

: With no competition, government websites often have no incentive to be good In contrast to agile, private-sector companies, the public sector does not face any pressure from …

: A look at the integration vendor landscape, or "iPaaS" MuleSoft’s IPO kicks up some interest and, here, a brief check-in with SnapLogic and Liaison. …

: A look at the integration vendor landscape, or "iPaaS" MuleSoft’s IPO kicks up some interest and, here, a brief check-in with SnapLogic and Liaison. …

: A look at the integration vendor landscape, or "iPaaS" MuleSoft’s IPO kicks up some interest and, here, a brief check-in with SnapLogic and Liaison. …

: A look at the integration vendor landscape, or "iPaaS" MuleSoft’s IPO kicks up some interest and, here, a brief check-in with SnapLogic and Liaison. …

: A look at the integration vendor landscape, or "iPaaS" MuleSoft’s IPO kicks up some interest and, here, a brief check-in with SnapLogic and Liaison. …

: A look at the integration vendor landscape, or "iPaaS" MuleSoft’s IPO kicks up some interest and, here, a brief check-in with SnapLogic and Liaison. …

: A look at the integration vendor landscape, or "iPaaS" MuleSoft’s IPO kicks up some interest and, here, a brief check-in with SnapLogic and Liaison. …

: Coders work from home more often than those in other jobs In 2015, an estimated 300,000 full-time employees in computer science jobs worked from home in the …

: Coders work from home more often than those in other jobs In 2015, an estimated 300,000 full-time employees in computer science jobs worked from home in the …

: Coders work from home more often than those in other jobs In 2015, an estimated 300,000 full-time employees in computer science jobs worked from home in the …

: Coders work from home more often than those in other jobs In 2015, an estimated 300,000 full-time employees in computer science jobs worked from home in the …

: Coders work from home more often than those in other jobs In 2015, an estimated 300,000 full-time employees in computer science jobs worked from home in the …

: Coders work from home more often than those in other jobs In 2015, an estimated 300,000 full-time employees in computer science jobs worked from home in the …

: Coders work from home more often than those in other jobs In 2015, an estimated 300,000 full-time employees in computer science jobs worked from home in the …

: DIUx working in streamlining IT projects at the DoD Since May 2016, DIUx has completed 21 contracts using other transaction (OT) authority and the …

: DIUx working in streamlining IT projects at the DoD Since May 2016, DIUx has completed 21 contracts using other transaction (OT) authority and the …

: DIUx working in streamlining IT projects at the DoD Since May 2016, DIUx has completed 21 contracts using other transaction (OT) authority and the …

: DIUx working in streamlining IT projects at the DoD Since May 2016, DIUx has completed 21 contracts using other transaction (OT) authority and the …

: DIUx working in streamlining IT projects at the DoD Since May 2016, DIUx has completed 21 contracts using other transaction (OT) authority and the …

: DIUx working in streamlining IT projects at the DoD Since May 2016, DIUx has completed 21 contracts using other transaction (OT) authority and the …

: DIUx working in streamlining IT projects at the DoD Since May 2016, DIUx has completed 21 contracts using other transaction (OT) authority and the …

: Frequent flyer programs drive billions(?!) in revenue Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s second-largest carrier, said it expects that its American Express …

: Frequent flyer programs drive billions(?!) in revenue Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s second-largest carrier, said it expects that its American Express …

: Frequent flyer programs drive billions(?!) in revenue Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s second-largest carrier, said it expects that its American Express …

: Frequent flyer programs drive billions(?!) in revenue Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s second-largest carrier, said it expects that its American Express …

: Frequent flyer programs drive billions(?!) in revenue Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s second-largest carrier, said it expects that its American Express …

: Frequent flyer programs drive billions(?!) in revenue Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s second-largest carrier, said it expects that its American Express …

: Frequent flyer programs drive billions(?!) in revenue Delta Air Lines Inc., the world’s second-largest carrier, said it expects that its American Express …

: The coming billions in updating bank's COBOL stacks Commonwealth Bank of Australia, for instance, replaced its core banking platform in 2012 with the …

: The middle-class metallurgical people - boothing, streaming sportsball, M&amp;As &amp; IPOs - Software Defined Talk #92 Having something to sell is always key to a profitable business. We explore this life-hack of the …

: The middle-class metallurgical people - boothing, streaming sportsball, M&amp;As &amp; IPOs - Software Defined Talk #92 Having something to sell is always key to a profitable business. We explore this life-hack of the …

: That rumor about Oracle buying Accenture: nope! The Register closes out it’s reporting on the rumor that Oracle was considering buying …

: Building out the IoT backend at Ford Predicting data storage requirements of 200PB by 2021 – growing from today’s 13PB – Ford chief exec …

: Final prices for Dell Services and Software divestitures: $3bn & $2.4bn On March 27, 2016, Dell entered into a definitive agreement with NTT Data International L.L.C. to …

: Michael Dell on Pivotal, 130% growth y/y Pivotal had a pretty major milestone this last quarter, over a quarter-billion dollars in 2016 …

: Omni-channel at Target: 14% of 2016 sales were "digital," with 68% fulfilled in-store In 2014, more than 93% of our transactions took place in stores, less than 7% digital. That season …

: Rackspace positioning around cloud and OpenStack, from the CEO Now that they don’t have to compete with AWS, they have an extra $300m floating around in the …

: Advice on introducing DevOps from Merrill Corp & SPS Commerce - Highlights Nicely moderated by Bridget. Some of my notes and highlights: Amy talks about pace of change, …

: Australian government's Cloud Foundry apps in production Delivery teams are now able to build services faster and easier. In July 2016, DTA had 14 apps in …

: Australian government's Cloud Foundry apps in production Delivery teams are now able to build services faster and easier. In July 2016, DTA had 14 apps in …

: Australian government's Cloud Foundry apps in production Delivery teams are now able to build services faster and easier. In July 2016, DTA had 14 apps in …

: Australian government's Cloud Foundry apps in production Delivery teams are now able to build services faster and easier. In July 2016, DTA had 14 apps in …

: Australian government's Cloud Foundry apps in production Delivery teams are now able to build services faster and easier. In July 2016, DTA had 14 apps in …

: Australian government's Cloud Foundry apps in production Delivery teams are now able to build services faster and easier. In July 2016, DTA had 14 apps in …

: Australian government's Cloud Foundry apps in production Delivery teams are now able to build services faster and easier. In July 2016, DTA had 14 apps in …

: Spending from outside of the IT department Corporate departments outside of the IT department, globally, are forecast to spend $609bn in 2017: …

: The Economist on Amazon - Highlights Video: "In 2017 Amazon is expected to spend $4.5bn on television and film content, roughly twice …

: Vanguard's thinking on microservices Breaking up the monolith with good, old fashioned, OO-think: Instead, Vanguard has begun a journey …

: Kubernetes as the hybrid cloud magic maker From 451’s report on Google Next: Google believes that a hybrid architecture will persist in …

: If compliance is so important, bake it into the platform Can we take that governance and work with the platform team to codify, to automate that which they …

: We're getting exactly the government IT we asked for If there’s one complaint that I hear consistently in my studies of IT in large organizations, …

: Cloud-Native Cookbook - beyond "survival is not mandatory" I started a new booklet project, the Cloud Native Cookbook. The premise is this: The premise of …

: Making mainframe applications more agile, Gartner - Highlights In a report giving advice to mainframe folks looking to be more Agile, Gartner’s Dale Vecchio and …

: The role of enterprise architects in cloud-native organizations My colleague Richard has a nice post suggesting the new functions enterprise architects can play in …

: Webinar Recording: Understand the What, Why & How of Digital Transformation Featuring 451 Research Earlier this month I did a webinar with Nick at 451. He does a great job summarizing all the digital …

: Mulesoft to IPO with $187.7m revenue in 2016, losses of $49.6m The San Francisco-headquartered business revealed it pulled in $187.7m last year, up 170 per cent …

: People (say they) will spend more on clothes that actually fit It’s a sore point for many shoppers, who are ready and eager to spend more on designer clothes if …

: Software can accelerate the stresses of transient advantage From Snap’s S-1, via Ben: In a world where anyone can distribute products instantly and …

: Sprinkling Internet on NGO's don't work At first, you’re like, “oh, another piece where someone makes fun of us nerds and …

: White men to women and minorities in tech: We just DGAF Less than 5% of white men surveyed said they considered a lack of diversity a top problem. …

: Automation at Goldman, The Computer takes out four people Today, nearly 45 percent of trading is done electronically, according to Coalition, a U.K. firm that …

: Global IT spend at $2.4 trillion in 2017, 3.5% growth, IDC Worldwide revenues for information technology (IT) products and services are forecast to reach …

: Growing eyeballs at Facebook, some product management tips Some intersting history of how Facebook grew users. Of course, this the case study is for a free …

: When regulations actually help innovation “In the drone industry, it seems counterintuitive, but we actually want regulation. And not having …

: More on "grim" automation - Notebook A few weeks back my book review of two “the robots are taking over” came out over on The …

: Life after artisanal pork rinds (i.e. tech M&amp;A), CostCo Down Under - Software Defined Talk #86 With a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: …

: Life after artisanal pork rinds (i.e. tech M&amp;A), CostCo Down Under - Software Defined Talk #86 With a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: …

: Book Review: Automation & tech ethics, book review I reviewed two books on automation and digital transforming this month: The Wealth of Humans and …

: Can't get enough of that computer in your pocket Nomophobia (/’noʊ-moʊ-‘foʊ-biː-ə/; noh-moh-pho-bee-ah): Fear of being without one’s mobile phone. …

: Can't get enough of that computer in your pocket Nomophobia (/’noʊ-moʊ-‘foʊ-biː-ə/; noh-moh-pho-bee-ah): Fear of being without one’s mobile phone. …

: Can't get enough of that computer in your pocket Nomophobia (/’noʊ-moʊ-‘foʊ-biː-ə/; noh-moh-pho-bee-ah): Fear of being without one’s mobile phone. …

: Can't get enough of that computer in your pocket Nomophobia (/’noʊ-moʊ-‘foʊ-biː-ə/; noh-moh-pho-bee-ah): Fear of being without one’s mobile phone. …

: Can't get enough of that computer in your pocket Nomophobia (/’noʊ-moʊ-‘foʊ-biː-ə/; noh-moh-pho-bee-ah): Fear of being without one’s mobile phone. …

: Can't get enough of that computer in your pocket Nomophobia (/’noʊ-moʊ-‘foʊ-biː-ə/; noh-moh-pho-bee-ah): Fear of being without one’s mobile phone. …

: Can't get enough of that computer in your pocket Nomophobia (/’noʊ-moʊ-‘foʊ-biː-ə/; noh-moh-pho-bee-ah): Fear of being without one’s mobile phone. …

: It's Not the Economy, Stupid Rational anaysis is hard to find in real life: But in Elkhart, people have jobs they didn’t have …

: It's Not the Economy, Stupid Rational anaysis is hard to find in real life: But in Elkhart, people have jobs they didn’t have …

: It's Not the Economy, Stupid Rational anaysis is hard to find in real life: But in Elkhart, people have jobs they didn’t have …

: It's Not the Economy, Stupid Rational anaysis is hard to find in real life: But in Elkhart, people have jobs they didn’t have …

: It's Not the Economy, Stupid Rational anaysis is hard to find in real life: But in Elkhart, people have jobs they didn’t have …

: It's Not the Economy, Stupid Rational anaysis is hard to find in real life: But in Elkhart, people have jobs they didn’t have …

: It's Not the Economy, Stupid Rational anaysis is hard to find in real life: But in Elkhart, people have jobs they didn’t have …

: Meddling with Apple and Chinese Manufacturing A nice discussion that highlights the complexity id trade policy and, thus, rhe high risks of …

: Meddling with Apple and Chinese Manufacturing A nice discussion that highlights the complexity id trade policy and, thus, rhe high risks of …

: Meddling with Apple and Chinese Manufacturing A nice discussion that highlights the complexity id trade policy and, thus, rhe high risks of …

: Meddling with Apple and Chinese Manufacturing A nice discussion that highlights the complexity id trade policy and, thus, rhe high risks of …

: Meddling with Apple and Chinese Manufacturing A nice discussion that highlights the complexity id trade policy and, thus, rhe high risks of …

: Meddling with Apple and Chinese Manufacturing A nice discussion that highlights the complexity id trade policy and, thus, rhe high risks of …

: Meddling with Apple and Chinese Manufacturing A nice discussion that highlights the complexity id trade policy and, thus, rhe high risks of …

: 2% increase in IT budgets predicted The big takeaway is that small increases in IT budgets are the new normal. Unlike previous …

: 2% increase in IT budgets predicted The big takeaway is that small increases in IT budgets are the new normal. Unlike previous …

: 2% increase in IT budgets predicted The big takeaway is that small increases in IT budgets are the new normal. Unlike previous …

: 2% increase in IT budgets predicted The big takeaway is that small increases in IT budgets are the new normal. Unlike previous …

: 2% increase in IT budgets predicted The big takeaway is that small increases in IT budgets are the new normal. Unlike previous …

: 2% increase in IT budgets predicted The big takeaway is that small increases in IT budgets are the new normal. Unlike previous …

: 2% increase in IT budgets predicted The big takeaway is that small increases in IT budgets are the new normal. Unlike previous …

: Michael Dell On Leveraging Dell's Scale To Grab Share In 2017, The 'Golden Age' Of Information Technology Integration talk, plus the idea of IT becoming BT: “business technology.” Link

: Michael Dell On Leveraging Dell's Scale To Grab Share In 2017, The 'Golden Age' Of Information Technology Integration talk, plus the idea of IT becoming BT: “business technology.” Link

: Michael Dell On Leveraging Dell's Scale To Grab Share In 2017, The 'Golden Age' Of Information Technology Integration talk, plus the idea of IT becoming BT: “business technology.” Link

: Michael Dell On Leveraging Dell's Scale To Grab Share In 2017, The 'Golden Age' Of Information Technology Integration talk, plus the idea of IT becoming BT: “business technology.” Link

: Michael Dell On Leveraging Dell's Scale To Grab Share In 2017, The 'Golden Age' Of Information Technology Integration talk, plus the idea of IT becoming BT: “business technology.” Link

: Michael Dell On Leveraging Dell's Scale To Grab Share In 2017, The 'Golden Age' Of Information Technology Integration talk, plus the idea of IT becoming BT: “business technology.” Link

: Michael Dell On Leveraging Dell's Scale To Grab Share In 2017, The 'Golden Age' Of Information Technology Integration talk, plus the idea of IT becoming BT: “business technology.” Link

: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has …

: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has …

: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has …

: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has …

: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has …

: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has …

: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has …

: Puppet and containers When we're talking with customers about the value that Puppet brings to them, invariably we talk …

: Puppet and containers When we're talking with customers about the value that Puppet brings to them, invariably we talk …

: Puppet and containers When we're talking with customers about the value that Puppet brings to them, invariably we talk …

: Puppet and containers When we're talking with customers about the value that Puppet brings to them, invariably we talk …

: Puppet and containers When we're talking with customers about the value that Puppet brings to them, invariably we talk …

: Puppet and containers When we're talking with customers about the value that Puppet brings to them, invariably we talk …

: Puppet and containers When we're talking with customers about the value that Puppet brings to them, invariably we talk …

: Amazon is building an 'Uber for trucking' app The app, scheduled to launch in summer 2017, is designed to make it easier for truck drivers to find …

: Amazon is building an 'Uber for trucking' app The app, scheduled to launch in summer 2017, is designed to make it easier for truck drivers to find …

: Amazon is building an 'Uber for trucking' app The app, scheduled to launch in summer 2017, is designed to make it easier for truck drivers to find …

: Amazon is building an 'Uber for trucking' app The app, scheduled to launch in summer 2017, is designed to make it easier for truck drivers to find …

: Amazon is building an 'Uber for trucking' app The app, scheduled to launch in summer 2017, is designed to make it easier for truck drivers to find …

: Amazon is building an 'Uber for trucking' app The app, scheduled to launch in summer 2017, is designed to make it easier for truck drivers to find …

: Amazon is building an 'Uber for trucking' app The app, scheduled to launch in summer 2017, is designed to make it easier for truck drivers to find …

: Autonomy quarter stuffing When Autonomy was negotiating a sale to an end user, but couldn’t close the sale by quarter’s end, …

: Autonomy quarter stuffing When Autonomy was negotiating a sale to an end user, but couldn’t close the sale by quarter’s end, …

: Autonomy quarter stuffing When Autonomy was negotiating a sale to an end user, but couldn’t close the sale by quarter’s end, …

: Autonomy quarter stuffing When Autonomy was negotiating a sale to an end user, but couldn’t close the sale by quarter’s end, …

: Autonomy quarter stuffing When Autonomy was negotiating a sale to an end user, but couldn’t close the sale by quarter’s end, …

: Autonomy quarter stuffing When Autonomy was negotiating a sale to an end user, but couldn’t close the sale by quarter’s end, …

: Autonomy quarter stuffing When Autonomy was negotiating a sale to an end user, but couldn’t close the sale by quarter’s end, …

: Developer Relations: More than Traveling the World and Buying People Beer Some tactical advice, with some small survey figures: It was a small survey of 79 people, which …

: Developer Relations: More than Traveling the World and Buying People Beer Some tactical advice, with some small survey figures: It was a small survey of 79 people, which …

: Developer Relations: More than Traveling the World and Buying People Beer Some tactical advice, with some small survey figures: It was a small survey of 79 people, which …

: Developer Relations: More than Traveling the World and Buying People Beer Some tactical advice, with some small survey figures: It was a small survey of 79 people, which …

: Developer Relations: More than Traveling the World and Buying People Beer Some tactical advice, with some small survey figures: It was a small survey of 79 people, which …

: Developer Relations: More than Traveling the World and Buying People Beer Some tactical advice, with some small survey figures: It was a small survey of 79 people, which …

: Developer Relations: More than Traveling the World and Buying People Beer Some tactical advice, with some small survey figures: It was a small survey of 79 people, which …

: On-prem still a big thing, Gartner survey only 10% of organizations surveyed by Gartner are expected to close their on-premises data centers …

: On-prem still a big thing, Gartner survey only 10% of organizations surveyed by Gartner are expected to close their on-premises data centers …

: On-prem still a big thing, Gartner survey only 10% of organizations surveyed by Gartner are expected to close their on-premises data centers …

: On-prem still a big thing, Gartner survey only 10% of organizations surveyed by Gartner are expected to close their on-premises data centers …

: On-prem still a big thing, Gartner survey only 10% of organizations surveyed by Gartner are expected to close their on-premises data centers …

: On-prem still a big thing, Gartner survey only 10% of organizations surveyed by Gartner are expected to close their on-premises data centers …

: On-prem still a big thing, Gartner survey only 10% of organizations surveyed by Gartner are expected to close their on-premises data centers …

: Oracle losing legacy software sales, growing (public?) cloud sales Once again, the key metric of new software license sales was off—falling 19% to $1.35 billion …

: Oracle losing legacy software sales, growing (public?) cloud sales Once again, the key metric of new software license sales was off—falling 19% to $1.35 billion …

: Oracle losing legacy software sales, growing (public?) cloud sales Once again, the key metric of new software license sales was off—falling 19% to $1.35 billion …

: Oracle losing legacy software sales, growing (public?) cloud sales Once again, the key metric of new software license sales was off—falling 19% to $1.35 billion …

: Oracle losing legacy software sales, growing (public?) cloud sales Once again, the key metric of new software license sales was off—falling 19% to $1.35 billion …

: Oracle losing legacy software sales, growing (public?) cloud sales Once again, the key metric of new software license sales was off—falling 19% to $1.35 billion …

: Oracle losing legacy software sales, growing (public?) cloud sales Once again, the key metric of new software license sales was off—falling 19% to $1.35 billion …

: Polycom's Former CEO Tapped As New Leader Of BMC Software New CEO at BMC, with previous one moving up the board: “Leav is succeeding BMC’s 16-year …

: Polycom's Former CEO Tapped As New Leader Of BMC Software New CEO at BMC, with previous one moving up the board: “Leav is succeeding BMC’s 16-year …

: Polycom's Former CEO Tapped As New Leader Of BMC Software New CEO at BMC, with previous one moving up the board: “Leav is succeeding BMC’s 16-year …

: Polycom's Former CEO Tapped As New Leader Of BMC Software New CEO at BMC, with previous one moving up the board: “Leav is succeeding BMC’s 16-year …

: Polycom's Former CEO Tapped As New Leader Of BMC Software New CEO at BMC, with previous one moving up the board: “Leav is succeeding BMC’s 16-year …

: Polycom's Former CEO Tapped As New Leader Of BMC Software New CEO at BMC, with previous one moving up the board: “Leav is succeeding BMC’s 16-year …

: Polycom's Former CEO Tapped As New Leader Of BMC Software New CEO at BMC, with previous one moving up the board: “Leav is succeeding BMC’s 16-year …

: Amazon grocery store has no cash registers, uses phone Customers scan the Amazon Go app on their smartphone as they enter the store. The company spent four …

: Amazon grocery store has no cash registers, uses phone Customers scan the Amazon Go app on their smartphone as they enter the store. The company spent four …

: Amazon grocery store has no cash registers, uses phone Customers scan the Amazon Go app on their smartphone as they enter the store. The company spent four …

: Amazon grocery store has no cash registers, uses phone Customers scan the Amazon Go app on their smartphone as they enter the store. The company spent four …

: Amazon grocery store has no cash registers, uses phone Customers scan the Amazon Go app on their smartphone as they enter the store. The company spent four …

: Amazon grocery store has no cash registers, uses phone Customers scan the Amazon Go app on their smartphone as they enter the store. The company spent four …

: Amazon grocery store has no cash registers, uses phone Customers scan the Amazon Go app on their smartphone as they enter the store. The company spent four …

: All the things from re:Invent 2016 Lots of specific middleware - like targeting mobile users - and a VPS offering, among many other …

: All the things from re:Invent 2016 Lots of specific middleware - like targeting mobile users - and a VPS offering, among many other …

: All the things from re:Invent 2016 Lots of specific middleware - like targeting mobile users - and a VPS offering, among many other …

: All the things from re:Invent 2016 Lots of specific middleware - like targeting mobile users - and a VPS offering, among many other …

: All the things from re:Invent 2016 Lots of specific middleware - like targeting mobile users - and a VPS offering, among many other …

: All the things from re:Invent 2016 Lots of specific middleware - like targeting mobile users - and a VPS offering, among many other …

: All the things from re:Invent 2016 Lots of specific middleware - like targeting mobile users - and a VPS offering, among many other …

: The crowded cloud native space The wider Cloud Native ecosystem is, however, a very disparate and confused place. We anticipate a …

: The crowded cloud native space The wider Cloud Native ecosystem is, however, a very disparate and confused place. We anticipate a …

: The crowded cloud native space The wider Cloud Native ecosystem is, however, a very disparate and confused place. We anticipate a …

: The crowded cloud native space The wider Cloud Native ecosystem is, however, a very disparate and confused place. We anticipate a …

: The crowded cloud native space The wider Cloud Native ecosystem is, however, a very disparate and confused place. We anticipate a …

: The crowded cloud native space The wider Cloud Native ecosystem is, however, a very disparate and confused place. We anticipate a …

: The crowded cloud native space The wider Cloud Native ecosystem is, however, a very disparate and confused place. We anticipate a …

: Not actually a DevOps talk I get asked to talk on DevOps a lot. Here’s my current (late 2016 and 2017) presentation, …

: Not actually a DevOps talk I get asked to talk on DevOps a lot. Here’s my current (late 2016 and 2017) presentation, …

: Not actually a DevOps talk I get asked to talk on DevOps a lot. Here’s my current (late 2016 and 2017) presentation, …

: Not actually a DevOps talk I get asked to talk on DevOps a lot. Here’s my current (late 2016 and 2017) presentation, …

: Not actually a DevOps talk I get asked to talk on DevOps a lot. Here’s my current (late 2016 and 2017) presentation, …

: Not actually a DevOps talk I get asked to talk on DevOps a lot. Here’s my current (late 2016 and 2017) presentation, …

: Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy, booklet [Gallery images not available] Like reading about doing agile, DevOps, and “cloud …

: Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy, booklet [Gallery images not available] Like reading about doing agile, DevOps, and “cloud …

: Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy, booklet [Gallery images not available] Like reading about doing agile, DevOps, and “cloud …

: Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy, booklet [Gallery images not available] Like reading about doing agile, DevOps, and “cloud …

: Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy, booklet [Gallery images not available] Like reading about doing agile, DevOps, and “cloud …

: Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy, booklet [Gallery images not available] Like reading about doing agile, DevOps, and “cloud …

: Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy, booklet [Gallery images not available] Like reading about doing agile, DevOps, and “cloud …

: Book Review: two DevOps books Check out my review of the DevOps Handbook and Start and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise over on …

: Book Review: two DevOps books Check out my review of the DevOps Handbook and Start and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise over on …

: Book Review: two DevOps books Check out my review of the DevOps Handbook and Start and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise over on …

: Book Review: two DevOps books Check out my review of the DevOps Handbook and Start and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise over on …

: Book Review: two DevOps books Check out my review of the DevOps Handbook and Start and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise over on …

: Book Review: two DevOps books Check out my review of the DevOps Handbook and Start and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise over on …

: Book Review: two DevOps books Check out my review of the DevOps Handbook and Start and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise over on …

: The Container Landscape, choosing what to do now A round-up of all sorts of container stacks, and some advice on what to do: Therefore, the key …

: The Container Landscape, choosing what to do now A round-up of all sorts of container stacks, and some advice on what to do: Therefore, the key …

: The Container Landscape, choosing what to do now A round-up of all sorts of container stacks, and some advice on what to do: Therefore, the key …

: The Container Landscape, choosing what to do now A round-up of all sorts of container stacks, and some advice on what to do: Therefore, the key …

: The Container Landscape, choosing what to do now A round-up of all sorts of container stacks, and some advice on what to do: Therefore, the key …

: The Container Landscape, choosing what to do now A round-up of all sorts of container stacks, and some advice on what to do: Therefore, the key …

: The Container Landscape, choosing what to do now A round-up of all sorts of container stacks, and some advice on what to do: Therefore, the key …

: Keeping sane at the airport After 10 years of business travel, this is how I cope at the airport: You’ll get there, even …

: Book Review: Maximize Your Investment: 10 Key Strategies for Effective Packaged Software Implementations The premise of this book, for most anyone, is painfully boring: planning out and project managing …

: Getting Started — picking your first cloud native projects, or, Every Digital Transformation Starts with One Project This post is pretty old and possibly out of date. There’s updates on this topic and more in my book, …

: Enterprise open source montage I cut the below montage-y overview of the history of enterprise open source from a Register piece …

: “My pants are full of brisket,” Apple updates, &amp; Oracle storms the AWS castle - Software Defined Talk #73 Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then …

: “My pants are full of brisket,” Apple updates, &amp; Oracle storms the AWS castle - Software Defined Talk #73 Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then …

: “Oh! Scurvy! Again.” - Software Defined Talk #72 It’s all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE …

: “Oh! Scurvy! Again.” - Software Defined Talk #72 It’s all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE …

: Moving beyond the endless debate on bi-modal IT I get all ants-in-pants about this whole bi-modal discussion because I feel like it’s a lot of …

: HPE Software sold for $8.8bn, to Micro Focus While HPE is getting $2.5bn in cash, the whole deal value is more like $8.8bn, the non-cash being …

: Unbreakable Docker, or, elephants, er, like other elephants - Software Defined Talk #71 We discuss the fun, changing land of the software stack… Also see full show notes.

: Unbreakable Docker, or, elephants, er, like other elephants - Software Defined Talk #71 We discuss the fun, changing land of the software stack… Also see full show notes.

: Deciding where the Docker ecosystem will make money The Docker forking hoopla is providing an interesting example, in realtime, of how open communities …

: “No one wants to eat a finger-pie.” - Software Defined Talk #70 This week we discuss Rackspace going private and the OpenStack cloud scenarios that could have been. …

: “No one wants to eat a finger-pie.” - Software Defined Talk #70 This week we discuss Rackspace going private and the OpenStack cloud scenarios that could have been. …

: The two types of sales dudes you meet in heaven, the IaaS MQ, and layoffs - Software Defined Talk #69 There’s always good food in the enterprise sales meeting racket: gourmet pimento cheese, sushi and …

: The two types of sales dudes you meet in heaven, the IaaS MQ, and layoffs - Software Defined Talk #69 There’s always good food in the enterprise sales meeting racket: gourmet pimento cheese, sushi and …

: Too old for the buffet - Software Defined Talk #68 With Matt securely setup in Australia, we get the low-down on the down under. We also discuss rumors …

: Too old for the buffet - Software Defined Talk #68 With Matt securely setup in Australia, we get the low-down on the down under. We also discuss rumors …

: These aren't the ROI's you're looking for I have a larger piece on common objections to “cloud native” that I’ve encountered over the last …

: Working with legacy applications, systems, and portfolios Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson asked me recently for advice on working with legacy applications. Check …

: Questioning DRY tl;dr Recently, I’ve been in conversations where people throw some doubt on DRY. In the cloud …

: Fried chicken, Docker Swarm, tech journalism, or, "but that sweet @MattRay interpolation, tho." - Software Defined Talk #67 Is anyone minding the business side of these container orchestration plays? That’s the main …

: Fried chicken, Docker Swarm, tech journalism, or, "but that sweet @MattRay interpolation, tho." - Software Defined Talk #67 Is anyone minding the business side of these container orchestration plays? That’s the main …

: I-Bankers Smokin' L's in the Hot-tub - Software Defined Talk #66 With two surprise acquisitions this week we have a lot of synergies to discuss. We cover Samsung …

: I-Bankers Smokin' L's in the Hot-tub - Software Defined Talk #66 With two surprise acquisitions this week we have a lot of synergies to discuss. We cover Samsung …

: Residential Diaper Rash - Software Defined Talk #64 While Texas moistens up, we talk about the morals of rich tech folks suing journalists, the state of …

: Residential Diaper Rash - Software Defined Talk #64 While Texas moistens up, we talk about the morals of rich tech folks suing journalists, the state of …

: The Snack-Tracker, Uber in Austin, &amp; Tater Salad - Software Defined Talk #63 After we learn how to divide by eight, we discuss Uber being shut-down in Austin, then a recent case …

: The Snack-Tracker, Uber in Austin, &amp; Tater Salad - Software Defined Talk #63 After we learn how to divide by eight, we discuss Uber being shut-down in Austin, then a recent case …

: Peak Ping Pong - Software Defined Talk #62 This week, we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, Pivotal’s funding round, and some follow-up for the …

: Peak Ping Pong - Software Defined Talk #62 This week, we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, Pivotal’s funding round, and some follow-up for the …

: Baltimore is not the same as Annapolis. Also, they like crab there - Software Defined Talk #61 OpenStack is crawling its way into the plateau of productivity, we submit, during this week of the …

: Baltimore is not the same as Annapolis. Also, they like crab there - Software Defined Talk #61 OpenStack is crawling its way into the plateau of productivity, we submit, during this week of the …

: Asking questions often leads to more work, for you Most of what we do as white-collar workers is help our organization come to a decision. What new …

: Avoid fence painting by assigning homework One of the more eye-rolling tactics of white collar workers is what I call “fence painting”: an …

: Dead Horse Points In corporate meetings, oftentimes one person figures out a problem and comes up with a solution. …

: Eventually, to do a developer strategy your execs have to take a leap of faith A kingmaker in the making. I’ve talked with an old colleague about pitching a developer-based …

: So you want to become a software company? 7 tips to not screw it up. Hey, I’ve not only seen this movie before, I did some script treatments: Chief Executive Officer …

: Self-motivated teams lead to better software This post is pretty old and possibly out of date. There’s an updated version of it in my book, …

: Link: Hacking Your To Do List with Your Calendar Explained like this, this makes a lot a sense: “When accepting a task, this philosophy …

: Link: Hacking Your To Do List with Your Calendar Explained like this, this makes a lot a sense: “When accepting a task, this philosophy …

: Link: Hacking Your To Do List with Your Calendar Explained like this, this makes a lot a sense: “When accepting a task, this philosophy …

: Link: 2016: the year IT sales will go sdrawkcaB • The Register $2.3T estimated for global IT spend in 2016, with the US seeing the most growth, 1% in Western …

: Link: 2016: the year IT sales will go sdrawkcaB • The Register $2.3T estimated for global IT spend in 2016, with the US seeing the most growth, 1% in Western …

: Link: 2016: the year IT sales will go sdrawkcaB • The Register $2.3T estimated for global IT spend in 2016, with the US seeing the most growth, 1% in Western …

: Link: IDC: Federal government seeing cloud spending push “In addition, the government plans to increase PaaS spending from $227.1 million in FY15 to …

: Link: IDC: Federal government seeing cloud spending push “In addition, the government plans to increase PaaS spending from $227.1 million in FY15 to …

: Link: IDC: Federal government seeing cloud spending push “In addition, the government plans to increase PaaS spending from $227.1 million in FY15 to …

: Link: Cloud Computing Trends: 2016 State of the Cloud Survey A bit broad, but still legit if you scope the audience right. Source: Cloud Computing Trends: 2016 …

: Link: Cloud Computing Trends: 2016 State of the Cloud Survey A bit broad, but still legit if you scope the audience right. Source: Cloud Computing Trends: 2016 …

: Link: Cloud Computing Trends: 2016 State of the Cloud Survey A bit broad, but still legit if you scope the audience right. Source: Cloud Computing Trends: 2016 …

: Link: Don't make the mistake of thinking the CIO is irrelevant - TechRepublic “The world isn’t about to end, however. Yes, Forrester reveals in its …

: Link: Don't make the mistake of thinking the CIO is irrelevant - TechRepublic “The world isn’t about to end, however. Yes, Forrester reveals in its …

: Link: Don't make the mistake of thinking the CIO is irrelevant - TechRepublic “The world isn’t about to end, however. Yes, Forrester reveals in its …

: Link: Gartner: Cloud Email Adoption Still in Early Stages “The cloud email market is still in the early stages of adoption, Gartner said, with 13 …

: Link: Gartner: Cloud Email Adoption Still in Early Stages “The cloud email market is still in the early stages of adoption, Gartner said, with 13 …

: Link: Gartner: Cloud Email Adoption Still in Early Stages “The cloud email market is still in the early stages of adoption, Gartner said, with 13 …

: Link: JFrog Raises $50 Million To Provide The App Store For The Internet Of Things That’s a big chunk of change. Developers don’t pay for anything, eh? Source: JFrog …

: Link: JFrog Raises $50 Million To Provide The App Store For The Internet Of Things That’s a big chunk of change. Developers don’t pay for anything, eh? Source: JFrog …

: Link: JFrog Raises $50 Million To Provide The App Store For The Internet Of Things That’s a big chunk of change. Developers don’t pay for anything, eh? Source: JFrog …

: Link: Walmart to Close 269 Stores as Retailers Struggle Closing mostly smaller stores and Brazil. All in, just 3% of stores globally, and opening 300 next …

: Link: Walmart to Close 269 Stores as Retailers Struggle Closing mostly smaller stores and Brazil. All in, just 3% of stores globally, and opening 300 next …

: Link: Walmart to Close 269 Stores as Retailers Struggle Closing mostly smaller stores and Brazil. All in, just 3% of stores globally, and opening 300 next …

: Link: Banking time If time is money, you should “save” it as much as possible, which means …

: Link: Banking time If time is money, you should “save” it as much as possible, which means …

: Link: Banking time If time is money, you should “save” it as much as possible, which means …

: Link: Googles challenge in enterprise cloud Post Alphabet, where any previous inhibitions about pursuing new hobbies have evaporated, it is even …

: Link: Googles challenge in enterprise cloud Post Alphabet, where any previous inhibitions about pursuing new hobbies have evaporated, it is even …

: Link: Googles challenge in enterprise cloud Post Alphabet, where any previous inhibitions about pursuing new hobbies have evaporated, it is even …

: Link: Oracle insider: We're not walking the cloud talk " Our announcements are always a minimum of six months ahead of the technology." Source: …

: Link: Oracle insider: We're not walking the cloud talk " Our announcements are always a minimum of six months ahead of the technology." Source: …

: Link: Oracle insider: We're not walking the cloud talk " Our announcements are always a minimum of six months ahead of the technology." Source: …

: Link: Wanted: 1,400 sales jockeys to flog Oracle Cloud Ramping up cloud: “Oracle talks a great cloud game - it says it has in the last six months …

: Link: Wanted: 1,400 sales jockeys to flog Oracle Cloud Ramping up cloud: “Oracle talks a great cloud game - it says it has in the last six months …

: Link: Wanted: 1,400 sales jockeys to flog Oracle Cloud Ramping up cloud: “Oracle talks a great cloud game - it says it has in the last six months …

: Link: Why 2016 Will Be The Year Of Mass Wearables Adoption Also: Source: Why 2016 Will Be The Year Of Mass Wearables Adoption

: Link: Why 2016 Will Be The Year Of Mass Wearables Adoption Also: Source: Why 2016 Will Be The Year Of Mass Wearables Adoption

: Link: Why 2016 Will Be The Year Of Mass Wearables Adoption Also: Source: Why 2016 Will Be The Year Of Mass Wearables Adoption

: Link: Cloud Foundry poised to shine in 2016, Chris Talbot “Based on the articles I wrote and the people I spoke with in 2015, I’d say 2016 is …

: Link: Cloud Foundry poised to shine in 2016, Chris Talbot “Based on the articles I wrote and the people I spoke with in 2015, I’d say 2016 is …

: Link: Cloud Foundry poised to shine in 2016, Chris Talbot “Based on the articles I wrote and the people I spoke with in 2015, I’d say 2016 is …

: Link: IBM's Steve Mills retires 40 years at IBM, straight out of college. He built up the software group, then ended up managing …

: Link: IBM's Steve Mills retires 40 years at IBM, straight out of college. He built up the software group, then ended up managing …

: Link: IBM's Steve Mills retires 40 years at IBM, straight out of college. He built up the software group, then ended up managing …

: Link: Is the future of wealth management going to be robo-advisers? Estimate of the market-size for companies like Wealthfront: “whilst in the UK robo-advisers …

: Link: Is the future of wealth management going to be robo-advisers? Estimate of the market-size for companies like Wealthfront: “whilst in the UK robo-advisers …

: Link: Is the future of wealth management going to be robo-advisers? Estimate of the market-size for companies like Wealthfront: “whilst in the UK robo-advisers …

: Link: 16 mobile theses “That doesn’t remotely mean that Microsoft is dead, but it has to work out how to use the cash …

: Link: 16 mobile theses “That doesn’t remotely mean that Microsoft is dead, but it has to work out how to use the cash …

: Link: 16 mobile theses “That doesn’t remotely mean that Microsoft is dead, but it has to work out how to use the cash …

: Link: IBM Focused on 3 Major Languages: Java, Node.js and Swift “At IBM we believe there are really three key languages that are going to be needed for the future …

: Link: IBM Focused on 3 Major Languages: Java, Node.js and Swift “At IBM we believe there are really three key languages that are going to be needed for the future …

: Link: IBM Focused on 3 Major Languages: Java, Node.js and Swift “At IBM we believe there are really three key languages that are going to be needed for the future …

: Link: Ford teams with Pivotal, bets on Cloud Foundry “As for the Pivotal partnership, Ford will use Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry and big data suit …

: Link: Ford teams with Pivotal, bets on Cloud Foundry “As for the Pivotal partnership, Ford will use Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry and big data suit …

: Link: Ford teams with Pivotal, bets on Cloud Foundry “As for the Pivotal partnership, Ford will use Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry and big data suit …

: Addressing the DevOps compliance problem Satisfying the mythical auditors is often one of the first barriers to spreading DevOps initiatives …

: Link: Billionaire CEO and investor Marc Benioff says unicorn startups manipulated private markets and he's done investing in them "The unicorn thing, I've been saying for a while now, is not great," Benioff told Stephanie Ruhle on …

: Link: Billionaire CEO and investor Marc Benioff says unicorn startups manipulated private markets and he's done investing in them "The unicorn thing, I've been saying for a while now, is not great," Benioff told Stephanie Ruhle on …

: Link: Billionaire CEO and investor Marc Benioff says unicorn startups manipulated private markets and he's done investing in them "The unicorn thing, I've been saying for a while now, is not great," Benioff told Stephanie Ruhle on …

: Link: ​Middleware-as-a-service turns enterprise integration on its head - Reseller News “Global analyst firm Ovum forecasts the global spend on middleware software is expected to …

: Link: ​Middleware-as-a-service turns enterprise integration on its head - Reseller News “Global analyst firm Ovum forecasts the global spend on middleware software is expected to …

: Link: ​Middleware-as-a-service turns enterprise integration on its head - Reseller News “Global analyst firm Ovum forecasts the global spend on middleware software is expected to …

: Link: Apple Watch by the (estimated) numbers, and 11 claimed myths about the wearable Round up of marketshare and commentary on the Apple Watch from Horace’s Apple Watch …

: Link: Apple Watch by the (estimated) numbers, and 11 claimed myths about the wearable Round up of marketshare and commentary on the Apple Watch from Horace’s Apple Watch …

: Link: Apple Watch by the (estimated) numbers, and 11 claimed myths about the wearable Round up of marketshare and commentary on the Apple Watch from Horace’s Apple Watch …

: Link: Internet of Things Spending Forecast to Reach Nearly $1.3 Trillion in 2019 Led by Widespread Initiatives “According to a new IDC Spending Guide, worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) …

: Link: Internet of Things Spending Forecast to Reach Nearly $1.3 Trillion in 2019 Led by Widespread Initiatives “According to a new IDC Spending Guide, worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) …

: Link: Internet of Things Spending Forecast to Reach Nearly $1.3 Trillion in 2019 Led by Widespread Initiatives “According to a new IDC Spending Guide, worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) …

: Link: Wearables marketshare from IDC “Fitbit with 22.2%, Apple with 18.6%, and Xiaomi with 17.4%. Of course, in such a new product …

: Link: Wearables marketshare from IDC “Fitbit with 22.2%, Apple with 18.6%, and Xiaomi with 17.4%. Of course, in such a new product …

: Link: Wearables marketshare from IDC “Fitbit with 22.2%, Apple with 18.6%, and Xiaomi with 17.4%. Of course, in such a new product …

: Link: Microservices Beyond the Hype: What You Gain and What You Lose Pretty good benefits/problem list, plus commentary on the “autonomy” angle. Source: …

: Link: Microservices Beyond the Hype: What You Gain and What You Lose Pretty good benefits/problem list, plus commentary on the “autonomy” angle. Source: …

: Link: Microservices Beyond the Hype: What You Gain and What You Lose Pretty good benefits/problem list, plus commentary on the “autonomy” angle. Source: …

: Link: Usage of Apple Watch by British Airways Passengers “Apple watches now account for more than five per cent of app usage, giving customers access …

: Link: Usage of Apple Watch by British Airways Passengers “Apple watches now account for more than five per cent of app usage, giving customers access …

: Link: Usage of Apple Watch by British Airways Passengers “Apple watches now account for more than five per cent of app usage, giving customers access …

: Link: Tech companies that are likely to acquire startups in 2016 “The roughly 60 or so publicly traded software companies hold more than $380B in cash and …

: Link: Tech companies that are likely to acquire startups in 2016 “The roughly 60 or so publicly traded software companies hold more than $380B in cash and …

: Link: Tech companies that are likely to acquire startups in 2016 “The roughly 60 or so publicly traded software companies hold more than $380B in cash and …

: Link: H-E-B creates online store with nationwide delivery service HEB is the mega grocery chain, operating in much of Texas. It’s a sort of …

: Link: H-E-B creates online store with nationwide delivery service HEB is the mega grocery chain, operating in much of Texas. It’s a sort of …

: Link: H-E-B creates online store with nationwide delivery service HEB is the mega grocery chain, operating in much of Texas. It’s a sort of …

: Link: How coffee loves us back - round-up of positive coffee studies It looks like we’re cool to drink coffee. Source: How coffee loves us back - round-up of …

: Link: How coffee loves us back - round-up of positive coffee studies It looks like we’re cool to drink coffee. Source: How coffee loves us back - round-up of …

: Link: How coffee loves us back - round-up of positive coffee studies It looks like we’re cool to drink coffee. Source: How coffee loves us back - round-up of …

: Link: Why CA left the DCIM market “According to IDC, the market will reach $576 million in revenue this year – up from $475 …

: Link: Why CA left the DCIM market “According to IDC, the market will reach $576 million in revenue this year – up from $475 …

: Link: Why CA left the DCIM market “According to IDC, the market will reach $576 million in revenue this year – up from $475 …

: Link: Forrester/IBM Report: 'Great' apps monetize five times better than good ones Survey commissioned by IBM to find out what makes mobile apps great. Then, of course, it seeks to …

: Link: Forrester/IBM Report: 'Great' apps monetize five times better than good ones Survey commissioned by IBM to find out what makes mobile apps great. Then, of course, it seeks to …

: Link: Forrester/IBM Report: 'Great' apps monetize five times better than good ones Survey commissioned by IBM to find out what makes mobile apps great. Then, of course, it seeks to …

: Link: Gartner Survey Reveals Western European Employees View IT as a Technical Resource, Not a Digital Advisor While employees are feeling more and more computer literate, they’re valuing the IT department …

: Link: Gartner Survey Reveals Western European Employees View IT as a Technical Resource, Not a Digital Advisor While employees are feeling more and more computer literate, they’re valuing the IT department …

: Link: Gartner Survey Reveals Western European Employees View IT as a Technical Resource, Not a Digital Advisor While employees are feeling more and more computer literate, they’re valuing the IT department …

: Link: PCs: 3Q15 Update from IDC "Worldwide PC shipments totaled 70.7 million units in 3Q15, up 8.6% sequentially but down 11.1% from …

: Link: PCs: 3Q15 Update from IDC "Worldwide PC shipments totaled 70.7 million units in 3Q15, up 8.6% sequentially but down 11.1% from …

: Link: PCs: 3Q15 Update from IDC "Worldwide PC shipments totaled 70.7 million units in 3Q15, up 8.6% sequentially but down 11.1% from …

: Healthcare Shift to the Cloud Quickens Healthcare Shift to the Cloud Quickens

: NHS Health Apps Library full of data-spaffing apps, claims studies As software eats the world, this kind of mismatch between “fail fast” and “must be perfect on day …

: Exclusive: Citrix in last-ditch attempt to sell itself - sources Exclusive: Citrix in last-ditch attempt to sell itself - sources

: Making users more productive “We’ve come to understand that productivity software is always evolving, and it’s our responsibility …

: All the taboos about working at home Working at home, with a family, is a challenge, as this nice overview piece at The Register goes …

: Digital transformation progress report - Home Depot builds a digital future “Last year [2014], about 40% of all the orders generated on homedepot.com actually finished in one …

: 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 …

: 10th State of Agile Survey 10th State of Agile Survey

: Hewlett Packard Enterprise to cut 30,000 jobs “cut another 30,000 jobs” - shedding droves of people happens at big tech companies a lot. I always …

: Kubernetes Has A Ways To Go To Scale Like Google, Mesos Kubernetes Has A Ways To Go To Scale Like Google, Mesos

: Barriers to DevOps in government There’s just as much pull for DevOps in government as there is in the private sector. While most of …

: How do I Contain This Virtual Machine? How do I Contain This Virtual Machine?

: The Most Recommended Brands 2015 The Most Recommended Brands 2015

: For IBM, Node.js Creates a Microservices Middleware Layer I’ve done M&A pitches for UI companies before. They’re hard. For IBM, Node.js Creates a …

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: Atlantis: The DSSD, data centre disk killer rising from the deep Atlantis: The DSSD, data centre disk killer rising from the deep

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: Microsoft and Docker Preview Windows Server Containers Microsoft and Docker Preview Windows Server Containers

: CBP's Wolf Tombe: Mobile, wearable technologies will advance mission CBP’s Wolf Tombe: Mobile, wearable technologies will advance mission

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: Okta Raises $75 Million, Boosting Valuation to Nearly $1.2 Billion Okta Raises $75 Million, Boosting Valuation to Nearly $1.2 Billion

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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 …

: Want IoT? Here's How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters - High Scalability - Want IoT? Here’s How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters - …

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: Datical is Cloud Native - with database market sizing numbers “IDC states that worldwide RDBMS revenue will grow to 41B by 2019. And, 5.7B of that will be public …

: A presentation is just a document that has been printed in landscape mode I’m always wanting to do a talk or write a series of items on the white-collar toolchain, or …

: Mirantis funding, revenue estimate “‘We’ve gone from signing about $1 million in new business every month to $1 million every week,’ …

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: Docker Deployment: A View From the Trenches “As of early June, Mesosphere said Yelp is launching more than 1 million Docker containers a day …

: Management’s role in DevOps: orchestrating the why Donkey teamwork What’s the point of it all? Why are we doing this? These questions pop up frequently …

: Why Docker is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production Why Docker is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production

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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 …

: Philips | Case Study | Pivotal “Provisioning applications that required manual steps and operations that used to take weeks or …

: Software is infinitely flexible. It can be changed right up to the time the product is introduced. …

: 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 …

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: What is DevOps? Industry Experts Explain | SolarWinds “[T]ake a shot when the secret word ‘dearth’ is mentioned.” What is DevOps? Industry Experts Explain …

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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 …

: EMC Documentum/Enterprise Content Division | Case Study | Pivotal “With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, deployment timeframes have been reduced by 75 percent, accelerating …

: Google Losing $8B to $9B on Side Projects, Estimates Morgan Stanley Trying to figure out the various lines of business I. Google. Google Losing $8B to $9B on Side …

: IT: Think Digital, Think Business, Think Big n=250 survey that shows people want more from IT, but they feel IT is not up to the task: “A mere 43 …

: 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 …

: 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 …

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: Global SMB IT spend heading towards $600 billion “It predicts that global SMB IT spend – defined as firms with between one and 999 employees - could …

: The 7 "Deadly" Wastes That Could Cost Your Company The 7 “Deadly” Wastes That Could Cost Your Company

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: EMC Documentum Goes Cloud Native With Pivotal Cloud Foundry “deployment timeframes have been reduced by 75 percent.” EMC Documentum Goes Cloud Native With …

: RSA chief uncans insurance giant's mega IT infrastructure review RSA chief uncans insurance giant’s mega IT infrastructure review

: "Show Me The Money!" - Delivering DevOps Value “Show Me The Money!” - Delivering DevOps Value

: The digital transformation illusion Don’t just put old wine in new bottles, figure out if there’s something better than wine too: “How …

: The end of corporate computing (10th anniversary edition) “I got plenty of things wrong in the article, but I think the ensuing ten years have shown that the …

: VCE Study Makes Case for Converged IT VCE Study Makes Case for Converged IT

: A Value Framework that Works for Transforming Your Application Portfolio | EMC A Value Framework that Works for Transforming Your Application Portfolio | EMC

: Bits or pieces?: An introduction to Wardley (Value Chain) Mapping Bits or pieces?: An introduction to Wardley (Value Chain) Mapping

: Cloud Native Application Platforms – Structured and Unstructured | Wikibon.com Cloud Native Application Platforms – Structured and Unstructured | Wikibon.com Cloud Native …

: Five Things You Need To Know About Microservices | EMCInFocus “For those not familiar with the concept, microservices is essentially a software architectural …

: Modernizing Business-critical Apps for the Cloud- EMCInFocus “Finally, CIOs need to understand if the juice worth the squeeze.” Modernizing Business-critical …

: What’s Your Application Transformation Strategy? | EMCInFocus What’s Your Application Transformation Strategy? | EMCInFocus

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: The Lean Machine: Bringing Agile Thinking to the Database The Lean Machine: Bringing Agile Thinking to the Database

: When To Use Containers Or Virtual Machines, And Why When To Use Containers Or Virtual Machines, And Why

: Healthcare survey in cloud use Healthcare survey in cloud use

: Mapping the Cloud Native Journey | Pivotal P.O.V. Mapping the Cloud Native Journey | Pivotal P.O.V.

: The Forklifted Application | Pivotal P.O.V. The Forklifted Application | Pivotal P.O.V.

: Welcome To Your Cloud Native Journey (Part 1) | Pivotal P.O.V. Welcome To Your Cloud Native Journey (Part 1) | Pivotal P.O.V.

: Why EMC May Soon Buy Out -- Not Spin Out -- VMware Why EMC May Soon Buy Out – Not Spin Out – VMware

: Why Must I Use Cloud Foundry's Bosh? I just Learned Chef/Puppet! Why Must I Use Cloud Foundry’s Bosh? I just Learned Chef/Puppet!

: 2nd Watch Survey: Big Data, IoT and Cloud are Driving Digital Marketing 2nd Watch Survey: Big Data, IoT and Cloud are Driving Digital Marketing

: DevOps ROI Recently, for my column over at FierceDevOps, I opined about doing ROI for DevOps. This topic comes …

: 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 …

: Git a load of this: GitHub now valued at $2 billion “The site reports it hosts 25 million source code repositories, and has 10 million registered users …

: Global Digital Infrastructure Alliance > Reports > Cloud Platform Choice: A Crucial Strategic Decision Some charts on cloud platform and cloud project spend. Global Digital Infrastructure Alliance > …

: Next step in HP's Helion transformation: Buy Stackato “With this agreement, ActiveState loses the product it’s best known for. Copeland wrote that …

: Open Source Usage in Large Enterprises Across “100 C-Level execs” usage at their company: “When it comes to the actual usage of open source …

: HP buys platform partner Stackato to beef up cloud development stance HP buys platform partner Stackato to beef up cloud development stance

: Reflecting on the OpenStack Kilo Summit and Looking Forward to Liberty “Puppet alone provides the basis for the majority of OpenStack deployments, at 56 percent. Puppet …

: Analyst Watch: Macro confusion about microservices - SD Times Analyst Watch: Macro confusion about microservices - SD Times

: Building Microservices with Spring Cloud and Docker Building Microservices with Spring Cloud and Docker

: HP acquires ActiveState's Stackato PaaS business - VentureBeat HP acquires ActiveState’s Stackato PaaS business - VentureBeat

: Randy Shoup on Microservices, the Reality of Conway's Law, and Evolutionary Architecture Randy Shoup on Microservices, the Reality of Conway’s Law, and Evolutionary Architecture

: The Implications of Cloud Native The Implications of Cloud Native

: Why CNCF? Why now? It will take some time to realize the full vision. Why CNCF? Why now?

: Digital tech, not digital ads, is the way ahead says Starbucks CEO Digital tech, not digital ads, is the way ahead says Starbucks CEO

: Go ahead, be sarcastic | Harvard Gazette Go ahead, be sarcastic Go ahead, be sarcastic | Harvard Gazette

: Rackspace CSO: Work Together To Overcome Cloud Security Uncertainty Rackspace CSO: Work Together To Overcome Cloud Security Uncertainty

: TheLegacy ERP Conversion Under Way At Dietz & Watson A regional deli supply company upgrades its legacy ERP system, which includes much custom coding …

: Why Consumer Startups Dominate the Megaround Market “In software, companies selling to IT have raised the most capital, then marketing, then HR, which …

: Zorawar Biri Singh lands Cisco CTO post as firm shuffles its top brass Zorawar Biri Singh lands Cisco CTO post as firm shuffles its top brass

: New Influence Quadrant shows ‘powerhouse’ firms in trouble New Influence Quadrant shows ‘powerhouse’ firms in trouble

: The Life Cycle of Programming Languages The Life Cycle of Programming Languages

: Fulfilling the promise of enterprise asset management Just in case you need a quick read on EAM. Fulfilling the promise of enterprise asset management

: HP slaps dress code on R&D geeks: Bin that T-shirt and put on this tie • The Register HP slaps dress code on R&D geeks: Bin that T-shirt and put on this tie • The Register

: 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 …

: 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 …

: Shamefaced Amazon admits to actually MAKING MONEY as cloud biz blooms “For Q2, AWS brought in $1.82bn in revenue, which was 81.5 per cent higher than in the second …

: Accenture makes third digital acquisition in a month – buys Chaotic Moon Accenture makes third digital acquisition in a month – buys Chaotic Moon

: DevOps Gaining Traction In The Enterprise DevOps Gaining Traction In The Enterprise

: 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, …

: IBM open sources apps in the cloud to boost software development “By making Bluemix available this way, IBM will equip the developers of tomorrow with the …

: Cisco CEO: 'Brutal' Times For IT Coming - Business Insider Shows declining revenue for tech giants. Cisco CEO: ‘Brutal’ Times For IT Coming - …

: Pivotal and Cloud Native Java -- ADTmag Pivotal and Cloud Native Java – ADTmag

: Apprenda Raises $24 Million, Makes Added Container Support a Priority “One of our biggest assets … is that we’re highly compatible with what you already have, so we focus …

: Capital One Out to Display its Geekdom with Open Source DevOps Dashboard It’s fun seeing non-tech companies do this stuff. Also: “what’s in your dashboard?!” Capital One Out …

: Container Competitors Google, CoreOS, Joyent And Docker Join New Linux Club As Kubernetes Turns One - Forbes “Is that all?” - a good primer on how to read a press release. Container Competitors Google, CoreOS, …

: Increasing your Agility: An interview with Dave Thomas “I like to express it like this. Every team that develops with agility follows these steps: 1. Know …

: Kubernetes container tech hits v1.0. Is that a Tectonic shift I feel? Kubernetes container tech hits v1.0. Is that a Tectonic shift I feel?

: Welcome to the age of cloud-native computing Welcome to the age of cloud-native computing

: Behind the scenes of 18F's agile contract Doing an RFP via a project in github instead of a Word doc. Behind the scenes of 18F’s agile …

: Goodbye, OpenStack | http:///archives/47 Not enough involvement and acceptance for operators, it says. [Goodbye, OpenStack | …

: The mobile web sucks “Just looking at the stats for The Verge, our mobile traffic is up 70 percent from last year, while …

: The Practice and Future of Release Engineering Some metrics and practices used for releasing, and QA’ing. The Practice and Future of Release …

: Dell is closely studying the EMC playbook Dell is closely studying the EMC playbook

: 35 Startups Providing Infrastructure For The On-Demand Boom I’m getting the feeling that “on-demand” is the new synonym for “out-sourced,” but, like, highly …

: IBM Cloud: it’s the infrastructure, stupid Little check-in on IBM cloud strategy with OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, and misc.: “Perhaps more …

: Office, messaging and verbs — Benedict Evans “You don’t actually send email or make a spreadsheet - you analyze, delegate, report, confer, …

: Reborn in the cloud | McKinsey & Company Reborn in the cloud Reborn in the cloud | McKinsey & Company

: 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 …

: thwackCamp 2015 - [Industry Experts Panel] DevO... | thwack Hopefully they’ll have the recording of the DevOps panel I was on up soon. thwackCamp 2015 - …

: There’s no easy way to model DevOps ROI Think you can show DevOps ROI? Think again “What is the ROI for DevOps?” is a question that has been …

: Docker and the Three Ways of DevOps Part 1: The First Way – Systems Thinking | Docker Blog Docker and the Three Ways of DevOps Docker and the Three Ways of DevOps Part 1: The First Way – …

: Docker and the Three Ways of DevOps Part 2: The Second Way – Amplify Feedback Loops | Docker Blog Docker and the Three Ways of DevOps Part 2: The Second Way - Amplify Feedback Loops Docker and the …

: How Docker has made life awesome for SOASTA DevOps | SOASTA How Docker has made life awesome for SOASTA DevOps | SOASTA How Docker has made life awesome for …

: Austen Allred on Twitter: "git commit -m "Fixed interface issues, updated CSS.” http://t.co/XWfVmVMQDQ" [Austen Allred on Twitter: “git commit -m “Fixed interface issues, updated CSS.” …

: In its Transition to a Service Company, Rackspace Embraces Azure Rackspace to sell support for Azure, meaning they’re not just about OpenStack. In its Transition to …

: Amazon moves nearer Platform as a Service concept with new developer tools More for the “Amazon competes with everyone” file. Amazon moves nearer Platform as a Service concept …

: Here’s why you should expect airline disruptions to get worse It’s nice how they turn it around at the end. Here’s why you should expect airline disruptions to …

: Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 9.5 Percent in Second Quarter of 2015 They say it’s an anomaly, high dollar and all that. Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 9.5 …

: TechReckoning Dispatch, Vol. 2, No. 9. July 8, 2015 “Holy platform power, Batman, we just invented PaaS!” TechReckoning Dispatch, Vol. 2, No. 9. July 8, …

: Mirantis climbs aboard converged infrastructure bandwagon ‘Unlocked Appliances come start at six compute nodes and 12 TBs of usable storage and go all the way …

: Rebooting Gigaom Research GigaOm Research to relaunch, using the same federation model and such. Rebooting Gigaom Research

: Digital Ocean CEO don't like OpenStack You have to read it a few times, but I think dude just pooped on OpenStack: “At some point in the …

: Microsoft Targets Hardware Business With 7,800 Job Cuts Seems like the Nokia acquisition was a bad idea? “As a result of the cuts, Microsoft said it will …

: Aggregation is the New Virtualization: How Microservices Are Taming Distributed Computing | Andreessen Horowitz Aggregation is the New Virtualization: How Microservices Are Taming Distributed Computing | …

: HP leads booming $6.3bn cloud infrastructure market - IT News from V3.co.uk HP leads booming $6.3bn cloud infrastructure market HP leads booming $6.3bn cloud infrastructure …

: Microservice Trade-Offs Microservice Trade-Offs (Weekend Reading — The Developer Walk of Shame) Microservice Trade-Offs

: Spring Boot and Dropwizard in microservices development Spring Boot and Dropwizard in microservices development Spring Boot and Dropwizard in microservices …

: Sublime Forum • View topic - Straighten Quotes option? Create your own sublime plugin to get rid of smart quotes. Sublime Forum • View topic - Straighten …

: The Case for Startups to Make Radical Transparency the Top Priority - First Round Review The Case for Startups to Make Radical Transparency the Top Priority - First Round Review The Case …

: Who is the Go Developer? - The New Stack Who is the Go Developer? - The New Stack Who is the Go Developer? - The New Stack

: 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 …

: Just out: [Mobile] Developer Megatrends H1 2015 “Only 20% of mobile developers target enterprises, but 46% of them makes over $10K per month, versus …

: Want a promotion? Cheer up and be on time Beards considered a career retardant: “For men, that may mean getting rid of a beard or mustache, …

: 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 …

: Docker death blow to PaaS? The fat lady isn’t singing just yet folks • The Register Forums Occasionally, @TheRegister comments are more interesting than the whacky icons that marbled their …

: Micro Services: Java, the Unix Way, 2013 Nice talk from James Lewis on doing a microservices approach to solving a banking system problem. …

: 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 …

: The hidden value of automation “They started with 95 percent resource utilization in maintaining legacy processes, and a mere five …

: The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2015 The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2015

: What does IT need to start doing to become a software defined business? I was asked to talk to do an internal, “brown-bag” style talk at a company this week. I …

: Pushing DevOps to the mainstream My second column from FierceDevOps is up. It’s essentially a write-up of my DevOpsDays Austin …

: Here’s how we can help push DevOps into the mainstream Can DevOps declare victory yet? Not quite, but soon. Figuring out when a technology inflection point …

: What is OpenStack? Chris Kemp speaking recently: “Openstack is not a product, it is a collection of projects designed …

: Outlook is a good, mobile email client And, when I actually think about what is going on, I’m using Microsoft Outlook on my Apple iPhone to …

: OpenStack Kilo Rolls With Network, Storage Upgrades Quick overview of the new OpenStack version. OpenStack Kilo Rolls With Network, Storage Upgrades

: I’m always wary of discounting Office: the closer you are to the corporate world, the more you …

: Microsoft targeting $20bn cloud business by 2018, currently at $6.3bn run rate Microsoft Corp. wants to reach annualized revenue of $20 billion in its corporate cloud business in …

: Organizational change is only first step to ensure DevOps success From the perspective of the xMatters engineering team, Serediuk and Dunn-Krahn told me they see …

: Podcasting has something like 17% market penetrarion According to data compiled by Pew Research for its annual State of the Media report, awareness of …

: Is OpenStack a Success? From the data I have seen the number of production OpenStack deployments worldwide in 2014 was on …

: The more flexible SOA “But microservices want to bring you into tomorrow,” says Winterberg. “Microservices add a bit to …

: The growth story was, like Amazon, all about the cloud. Ben Thompson on his latest newsletter, on …

: Chip Childers and the Cloud Foundry Foundation - Pivotal Conversations My most recent Pivotal Conversations podcast is up. In it, I talk with Chip Childers of the Cloud …

: The flywheel go-to-market model The Flywheel Model differs from the Traditional Model in one fundamental regard. The enterprise …

: Survey shows companies want to use IT to drive growth “The second-most-important category of business priority for 2015 and 2016 is technology related. …

: The "purpose driven reader" A number of trends in media have left most news sites catering to a new kind of reader. According to …

: Microservices is a modern take on software architecture, in which complex applications are composed …

: Lots of VC funding in Q1, highest since 2000Q1 At $13.4 billion in 1,020 deals, the first fiscal quarter of 2015 clocked in the most first-quarter …

: Team work bringing down the average The workers were told, essentially, that they were to be rewarded for collective achievement rather …

: Words matter. Thinking about how you talk about jobs if you want more women to apply. – disambiguity Men apply for jobs when they meet 60% of the criteria, while women wait until they feel they meet …

: The little-known body language secrets Even if folding your arms feels comfortable, resist the urge to do so if you want people to see you …

: This is the state of IT everywhere Interesting inquiry with internal IT dept of a major cloud provider that wants to use AWS, and not …

: There’s a leap once he starts talking about crotches, but the rest is pretty interesting and helpful …

: Silicon Valley is coming. There are hundreds of startups with a lot of brains and money working on …

: How the pull nature of open source changes your partner strategy In answering what Red Hat has to offer partners, CEO Jim Whitehurst says: So when we talk about …

: vCloud Air Momentum Also in 18 months, Fathers said, vCloud Air will have around 100,000 customers, up from the current …

: Sizing the PaaS Market Fun with market sizing I’ve spent a lot of time over the years working with cloud …

: Software Defined Businesses need Software Defined IT Departments (I originally wrote this April 2015 for FierceDevOps, a site which has made it either impossible or …

: My One Year Anniversary Of Living In Hotels Full Time I’ve finally been able to realize that “maximizing” an experience is very different than …

: The CEO of America's biggest bank is worried about tech startups The CEO of America’s biggest bank is worried about tech startups

: On "so" Tim Bray explores why programmers so often start sentences Ed with “So…” On “so”

: More on HP's cloud re-positioning, AWS financials More on HP’s cloud re-positioning: “HP is not leaving the public cloud market,“ said HP in a …

: The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness I wasn’t told this was an option: “we could be wearing paper hats and eating pistachio macaroons in …

: HP not so hot on public cloud, or well positioned for developers Here’s the tiny quote: “We thought people would rent or buy computing from us,” said Bill Hilf, the …

: Micro Focus guillotine will fall more frequently on Novell necks • The Channel - The Channel I think SUSE is the gem in that crown, at least last time I heard their y/y momentum numbers. Micro …

: "Managed cloud" and MSP market-sizing Global cloud and data center-delivered managed network services doubled in size from $1,384 million …

: Lean Documentation, some tips I find your lack of documentation disturbing. Lean Documentation, some tips

: Stack Overflow Survey 2015: Technologies Used, Loved, Disliked or Wanted Java and JavaScript very popular. Coupled with the Eclipse community survey and the RedMonk …

: We are afflicted with the same disease. It’s hard (impossible?) to find a day job that is consuming …

: Betting on the Software Defined Business for growth I had lunch with Israel Gat yesterday. Lobster bisque in a sourdough bread bowl, to answer your …

: Multi-cloud “At least half of the calls I take are clients that are either actively planning or are already …

: s/SOA/microservices/g After a thrilling Tweeter-thread on SOA vs. microservices, I thought I’d just playing with …

: The new industry analysts, again Never mind journalism, it’s industry analysts who are being disrupted. I keep coming across a new …

: Advice for being an industry analyst Occasionally, my fellow analysts ask me for advice on being an analyst. Here’s an edited up version …

: As the new space intended, I’ve formed interesting, unexpected bonds with my cohorts. But my …

: Trogloxenes, also called cave guests, are animal species which live close to caves or at the very …

: Docker: IaaS or PaaS? Reflections on DockerCon EU (451 Research) As mentioned in my newsletter recently, I typed up a think piece on Docker (the company and the …

: As we have grown and evolved, we’ve realized that the best salespeople don’t have to necessarily be …

: I don’t get why that sort of violence is supposed to be funny. It’s like the Three Stooges with …

: The Thought Leader is sort of a highflying, good-doing yacht-to-yacht concept peddler. Each year, he …

: "Hybrid cloud ROI isn’t there, and the complexity is huge." From Steven Sinofsky: As an enterprise, the pragmatic thing to do is go public cloud and operate …

: Whitehurst commentary in Red Hat numbers Good commentary, as always, from Red Hat’s CEO. I appreciate all the “color” that team tends to give …

: Generally speaking, there are only a few ways to make money on the Internet. There are e-commerce …

: Coté Memo #059: Containers make butter-scotch pudding delicious and floors shine Tech & Work World Floor wax, dessert topping As I mention below, I’ve had more time to write …

: In contrast to demand-side users of analyst services, people in supply like firms like technology …

: StackStorm automates and monitors a core DevOps asset: the software delivery pipeline - 451 Report I’ve been speaking with StackStorm on and off for a few months now. I finally got around to writing …

: Rather than looking from the present out to the future, we need to look from the future back to the …

: Unlike Office Online and Google Docs, the Dropbox badge doesn’t support real-time editing. That …

: Coté Memo #058: Cloud ads, amateur coffee drinkers, orchiwhu? Follow-up Confirmed: ActiveState is far from dead ;) One of you notified me that maybe coffee …

: Who's in the CI/CD space, and what is it? I’m starting to put together some research into CI/CD. That might even be the wrong name: I’m more …

: Pizza is evolving into a digitally dominated food Papa John’s Adds Google Wallet, Passes 50% …

: The main weapon at valve station 30 on Aug. 5, 2008, was a keyboard. Mysterious ’08 Turkey Pipeline …

: You want people to work as much as possible to push the product and company out of uncertain …

: The first wave of IBM/Apple enterprise iOS apps A good looking list from the press release: Plan Flight (Travel and Transportation) addresses the …

: The video recording of this week’s Software Defined Talk, right there. If you prefer audio (I do!) …

: Cloud is developers I often brow-beat people into the notion that “cloud is all about developers.” That’s hyperbolic - …

: Good journalism takes money. If you are made to pay, it's to serve you better and please you The advertisements will be a little bigger, too, and my advice is for you not to complain, but to …

: Better get a referral Referrals account for between 30 and 50% of hires in the US. In a paper published earlier this year, …

: Coté Memo #056: the $110,000 a year blogger, investing in barf bags Tech & Work World Quick Hits Puppet Labs pushes ahead with more staff, broader enterprise …

: They dubbed it Slack and released it in August 2013. Since then, Slack has grown swiftly: more than …

: [H]ighway billboards have returned as a coveted status symbol for tech’s directionless marketing …

: To me this almost the image of…a dog running ahead of the fire. And, as a bonus: “my contention is …

: Everything in cloud competes with everything else …

: Stefanovic, who co-presents Channel Nine’s Today show with Lisa Wilkinson, has been wearing the same …

: Coté Memo #055: It's cold in Toronto Follow-up I mentioned the Software Defined Talk recording last week, the episode is up for those …

: Coté Memo #054: CA World wrap, Docker orchestration Tech & Work World Quick Hits Rackspace reports solid growth in the third quarter - time to …

: A few weeks ago, I gave one of my occasional lectures at the University of Sydney, a class on the …

: Meetings are where I go to find out what kind of work I should have been doing while I was at the …

: And all of it, Nadella maintained, is part of a product focus which is less far-flung than it might …

: Coté Memo #053: there's a lot of earth for software to eat, day 1 of #CAWorld Follow-up It’s been awhile. The family and I were on vacation for a bit in Paris, and then I was at …

: What they will not do is maintain steady eye contact or smile. If a stranger of the opposite sex …

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: docker has a straightforward CLI that allows you to do almost everything you could want to a …

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: Coté Memo #031: Avoiding Showing Up, Yet Another Private Equity in Tech Story, Cyborgs, and more #VMworld Title: Coté Memo #031: Avoiding Showing Up, Yet Another Private Equity in Tech Story, Cyborgs, and …

: More on the Compuware go private plan, APM Sell more APM, grow marketshare, probably over at 4-5 year term: The APM market is fragmented. We …

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: Coté Memo #28: Yet another DevOps landscape, webinar tips for analysts (I’ve had a little email newsletter for sometime. It’s fun! People like it and write to me! Rather …

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: Facebook ads don't work too well for "enterprise" types I am going to sound incredibly churlish here but why on earth Lionel Messi could possibly like our …

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: The third option is to just ignore it and assume somebody will figure it out. Option three is quite …

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: Well, this whole DevOps thing is going to rough, then Smells like Agile in 2002: Your DevOps efforts will probably fail unless your entire management …

: I see “z” in all presentations I receive from the US and I immediately change them, as well as all …

: Markdown is great - but my colleagues expect MS Word… makeDoc — toketaWare

: HP software and channel sales A summary of revenue: [HP’s] software division - IT Management, Application Development, Vertica, …

: Pivotal shows good momentum in helping build 'programmable businesses' (451 Report) I wrote a brief update on Pivotal recently, the full report is available for clients. Here’s the 451 …

: A small cup of Starbucks coffee contains 250mg of caffeine. For a frame of reference, espresso tops …

: Mobile phones are arguably a more useful import than hamburgers …

: Dell's end-user device management portfolio, KACE, has grown revenue 5x since acquisition (451 Report) I checked in with Dell’s end-user device management folks, KACE, recently and wrote up a report. …

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: How to write an executive strategy memo When you’re asked to write an executive memo, you need (to learn how) to be concise and to the …

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: [S]ome outfits do still see coding as a risk to be costed, rather than a realisable benefit to be …

: "When have you crushed days into minutes for me lately, nerd?!" Dennis reports on a refer SAP user group survey which points to difficult up-take for HANA. It seems …

: Mesosphere bringing Twitter's infrastructure secret sauce to the Global 2000 (451 Report) As Coté Memo subscribers know I’ve been working on a report on Mesosphere. It now up, as alway …

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: Cisco's 19 years of mega-growth Since being tapped to lead Cisco in 1995, Chambers has grown the company from a $2.2 billion …

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: Serena Dimensions CM starts bringing devops to its enterprise customers (451 Report) I had a briefing with Serena a short while ago around the new release of their ALM product …

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: Zombies vs. Vampires - who would win? One of my colleagues recently asked this question. Through a series of detailed logic-gates, we can …

: I poked it. A few bits. A little motor from something, rocking; a broken television; remnants of …

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: SwiftStack 2.0, used by HP Helion, going after enterprise storage For one, it looks like HP Helion OEM’s SwiftStack, which is a nice partnership. Two, their CEO …

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: [Option] [5] produces ∞ infinity sign. learn to type infinity sign on keyboard

: Red Hat updates RHEL 7 for cloud with containers, Windows support and improvements (451 Report) My colleague Jay Lyman and I wrote up Red Hat’s recent OS release, RHEL 7. Of interest to us, of …

: Docker blasts into 1.0, throwing dust onto traditional hypervisors Docker blasts into 1.0, throwing dust onto traditional hypervisors

: Think big, but have small, short, and focused meetings Have 15 minutes be the default. Sure, sounds interesting. See also Rumsfeld’s meeting rules which …

: VMware to build converged compute and storage hardware VMware to build converged compute and storage hardware

: Citrix announces 50% YoY revenue growth from cloud partners, Workspace Services (451 Report) One of our new, excellent analysts Scott Ottaway and I wrote up a report on Citrix’s Workspace as a …

: Demand for software developers remains high Demand for software developers remains high

: Update on Microsoft's cloud plans from TechEd Office 365 makes huge sense for many organisations, and is growing fast – “the fastest growing …

: Here is a very funny parody of the infamous dancing banana. This is a piece of crap that dances just …

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: Funny name, serious security: Cloudera buys encryption vendor Gazzang The 451 analysis of Cloudera’s acquisition of Gazzang is up, which I co-authored. Here’s the …

: Most IT pros not actively preparing for the impact of the IoT - Spiceworks Survey Most IT pros not actively preparing for the impact of the IoT - Spiceworks Survey

: Many have asked, “why not choose JavaScript as the language to replace Objective-C?” I’m not even …

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: Not everything that used to be here is still here. Broken Links, Perfect Path

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: Call-back soup As the company scaled, the task of administration became increasingly complex, due to “call-back …

: DevOps is actually a thing – and people are willing to pay for it (Register Column) My second column at The Channel Register is up, a quick overview of our recent DevOps work at 451. …

: SAP HANA momemtum SAP’s own Business Suite application stack running atop HANA has broken through 1,000 customers and …

: The reality is that finance will eat strategy for breakfast any day. “The Capitalist’s Dilemma” …

: Hadoop hype update In many ways the turnaround at the company is a reflection of trends in the broader Hadoop …

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: If you’ve ever wondered why Facebook is such a joyless place, even though we’ve theoretically …

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: If it weren’t for these thumb-fingered rich idiots destroying technological development, we’d be …

: robertbrook/the-island fadingcity: I finished my story called ‘The Island’. robertbrook/the-island

: New cloud category: "Cloud Enabled Managed Hosting" To some extent Gartner has recognized that managed cloud is in its infancy and has named Rackspace …

: Internet of Things Needs a Steve Ballmer Moment, Says Deutsche - Barron's Internet of Things Needs a Steve Ballmer Moment, Says Deutsche - Barron’s

: Lengthy Collaborating Eventually, a group gets just big enough that the first response to every attempt to collaborate is …

: The Great Rewrite, IBM style: a "reordering" [Big Data, cloud and social/mobile] are truly going to change the profile of this company. And, if …

: How Shippable Has Scaled Docker In A Way It Never Could With AWS VMs How Shippable Has Scaled Docker In A Way It Never Could With AWS VMs

: IDC Revises 2014 Global IT Spending Projections Downward IDC Revises 2014 Global IT Spending Projections Downward

: Here’s what happened in America between April 14 and 17. In the state of Washington, a 6-hour …

: The single most important lesson we learn from the short history of the consumer internet industry …

: Boards are just highly paid people “The nature of boards,” says Buffett, “is such they’re part business organizations and part social …

: I come to work to relax. “Are you more stressed at home than at work”?

: A lot of what we call work is noise. Nassim N. Taleb

: "M.C. Escher's cloud" Always love some funny writing, eh? Since Google’s (virtualized) cloud is itself built on top of …

: Google: 'EVERYTHING at Google runs in a container' Google: ‘EVERYTHING at Google runs in a container’

: New Connector Links Heroku and Salesforce.com Data Repositories New Connector Links Heroku and Salesforce.com Data Repositories

: How could I have broken anything? All I did was change a comment. Evolving Java-based APIs - …

: Fitbit rules 50 percent of the world's wearable market While the wearable band market appears to be strong with 2.7 million units shipped in the first …

: Ford Continues With Open Source Strategy To Attract Developers and Connect Cars In China Ford Continues With Open Source Strategy To Attract Developers and Connect Cars In China

: Always use a vanilla Gmail account as your main Google identity. Don’t be tempted to use anything …

: The (female) Guardian journalist who wrote about my talk at Boring 2012 didn’t believe I was …

: A round up of why you should stand up more at your desk A round up of why you should stand up more at your desk

: HP Orchestrates Datacenters With OpenStack, Chef Also, [see this other story on the …

: LiveOak raises more than $100 million to back Texas startups LiveOak raises more than $100 million to back Texas startups

: M&A doesn't often work [S]tudy after study puts the failure rate of mergers and acquisitions somewhere between 70% and 90%. …

: Solving for the Dr. No problem with cloud This is the common staffing benefit of new technologies: As such, Redmond says, the result is not …

: Steady Growth in Corporate Cloud Spending Steady Growth in Corporate Cloud Spending

: Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done

: Cisco not looking at Rackspace, doesn't fit M&A criteria “We don’t move into a market unless we think we have a realistic chance of gaining 40% market share …

: How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard - Network World How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard - Network World

: Dell no longer sponsoring engineering for Crowbar [I]t is time for Dell to allow an independent open source community to take the reins of the Crowbar …

: "Rackspace simply cannot play in that league" Good ol’ TPM! Also: Rackspace is also the largest publicly traded cloud and hosting provider, and …

: Let’s pull news out of its hole Let’s pull news out of its hole

: OpenStack Code Contribution Trends OpenStack Code Contribution Trends

: The great OpenStack conundrum: with 15,000 members, why is adoption lagging? This is the common OpenStack meme for coverage. Each Summit there’s more and more users - …

: "software-defined washing" - IT leaders convene on London for the UK's first software-defined conference “software-defined washing” - IT leaders convene on London for the UK’s first …

: OpenStack Dominated By Tire Kickers, Code Testers – For Now OpenStack Dominated By Tire Kickers, Code Testers – For Now

: Reflections on the OpenStack Atlanta summit Lydia at Gartner summarizes the motivations of OpenStack vendors, touching on what it means for …

: Networking in OpenStack In many ways, Neutron’s failure and planned rebirth are a metaphor for OpenStack as a whole, with …

: Red Hat Plays Hardball on OpenStack Software Red Hat Plays Hardball on OpenStack Software

: Red Hat Opens Up CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Manager Red Hat Opens Up CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Manager

: Goodbye HANA daddy, assorted cloud bods: SAP gets corporate Goodbye HANA daddy, assorted cloud bods: SAP gets corporate

: Tips on scheduling meetings I’m constantly shocked at how poor most people are ar scheduling meetings. There’s often simple …

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: Why the Housing Bubble Tanked the Economy And the Tech Bubble Didn’t Why the Housing Bubble Tanked the Economy And the Tech Bubble Didn’t

: Dealing with copyrighted APIs “I am not a lawyer, but from a developer perspective, the idea of copyrighted APIs does nothing but …

: It’s Beta Time For CoreOS, The Linux Distro For Massive Server Deployments It’s Beta Time For CoreOS, The Linux Distro For Massive Server Deployments

: Box strikes deal with GE to become the default file-sharing service of its 300,000+ employees Box strikes deal with GE to become the default file-sharing service of its 300,000+ employees

: Del.icio.us sold again, to YouTube founders Del.icio.us sold again, to YouTube founders

: Dell's business sales are 1/3 through partners The channel business at Dell is about $20 billion per year. Dell said he can see that growing to $40 …

: ERP is moving to SaaS all the sudden The proportion of enterprises that have replaced or plan to replace existing ERP systems with SaaS …

: HP Helion: OpenStack redux Good overview and some competitive and historic context. HP Helion: OpenStack redux

: “They are absolutely our most devoted and fierce fans,” Mr. Plotz said. Gabfest fans often show up …

: Enterprise grade means you'll run it a long time I’m always looking for definitions of “enterprise grade,” and this is a good contextual point for …

: SysTrack 7.0 continues Lakeside's 'big-data' push in end-user management My report on Lakeside Software’s new release is up. SysTrack is one of the veteran tools used in the …

: Trying to get normals to use IRC, once again By way of example, Butterfield said that there are about 2,000 messages a day written by humans in …

: Embedding OpenStack in Solaris - Press Pass Oracle announced that it’s putting OpenStack into Solaris, which is good fun. James Niccolai asked …

: Sun Grid, 2006 They ran it at network.com: While the Sun Grid has been an interesting alternative for large …

: In the early years MS-DOS versions up to version 5 sold for a relatively high price, of the order of …

: Jaspersoft acquired for $185m by TIBCO Enterprise software vendor TIBCO has acquired Jaspersoft, an open source business intelligence …

: Seriously though… if anybody but major datamining companies are going to get remotely enthusiastic …

: The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven’t …

: The IT growth is from new shit, IDC says According to IDC, the 5 percent IT growth it sees for 2014 is comprised of two elements: Stagnant …

: Under Development- new podcast on software development I have a new podcast up that’s on the ongoing topic of software development, big and small, tools …

: Anything you want will happen, but sometimes it’s hard for people to see that when they’re in the …

: The research reported in this book … shows that in the cases of well-managed firms… . good …

: Nice overview of SolidFire A good overview of what the software-heavy enterprise storage company does, including this …

: In the M&A world, you kiss a lot of frogs I like this post on what filling up the deal-flow pipeline for VCs looks like. For example, a good …

: Red Hat jumps on all the right cloud bandwagons, focusing on new application trends (451 Report) My overview of the Red Hat Summit is up now, for clients only of course. Here’s the 451 Take: Like …

: F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “Yeah, this should definitely be in 3D.” No, what he said was, “[T]he …

: The cost of old corporate code [A]pplication development and maintenance eats up 34 percent of the total IT budget and that by …

: BMC BladeLogic integrating with Chef So we’ve built some first-generation integration between Chef and BladeLogic 8.5, which we’re …

: Red Hat revenues, old vs. new and early cloud momemtum Brandon Butler sums up the “old” (Linux) vs “new” (middleware and cloud) revenue stream for Red Hat …

: A 13-year study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology has revealed that if you take naps …

: A 13-year study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology has revealed that if you take naps …

: Infor ERP moving products to AWS - Press Pass A few weeks ago, I talked with Chris Kanaracus for his story on Infor moving parts of their …

: VMware and Citrix team-up with Google Chromebooks to run Windows apps - Press Pass I spoke with a couple of reporters earlier this week on the partnerships between Google and VMware …

: HFT tech To illustrate this point during the opening keynote, George Kledaras, CEO of FIX Flyer, which …

: HFT tech To illustrate this point during the opening keynote, George Kledaras, CEO of FIX Flyer, which …

: Press Release Quotes As an analyst, you often gets asked and paid to provide press release quotes (see some of mine here, …

: PowerPoint and its infamous bullet points have been so abused in later years that the term …

: PowerPoint and its infamous bullet points have been so abused in later years that the term …

: Evans Data’s Developer Marketing 2014 survey of 450 software developers showed that 19.3% (or …

: We are also seeing big growth in the private cloud space. But in terms of building a public cloud to …

: Evans Data’s Developer Marketing 2014 survey of 450 software developers showed that 19.3% (or …

: We are also seeing big growth in the private cloud space. But in terms of building a public cloud to …

: BMC streamlines job management to address the devops need for speed (451 Reports) My report on BMC’s Control-M’s recent updates catering to developer is now up, for 451 clients. The …

: BMC streamlines job management to address the devops need for speed (451 Reports) My report on BMC’s Control-M’s recent updates catering to developer is now up, for 451 clients. The …

: I still hear CIOs worry that cloud vendor lock-in would let them raise prices. This ruse is used to …

: Business instincts and intuition are being augmented and increasingly replaced by data analysis as …

: I am not sure what to conclude from the obvious high level of interest in compiling [.Net] apps for …

: Business instincts and intuition are being augmented and increasingly replaced by data analysis as …

: I am not sure what to conclude from the obvious high level of interest in compiling [.Net] apps for …

: I still hear CIOs worry that cloud vendor lock-in would let them raise prices. This ruse is used to …

: "App notifications upon low egg inventory" Apparently, this is a real thing. Via Stacey Higginbotham. “App notifications upon low egg …

: "App notifications upon low egg inventory" Apparently, this is a real thing. Via Stacey Higginbotham. “App notifications upon low egg …

: AWS opens its desktop as a service to the market, joins the growing DaaS fray (451 Reports) Our report on Amazon WorkSpaces is up. The full report is available for 451 research clients, but …

: AWS opens its desktop as a service to the market, joins the growing DaaS fray (451 Reports) Our report on Amazon WorkSpaces is up. The full report is available for 451 research clients, but …

: Microsoft goes bonkers for cross-platform With these changes Microsoft has shifted its emphasis from Windows developers building Windows apps …

: Microsoft goes bonkers for cross-platform With these changes Microsoft has shifted its emphasis from Windows developers building Windows apps …

: Random Chromebooks shipments estimate I’m guessing from the article it’s from Gartner…or maybe this ABI Research reference: Google’s …

: Random Chromebooks shipments estimate I’m guessing from the article it’s from Gartner…or maybe this ABI Research reference: Google’s …

: Surprise, surprise: New survey shows public cloud adoption way, way up Pretty good stuff in there. It’s really dodgy figuring out what people are doing in/with cloud at …

: Surprise, surprise: New survey shows public cloud adoption way, way up Pretty good stuff in there. It’s really dodgy figuring out what people are doing in/with cloud at …

: IT ops startup Boundary raises $22m C round to expand R&D, sales and marketing (451 Reports) I put up a short, “analyst note” on Boundary’s funding today, which 451 clients can read in full. …

: IT ops startup Boundary raises $22m C round to expand R&D, sales and marketing (451 Reports) I put up a short, “analyst note” on Boundary’s funding today, which 451 clients can read in full. …

: Google Chromebooks at work in the fragmented PC era (451 Report) We teamed up with Spiceworks recently to write a report checking in on Google Chromebooks, mostly …

: Google Chromebooks at work in the fragmented PC era (451 Report) We teamed up with Spiceworks recently to write a report checking in on Google Chromebooks, mostly …

: ING infects Capital One with Agile When Capital One started to roll out agile development in 2011, Wolfs said it amounted to just one …

: ING infects Capital One with Agile When Capital One started to roll out agile development in 2011, Wolfs said it amounted to just one …

: Tasktop Sync 3.5 adds Agile & devops integrations, foreshadowing an ALM system of record (451 Report) Version 3.5 of TaskTop is a dot release with some fun stuff scurrying around in the background. …

: Tasktop Sync 3.5 adds Agile & devops integrations, foreshadowing an ALM system of record (451 Report) Version 3.5 of TaskTop is a dot release with some fun stuff scurrying around in the background. …

: Working up Twitter, and then letting it take over I have to work myself up in the morning to Twitter, because it’s so immediate and stressful. You …

: Working up Twitter, and then letting it take over I have to work myself up in the morning to Twitter, because it’s so immediate and stressful. You …

: Cloudera's $740m Intel relationship Mike Olson of Cloudera on the Intel relationship: It genuinely is true that the important story …

: Cloudera's $740m Intel relationship Mike Olson of Cloudera on the Intel relationship: It genuinely is true that the important story …

: Codenvy delivers a code- and build-developer experience through the browser (451 Report) My report on the cloud ALM tool Codenvy is up, for 451 Research clients. You can also sign up for a …

: Codenvy delivers a code- and build-developer experience through the browser (451 Report) My report on the cloud ALM tool Codenvy is up, for 451 Research clients. You can also sign up for a …

: Your address book is worth ~$45, your medical records ~£12,000 I’m envisioning one of those butcher charts with all the cuts of meat, except it’s a human and all …

: Your address book is worth ~$45, your medical records ~£12,000 I’m envisioning one of those butcher charts with all the cuts of meat, except it’s a human and all …

: You can expect us to make sure we drive Office 365 everywhere - Web, all phones, all tablets, PCs. …

: You can expect us to make sure we drive Office 365 everywhere - Web, all phones, all tablets, PCs. …

: Hoarding and trading information as currency in the enterprise I don’t know about counterintuitive, but there was a great piece of insight that Sam Zell, the real …

: Hoarding and trading information as currency in the enterprise I don’t know about counterintuitive, but there was a great piece of insight that Sam Zell, the real …

: The influx of cash in technology is largely the result of the low interest-rate environment, Bill …

: The influx of cash in technology is largely the result of the low interest-rate environment, Bill …

: Cash, Paranoia Fuel Tech Giants' Buying Binge Nice pice on disruption fear driven tech M&A: From messaging to watches and thermostats, …

: Cash, Paranoia Fuel Tech Giants' Buying Binge Nice pice on disruption fear driven tech M&A: From messaging to watches and thermostats, …

: "Leveraging OpenStack" In the context of covering Cisco’s “InterCloud” announcement, the following is quoted: The Cisco …

: "Leveraging OpenStack" In the context of covering Cisco’s “InterCloud” announcement, the following is quoted: The Cisco …

: Yes. I’d stop. I’d make things for myself, for my friends at home instead. The bar needs to be high. …

: Yes. I’d stop. I’d make things for myself, for my friends at home instead. The bar needs to be high. …

: A nice illustration of the problem shifting your customer base from on-premises to public cloud Buried in this piece on Cisco doing some public cloud stuff is this little description about how the …

: A nice illustration of the problem shifting your customer base from on-premises to public cloud Buried in this piece on Cisco doing some public cloud stuff is this little description about how the …

: Fraud in web ad traffic About 36% of all Web traffic is considered fake, the product of computers hijacked by viruses and …

: Fraud in web ad traffic About 36% of all Web traffic is considered fake, the product of computers hijacked by viruses and …

: One of the better pieces on what IBM has in store for itself, strategically The truth is, IBM has little choice but to focus on cloud infrastructure and applications and big …

: One of the better pieces on what IBM has in store for itself, strategically The truth is, IBM has little choice but to focus on cloud infrastructure and applications and big …

: CA divests ERwin to Embarcadero Embarcadero expands its DBA tools business, CA focuses more on IT ops: “We are actively managing …

: CA divests ERwin to Embarcadero Embarcadero expands its DBA tools business, CA focuses more on IT ops: “We are actively managing …

: Pitching Box For me, it was a bunch of numbers. You can convince a bunch of VCs with numbers. The churn was low. …

: Pitching Box For me, it was a bunch of numbers. You can convince a bunch of VCs with numbers. The churn was low. …

: Lessons from Inbox Zero Also, I’ve had to accept that some emails/actions require a laptop. I’d love to keep my inbox clean …

: Lessons from Inbox Zero Also, I’ve had to accept that some emails/actions require a laptop. I’d love to keep my inbox clean …

: People are much more interested in running PaaS in-house than not in-house. We see a lot of interest …

: People are much more interested in running PaaS in-house than not in-house. We see a lot of interest …

: Mirantis has trained over 1,000 people on OpenStack So far, those 200 organizations have enrolled more than 1,000 staff members in Mirarantis’s …

: Mirantis has trained over 1,000 people on OpenStack So far, those 200 organizations have enrolled more than 1,000 staff members in Mirarantis’s …

: VMware launches "desktop as a service" offering with recently acquired Desktone (451 Report) Earlier this week VMware announced it’s Desktop-as-Service (DaaS) offering, building on-top of the …

: VMware launches "desktop as a service" offering with recently acquired Desktone (451 Report) Earlier this week VMware announced it’s Desktop-as-Service (DaaS) offering, building on-top of the …

: From Stacy’s article on SXSW.

: [up.anv.bz/latest/an… Oh no, the original Kim Phung caught on fire! (Source: …

: [up.anv.bz/latest/an… Oh no, the original Kim Phung caught on fire! (Source: …

: Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM Kay said that on average, partners that have made the transition to the cloud early with IBM are …

: Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM Kay said that on average, partners that have made the transition to the cloud early with IBM are …

: DigitalOcean gets $37.2m from a16z, with ~100k customers Some pundits may argue that it is also going up against Amazon Web Services, but this is not the …

: DigitalOcean gets $37.2m from a16z, with ~100k customers Some pundits may argue that it is also going up against Amazon Web Services, but this is not the …

: Will the blighters pay this time? Betting big on developers (Register Column) One of my collegues at 451 asked if I’d be interested in taking over his column at The Register. Of …

: Big growth for Office 365, the $1.5B business Office 365 is already leading the charge, with a 500 percent increase in active online users over …

: Big growth for Office 365, the $1.5B business Office 365 is already leading the charge, with a 500 percent increase in active online users over …

: Big growth for Office 365, the $1.5B business Office 365 is already leading the charge, with a 500 percent increase in active online users over …

: We’ll offer complete visibility from application all the way to the end user. We have most of that …

: We’ll offer complete visibility from application all the way to the end user. We have most of that …

: We’ll offer complete visibility from application all the way to the end user. We have most of that …

: Counting users instead of counting cash The implication is that users/subscribers/audience members are loyal and will stay with the …

: Counting users instead of counting cash The implication is that users/subscribers/audience members are loyal and will stay with the …

: Counting users instead of counting cash The implication is that users/subscribers/audience members are loyal and will stay with the …

: By 2019, 67 percent of software programmers will primarily be developing in the cloud, up from 18 …

: By 2019, 67 percent of software programmers will primarily be developing in the cloud, up from 18 …

: By 2019, 67 percent of software programmers will primarily be developing in the cloud, up from 18 …

: [T]here will be classes of developers that go after Git and they’ll love Git for what it allows them …

: Commentary from 451’s Peter ffoulkes: The transformation of IT to a ‘client service’ model is …

: [T]here will be classes of developers that go after Git and they’ll love Git for what it allows them …

: Commentary from 451’s Peter ffoulkes: The transformation of IT to a ‘client service’ model is …

: [T]here will be classes of developers that go after Git and they’ll love Git for what it allows them …

: Atlassian bundles ALM components around the popular git version control system (451 Report) Atlassian released an ALM bundled centered around git recently. I wrote up a report on that release, …

: Atlassian bundles ALM components around the popular git version control system (451 Report) Atlassian released an ALM bundled centered around git recently. I wrote up a report on that release, …

: Atlassian bundles ALM components around the popular git version control system (451 Report) Atlassian released an ALM bundled centered around git recently. I wrote up a report on that release, …

: Secondly, when evaluating new IT hardware and software assets for potential adoption, you need to …

: Secondly, when evaluating new IT hardware and software assets for potential adoption, you need to …

: Secondly, when evaluating new IT hardware and software assets for potential adoption, you need to …

: Mirantis navigates changing OpenStack market, growth with 4.0 release (451 Report) My team has a new report up on Mirantis, with updates on their momentum and an overview of what’s in …

: Mirantis navigates changing OpenStack market, growth with 4.0 release (451 Report) My team has a new report up on Mirantis, with updates on their momentum and an overview of what’s in …

: Mirantis navigates changing OpenStack market, growth with 4.0 release (451 Report) My team has a new report up on Mirantis, with updates on their momentum and an overview of what’s in …

: Finally, I have discovered a horrible, rather brutal method that I recommend only to men of …

: Finally, I have discovered a horrible, rather brutal method that I recommend only to men of …

: Finally, I have discovered a horrible, rather brutal method that I recommend only to men of …

: Rainforest QA speeds up continuous integration cycle with blended cyborg model for testing (451 Report) When I spoke at HeavyBit sometime ago on how to deal with analysts, I meet a several interesting …

: Rainforest QA speeds up continuous integration cycle with blended cyborg model for testing (451 Report) When I spoke at HeavyBit sometime ago on how to deal with analysts, I meet a several interesting …

: Rainforest QA speeds up continuous integration cycle with blended cyborg model for testing (451 Report) When I spoke at HeavyBit sometime ago on how to deal with analysts, I meet a several interesting …

: CopperEgg tackles APM space under Idera (451 Report) My colleague Dennis Callaghan wrote up an update around CopperEgg, the APM tool purchased by Idera …

: CopperEgg tackles APM space under Idera (451 Report) My colleague Dennis Callaghan wrote up an update around CopperEgg, the APM tool purchased by Idera …

: CopperEgg tackles APM space under Idera (451 Report) My colleague Dennis Callaghan wrote up an update around CopperEgg, the APM tool purchased by Idera …

: The result is plain to see: Caring about the product means that it can be priced at a point which …

: The result is plain to see: Caring about the product means that it can be priced at a point which …

: The result is plain to see: Caring about the product means that it can be priced at a point which …

: Companies with cash flows are valued on those flows. Companies without cash flows are valued on …

: Companies with cash flows are valued on those flows. Companies without cash flows are valued on …

: Companies with cash flows are valued on those flows. Companies without cash flows are valued on …

: Hadoop moving into production A recent IDC survey of 202 large companies already experimenting with Hadoop found that 32 percent …

: Hadoop moving into production A recent IDC survey of 202 large companies already experimenting with Hadoop found that 32 percent …

: Hadoop moving into production A recent IDC survey of 202 large companies already experimenting with Hadoop found that 32 percent …

: Interest from new places in Power chips It’d be loopy, in a fun way, to see a renewed interest in Power, esp. from “commodity hardware” …

: Interest from new places in Power chips It’d be loopy, in a fun way, to see a renewed interest in Power, esp. from “commodity hardware” …

: Interest from new places in Power chips It’d be loopy, in a fun way, to see a renewed interest in Power, esp. from “commodity hardware” …

: CCOS #004 - Facebook culling, plain txt vs. f2f, dungeons [youtube www.youtube.com/watch] Senior Dancy and myself are back to talk about life in a too …

: For those who don't have 3.5 hours, some highlights from #TheAppGap As I mentioned, a few weeks back I was in a recorded “think tank” put on by Dell which was, largely, …

: Profile of Icahn as a tech raider Over the last decade, through a series of successful moves, Icahn has become the sole force behind …

: Getting Ahead maniacalrage: When you’re about to have a baby, people always say the same things: “Oh, get ready …

: Hadoop growth measured by Teradata disruption Approximately one-third of our top 50 customers in the Americas have Hadoop in production now, with …

: The money in apps - $500/month The majority of developers still make less than $500 per app per month, but the overall “app poverty …

: "All the secrets of the Marvel Universe, now in JSON format" “All the secrets of the Marvel Universe, now in JSON format”

: Nice piece on the hard work ahead for Microsoft & assets they have From El Reg’s Gavin Clarke: Let’s begin by saying money was not the problem that needed solving: on …

: From a computer on every desktop to computers on everything, everywhere These are the most important three chunks from Satya Nadella (Microsoft’s new CEO) memo: Our …

: Moz builds its own private cloud We spent part of 2012 and all of 2013 building a private cloud in Virginia, Washington, and mostly …

: "Postmodern ERP" A fun phrase from Gartner to label ERP systems that can’t be evolved fast enough to do what …

: More on the IBM x86 divestiture rationale As usual, TPM is extensive, starting with: IBM is selling off the System x business, presumably …

: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch] Connected Culture and Oblique Strategies episode #003 is up, in …

: DrunkAndRetired.com #183 episode up, in video form. Here’s the audio only, and remember, you can …

: [new.livestream.com/accounts/… This week I was lucky enough to be invited to a Dell hosted …

: Dealing with industry analysts, for startups Dealing with industry analysts, for startups from Michael Coté Earlier this week I had the privilege …

: GitHub is the developer resume, so don't screw that up for your employees “In many cases in the big companies and all the small startups, your Github profile is your resume,” …

: One of the more concise writeups a of IBM's 2013 performance that you'll see Big Blue has seen revenue in its System and Technology Group drop throughout the year, with the …

: Privately innovating instead of publicly growing When I spent time with other entrepreneurs, the feeling was ‘go public’. Now you have ‘stay private …

: IBM building out it's public cloud, doubling capacity this year The company plans to open 15 new data centers this year, more than doubling the cloud capacity it …

: The sales force is now using iPads Nice anecdote about iPads going from zero to full use in mainstream-sounding use cases: I’m not a …

: So… screw the contrarians, it sucked. Standing In Line, Tim Bray

: Press Pass: PaaS in 2014 (Pun!) Paul Krill asked a few questions about the future of PaaS last month for an omnibus appdev article …

: IBM Watson drove <$100m revenue in 2013 You know, $100m actually seems pretty good for something so obscure and weird.  IBM Chief Executive …

: Press Pass: GitHub Traffic Analytics Comments GitHub Traffic Analytics service gives developers insight into interest in their projects Paul …

: "Digital pennies" The app economy shows that there are big opportunities in “digital pennies” and that the figures are …

: 451 Study on SDN adoption - 16% in use or plan After seeing one of the other SDN forecast studies referenced here, one of my 451 collegues sent …

: Apigee adds usage analytics with InsightOne acquisition The InsightsOne group has offered predictive analytics for consumer companies. It finds patterns …

: Bottoms up, viral spread still works Cloud startups like Dropbox pose a problem because they are viral in their sign-up and billing. This …

: Pretty good explanation of the Red Hat/CentOS kumbaya “Red Hat’s open source business is strong enough that CentOS is effectively a mindshare force …

: Profile of SnapChat, and turning down billions FORBES estimates that 50 million people currently use Snapchat. Median age: 18. Facebook, meanwhile, …

: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch] I’ve spent years puttering around at the “infrastructure layer” in …

: Gartner's IT spending forecast Investment is coming from exploiting analytics to make B2C processes more efficient and improve …

: The disruptive tech ecosystem, put briefly The technology industry is in the business of creating products and services that either enable new …

: SDN adoption expected to be slow [L]ess than 30 percent of the 321 IT professionals surveyed have deployed or plan to deploy SDN in …

: Untitled I worry far less about accepting a group that does badly than I do about rejecting one that does …

: Digital hoarders I’ve always been attached to the platonic idea of an attic, where traditional families who live in …

: Digital hoarders I’ve always been attached to the platonic idea of an attic, where traditional families who live in …

: The year in 3D printing: lingerie models, jet engines and the twerking Einstein The year in 3D printing: lingerie models, jet engines and the twerking Einstein

: The year in 3D printing: lingerie models, jet engines and the twerking Einstein The year in 3D printing: lingerie models, jet engines and the twerking Einstein

: IBM customizes OpenStack workload placement with Platform code Within an OpenStack deployment, the Platform Resource Scheduler can choose the most appropriate …

: IBM customizes OpenStack workload placement with Platform code Within an OpenStack deployment, the Platform Resource Scheduler can choose the most appropriate …

: The $158B data-driven advertising market I guess this why companies like Oracle and IBM keep buying advertising SaaSes and such: The report …

: The $158B data-driven advertising market I guess this why companies like Oracle and IBM keep buying advertising SaaSes and such: The report …

: The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android Excerpt from a book. Always love some tech history. The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android

: The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android Excerpt from a book. Always love some tech history. The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android

: Tim Anderson's ITWrit2013: the web gets more proprietary. So do operating systems, mobile, everything Tim Anderson’s ITWrit2013: the web gets more proprietary. So do operating systems, mobile, …

: Tim Anderson's ITWrit2013: the web gets more proprietary. So do operating systems, mobile, everything Tim Anderson’s ITWrit2013: the web gets more proprietary. So do operating systems, mobile, …

: Oracle's cloud plans “We intend to compete aggressively in the commodity infrastructure-as-a-service …

: Oracle's cloud plans “We intend to compete aggressively in the commodity infrastructure-as-a-service …

: What do "strategy" people do, really? Broadly speaking, CSO responsibilities fall into three categories—strategy development, resource …

: What do "strategy" people do, really? Broadly speaking, CSO responsibilities fall into three categories—strategy development, resource …

: Becoming a cloud, tips for service providers Last week I was in an online panel with Flexiant and ThinkGrid talking doling out advice for service …

: Becoming a cloud, tips for service providers Last week I was in an online panel with Flexiant and ThinkGrid talking doling out advice for service …

: OpenStack on Wall Street - Developers To speed up development of custom written applications, of course. OpenStack on Wall Street - …

: OpenStack on Wall Street - Developers To speed up development of custom written applications, of course. OpenStack on Wall Street - …

: OpenStack on Wall Street - Developers To speed up development of custom written applications, of course. OpenStack on Wall Street - …

: Things are going the wrong direction in the server market Continued soft demand for servers around the world resulted in a 3.7 percent decline in sales during …

: Things are going the wrong direction in the server market Continued soft demand for servers around the world resulted in a 3.7 percent decline in sales during …

: Things are going the wrong direction in the server market Continued soft demand for servers around the world resulted in a 3.7 percent decline in sales during …

: [Gallery images not available] I threw this camera out today. I’ve owned it since around 2002 or so. …

: [Gallery images not available] I threw this camera out today. I’ve owned it since around 2002 or so. …

: [Gallery images not available] I threw this camera out today. I’ve owned it since around 2002 or so. …

: Good #DellWorld summary and take from @benkepes Good wrap-up so far: It’s a long list of news but I’m left wondering how substantive it will …

: Good #DellWorld summary and take from @benkepes Good wrap-up so far: It’s a long list of news but I’m left wondering how substantive it will …

: Good #DellWorld summary and take from @benkepes Good wrap-up so far: It’s a long list of news but I’m left wondering how substantive it will …

: Extreme Programming, 14 years later [F]ourteen years ago it was wildly controversial. Indeed, it was so controversial that whole books …

: Extreme Programming, 14 years later [F]ourteen years ago it was wildly controversial. Indeed, it was so controversial that whole books …

: Extreme Programming, 14 years later [F]ourteen years ago it was wildly controversial. Indeed, it was so controversial that whole books …

: Risk of your cloud going out of business Nearly 50% saw cloud-based solutions as having “a great deal of risk” while 33% saw …

: Risk of your cloud going out of business Nearly 50% saw cloud-based solutions as having “a great deal of risk” while 33% saw …

: Risk of your cloud going out of business Nearly 50% saw cloud-based solutions as having “a great deal of risk” while 33% saw …

: What's the plan at Dell? Questions for #DellWorld Going into DellWorld, there are a handful of high-level questions - well, really, statements in the …

: What's the plan at Dell? Questions for #DellWorld Going into DellWorld, there are a handful of high-level questions - well, really, statements in the …

: What's the plan at Dell? Questions for #DellWorld Going into DellWorld, there are a handful of high-level questions - well, really, statements in the …

: Crazy cloud pricing confusion 451 found that there is a large differentiation among providers when it comes to pricing, which it …

: Crazy cloud pricing confusion 451 found that there is a large differentiation among providers when it comes to pricing, which it …

: Crazy cloud pricing confusion 451 found that there is a large differentiation among providers when it comes to pricing, which it …

: Developers gorging on speed and data I like how Alex sums up the current, overriding approach to development in passing: Speed is the …

: Developers gorging on speed and data I like how Alex sums up the current, overriding approach to development in passing: Speed is the …

: Developers gorging on speed and data I like how Alex sums up the current, overriding approach to development in passing: Speed is the …

: IBM goes bonkers for DevOps, highlighting how it's being interwoven with its portfolio After attending the IBM software group analyst summit, it was clear that IBM is going “all …

: IBM goes bonkers for DevOps, highlighting how it's being interwoven with its portfolio After attending the IBM software group analyst summit, it was clear that IBM is going “all …

: IBM goes bonkers for DevOps, highlighting how it's being interwoven with its portfolio After attending the IBM software group analyst summit, it was clear that IBM is going “all …

: An editor's reading like and habbits I like to spend some time looking through that and try to figure out, do I understand this paper …

: An editor's reading like and habbits I like to spend some time looking through that and try to figure out, do I understand this paper …

: An editor's reading like and habbits I like to spend some time looking through that and try to figure out, do I understand this paper …

: LeAnn Rimes new video shot entirely on iPhone LeAnn Rimes new video shot entirely on iPhone

: LeAnn Rimes new video shot entirely on iPhone LeAnn Rimes new video shot entirely on iPhone

: LeAnn Rimes new video shot entirely on iPhone LeAnn Rimes new video shot entirely on iPhone

: Relative momentum around Chef (née Opscode) Chef’s Sales grew 250 percent year-over-year for the third quarter. The number of new Chef Software …

: Relative momentum around Chef (née Opscode) Chef’s Sales grew 250 percent year-over-year for the third quarter. The number of new Chef Software …

: Relative momentum around Chef (née Opscode) Chef’s Sales grew 250 percent year-over-year for the third quarter. The number of new Chef Software …

: SmartBear adds APM capabilities with Lucierna acquisition The APM stuff is going like hot-cakes apparently. Adding to it’s developer & QA tools and …

: SmartBear adds APM capabilities with Lucierna acquisition The APM stuff is going like hot-cakes apparently. Adding to it’s developer & QA tools and …

: SmartBear adds APM capabilities with Lucierna acquisition The APM stuff is going like hot-cakes apparently. Adding to it’s developer & QA tools and …

: Spying in virtual worlds Can virtual marketplaces for magical D&D weapons really be used for laundering real-world cash …

: Spying in virtual worlds Can virtual marketplaces for magical D&D weapons really be used for laundering real-world cash …

: Spying in virtual worlds Can virtual marketplaces for magical D&D weapons really be used for laundering real-world cash …

: IBM developing cloud storage broker software The software provides a single interface that administrators can use to spread data across multiple …

: IBM developing cloud storage broker software The software provides a single interface that administrators can use to spread data across multiple …

: IBM developing cloud storage broker software The software provides a single interface that administrators can use to spread data across multiple …

: The weekly manager meeting Your job in a 1:1 is to give the smallest voice a chance to be heard, and I start with a question: …

: The weekly manager meeting Your job in a 1:1 is to give the smallest voice a chance to be heard, and I start with a question: …

: The weekly manager meeting Your job in a 1:1 is to give the smallest voice a chance to be heard, and I start with a question: …

: The kookie, nerd uncle My 16-year-old cousin: I broke my phone. Me: I will give you an iPhone 5s if you agree to one …

: The kookie, nerd uncle My 16-year-old cousin: I broke my phone. Me: I will give you an iPhone 5s if you agree to one …

: The kookie, nerd uncle My 16-year-old cousin: I broke my phone. Me: I will give you an iPhone 5s if you agree to one …

: You are being watched over by twentysomething computer handlers who can be bought with foosball, …

: You are being watched over by twentysomething computer handlers who can be bought with foosball, …

: You are being watched over by twentysomething computer handlers who can be bought with foosball, …

: Dell now using Puppet for it's private cloud box This is the private cloud in a box that Dell doesn’t call a “private cloud.” …

: Dell now using Puppet for it's private cloud box This is the private cloud in a box that Dell doesn’t call a “private cloud.” …

: Dell now using Puppet for it's private cloud box This is the private cloud in a box that Dell doesn’t call a “private cloud.” …

: Finding patterns of misbehavior Palantir got its start building software that helps tie disparate databases together to make it …

: Finding patterns of misbehavior Palantir got its start building software that helps tie disparate databases together to make it …

: Finding patterns of misbehavior Palantir got its start building software that helps tie disparate databases together to make it …

: With time you realize that the number of questions outnumbers the number of answers. Pr Rodolfo …

: With time you realize that the number of questions outnumbers the number of answers. Pr Rodolfo …

: With time you realize that the number of questions outnumbers the number of answers. Pr Rodolfo …

: Going beyond a simple ordering system at Applebees “It could show me things I can eat based on my activities for the day,” he notes. There …

: Going beyond a simple ordering system at Applebees “It could show me things I can eat based on my activities for the day,” he notes. There …

: Going beyond a simple ordering system at Applebees “It could show me things I can eat based on my activities for the day,” he notes. There …

: Maybe MDM is sort of silly Arguably, there are still data on these devices, such as local copies of corporate email that might …

: Maybe MDM is sort of silly Arguably, there are still data on these devices, such as local copies of corporate email that might …

: Maybe MDM is sort of silly Arguably, there are still data on these devices, such as local copies of corporate email that might …

: Accused of Cyberspying, Huawei Is ‘Exiting the U.S. Market’ Why can’t you just pay attention to my main ideas and ignore the details? Accused of …

: Accused of Cyberspying, Huawei Is ‘Exiting the U.S. Market’ Why can’t you just pay attention to my main ideas and ignore the details? Accused of …

: Accused of Cyberspying, Huawei Is ‘Exiting the U.S. Market’ Why can’t you just pay attention to my main ideas and ignore the details? Accused of …

: Amazon getting into hybrid cloud storage “AWS will have a long way to go to be able to accomplish this. They will need architects in …

: Amazon getting into hybrid cloud storage “AWS will have a long way to go to be able to accomplish this. They will need architects in …

: Amazon getting into hybrid cloud storage “AWS will have a long way to go to be able to accomplish this. They will need architects in …

: IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013 Down 15% for consumers, 5% for business users. IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013

: IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013 Down 15% for consumers, 5% for business users. IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013

: IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013 Down 15% for consumers, 5% for business users. IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013

: RedHat's PaaS, OpenShift out with new rev The PaaS market has been heating up recently and Red Hat’s release of the latest version of its PaaS …

: RedHat's PaaS, OpenShift out with new rev The PaaS market has been heating up recently and Red Hat’s release of the latest version of its PaaS …

: RedHat's PaaS, OpenShift out with new rev The PaaS market has been heating up recently and Red Hat’s release of the latest version of its PaaS …

: Ars Review of the Jawbone Up24 Ars Review of the Jawbone Up24

: Ars Review of the Jawbone Up24 Ars Review of the Jawbone Up24

: Ars Review of the Jawbone Up24 Ars Review of the Jawbone Up24

: Buying the hole, not the shovel “This whole idea about coming from the outside and trying to sell something to the IT [department], …

: Buying the hole, not the shovel “This whole idea about coming from the outside and trying to sell something to the IT [department], …

: Buying the hole, not the shovel “This whole idea about coming from the outside and trying to sell something to the IT [department], …

: Finally, a monitor priced like the good old days: $3,499 Speaking of which, The UltraSharp 32 is now up for grabs worldwide for $3,499, while the $1,399 …

: Finally, a monitor priced like the good old days: $3,499 Speaking of which, The UltraSharp 32 is now up for grabs worldwide for $3,499, while the $1,399 …

: Finally, a monitor priced like the good old days: $3,499 Speaking of which, The UltraSharp 32 is now up for grabs worldwide for $3,499, while the $1,399 …

: No creativity needed to keep the trains running on time [M]anagement’s function isn’t about creating, but rather “ensuring that repetitive tasks were …

: No creativity needed to keep the trains running on time [M]anagement’s function isn’t about creating, but rather “ensuring that repetitive tasks were …

: No creativity needed to keep the trains running on time [M]anagement’s function isn’t about creating, but rather “ensuring that repetitive tasks were …

: 40,000 plus Macs in use at Google And check out the comments for this gem: Do American universities not teach their computer …

: 40,000 plus Macs in use at Google And check out the comments for this gem: Do American universities not teach their computer …

: 40,000 plus Macs in use at Google And check out the comments for this gem: Do American universities not teach their computer …

: Betting against IBM Indeed, the numbers may back him up—cloud computing sure seems to be squeezing the vendor’s …

: Betting against IBM Indeed, the numbers may back him up—cloud computing sure seems to be squeezing the vendor’s …

: Betting against IBM Indeed, the numbers may back him up—cloud computing sure seems to be squeezing the vendor’s …

: Dell IR: we're going to go hang with the nerds now One of the more significant changes is that our financial results will be restricted to current …

: Dell IR: we're going to go hang with the nerds now One of the more significant changes is that our financial results will be restricted to current …

: Dell IR: we're going to go hang with the nerds now One of the more significant changes is that our financial results will be restricted to current …

: You kids get your API-less apps off my lawn! I cut my teeth on the open web of the early 2000s. It was APIs, and mashups. Mac OS X turned my …

: You kids get your API-less apps off my lawn! I cut my teeth on the open web of the early 2000s. It was APIs, and mashups. Mac OS X turned my …

: You kids get your API-less apps off my lawn! I cut my teeth on the open web of the early 2000s. It was APIs, and mashups. Mac OS X turned my …

: During SUSEcon, the analysts relation folks took us to iFly. I’m the one with the beard. …

: During SUSEcon, the analysts relation folks took us to iFly. I’m the one with the beard. …

: Thanksgiving becomes Thanksgiving plus a 20 minute board meeting. That sucks. All I want to do is …

: Thanksgiving becomes Thanksgiving plus a 20 minute board meeting. That sucks. All I want to do is …

: During SUSEcon, the analysts relation folks took us to iFly. I’m the one with the beard. …

: Thanksgiving becomes Thanksgiving plus a 20 minute board meeting. That sucks. All I want to do is …

: Enterprise blogging at the crossroads Enterprise blogging at the crossroads

: Enterprise blogging at the crossroads Enterprise blogging at the crossroads

: Enterprise blogging at the crossroads Enterprise blogging at the crossroads

: SAP cloud revenue to reach ~€20B by 2017 Hagemann-Snabe reckoned any change would hit the company’s revenue for 2015 but it would have …

: SAP cloud revenue to reach ~€20B by 2017 Hagemann-Snabe reckoned any change would hit the company’s revenue for 2015 but it would have …

: SAP cloud revenue to reach ~€20B by 2017 Hagemann-Snabe reckoned any change would hit the company’s revenue for 2015 but it would have …

: Savings from working at home An employer can save more than $11,000 per employee when that person works from home even half the …

: Savings from working at home An employer can save more than $11,000 per employee when that person works from home even half the …

: Savings from working at home An employer can save more than $11,000 per employee when that person works from home even half the …

: The never ending game of "Business Alignment" On top of that, the second issue is that there’s this new technology base, and a new application …

: The never ending game of "Business Alignment" On top of that, the second issue is that there’s this new technology base, and a new application …

: The never ending game of "Business Alignment" On top of that, the second issue is that there’s this new technology base, and a new application …

: The seven layer ROBO attack At the branch office what the industry has done is stack up appliances for everything from unified …

: The seven layer ROBO attack At the branch office what the industry has done is stack up appliances for everything from unified …

: The seven layer ROBO attack At the branch office what the industry has done is stack up appliances for everything from unified …

: Things were different back in 2003, but developers still were kingmakers From Rachel Chalmer’s 2003, coverage of Novell buying “SuSE” (451 client access …

: Things were different back in 2003, but developers still were kingmakers From Rachel Chalmer’s 2003, coverage of Novell buying “SuSE” (451 client access …

: Things were different back in 2003, but developers still were kingmakers From Rachel Chalmer’s 2003, coverage of Novell buying “SuSE” (451 client access …

: A $50m super computer for $33k Amazon today operates at a scale that most people are unaware of and find incomprehensible when they …

: A $50m super computer for $33k Amazon today operates at a scale that most people are unaware of and find incomprehensible when they …

: A $50m super computer for $33k Amazon today operates at a scale that most people are unaware of and find incomprehensible when they …

: Cloud is hard Cloud is really, really hard. Just read the headlines – enterprises and traditional IT vendors are …

: Cloud is hard Cloud is really, really hard. Just read the headlines – enterprises and traditional IT vendors are …

: Cloud is hard Cloud is really, really hard. Just read the headlines – enterprises and traditional IT vendors are …

: There's big expectations mis-alignment in OpenStack-land While this dude’s tone is pretty harsh, there’s not too much wrong here if you peel that …

: There's big expectations mis-alignment in OpenStack-land While this dude’s tone is pretty harsh, there’s not too much wrong here if you peel that …

: There's big expectations mis-alignment in OpenStack-land While this dude’s tone is pretty harsh, there’s not too much wrong here if you peel that …

: "They don't even come with APIs." “It is clear that networking has for a very long time been a black box. They don’t even …

: "They don't even come with APIs." “It is clear that networking has for a very long time been a black box. They don’t even …

: "They don't even come with APIs." “It is clear that networking has for a very long time been a black box. They don’t even …

: Dropbox at "hundreds of millions of dollars" in revenue Of all the start-ups, though, Dropbox has seemed to enjoy the most meteoric growth. It just reached …

: Dropbox at "hundreds of millions of dollars" in revenue Of all the start-ups, though, Dropbox has seemed to enjoy the most meteoric growth. It just reached …

: Dropbox at "hundreds of millions of dollars" in revenue Of all the start-ups, though, Dropbox has seemed to enjoy the most meteoric growth. It just reached …

: 451 Research: Boundary wants to be your MOM - Boundary Most of what I write professionally is behind a paywall now, so it’s fun when something gets …

: 451 Research: Boundary wants to be your MOM - Boundary Most of what I write professionally is behind a paywall now, so it’s fun when something gets …

: 451 Research: Boundary wants to be your MOM - Boundary Most of what I write professionally is behind a paywall now, so it’s fun when something gets …

: More on BMC's private plans We’re all curious what Dell and BMC are going to do now that they’re private. I hope a lot of …

: More on BMC's private plans We’re all curious what Dell and BMC are going to do now that they’re private. I hope a lot of …

: More on BMC's private plans We’re all curious what Dell and BMC are going to do now that they’re private. I hope a lot of …

: The plight of the DBA - Press Pass What’s a DBA to do in a cloud world where platform as a service and PaaS-like automation …

: The plight of the DBA - Press Pass What’s a DBA to do in a cloud world where platform as a service and PaaS-like automation …

: The plight of the DBA - Press Pass What’s a DBA to do in a cloud world where platform as a service and PaaS-like automation …

: The Austin Board of Realtors says home sales were up 35 percent last month in the Austin area …

: The platforms were ultimately product-driven, not client-driven, and built in silos without …

: The Austin Board of Realtors says home sales were up 35 percent last month in the Austin area …

: The platforms were ultimately product-driven, not client-driven, and built in silos without …

: The third stage of Vineet’s transformation revolves around the value zone - the part of any …

: The third stage of Vineet’s transformation revolves around the value zone - the part of any …

: The link between freedom and money, data edition Commercial services—including those used by Fortune 500 companies—outsourced to India typically …

: The link between freedom and money, data edition Commercial services—including those used by Fortune 500 companies—outsourced to India typically …

: Spending all your money just keeping the lights on Researchers have found that IT departments typically spend 75% of their time, money and resources …

: Spending all your money just keeping the lights on Researchers have found that IT departments typically spend 75% of their time, money and resources …

: When white-collar workers have opinions "The mobile revolution has given end-users the power to find new software, new ideas and new …

: When white-collar workers have opinions "The mobile revolution has given end-users the power to find new software, new ideas and new …

: @Walmart Labs' Tim Kimmet talks what's in store for mobile shoppers "More than 50 percent of Walmart customers have smartphones, and mobile is driving more than 40 …

: @Walmart Labs' Tim Kimmet talks what's in store for mobile shoppers "More than 50 percent of Walmart customers have smartphones, and mobile is driving more than 40 …

: Touch Screen Precisions That looks pretty cool: New Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation.

: Touch Screen Precisions That looks pretty cool: New Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation.

: People seem to be buying Chromebooks Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25 percent of the U.S. market …

: People seem to be buying Chromebooks Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25 percent of the U.S. market …

: Peanut Butter and Jam!

: Peanut Butter and Jam!

: The disposable company The duration of your working life is now almost certainly greater than the lifespan of a company. …

: The disposable company The duration of your working life is now almost certainly greater than the lifespan of a company. …

: This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds Using RedMonk logic: companies tend to keep what they consider their competative advantage closed …

: This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds Using RedMonk logic: companies tend to keep what they consider their competative advantage closed …

: Open Web Crew Blindsided Then Facebook began to grow and grow. I remember the first time someone was showing me Facebook—it …

: Open Web Crew Blindsided Then Facebook began to grow and grow. I remember the first time someone was showing me Facebook—it …

: Advice for Dairy Maids The reality is that it is only the `cash cows' that are really important—all the other elements are …

: Advice for Dairy Maids The reality is that it is only the `cash cows' that are really important—all the other elements are …

: Corporate Breakfast One of the odd things starting at Dell was that they have a cafeteria in each building. I've never …

: Corporate Breakfast One of the odd things starting at Dell was that they have a cafeteria in each building. I've never …

: Two very different estimates of cloud email usage and forecasts A while back I posted a quick quote from recent Gartner prognosticating about cloud email. The …

: Two very different estimates of cloud email usage and forecasts A while back I posted a quick quote from recent Gartner prognosticating about cloud email. The …

: Why your company needs a single P&L On this week's Critical Path, Horace gives a great overview of why a functional organization is a …

: Why your company needs a single P&L On this week's Critical Path, Horace gives a great overview of why a functional organization is a …

: All you need to know about working with people, aka, The Walter Sobchak Principle

: All you need to know about working with people, aka, The Walter Sobchak Principle

: How's Microsoft doing with Yammer? If we look at it from Yammer’s perspective, it’s been a good year. Being part of the Microsoft …

: How's Microsoft doing with Yammer? If we look at it from Yammer’s perspective, it’s been a good year. Being part of the Microsoft …

: No one got fired for buying IBM cloud So what is the impact of IBM's acquisition of SoftLayer?This analyst believes this acquisition may …

: No one got fired for buying IBM cloud So what is the impact of IBM's acquisition of SoftLayer?This analyst believes this acquisition may …

: Heterogenous Systems Management Increasingly, PC makers are experimenting with Android, given that Microsoft's Windows 8 devices …

: Heterogenous Systems Management Increasingly, PC makers are experimenting with Android, given that Microsoft's Windows 8 devices …

: A surplus of innovation Adrian Cockcroft, who runs all things cloud for Netflix, called it “technical indigestion.” His …

: A surplus of innovation Adrian Cockcroft, who runs all things cloud for Netflix, called it “technical indigestion.” His …

: Hemingway on interruptions The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers. –Hemingway

: Hemingway on interruptions The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers. –Hemingway

: People stuck in the email backwoods Only 8% of office system users employ cloud-hosted email and desktop applications, according to …

: People stuck in the email backwoods Only 8% of office system users employ cloud-hosted email and desktop applications, according to …

: Progress enabling SaaSify “Our ISV customers have said, we want to be able to compete in the cloud,” explains CEO Philip Pead. …

: Progress enabling SaaSify “Our ISV customers have said, we want to be able to compete in the cloud,” explains CEO Philip Pead. …

: The Joys of Marginalia I can’t really concentrate on reading unless I have a pen in my hand. I love marginalia. I love used …

: The Joys of Marginalia I can’t really concentrate on reading unless I have a pen in my hand. I love marginalia. I love used …

: Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract Looks like that $600m AWS contract with the CIA is real, if not closed. Also of note: Amazon is …

: Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract Looks like that $600m AWS contract with the CIA is real, if not closed. Also of note: Amazon is …

: Maybe this Internet of Things bit isn't bonkers after all A new study from Rackspace titled "The Human Cloud: Wearable Technology from Novelty to …

: Maybe this Internet of Things bit isn't bonkers after all A new study from Rackspace titled "The Human Cloud: Wearable Technology from Novelty to …

: OpenStack vs. Amazon The differentiation [between Amazon and OpenStack] is that OpenStack technology is driving an …

: OpenStack vs. Amazon The differentiation [between Amazon and OpenStack] is that OpenStack technology is driving an …

: Amazon Staff Meetings: “No PowerPoint” The traditional kind of corporate meeting starts with a presentation. Somebody gets up in front of …

: Amazon Staff Meetings: “No PowerPoint” The traditional kind of corporate meeting starts with a presentation. Somebody gets up in front of …

: Planning is fine, but generally over-rated He said he never sought lot of advice because if he had gone and asked people what he was about to …

: Planning is fine, but generally over-rated He said he never sought lot of advice because if he had gone and asked people what he was about to …

: https://www.brighttalk.com/clients/js/embed/embed.js When I was at Dell I worked in strategy and …

: https://www.brighttalk.com/clients/js/embed/embed.js When I was at Dell I worked in strategy and …

: Lazy robots, or, Is cloud meeting your expectations? As I mentioned earlier, Roy and and I had a webinar today about Dell's cloud portfolio and …

: Lazy robots, or, Is cloud meeting your expectations? As I mentioned earlier, Roy and and I had a webinar today about Dell's cloud portfolio and …

: Bruce Sterling does Google Glasses glass11, originally uploaded by brucesflickr.

: Bruce Sterling does Google Glasses glass11, originally uploaded by brucesflickr.

: Dell VRTX Also, see TPM's coverage.

: Dell VRTX Also, see TPM's coverage.

: How GitHub runs itself In that I work at BigCo that wants to transform, with lots of software in our future, I think a lot …

: How GitHub runs itself In that I work at BigCo that wants to transform, with lots of software in our future, I think a lot …

: The 100 person limit Size and internal vs. external coordination costs matter a lot. North of 100 people in a company, …

: Upcoming talk on Dell's New Cloud Strategy I'll have a little cameo on a webinar tomorrow, speaking broadly to Dell's cloud strategy. It'd a …

: Microsoft keeps fast following to the cloud In addition to Azure, Microsoft is offering other cloud services through Intune, its Internet-based …

: Not sure which half works In a separate study, out of 3000 marketers surveyed 41 percent said they were “uncertain” about the …

: Server sales Basically, if you sold a Unix or proprietary server, your revenues shrank. –The Server Biz Stalls …

: The Internet is now the check-out isle I’m not actually mad at either Scalzi or Amazon; I’m getting good entertainment value for money. But …

: All about SoftLayer Pretty detailed overview of SoftLayer and their approach to cloud: With over 100,000 servers under …

: Breakdancing at the food-court Contemporary American culture venerates the entrepreneurs who create the new corporate commons in …

: Oxford shirt that cleans your phone Just $98... More: Oxford shirt that cleans your phone

: Netscape finally wins Chrome is doing its job: Google’s signals sit on top of an increasing number of PCs, slowly making …

: Who's collecting Android profits? As you have probably guessed, the one making the most profit from Android is market leader Samsung, …

: Why it's so different now Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 33% of the world is on the Internet on …

: How's VCE been doin'? $1B annual run rate, 1,000+ vBlocks sold (cumulative?), with $1.3B investment, founded 2011. More: …

: Spiceworks Segmentation Stats three years ago 65-70 percent of Spiceworks users were from companies that had fewer than 100 …

: The beast known as Samsung If there was a common thread among everyone The Verge spoke with for this story, it was Samsung's …

: Yahoo! 'won't screw Tumblr'? Then Tumblr will screw its balance sheet It's all true, and yet it seems like a good idea still. More: Yahoo! 'won't screw Tumblr'? Then …

: Yahoo gives Flickr a new face, a new app, and a new business model | Ars Technica I love it when companies let you pay to stop showing ads: it gives you a good sense for how much …

: A peek inside AWS The engineer says for $7,500 a month, Amazon will guarantee they will be on dedicated hardware, and …

: QLIK Rising: As DATA Soars, BMO Cheers New Analytics Approach Watch over the next 2 years as the Big 4 of BI (IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Microstragy) battle distuption …

: Tableau IPO'ing - Big DATA It's expected to have a valuation of $1.4B. I love it when pure play software company IPO's because …

: PoS Disruption Local business owners take as a given that they need an ugly, slow, expensive and complicated point …

: Virtualization Adoption as a Guide for Cloud Adoption “By starting with test and dev with virtualization, you could ensure that you had a high degree of …

: Google pools cloud storage It's a slow race to capture the white-collar worker segment. More: Google pools cloud storage

: Verizon Enterprise M&A Look at the genealogy here, starting with our first move, the acquisition of MCI back in 2006. That …

: EMC World: Pivotal boss Paul Maritz talks up plans for new firm EMC believes that the third era will be one of mobile devices, cloud computing and big data.... …

: SAP Takes It All to the Cloud “We will do cloud-based ERP on a massive scale,” said Vishal Sikka, a member of SAP’s executive …

: Bowl Cherries, circa long ago Was the Renaissance something that you put on and took off like a diadem, or was it something you …

: Building a Great Team (Dell buys Enstratius) With the Enstratius acquisition, Dell is getting a group of people with deep influence in the …

: The Money Shot At Stanford, Systrom opted to go abroad to Florence, Italy, for the winter term of his junior year, …

: Why developers are the king makers [flickr video=8678862379 secret=ee744f017f w=400 h=225] Last week I was at on a Dell event panel …

: You go to war with the knowledge you have “Managing the incompleteness of communications” is core to mastering agile software development. …

: How would you define work in a networked world? Most of these dynamics predate the internet, but digital technologies are magnifying their salience. …

: The Intel Opportunity Massive demand, limited suppliers, huge barriers to entry. It’s a good time to be a manufacturing …

: The trouble with our increasing clock speed Through it all, we don't have to become hermits. But we must not allow ourselves to continue being …

: 99 Problems Some things are beyond my control. For example, this whole controversy about Jay-Z going to Cuba - …

: That nasty tasting black stuff...that I'm drinking right now The flavour might best be described as being a cross between medicine, crushed plants, and bitter …

: How the kids learn about new stuff - DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast Check it out! Charles and I recorded an episode. In Video! Charles and I discuss DevOpsDays Austin, …

: Mobile, Informed Consent, and the Permission First Web As IBM now cleverly says Mobile isn’t a Device, Its Data... We’re heading into a beautiful, bright, …

: 7 takeaways from DevOps Days Austin Some take aways from Rob. More: 7 takeaways from DevOps Days Austin

: DevOpsDays Austin I was in and out of DevOpsDays Austin over the past few days. It's always a fun, event, packed with …

: White Men Wearing Google Glass Well played... More: White Men Wearing Google Glass

: Microsoft adds Azure to its billion dollar a year club | Ars Technica Amazon Web Services (AWS), by way of comparison, is estimated to have brought in $1.8 billion last …

: People will do more with Big Data than big companies can The history of computing over the last 30 years is one of lurches forward every time individuals got …

: Report: IBM, Lenovo x86 server deal hits the skids Buying IBM's x86 server business is the quickest way for Lenovo to rocket up the rankings and become …

: The Secret to IaaS Success? Don’t Beat Amazon Web Services I suspect the prevalent “slow follower” mentality within the public IaaS companies that are chasing …

: The Truth About Pattern Matching menswear techniques that sounds really important and next level, but, when you think about it, is …

: Exclusive: Bain, Golden Gate in the lead to buy BMC Software - sources My old company... More: Exclusive: Bain, Golden Gate in the lead to buy BMC Software - sources

: Forrester: Middle-Aged Developers Driving Cloud Computing – ReadWrite In other words, as with open source, these developers can't be bothered with corporate bureaucracy. …

: Why it's an endless churn The endless search for an organizational handle on the market - that is, rational structures to deal …

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: Analytics in the #ls11 technical keynote

: Meetings at #ls11

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: Lotusphere floor

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: Saturday means some drinks, finally

: Our future leaders

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: Lamar strip malls

: Saturday morning

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: Bed time!

: Just over DFW

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: Enterprise Software Explained, Oracle vs. ASF - DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast #169 In this episode, we discuss what's up with Oracle and the ASF, which leads us to also discuss that …

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: All the world's furniture - DrunkAndRetired.com Episode #168 In this mini-episode, Charles talks about the excess of furniture, as he sees it, in the world. …

: Lowlands Trip Photos, 2 More photos from our trip to The Netherlands and Belgium:

: Lowlands Trip Photos, 2 More photos from our trip to The Netherlands and Belgium:

: Lowlands Trip Photos, 2 More photos from our trip to The Netherlands and Belgium:

: Lowlands Trip Photos, 2 More photos from our trip to The Netherlands and Belgium:

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: Lowlands Trip Photos, 1 We're back from a trip to The Netherlands and Belgium. I've got all the photos I took (and some I …

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: Taming the backyard jungle We'd been away from the house for a few weeks, and it rained plenty. The result was a "jungle" in …

: Taming the backyard jungle We'd been away from the house for a few weeks, and it rained plenty. The result was a "jungle" in …

: Taming the backyard jungle We'd been away from the house for a few weeks, and it rained plenty. The result was a "jungle" in …

: Taming the backyard jungle We'd been away from the house for a few weeks, and it rained plenty. The result was a "jungle" in …

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: The kids love video games

: The kids love video games

: Leftovers from the 20th century

: Leftovers from the 20th century

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: Always love the perspective from across the pond From here: Having enjoyed the benefits of their own empire for the last 50 years and pocketed tax …

: Always love the perspective from across the pond From here: Having enjoyed the benefits of their own empire for the last 50 years and pocketed tax …

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: Filet Mignon Filet Mignon, originally uploaded by cote. I've always been fascinated by the proposition: "what …

: Filet Mignon Filet Mignon, originally uploaded by cote. I've always been fascinated by the proposition: "what …

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: Americans don't know how to eat French bread - Austin's Very Own #50 On the way to a friend's house for dinner, we go over the truth about bread: Click here for episode …

: Americans don't know how to eat French bread - Austin's Very Own #50 On the way to a friend's house for dinner, we go over the truth about bread: Click here for episode …

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: Voting, Texas-style - Austin's Very Own #51 After voting in the Texas Primaries, Kim and I discuss the fun of the voting process. A loud …

: Voting, Texas-style - Austin's Very Own #51 After voting in the Texas Primaries, Kim and I discuss the fun of the voting process. A loud …

: Macho Man Just another day at the office with Charles.

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: Macho Man Just another day at the office with Charles.

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: The American way, she said, was simple. “There are two rights essential to freedom: private …

: The American way, she said, was simple. “There are two rights essential to freedom: private …

: The American way, she said, was simple. “There are two rights essential to freedom: private …

: If things go so badly that the S&P 500 becomes permanently worthless, I have a hard time …

: If things go so badly that the S&P 500 becomes permanently worthless, I have a hard time …

: If things go so badly that the S&P 500 becomes permanently worthless, I have a hard time …

: I pledge allegiance to Spaghetti - DrunkAndRetired.com #164 On the way home, I ponder possible pasta dinners. To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast …

: I pledge allegiance to Spaghetti - DrunkAndRetired.com #164 On the way home, I ponder possible pasta dinners. To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast …

: Snowing in Austin [flickr video=[www.flickr.com/photos/co...](http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/4381817083/)] Kim and …

: Snowing in Austin [flickr video=[www.flickr.com/photos/co...](http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/4381817083/)] Kim and …

: Snowing in Austin [flickr video=[www.flickr.com/photos/co...](http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/4381817083/)] Kim and …

: DrunkAndRetired.com #163 - Business Hours Over some lunch, Charles and I discuss HTML 5 and some other hoopla: To listen to the episode, …

: DrunkAndRetired.com #163 - Business Hours Over some lunch, Charles and I discuss HTML 5 and some other hoopla: To listen to the episode, …

: D K Sushi and Seoul Asian Food Market - A Brief Review DK's is a neighborhood sushi bar - a few blocks from my house - if that concept even makes sense. …

: D K Sushi and Seoul Asian Food Market - A Brief Review DK's is a neighborhood sushi bar - a few blocks from my house - if that concept even makes sense. …

: D K Sushi and Seoul Asian Food Market - A Brief Review DK's is a neighborhood sushi bar - a few blocks from my house - if that concept even makes sense. …

: Kim's morning iPhone routine - Austin's Very Own #48 Every morning, Kim goes through the same routine on her iPhone - checking email, reading news, …

: Kim's morning iPhone routine - Austin's Very Own #48 Every morning, Kim goes through the same routine on her iPhone - checking email, reading news, …

: Kim's morning iPhone routine - Austin's Very Own #48 Every morning, Kim goes through the same routine on her iPhone - checking email, reading news, …

: DrunkAndRetired.com #161 - iPad Madness To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode …

: DrunkAndRetired.com #161 - iPad Madness To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode …

: The last week of January This month started off with my birthday, as it does every year. Kim was kind enough to throw me a …

: The last week of January This month started off with my birthday, as it does every year. Kim was kind enough to throw me a …

: The last week of January This month started off with my birthday, as it does every year. Kim was kind enough to throw me a …

: The evening, across centuries and continents

: The evening, across centuries and continents

: The evening, across centuries and continents

: Lost on a Pacific Resort Island, Saved by HEB In this dream, I was traveling with a group of people, including Kim. In one leg of our travel, …

: Lost on a Pacific Resort Island, Saved by HEB In this dream, I was traveling with a group of people, including Kim. In one leg of our travel, …

: Lost on a Pacific Resort Island, Saved by HEB In this dream, I was traveling with a group of people, including Kim. In one leg of our travel, …

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: "I'm in your hands" It's hard to get good customer service, but it's hard to be comfortable expecting it. On a recent …

: "I'm in your hands" It's hard to get good customer service, but it's hard to be comfortable expecting it. On a recent …

: "I'm in your hands" It's hard to get good customer service, but it's hard to be comfortable expecting it. On a recent …

: My Work is infecting my dreams Had a strange dream Monday night where I was in some largish, darkly-lit meeting room (almost like …

: My Work is infecting my dreams Had a strange dream Monday night where I was in some largish, darkly-lit meeting room (almost like …

: My Work is infecting my dreams Had a strange dream Monday night where I was in some largish, darkly-lit meeting room (almost like …

: Notes from No Maps for these Territories Last night I watched No Maps for these Territories which can get seriously embarrassing to watch in …

: Notes from No Maps for these Territories Last night I watched No Maps for these Territories which can get seriously embarrassing to watch in …

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: Notebooks from dime novels Notebooks from old books, originally uploaded by cote. Check out these blank books made with …

: Frank - A Hot Dog Review At Frank, it's hot-dog gimmicks and bacon galore, but they're good eating at not too high of a cost. …

: Frank - A Hot Dog Review At Frank, it's hot-dog gimmicks and bacon galore, but they're good eating at not too high of a cost. …

: Frank - A Hot Dog Review At Frank, it's hot-dog gimmicks and bacon galore, but they're good eating at not too high of a cost. …

: Austin Roasters Coffee Tasting This past Sunday, several Austin-based coffee roaster got together for a sample-fest over at Owl …

: Death by GPS Check out this excerpt from the pretty good report “TORA BORA REVISITED: HOW WE FAILED TO GET …

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: The Franklin Barbecue is tasty I had the brisket, which was good: he gave me some slight fatty slices and a bonus end piece on …

: The Franklin Barbecue is tasty I had the brisket, which was good: he gave me some slight fatty slices and a bonus end piece on …

: Facebook rediscovered - Austin's Very Own #46 Kim and I talk about using Facebook more and Kim's wine buying tips. Click here for episode MP3 To …

: Facebook rediscovered - Austin's Very Own #46 Kim and I talk about using Facebook more and Kim's wine buying tips. Click here for episode MP3 To …

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: The week before endless rain

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: Thanksgiving

: Thanksgiving

: East Side Studio Tour (More on the EAST side studio tour.)

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: Most Unconvincing Billboard Ever Most Unconvincing Billboard Ever, originally uploaded by kaskotak. Kim and I have been seeing …

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: Cheeze Whiz Lyrics - From the Archives From long, long ago, I found this list of alternitive Police lyrics inspired by cheez whiz. From …

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: Book Review: Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior by Suzanne …

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: Austin Politicos, Urban Outdoors, Nagging - Austin's Very Own #45 To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode …

: Austin Politicos, Urban Outdoors, Nagging - Austin's Very Own #45 To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode …

: Hamthrax in the neighborhood - Austin's Very Own #42 To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode …

: Hamthrax in the neighborhood - Austin's Very Own #42 To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode …

: Cone of Shame

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: Book Review: It Can't Happen Here It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis My rating: 2 of 5 stars I gave up reading this one because it …

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: Office Space, Beeps, Pens, and Costly IP - Episode 158 To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode …

: Sugar on Cereal - Episode #157 To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode …

: A fruit bowl for two Awhile ago, I thought it’d be nice to have a fruit bowl on the table. We’d have apples …

: A fruit bowl for two Awhile ago, I thought it’d be nice to have a fruit bowl on the table. We’d have apples …

: Procrastination I have that certain problem with procrastination, the one where I do all sorts of things of little …

: Procrastination I have that certain problem with procrastination, the one where I do all sorts of things of little …

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: I’m sitting flipping pages on the iPhone doing nothing. It’s the new twiddling your …

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: From Servlets and the Web Without the ability to show the customer something early, you'll build the …

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: For some reason, I just got coteindustries.tc for free. Whoopie!

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: Back in '97 Josh spray painted his car. Finally he's got the images up.

: Mullet Of The Week, always delivers... for those of you in other countries: a soccer mom is an …

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: The Brunching Shuttlecocks Dungeons & Dragons To be honest, the plot makes as much sense as the …

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: Just what is Southern food -- and where is it going? "There is no food that is characteristic of the …

: Just what is Southern food -- and where is it going? "There is no food that is characteristic of the …

: Just what is Southern food -- and where is it going? "There is no food that is characteristic of the …

: Once I hit 60, I'm gonna get in a balcony box like those two muppets Statler & Waldorf.

: Once I hit 60, I'm gonna get in a balcony box like those two muppets Statler & Waldorf.

: Once I hit 60, I'm gonna get in a balcony box like those two muppets Statler & Waldorf.

: Before headin' home I created the Mr. Brown Drinkin' Team FAQ at Kinman's insistance.

: Before headin' home I created the Mr. Brown Drinkin' Team FAQ at Kinman's insistance.

: Before headin' home I created the Mr. Brown Drinkin' Team FAQ at Kinman's insistance.

: To all you people that grimace when I put ketchup on, and around, my burger: Ketchup Smothers the …

: To all you people that grimace when I put ketchup on, and around, my burger: Ketchup Smothers the …

: Fear and Loathing in America and Screwjack shipped from Amazon today; soon there'll be some new HST …

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: To all you people that grimace when I put ketchup on, and around, my burger: Ketchup Smothers the …

: My Horrible Dining Experience at IHOP in Killeen Dorothea said, "Because the waitress is talking to …

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: Suck: Daily You know, Americans are a pretty kooky lot around alcohol. America has the highest …

: Suck: Daily You know, Americans are a pretty kooky lot around alcohol. America has the highest …

: Suck: Daily You know, Americans are a pretty kooky lot around alcohol. America has the highest …

: Clinton Says He's Not Finished Yet ``Some people thought I was a lame duck in '95. I'll just keep …

: Another dream-chair.

: Another dream-chair.

: Another dream-chair.

: Clinton Says He's Not Finished Yet ``Some people thought I was a lame duck in '95. I'll just keep …

: Clinton Says He's Not Finished Yet ``Some people thought I was a lame duck in '95. I'll just keep …

: Dancin' Dubya: see our old pal dancin'. It's really that simple.

: God damnit! When is tea time? And why can't I find it on-line?! If you know, please, please tell me. …

: Dancin' Dubya: see our old pal dancin'. It's really that simple.

: God damnit! When is tea time? And why can't I find it on-line?! If you know, please, please tell me. …

: Dancin' Dubya: see our old pal dancin'. It's really that simple.

: God damnit! When is tea time? And why can't I find it on-line?! If you know, please, please tell me. …

: Chicago Tribune, "RUN, RALPH, RUN" The assumption by Democrats is that Nader's supporters don't …

: Chicago Tribune, "RUN, RALPH, RUN" The assumption by Democrats is that Nader's supporters don't …

: Chicago Tribune, "RUN, RALPH, RUN" The assumption by Democrats is that Nader's supporters don't …

: "It just makes me sad that, you know, the wise guy attitude seems to dominates the press right now." …

: "It just makes me sad that, you know, the wise guy attitude seems to dominates the press right now." …

: "It just makes me sad that, you know, the wise guy attitude seems to dominates the press right now." …