Here’s what I’ve learned in doing 30 (maybe more like 40?) executive events in person and online over the past four or so years. Over my career, I’ve done these on and off, but it’s become a core part of my job since moving to EMEA to support Pivotal and now VMware Tanzu with executives. …
Trendz! Internal Developer Portals
Here’s a write-up from myself and JT of a new trend in the kubernetes/DevOps/app dev world: developer portals. With people building out the appdev layer on kubernetes (or “DevX”), many organizations are looking at how they support all the tools and internal community for developers. What’s interesting, and new, about projects like Backstage (now in …
Warm Smiles – a Fictional Case Study in Digital Transformation
I’m back to working on the ongoing book(let) project, The Legacy Trap. Marc has been adding in the real meat of the project, how the methodologies VMware Tanzu Labs uses for planning and doing application modernization, like Swift. Here’s a corny example story I wrote for the introduction, linking together business needs with worrying about legacy software. …
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Creating new appdev capabilities
I like this point from a recent write-up of the US Army’s software development transformation: He added that the technology being developed is often secondary. "A lot of times, people get really caught up on what type of software you're developing, and we look at it as the software that we're developing is the intermediate …
Things that help companies get better at software
When we standardized and enforced controls in the CI/CD pipeline the quality improved dramatically. Everyone knew the standards they were held to.“Global Bank” Here is an April 2020 McKinsey report that tries to show a relationship between being good at software and making money. I don’t know math enough to judge these kinds of models (as …
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Tuesday Links
https://howtoprofessionallysay.akashrajpurohit.com/ - decoder ring for American business-speak. https://www.itjungle.com/2022/05/23/how-committed-is-big-blue-to-the-ibm-cloud/ - IBM’s cloud: are they into it? https://brettterpstra.com/doing_all_commands/ - log what you’re doing.
May 31st, 2022: DevSecOps talk at IDC DevOps conference
Next week, May 31st 2022, I’m giving a short talk on DevSecOps at an IDC conference. It’s based on my recent blog post. I think it’s a free event, and all online. Register and check it out - lots of other interesting talks too.
Axe the intro paragraph analogy if you don’t refer back to it
Often, when you’re writing about tech stuff, you’ll make a reference to some mainstream culture thing. Well, or, like, science fiction, you know, I, Robot and stuff. You might also make an analogy to cars, road systems, whatever. Here’s one making an analogy between traffic laws and enterprise governance: Dotting the landscapeof the world’s highways and freewaysare …
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Monday Links
Getting Cloud Foundry on-top of kubernetes: Vision for CF on Kubernetes“More than 75 percent of businesses are now using multiple cloud providers, according to Gartner.” Multicloud, yes or no? Former PayPal head engineer weighs in.New CNCF kubernetes survey, haven’t dug into it yet. Here’s my write-up of the last one. Feels like just yesterday! I …
Inspiration for developing a style and aesthetics
“We hired you for what you know, not what you don’t know.” This was the best career advice I got early on, that I can remember at least. It worked. I did excellent work at RedMonk and thrived. In addition to a lot of consulting, the job was a lot of self-driven writing, doing all …
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How to Give a DevOpsDays Vendor Pitch
When you sponsor DevOpsDays, you get a 1 to 2 minute pitch. I used to give a lot of these, they’re fun if you make them fun! Here’s the advice I gave a co-worker who’s doing one soon: To say that you “should not do a pitch” is not helpful. Of course you should give a vendor …
What is DevSecOps?
In this longer blog post, I go over how I’ve finally come to think about what DevSecOps is.A summary of what the post covers:1. A secure software supply chain – This is a fancy way of saying “we know all the components that went into building and deploying this software and trust those components.” It also includes …
Napkins, Ice, Toilets, and Passports
Allow me to indulge in some trans-Atlantic compare/contrast’ing. I was back in Texas and Chicago for a few weeks recently, so of course noticed some difference between Europe and America. It’s the tiny differences that stack up. Talking about them can be an annoying tic of expat people. But, whatever. It’s been over two years …
A Good “Platform” Diagram
I’m always looking for good diagrams of a “developer platform,” an “internal platform,” whatever you want to call that stuff you run on-top of kubernetes. Here’s a good one from Forrester, from a webinar I did with them earlier this year:
Make sure you’re actually doing CI/CD
https://youtu.be/yEEwTPOpSk8 Here is the transcript: Can you release your software daily? Probably not. How about monthly maybe, but if you're like most organizations, depending on which surveys you look like, it takes most people three months or more to release software. For example, in this Forrester one, you can see that most people are releasing …
Uses for Competitive Intelligence
Jordi asked about the usefulness of competitive intelligence (at software/cloud vendors) in the Software Defined Slack. Here’s what I added to the thread: I think competitive intelligence is least useful for product management. Innovation, talking to customers, and finding out sells and doesn’t sell from your salesforce is more interesting. Competitive intelligence is good for sales …
Urgency is the best path to change
https://youtu.be/U6kTjxB32vg Find more cute babies and nerd-talk in the Tanzu Talk playlist. Here is the transcript: People don't want to change Most people don't want to change. And why would they? Everything they've done to this point has been successful. Individuals are really looking to keep what they have stable. So when you're going in …
My analysis of the State of Kubernetes 2022 survey
I like that I’ve been slotted into the “get that guy to do a write-up of a survey” position at work. It’s fun to look at these surveys, especially when I can add in things that aren’t in the published results, like multi-year data. Anyhow, here’s my write-up of our forth kubernetes survey. Things are …
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Mar 28, 2022 at 7:20 AM
The notes go directly from here.
Submarine meeting
Though not much of a drinker himself, Clinton expressed amusement over Yeltsin’s alcoholism and noted that Boris was always an affable drunkard. Once, while presumably wasted, Yeltsin randomly called Clinton on the telephone and proposed they meet up for a secret summit on a submarine. — The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman https://a.co/eP8eNtQ
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