Tag: Apache
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Expert Generalists – ”Traditional interview loops still revolve around product trivia – “Explain Spark’s shuffle stages,” “How does Databricks Delta time-travel work?” A candidate who has never touched those tools can still be exactly the kind of person we need: someone who quickly grasps unfamiliar concepts, breaks complex systems into manageable parts, and collaborates across…
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Aligning with User Needs with Rod Johnson – ’Spring Source ended up not monetizing Spring at all — but rather worked on monetizing with products that were complementary to Spring. “We monetized Spring by not monetizing Spring, by using it to open the door”’ // Great interview if you’re into the whole open source business…
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Link: Google Banks on Kubernetes in Cloud Wars
Putting 3rd party middleware into Google Cloud: “Among the commercial applications included in the marketplace are big data, database and machine learning applications along with developer tools. Meanwhile, open source applications range from WordPress and the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database to Apache Spark cluster computing.” Original source: Google Banks on Kubernetes in Cloud Wars
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Link: How Tech Companies Became a Political Force
“When tech leaders prophesy a utopia of connectedness and freely flowing information, they do so as much out of self-interest as belief. Rather than a decentralized, democratic public square, the internet has given us a surveillance state monopolized by a few big players. That may puzzle technological determinists, who saw in networked communications the promise…
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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: How it changed programming and business forever
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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 Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR) between $24.5 — $25.5M, a growth of 52%, up from 46% growth the previous year. Our gross margin for the recurring business is 88%, and will increase in coming years. In 2017, we will turn our first…
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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 company, Pivotal Inc., that has often worked with large corporations such as Ford and Home Depot. The effort is expected to reach beyond the operations center in Qatar to eventually assist in similar U.S. military facilities across the world.…
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Coté Memo #071: How to eat a bubble at #ApacheCon
View this on the web In this episode: who comes up the ApacheCon booths, a seemingly coordinated conversation about tech bubbles, and “how to eat.” The Cloud Foundry Summit is coming up on May 11th and 12th, in Santa Clara. It’s a great chance to dive into Cloud Foundry ecosystem both on the technology side…
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Coté Memo #069: Chili Cheese Tots, shift key avoidance syndrome
Follow-up, Follow-forward The column I excerpted from last time is up, over at FierceDevOps: Software-defined businesses need software-defined IT departments. Tell me what you think; they asked me to write a monthly piece, so I’d love to get some ideas for topics going: got any? I got some good feedback on the podcast sponsorship meanderings.…
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[Coté Memo #13] Mesosphere, searching for VSLOOKUP, Herculean flops
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #13. Today we have 22 subscribers, so we’re -1. TEARS! (I feel like Al below.) I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor 451 Research, is having…
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