Tag: APIs
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Coté Memo #081: The best steak I’ve ever eaten, and the slow train problem
Tech & Work World How Microservices Fixes the Slow Train Problem I write little columns for the internal Pivotal newsletter we have sometimes. Here’s one that’s about to go out. The ideas of “dependencies” and “coupling” are important touch points for understanding and conveying the software delivery benefits of a microservices approach to architecture. “Coupling”…
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About Miller
‘It operates on key-value-pair data while the familiar Unix tools operate on integer-indexed fields: if the natural data structure for the latter is the array, then Miller’s natural data structure is the insertion-ordered hash map. This encompasses a variety of data formats, including but not limited to the familiar CSV. (Miller can handle positionally-indexed data…
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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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Office, messaging and verbs — Benedict Evans
“You don’t actually send email or make a spreadsheet – you analyze, delegate, report, confer, decide, track and so on. ” Office, messaging and verbs — Benedict Evans
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Aggregation is the New Virtualization: How Microservices Are Taming Distributed Computing | Andreessen Horowitz
Aggregation is the New Virtualization: How Microservices Are Taming Distributed Computing | Andreessen Horowitz Aggregation is the New Virtualization: How Microservices Are Taming Distributed Computing | Andreessen Horowitz
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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 up a report on them, available for clients. Here’s the 451 Take: StackStorm fancies itself an automation company, and with experience from Opalis Software, it’s little wonder. What’s interesting about its approach is that it’s automating…
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The simple assumption, is 40-60% of the time somebody says “let’s implement a rules engine to solve these unknown problems” really translates to “we really don’t know much about this domain so let’s implement something arbitrary as a stop gap”. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LooselyCoupledHumanCodeFactory/~3/4sAVNt9S4Mk/
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“Veblen goods”
In economics, a Veblen good is a member of a group of commodities whose demand is proportional to their price; an apparent contradiction of the law of demand. A Veblen good is often also a positional good. “Veblen goods”
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In an API-driven cloud, Intigua wants to wrap APIs around your management midsection
A report I wrote on Intigua is up now. Here’s the 451 Take for y’all now: Intigua has always been a company with a difficult marketing proposition, having started off as a packaging and deployment balm for systems management agents. While there is certainly utility to ‘managing the managers,’ a broader positioning and purpose was…
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Coté Memo #27: More on VMworld, Intigua and systems management APIs,
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #27. Today we have 33 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. 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). Sponsors Come check out cloud hijinks at 451’s HCTS conference Oct…
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CA Technologies FY2015Q1 marginalia, experimenting with CriticMarkup
While reading through CA’s recent quarterly conference call transcript, I thought I’d try out an idea I had this morning: using CriticMarkup to DIY what Genius.com does: annotating content. It worked OK, except I didn’t invest time in getting the HTML output right, so it looks kind of crappy – you can see the raw…
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New Connector Links Heroku and Salesforce.com Data Repositories
New Connector Links Heroku and Salesforce.com Data Repositories
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Dealing with copyrighted APIs
“I am not a lawyer, but from a developer perspective, the idea of copyrighted APIs does nothing but introduce friction and uncertainty into the very integration efforts the developers use APIs to accomplish,” said Jeffrey Hammond, a vice president at Forrester Research. “Devs will now need to worry about the potential for API lock-in via…
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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 course I would, that’s only about my favorite news outlet ever. My first column is up now, all about what feels to me like the re-emergence of the developer market (tools and middleware), a theme…
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Secondly, when evaluating new IT hardware and software assets for potential adoption, you need to institute a much stronger requirement for programmability and open APIs. Complete automation of your infrastructure requires programmatic access, and it’s simply insufficient to only have control via graphical interfaces. This isn’t just about provisioning and configuration support via such APIs,…
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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 development tool folks. One of them was Rainforest QA. I did a recent write-up of the company, available to 451 subscribers (a free trial is just a lead-gen away!). Here’s my take on the company: As we…
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Extreme Programming, 14 years later
[F]ourteen years ago it was wildly controversial. Indeed, it was so controversial that whole books were published describing how this couldn’t possibly work, and how all the proponents were knuckle-dragging, money-grubbing, nitwits who never wrote a line of code in their lives and…. Extreme Programming, 14 years later
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“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 come with APIs,” he explains. “This is the history that forced us to really look at way networks are laid out and build [devices] and do [it] ourselves. Also the cost – everything else in our data…
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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 source; Google keeps their dev toolchain closed source; Google’s ability to more productive in development (the primary point of a dev toolchain) is a core differentiator for Google. QED. More: This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
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