Tag: 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, Boston, New York City, Newark, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Montgomery County, Washington, D.C., Raleigh, Northern Virginia, Atlanta, and Miami.” Original source: Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities, moving to next phase in contest for $5B economic prize

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  • How to avoid getting hoodwinked by a DevOps hustler

    DevOps Hustlers, Cloud-native Ops, Amazon + Whole Foods – Coté Memo – Issue #31

    We had a two week vacation over at Gulf Shores, Alabama. Despite three days of rain, it was great. If you’re looking for a Gulf-beach vacation, it’s an excellent place to go – just about 10 hours from Austin if you drive fast and don’t have to stop a lot for kids to go pee.…

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  • Drunk & Retired: Oil and waffles

    Private cloud rules, containers, IT still (mostly) blows – Coté Memo #25

    I’m at DevOpsDays Austin this week. This must be the 4th or 5th one, and I’ve been to all of them. It’s a good show, put on by good people. Next week I’ll be at OSCON in Austin (find a discount code over in this week’s show-notes). There’s mucho links this week, I even left…

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  • Coté Memo #8 – Change Review Boards Are Annoying

    Coté Memo #8 – Change Review Boards Are Annoying

    This week it’s DevOpsDays Seattle after a few days at home. I have two extra passes to give out to that conference if you’re interested, plus a discount code, per usual. Check out cote.io/promos for that code plus discounts to other DevOpsDays, OSCON Austin, and the Cloud Foundry summit. OSCON is next week in Austin,…

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  • Coté Memo – Issue #7

    It’s the thick of conference season. I was at DevOpsDays earlier this week, and Agile & Beyond right now. Next week it’s DevOpsDays Seattle, then OSCON in Austin, and the CF Summit. If you want to go to any of these, I have registration discount codes for many of them, check out cote.io/promos. Coté Content…

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  • From “Survey Analysis: DevOps Adoption Survey Results,” Gartner, Sep 2015.

    Coté Memo #5 – OpenStack, an interest in cheese

    I’ll be at the OpenStack Summit in Austin this week, meandering about talking with folks, at the Cloud Foundry Foundation booth a few afternoons, getting some pancakes and breakfast tacos with The New Stack folks, visiting with some analysts and other in-town, and moderating a panel on developer marketing Thursday morning. Also, I got my…

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  • Coté Memo – Issue #4

    Hello again. It’s been raining cats and dogs here in Austin, worse over there in Houston. We lived in years of draught, so downpours are always miraculous. I think the lake is even full now, after God knows how long of being way under. Conferences The Spring conference season is on. You know if someone says…

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  • I like seeing the old soft drink machines. Check that wood paneling at the bottom!

    Coté Memo – Issue #2

    Hello there, welcome to the second re-birth issue. Go to a conference on the cheap! Discount Codes I round up all sorts of discount codes for conferences and such, here’s what I got so far: Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I’ll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle…

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  • Coté Memo #075: Dealing with legacy code in a cloud native world

    Get your lurn on – this weekend! Do you want to bone up on your product management skills? Check out this two day workshop from Craftman PM. I used to work with Prabhakar and he’s anything but boring when it comes to opinions around product. Check out more details, and if you use the code…

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  • DevOpsDays Amsterdam - Thursday June 25th

    Coté Memo #072: Since last time…

    It’s been forever since a memo! Here’s this week’s. I’ve tried to craft a work-flow that will allow me to collect links I want to share, in addition to shameless self-promotion and the occasional commentary in here…and actually send these out weekly. We’ll see what happens. Travel I’ve been traveling a lot recently and have…

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  • Jevon

    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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  • Uber

    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 #065: Back home, finally

    After two weeks away from home, I’m finally back. Sponsors This Memo is sponsored by The Craftsman PM – Amp up your skills and get to the top at this Whole Product Workshop Feb 21–22 in Austin and Mar 7–8 NYC. Grab a spot at 10% off for just Cote Memo readers (use code: cotememo62)…

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  • VMware revenue estimates

    Coté Memo: 3:30am plastic man traveling, keeping up the VMware’s CAGR

    Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #26. Today we have 33 subscribers, so we’re +1. DANDY! 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…

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  • [Coté Memo #17] Things to listen to on the way to Dallas, and back to Austin

    Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #17. Today we have 28 subscribers, so we’re +3. Fun! 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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  • Raining during SXSW

    # SXSW It’s SXSW time in Austin which is always enjoyable. Lots of folks come to town as I’m sure you, dear reader, know. It’s popular to complain. – a sentence that could stand on it’s own – about it, but I have no beef. I’m lucky enough – so lucky! – to get invited…

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  • DevOpsDays Austin Sputnik Winner

    DevOpsDays Austin

    I was in and out of DevOpsDays Austin over the past few days. It’s always a fun, event, packed with plenty of old friends and folks to catch up. We gave away a Sputnik to a lucky winner, a fine fellow from Boston as I recall. Also, check out Barton’s video interview with Patrick Debois.

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  • 7 takeaways from DevOps Days Austin

    Some take aways from Rob. More: 7 takeaways from DevOps Days Austin

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  • In-N-Out Burger Coming To Austin: Austinist

    {{{Better get a bucket}}} In-N-Out Burger has reportedly applied for a permit to build what would be its first Austin location near I-35 and Airport Boulevard. The west coast burger chain had already announced plans to open a store in Round Rock. —In-N-Out Burger Coming To Austin: Austinist

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