Tag: devopsdays
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How I got 8,700 views for my talk about developer productivity.
The recording of one of my talks has 8,400 views. That’s a lot more than other talk recordings. How does YouTube work, I sure don’t know! Confusing it more is that the same talk given at a different conference has 85 views. At least I wore a different shirt each time. Oh, and while I’m…
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It’s hard to make content from 20 yeas of transcripts
In Iowa I was in Des Moines this week to give one of the keynotes at DevOpsDays Des Moines (it went well). Here’s some snapshots from around town: CEO Therapy This week’s Software Defined Talk: This week, we discuss Netflix’s DVD deprecation, the remote work debate, and how to fork an open-source project. Plus, thoughts…
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Privileged Sad Sack
Iowa I’m in Des Moines, Iowa for the keynote I’ll be giving at DevOpsDays here. I believe their registration is closed, so…if you’re not already registered, I won’t be seeing you! But, you can check me out rehearsing it here. There’s 20 minutes of bonus content! Like and subscribe, MOFOS! Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. ChatDM…
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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 see the final version of this presentation, here’s my first time running through it. It container about 20 minutes of…uh…bonus material.* Meaning, things I need to cut.
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Links leftover from #KubeCon
Just links this episode. DevOpsDays Austin is back for the 11th year! You should go for two days of DevOps, cloud computing, DevSecOps, and more on May 4th to 5th, 2023, in Austin, Texas. Learn more at https://devopsdays.org/austin, the schedule is live! You can get 15% off the registration price when you use the code FRIENDLY_NEIGHBORHOOD_SDT_23.…
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How to do a vendor pitch at a tech conference, working the booth, at HallwayCon, etc.
If you work at a company, or in an open source projects, you’ll have a lot of chances at a tech conference to sell your organization’s stuff: products, cloud services, consulting, promoting your project, or just yourself. You’ll get a lot of opportunities to do this, especially if you’re a sponsor of the event and…
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Impressions of America from an expat
Notes on what it’s like to be back, compare and contrast. Also, analysis of our recent kubernetes survey Lots going on at the moment. We’re on vacation for two weeks, finally going back to Texas to visit. Most of our family hasn’t met our two year old, born at the start of COVID in Amsterdam.…
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Reluctance to change – Notebook
I’ve proposed an open spaces for DevOpsDays Amsterdam, 2021. The idea is: The DevOps community pushes for people to change how they think and operate. When it comes to working better, we have proven tools, techniques, and even big picture ways of thinking like CALMS. You’re more than likely eager to try these new things,…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #44
There is no Thanksgiving in the Netherlands. WHO KNEW?! Winter is settling in here. As a Texan, I barely understand winter. But, also as a Texan, I find cold weather novel and fun. We’ll see if that lasts, but for now, it’s awesome. Also, biking turns out to be fantastic. Living all my life in…
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The one minute pitch at DevOpsDays
As a DevOpsDays sponsor you’re often given the chance to give a one minute pitch to the entire audience. Back stage at DevOps Rex, this week, I was talking with a first timer. One minute seems like such a small amount of time: how could you say anything consequential in 60 seconds? You’re presenting in…
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Private cloud, beans and franks, and bathrooms – Coté Memo #29
There was some interesting container orchestration news this week which we discussed in Software Defined Talk. If you’re into Slack, I started a Slack channel for Software Defined Talk listeners. There’s other channels in there, of course, but if you’re into extremely low-traffic stuff – or want to make it higher traffic, send me a…
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Erryone’s after the cold cash – Coté Memo #26
I’ve been at OSCON this week and have a pile of video-cum-podcasts to edit and post, still from DevOpsDays Austin! The usual links and such below. Enjoy! Podcasts Pivotal Conversations: User Account and Authentication (UAA), with Sree Tummidi — soundcloud.com For God’s sake, don’t write you own access and authorization services. Coté Show: John Willis…
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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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Back at Dell, Docker Forking, Healthcare IT, & DevOps – Coté Memo #15
With summer over, there’s a new round of conferences, and my kids are back at school. My 6-year-old, Cormac, is starting 1st grade. We looked around at lot of schools for him and settled on the Lake Travis STEM Academy. I went to public school all my life – and a state college (I mean,…
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Coté Memo #9 – “Let’s meet in Bender, it’s usually free.”
This week I’m at OSCON in Austin – loads of people are in-town! Next week I’ll be at CF Summit in Santa Clara. It’s a good chance to see people talking about “cloud native” and they’re applying it at their company. I’ve got a 20% discount code if you want to register. DevOpsDays Seattle last…
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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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Coté Memo #6 – OpenStack, big cloud transformation
The OpenStack Summit was pretty good stuff. Coming up next week is DevOpsDays Austin where I’ll be speaking on Tuesday and staffing the table. I’m then off to the Agile and Beyond conference to talk better ways of doing software and unicorns. Hopefully I’ll see y’all around, otherwise, keep apprised of the Twitters for any…
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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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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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