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Coté Memo #83, now back to #1, and linky!

Hello there! Let’s be honest, the highly manual-driven newsletter of mine was mostly dead. I stumbled across Revue.co which looks like the exact level of automation needed to make me more successful at sending out newsletters. I’ll try for every few days and first and see what happens. I imported the 107 existing subscribers I…
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April 7th, 2016
Coté Memo #077: Avoid going from “VP of Having a P&L” to “VP of Special Projects”

Chicago I’ll be at DevOpsDays Chicago in a few weeks, August 26th to 27th. If you want to go and haven’t registered yet, you can use the code PIVOTAL10 to get 10% off, which gets it down to like $170 or something. It’s excellent value for a tech conference, plus you can see me speak…
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August 12th, 2015
Coté Memo #076: How cloud native makes customers awesome

Follow-up The piece on “cloud journeys” I excerpted from last time is now posted. Tech & Work World Cloud Native I’ve been writing some pieces on “cloud native” of late. It’s a term we’ve been using at work to describe what we’re all about. Here’s an excerpt from an internal newsletter piece I drafted today:…
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August 4th, 2015
Coté Memo #073: If you like tater-tots, go to Minneapolis

I’m in transit between Minneapolis and San Francisco right now. The MSP airport is delightful, with a long mall at the base and concourses reaching out, it seems civilized. Follow-up I had lunch with one of you today who said, “looks like you started up the newsletter,” to which I replied, “well, if I can…
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July 10th, 2015
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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July 2nd, 2015
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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April 8th, 2015
Coté Memo #066: The best time to post is an hour after closin’ time.

Follow-up It’s been awhile, a little over a month. I hope to see y’all more regularly. I was reading the excellent TechReckoning Dispatch and thought: what the fuck am I doing over here? Tech & Work World Meanwhile, at work… I’ve been up to hijinks over at Pivotal. Check out my recent posts there: We…
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April 1st, 2015
How the kids learn about new stuff – DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast

Check it out! Charles and I recorded an episode. In Video! Charles and I discuss DevOpsDays Austin, how programmers keep up with things now-a-days, and some detailed examples of the social parts of GitHub.
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May 3rd, 2013
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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May 2nd, 2013
7 takeaways from DevOps Days Austin

Some take aways from Rob. More: 7 takeaways from DevOps Days Austin
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May 2nd, 2013