Tag: imported
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The community is moving
The people in my tech community who talk about community find Twitter so vile that there’s little discussion of the good parts. It was a great place for discovering, building, and “doing” community. And it still is, though mixed in with all the other stuff1. This history of DevOps, cloud stuff, and everything that followed…
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The “Be Nice” product and marketing strategy for open source enterprise stuff
Early on in the life of a new open source project, some vendors will tell you it’s too complex and unreliable, and wrap their fixes on top of it, often hiding the project. They’re not wrong (early in, most OSS projects are literally not even 1.0 projects yet!), but it’s rhetorically risky strategy. With the…
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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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_Working Backwards_, recent book on how Amazon runs.
Notes: central is thinking about product features, not business. The business funds the product, the customer value – it’s the McGuffin that you careful guide to being cash flow. The question here is to find other org.s that have adopted abs adapted the practices successfully, or not. the advice at the end is pretty straightforward…
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Everyone knows their problems, so jump to the solution
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan. In most enterprise tech marketing copy, it’s an anti-pattern to do the whole “you must first invent the universe” thing. Buyers and curious people already know that there’s market headwinds, things change faster than ever, new technologies,…
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🗂 Link: ‘Rijksoverheid al 4 jaar in de clinch met Oracle’
According to the confidential memo, Oracle’s routine tactic is to threaten based on incompliance and to maximize potential licensing issues. After that, software licenses and the looming costs of such licenses can be negotiated from such a beaten problem. The result can then be a relatively better than expected amount for the shocked customer, but…
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🗂 Link: A spot of after-hours business email does you good, apparently
Published in the Computers in Human Behaviour academic journal, the study enumerates no fewer than 72 actions that people apparently take while managing their work emails. We can count five – delete, mark as spam, forward, reply and read but ignore – and can only imagine that reaching the figure of 72 must include crying…
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🗂 Link: PE pads the payroll in HCM – Inorganic Growth
Buyout shops have accounted for fully 59% of the HR-related tech deals we have captured in the M&A KnowledgeBase so far this year. Source: PE pads the payroll in HCM – Inorganic Growth
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🗂 Link: DevOps-Led Business Transformation
The reality, though, is that many European organizations are only at the beginning of the journey to achieve elite delivery performance. From IDCs point of view, the ability to transform application estates and accelerate application delivery is one of the most critical business objectives for organizations in the next five years, with European organizations forecast…
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🗂 Link: Deutsche Bank to set up innovation division to drive digital transformation
The bank will create agile teams where “product owners in business and infrastructure divisions will lead teams of technologists, using agile principles, to continuously work on products and ensure progress meets their expectations”. It will also increase the proportion of software engineers in the workforce and better support and motivate them, as well as “reduce…
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🗂 Link: IBM i Clouds Proliferating At Rapid Clip – IT Jungle
“We partnered with Google because Google wanted to partner with us and Amazon didn’t want to partner with us,” IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will said during a panel discussion at the inaugural POWERUp conference in San Antonio, Texas, in June 2018. “So hey Google is going to succeed with Power. Now I have Amazon…
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🗂 Link: USAA uses Google Cloud machine learning to estimate vehicle repair costs – SiliconANGLE
While Docker may be able to secure additional capital, it’s yet another company that finds itself in an ominous position after raising mounds of cash during the heady days earlier this decade. When Bearden joined in May, he became the fourth CEO and the third since 2017, replacing Steve Singh, a former senior executive at…
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🗂 Link: What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud
The answer is that Anthos is not really a technology, but more of a brand, a wrapper around Google’s cloud crown jewels, Kubernetes (K8s). And: In a nutshell, Anthos is the GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) deployed on-premises in a certified configuration (via hardware suppliers such as Dell and HPE), with an agent installed that maintains…
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🗂 Link: Kubernetes’ next step could be to try orchestrating everything else
Could every element of an enterprise data center’s infrastructure — not just those newfangled containers, but virtual machines, “big data” platforms, and machine learning frameworks — all eventually become orchestrated by Kubernetes, a product originally born out of Google’s need to make order out of chaos? Source: Kubernetes’ next step could be to try orchestrating…
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🗂 Link: How Couples Share “Cognitive Labor” and Why it Matters – Behavioral Scientist
When I sorted through the hundreds of examples that emerged, I found four primary activities appeared over and over: anticipating a need, identifying options for filling it, deciding among the options, and monitoring the results. Chelsea, for example, noticed her toddler waking up progressively earlier each morning and envisioned her hours of sleep dwindling (anticipation).…
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🗂 Link: Uitsmijter
In the south of Holland, where I grew up, uitsmijters would be served as the last “one for the road before we get thrown out” meal after a night of partying. Groups of friends would usually end up at someone’s house late at night (or early in the morning) after the bars closed to wrap…
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🗂 Link: Top Quotes from Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2019
“We need to think about three things with Pivotal now that it is part of VMware: a common substrate (Kubernetes), the ability to manage it, and a build overlay. The cf push experience is important, making the experience better for developers.” —Craig McLuckie, VMware Source: Top Quotes from Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2019
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🗂 Link: Developer Advocacy Inside and Outside a Business
“I think a lot of times as engineers we can build something that’s super complicated and never understand if people can actually use it. So my job as a developer advocate is making sure that I can use it and then make sure that beginners, intermediate and advanced people can also use it,” Douglas said.…
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🗂 Link: IT departments spend millions tackling performance issues in complex IT
The vast majority of CIOs expect to deploy new technology stacks in the next 12 months. Most CIOs said they are already using or are planning to deploy microservices (88%), containers (86%), serverless computing (85%), PaaS (89%), SaaS (94%), IaaS (91%) and private cloud (95%) in the next 12 months. … CIO responses captured in…
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