Tag: music
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Where there is saxophone, synth is sure to follow.
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Quite the album cover, there: “A good title, but primarily recommended for Getz fans.” // I think that means: “the normals won’t like it, I barely did.”
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Auto Mix is Good
I thought I’d dislike the new Auto Mix song transition in Apple Music. But, I actually like it. It does, indeed, make it feel more “radio” and, thus, lively and of the human world instead of isolated headphones desk-troglodyte.
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Bish at the Bank: Live in Baltimore by Walter Bishop Jr.
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Notes on the 2019 DevOps Report
Some quick notes and callouts from this year’s 2019 DevOps Report: Four key metrics: lead time, deployment frequency, mean time to restore (MTTR) and change fail percentage. Med, High, and Elite all have a change fail rate of 0-15%. So, expect 15% change fail as benchmark worst case to shoot for…? Demographics: 30% are devs,…
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Small experiments to solve big problems
Try to go beyond hand waving and opinions and find out what really is happening. A good way to start is to ask people to picture what their scenario would look like if everything was perfect. This puts them into a positive frame and helps focus on great outcomes. Once you’re sure you’re working on…
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Self-motivated teams lead to better software
This post is pretty old and possibly out of date. There’s an updated version of it in my book, Monolithic Transformation. In contrast to the way traditional organizations operate, cloud native enterprises are typically comprised of self-motivated and directed teams. This reduces the amount of time it takes to make decisions, deploy code, and see if the results…
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NBC Universal turned to Spark to analyze all the content meta-data for its international content distribution. Metadata associated with the media clips is stored in an Oracle database and in broadcast automation playlists. Spark is used to query the Oracle database and distribute the metadata from the broadcast automation playlists into multiple large in-memory resilient…
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Coté Memo #047: Selling a \”platform\” is one of the more difficult tech marketing tasks you’ll ever do
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #047. Today we have 52 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. I should write more awesome stuff to get more sign-ups! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in…
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I’ve spent years puttering around at the “infrastructure layer” in IT: programming, systems management, cloud, all that gunk. From what I can tell much of the growth in IT is being driven by companies wanting to engage in “social” more. What is “social,” though? Indeed, that’s one of the things this podcast will try to…
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Kim’s big SXSW 2010 show recommendations list
While we can’t go this year, my wife Kim and I usually find all sorts of exciting music at SXSW each year. The secret is, she’s the one who finds all the good stuff – I’m just lucky enough to tag along. Several people have asked for her SXSW 2010 recommendations, so here they are…
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