Tag: PivotalCloudFoundry
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Coté Memo #12 – The Gibberish of PaaS, Multi-cloud, Agile, etc.
Last week I had a tiny tour of Poland, speaking in Warsaw and in Devoxx in Krakow. It was fun! I got to give the long version of my “Surviving and Thriving in BigCo’s talk” and also the “Better Ways of Doing Software” stump speech, as it were. Tragically, I missed the pigs on a…
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Coté Memo #10 – DevOps talk recordings, cash on hand, towel meat
The nook of the IT world I operate in now – application development and delivery – had a good event this week in the Cloud Foundry Summit. This is the annual meeting of the open source foundation and community built around Cloud Foundry. There are several distributions of the core project, I of course work…
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Coté Memo #081: The best steak I’ve ever eaten, and the slow train problem
Tech & Work World How Microservices Fixes the Slow Train Problem I write little columns for the internal Pivotal newsletter we have sometimes. Here’s one that’s about to go out. The ideas of “dependencies” and “coupling” are important touch points for understanding and conveying the software delivery benefits of a microservices approach to architecture. “Coupling”…
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Coté Memo #080: Come on, register for this God damn webinar
This week is a lull in travel. I’m closing out the year by going to lots of DevOpsDays (Charlotte, where I’m speaking, and Silicon Valley next week), a few internal summits, and my first Gartner show, where I’m speaking in a sponsored slot. Tech & Work World Shameless Self Promotion “You should put that on…
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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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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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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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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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Coté Memo #063: Working at Pivotal and Yak shaving
Follow-up In reponse to the analyst access commentary from last time, a reader wrote in: Are you familiar with Securosis? They’re a security-only analyst firm. Their business model is pretty different – everything they publish is free, and make money through sponsorship and inquiries etc. They have a model they call totally transparent research. I…
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[Coté Memo #14] RAX still into IaaS, I think; what’s Pivotal do again?
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #14. Today we have 22 subscribers, so we’re +/- 0. 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). Sponsor 451 Research, is having it’s big cloud conferences this…
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