Tag: videos
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We try the Marks and Spencer Roast Beef and Onion Crisps, or Chips as us Americans would say.
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why pair programming improves how large organization develop software, a case study
Pair programming has been around since the late nineties and boasts ample research and anecdotal evidence proving its effectiveness. It’s not limited to programming, either; it can also be valuable in roles such as product management. However, despite its benefits, it remains less commonly practiced than one might expect. Pair Programming in the Department of…
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Webinars are great – how to make good webinars, and how to watch webinars
Webinars have a bad reputation. They’re usually boring presentation that require you to give over your email address. I do a lot of webinars and watch a lot of them: they don’t all have to be crap! Here’s my take on why webinars are great, how they can go wrong, how to make them interesting,…
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Take care of your legacy software before it kills your ability to innovate
I want to try a new video format: the Quick Comment. Just one “fact” or idea and 45 seconds or so of commentar. We’ll see if I like it and/or keep it up.
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Avoid cloud lock-in with Kubernetes, findings from the 2023 VMware State of Kubernetes Survey
{{< youtube uqgxkL4KfKE >}} 76% of respondents in our State of Kubernetes 2023 survey say they use multiple clouds – they’re multi-cloud. I look at the driving forces behind multi-cloud adoption, most notably the desire to avoid vendor lock-in. For more insights into multi-cloud strategies, Kubernetes benefits, and the challenges being tackled by your peers,…
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Weird Chips Reviews: Two Farmers Herefordshire Sausage & Mustard Crisps
Logoff See y’all next time!
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📹 Kubernetes is getting better for developers, especially as they manage it less themselves
{{< youtube GJoFKzNKYIw >}} This is the first of a few videos and blog posts I have on our annual Kubernetes survey, which you should check out if you’re into that kind of thing.
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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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Stop with the DevSecOps videos already – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #70
This is a bit of a ICYMI edition. I’ve been posting on my blog a lot more, so I’ll give some pointers to that. DevOps Loop Better clean up my desk. Our second DevOps Loop conference is coming up on June 22nd. It’s free, and we’ve put in a lot of work to get an…
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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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The Business Bottleneck, new book
I’m working on a new book (check out the work in progress), here’s the premise: After at least five years of struggling to transformation, IT knows how to deliver better software, how to do the process and use the new tools needed for “digital transformation.” They may not actually do all that, but they know…
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The Strategy Bottleneck
This is a draft excerpt from a book I’m working on, tentatively titled The Business Bottleneck. If you’re interested in the footnotes, leaving a comment, and the further evolution of the book, check out the Google Doc for it. Also, the previous excerpt, “The Finance Bottleneck.” Digital transformation is a fancy term for customer innovation and operational…
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Platform as a Product talk
Here’s a recording of one of my talks. It’s on what the operations team does when running in a platform, DevOps-y, whatever style: Developers don’t need “services” from ops, they need products: continuously innovated platforms that evolve weekly. Once ops toil is removed, ops can focus on their customers’ – development – needs. Using stories…
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Monolithic Transformation, the webinar
I’ve got a newly recorded webinar, covering my Monolithic Transformation book: The cliché we all recite is that technology isn’t the problem, culture is. Put another way: if the hardware and software are fine and fresh, it must be the meatware that smells. Come hear several de-funking recipes from the world’s largest companies whose meat…
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Pumping the digital transformation bunny at the US Air Force, an interview with Bryon Kroger
Few organizations have or rely on as much software the US Air Force. There’s plenty of it around and, thus, plenty to be improved. In recent years, one of the more spectacular digital transformation stories has come from the USAF’s work modernizing their Air Operations Control software. In this episode, USAF’s Bryon Kroger goes over…
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🗂 Video: To make 1997’s Blade Runner, Westwood first had to create the universe
> The genre reached its peak in the early to mid 1990s, with some of the best-remembered LucasArts and Sierra titles making their appearance thereabouts. arstechnica.com/gaming/20…
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Rethinking Enterprise Architecture
In the cloud, DevOps, agile, whatever is hot and new era, the role of enterprise architects is rarely addressed. There’s probably plenty useful for them to do still. I’ve been trying to figure out what those things are recently. Also, see the slides, which are usually more up-to-date. There’s also a recording from DevOpsDays Charlotte.
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Cloud Native Works in Government — the IRS, US Air Force, and contractors
“We have already slashed the time needed to implement new ideas by 70 percent while avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars in costs.” M. Wes Haga, Chief of Mission Applications and Infrastructure Programs for Air Force Research Lab Slowly but surely, the US government is improving how they do software. Working at Pivotal, I’m lucky…
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Building trust with internal marketing, large and small
Most companies don’t realize the amount of work required to fully transform their approach to creating and caring for software. Scaling up the improvements learned and put into place by your initial teams relies on building trust and understanding in the overall organization. For whatever reason, most people in large organizations are resistant to change…
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So what exactly should IBM do, and have done?
Now that IBM has ended its revenue losing streak, we’re ready to stick a halo on it: There is no doubt, though, that there are signs of progress at IBM, which would not comment on its financial picture before the release of the earning report. So much attention is focused on the company’s top line…
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