I don’t get why that sort of violence is supposed to be funny. It’s like the Three Stooges with hatchets.
Anyway, I liked it more than I expected to.
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2014/12/25/instant-review-the-interview/
Whitehurst commentary in Red Hat numbers
Good commentary, as always, from Red Hat’s CEO. I appreciate all the “color” that team tends to give on their numbers.
Whitehurst commentary in Red Hat numbers
"Hybrid cloud ROI isn’t there, and the complexity is huge."
From Steven Sinofsky:
As an enterprise, the pragmatic thing to do is go public cloud and operate existing infrastructure as legacy, without trying to sprinkle cloud on it or spend energy trying to deeply integrate with a cloud solution. The transition to client-server, GUI or Web all provide ample evidence in failed bridge solutions, a long tail of “wish we hadn’t done that” and few successes worth the effort. As a startup, it will be tempting to work to land customers who will pay you to be a bridge, but that will only serve to keep you behind your competitors who are skipping a hybrid solution.
The Thought Leader is sort of a highflying, good-doing yacht-to-yacht concept peddler. Each year, he gets to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative, where successful people gather to express compassion for those not invited. Month after month, he gets to be a discussion facilitator at think tank dinners where guests talk about what it’s like to live in poverty while the wait staff glides through the room thinking bitter thoughts.
He doesn’t have students, but he does have clients. He doesn’t have dark nights of the soul, but his eyes blaze at the echo of the words “breakout session.”
He spends spring break unicycling across Thailand while reading to lepers.
Generally speaking, there are only a few ways to make money on the Internet. There are e-commerce companies and marketplaces - think Amazon, eBay and Uber - that profit from transactions occurring on their platforms. Hardware companies, like Apple or Fitbit, profit from gadgets. For everyone else, though, it more or less comes down to advertising. Social-media companies, like Facebook or Twitter, may make cool products that connect their users, but they earn revenue by selling ads against the content those users create. Innovative media companies, like Vox or Hulu, make money in much the same way, except that they’re selling ads against content created by professionals. Google, which has basically devoured the search business, still makes a vast majority of its fortune by selling ads against our queries.
NICHOLAS CARLSON, “What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs.”
Coté Memo #059: Containers make butter-scotch pudding delicious and floors shine
Tech & Work World Floor wax, dessert topping As I mention below, I’ve had more time to write reports recently. I just submitted one titled “Docker: floor-wax or dessert topping? Reflections on DockerCon EU”. It’s one of our “spotlight” pieces, which means it’s an open-ended think-piece rather than a write-up of a briefing.
Here’s some excerpts:
451 Take: The container technology Docker and the ecosystem around it is figuring out its identity while at the same time contending with a sudden rise in popularity.
StackStorm automates and monitors a core DevOps asset: the software delivery pipeline - 451 Report
I’ve been speaking with StackStorm on and off for a few months now. I finally got around to writing up a report on them, available for clients.
Here’s the 451 Take:
StackStorm fancies itself an automation company, and with experience from Opalis Software, it’s little wonder. What’s interesting about its approach is that it’s automating the DevOps pipeline, including the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) process. This may seem like a minor concern, namely, working on developer tools.
In contrast to demand-side users of analyst services, people in supply like firms like technology vendors, service providers and equipment manufacturers are tightly focussed using analysts to drive sales.
http://www.influencerrelations.com/3471/ten-analyst-firms-that-tech-vendors-value-most
Rather than looking from the present out to the future, we need to look from the future back to the present to determine which actions will have the greatest impact and create the most economic value over time.
http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2014/12/the-big-shift-in-strategy-part-1.html
There’s a few more mouth-fulls in there, but the distinction between “terrain” and “hustle” strategies is nice.
Who's in the CI/CD space, and what is it?
I’m starting to put together some research into CI/CD. That might even be the wrong name: I’m more interested in starting to catalog different parts (and vendors/projects) in The DevOps Pipeline. Looking at Jenkins and crew seems like a good start.
Inspired by @krishnan’s ever excellent Docker ecosystem mind-map, I thought I’d start one for CI/CD. What would you add and correct about it?
http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/public_map_shell/487228559/ci-cd?width=600&height=400&z=0.4
There’s also an excellent DZone overview of the space (with a positive example of native advertising if you’re into over-thinking on that kind of thing), and I like this question from the most recent Eclipse Community survey (2014):