This week it's DevOpsDays Seattle after a few days at home. I have two extra passes to give out to that conference if you're interested, plus a discount code, per usual. Check out cote.io/promos for that code plus discounts to other DevOpsDays, OSCON Austin, and the Cloud Foundry summit. OSCON is next week in Austin, which will be fun!

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Change review boards aren't helpful — www.theregister.co.uk

My monthly column at The Register looks at one of the findings of the DevOps studies: One of the more wickedly astonishing findings from the current DevOps Report is that change review or advisory boards have little effect on a company’s performance. In fact CABs – as they are called – tend to slow down IT’s ability to release software quickly and regularly, negatively affecting organisational performance. More...

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Uber and Lyft lost the Proposition 1 vote in Austin, Texas, threatening their political narrative — qz.com

As a frequent user of Uber when I travel, I feel a little weird about this one. That said, what's being asked doesn't seem too onerous. After reading books like Dark Money, I feel like Uber's opposition to regulation is a pretty clear a case of businesses just trying to scrape more margin.

Many organisations lack a coherent cloud strategy and underestimate private cloud costs - V3.co.uk

Overview of a VMTurbo survey. Vendor surveys are always a little dicey to deal with, but, whatever. Nice excerpt: "The report said that companies planning to build a private cloud gave an average estimated budget of $148,605 to complete the project, while those that had already completed a private cloud deployment reported an average of $898,508, a figure six times as large."