Coté Memo - Issue #7
It's the thick of conference season. I was at DevOpsDays earlier this week, and Agile & Beyond right now. Next week it's DevOpsDays Seattle, then OSCON in Austin, and the CF Summit. If you want to go to any of these, I have registration discount codes for many of them, check out cote.io/promos.
Coté Content
"Use Balanced Teams to Suck Less at Software" in Built to Adapt — medium.com
My write-up of "staff your application team with all the roles needed for the full life-cycle of the application." There's lots of names and schools of thoughts for this: I used the term Pivotal people like, "balanced teams," but there's also "integrated teams" or just "DevOps." Also, check out Pam Dineva's write-up of the topic.
Software Defined Talk #062: Peak Ping Pong — cote.io
This week, we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, Pivotal’s funding round, and some follow-up for the OpenStack Summit: turns our Gartner doesn’t hate them. Also, with the new ping-model out, we discuss the potential for peak ping pong. Here's the MP3 download, also the iTunes feed which you subscribe to.
My new-ish talk on DevOps, given at DevOpsDays Austin. I sum-up the state of DevOps and then go over tips for doing DevOps at large organizations. I feel like that's where the new problems will be and where the most "impact" can be had.
Links!
Pivotal Announces $253 Series C Financing to Fuel Continued Expansion and Meet Growing Customer Demand — www.businesswire.com
My cherry-picking summary:
- Momentum by penetration: “30% of the Fortune 100 currently work with Pivotal… The company now works with seven of the top 10 U.S. banks, three of the top five global auto manufacturers, and five of the top 10 telecommunication companies.”
- Momentum by run-rate: “Pivotal Cloud Foundry® and Pivotal Big Data Suite having crossed the $200 million and $100 million annual bookings run-rate milestones, respectively.”
- Momentum by logos: “GE, Ford, Verizon, Home Depot, Comcast, Humana, Lockheed Martin, and Allstate”
Pivotal Scores $253 Million in Funding from Ford, Microsoft, Others - Fortune — fortune.com
More coverage of Pivotal's recent funding round.
OpenStack and Gartner: The Facts - Alan Waite — blogs.gartner.com
Alan Waite clarifies that he actually doesn't hate OpenStack. A good case study of how flimsy tech news talk can be.
Free Expo pass to OSCON Austin — twitter.com
Free Expo pass to OSCON Austin: Want to sample #oscon (Ignite, Open Container Day, etc), free? Get an expo hall pass w/ code SPEXPO.
