Sitemap - 2023 - Coté's Wunderkammer
Re-thinking tech debt, an interview with Laura Tacho
How to tell if you're doing agile wrong
How to play Solo D&D with ChatGPT...three months later
What does "outcome oriented" really mean?
Type-writers are killing cursive, AMIRIGHT?
Links, links, links. And where to stay in Paris
When you hear the word “input,” run - avoiding unpaid work at work
We should probably just fix networking instead of putting on another layer of paint
Managing multi-cloud Kuberntes
What is a Kubernetes "distro," and why are there so many of them?
We Fear Change (because we don't get any rewarded for all the risk)
There is no relationship between The Doobie Brothers and AI generated D&D battle maps and
It takes a village to make a king, not just developers
Kubernetes Service & Distro Usage
The container management market is $1.6bn in 2022, going to $3.6bn in 2027
Why do they even have nets in Dungeons & Dragons 5e?
What does Backstage actually do?
Tetragrammaton - The Podcast Review #02
What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh?
Tech companies should do regional events more
The purpose of enterprise airport ads
What exactly is "developer experience"?
Focusing on just outcomes leads to whacky tech decisions
It's hard to make content from 20 yeas of transcripts
In favor of crushing 2,000 Cans of Miller Highlife
Lots of Marvel super heroes this halloween, but a little more clowns than the last two years
New Report on Platform Engineering - what is it?
When "customer Value" is weird framing, if not dangerous
Making vision and strategy practical
What they don't tell you about conference MC script writing
The eternal principles of an (enterprise) app stack
Why is developer experience so bad if we all think software is so important?
Developers are bad at estimating in at least three ways.
Waiting for the close of open - how long can the 2000s spirit of open source and open APIs last?
The problem with t-shirt schwag at tech conferences
If you’re so smart, why are we all still so dumb?
"Shift Left (and leave)" versus "Shift Left (and stay)"
Summarizing Articles with ChatGPT Works Again
If Books Could Kill - The Podcast Review #01
How can my kids use ChatGPT to be better students?
The eternal first inning of cloud
Confused Coté Corner: The RHEL Drama
Lessons learned from Cloud Foundry for the platform engineering community
Platform Engineering is just CI/CD infused with enterprise goop (jk...I think?)
DevOps vs. Platform Engineering
Are you a backpack only, or a carry on bag with wheels traveler?
Some UK digital transformation retros
Kubernetesless is just someone else’s Kubernetes
Weird Chips Reviews: Two Farmers Herefordshire Sausage & Mustard Crisps
Weird Chip Reviews: Pipers Great Berwick Longhorn Beef Crisps
"cut off like sausages": "the wasteland of images that surround us"
from tasty broth to jiggly chicken slime in the fridge
"Multi-cloud" should just mean "all the computers"
Avoid leading with the sharp bag of knives marketing story 🔪
Kubernetes marketshare across cloud and on-premises, from the State of Kubernetes 2023 survey
Surviving the New Social Media Startup Boom
AI at KubeCon EU, Security and Governance Kubernetes Koncerns
How to do a vendor pitch at a tech conference, working the booth, at HallwayCon, etc.
Platform engineers don't have time for infrastructure
Amsterdam for #KubeCon Nerds: Tourist Time!
Amsterdam for #KubeCon Nerds: How Amsterdam Works
Building the business case for an app platform: money & happiness
Two things infrastructure and developer tools product people ignore too much
Beware! At work, asking questions leads to more work
IT is asked to do more, and sometimes with more budget!
5 ways to escape tech debt, and prevent more of it
What I did this summer, the PowerPoint
A presentation is just a document that has been printed in landscape mode
Motivating IT people to change, talking to developers
Sometimes, you need start with the explanation and see what opinion fits
The Narcissism of Small Differences in Charts
Shifting to new metrics for platform engineering
In-Office vs. Remote: Tackling the Productivity Puzzle in a World of Waste
"Current macro-economic trends"
🎧 📈📉👨💻Cloud Repatriation and Low CI/CD Usage
They were just wearing Levi’s because of what it symbolizes
Driven by art, the diffusion of innovation, or just being weird
How Gareth Rushgrove finds links for Devops Weekly
Reading the Internet - Using ChatGPT as a reading log, Readwise Reader Review
How's your free/busy cal for the “Discuss Options for Uncle Frank’s Casket” meeting?
Shift left only matters if the system on the right is doing a bad job
Platform Engineering Probably Doesn’t Mess with CaaS and IaaS
These new platforms will be great as long as we pay attention to application developers
Slip, Slap, Slop - and more found delights
Jalapeños are pickled, but pickles aren't jalapeños
The more kubernetes you use, the more frequently you release software
🏨📺🥶 Pieter Bruegel's Discount Motel, Color TV, Cold AC
Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction
dog-puzzles, punctuation, and making kubernetes better for developers
How AI could help and harm management consultant firms
Maximizing ROI: The Key to Successful Enterprise Software Company Acquisitions
The finger-wagger is usually just me finger-wagging at myself
Product Management in Platform Engineering
When can we just profit and chill?
If it’s bullshit work, have the bullshit-artist do it - Using AI for Bureaucratic Toil Removal
The Eternal Recurrence of DevOps
Living with "a self-styled countess and her companion, a blackmailer, alchemist, magician and thief"
“I’m sorry I made you wait. But, I was busy making you wait.”