Sitemap - 2023 - Coté's Wunderkammer

American Christmas, part 2

What is "waste" in software development, and whatever happened to slack? (No, not THAT slack, the other one)

American Christmas

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?

Good metrics are good, bad metrics are bad, and people in zombie movies have obviously never seen a zombie movie

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

Skills - CIO goes: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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?

Don't freak out too much about Kubernetes and security, it's just like any new technology that's early in usage

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

idling insignificantly

The only people who don’t like metrics are the people being measured, or, developer productivity metrics quicksand

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?

The Tech Marketer's Problem

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?

A handsome grandfather clock

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

Privileged Sad Sack

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

Half-harpy

Money spent on containerized workloads is growing fast, but overall spend is still small compared to traditional infrastructure

The eternal principles of an (enterprise) app stack

Why is developer experience so bad if we all think software is so important?

Pair Programming is a great fit for large organizations because of this one unexpected benefit. CLICK NOW.

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?

IncrementalOps

The mystery of how many developers there are in the world: is it 100 million, or more like 16 million?

"Shift Left (and leave)" versus "Shift Left (and stay)"

Summarizing Articles with ChatGPT Works Again

Less Upcoming Than Usual

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

Software as strategy

Lessons learned from Cloud Foundry for the platform engineering community

How's DevOps been going?

Link catsup

possibly, love birds

Catching up on the HOT links

Platform Engineering is just CI/CD infused with enterprise goop (jk...I think?)

DevOps vs. Platform Engineering

You can't avoid lock-in

Are you a backpack only, or a carry on bag with wheels traveler?

Some UK digital transformation retros

Don't wait until 2025, you should be using generative AI stuff for most all of your marketing work today

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

“the unsalvageable West”

"cut off like sausages": "the wasteland of images that surround us"

from tasty broth to jiggly chicken slime in the fridge

What Computers Do At Banks, deployment frequencies, some platform engineering, microservices nothing burger(?)

"Multi-cloud" should just mean "all the computers"

Avoid leading with the sharp bag of knives marketing story 🔪

From software to meatware

3 Multi-cloud Motivations

Kubernetes marketshare across cloud and on-premises, from the State of Kubernetes 2023 survey

Surviving the New Social Media Startup Boom

As developers manage kubernetes less, their productivity goes up, from the State of Kubernetes 2023 Survey

AI at KubeCon EU, Security and Governance Kubernetes Koncerns

Links leftover from #KubeCon

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

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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

IncrativeOps

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Candorsplaining

What I did this summer, the PowerPoint

A presentation is just a document that has been printed in landscape mode

20230327 - Big 🤖 edition here

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Motivating IT people to change, talking to developers

Sometimes, you need start with the explanation and see what opinion fits

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The Narcissism of Small Differences in Charts

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The Silo Unifier’s Paradox

Shifting to new metrics for platform engineering

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In-Office vs. Remote: Tackling the Productivity Puzzle in a World of Waste

"Current macro-economic trends"

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🎧 📈📉👨‍💻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

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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?

ChatGPT Wrote This 👉 All Art is at Once Surface and Symbol: The Paradox of Parachute Pants and Work Clothing in Late Stage Capitalism

Shift left only matters if the system on the right is doing a bad job

How AI could make management consulting better, improve corporate strategy, and create new revenue for boutique consultancies

Google is not hardcore enough, or...wait...maybe it sounds like a great place to work - a Rorschach test

A priori ROI: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

Launchpad

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

ChatGPT creates a digital transformation strategy for a pharmacy company - you'll never guess what happens next!

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

FY23: I got TikTok youths to watch my B2B videos about enterprise kubernetes & digital transformation

Fond memories for the old days when the only thing the Internet was doing was destroying interior design instead of civilization

The Eternal Recurrence of DevOps

"catatonic leadership"

Bottleneck of Worry

Living with "a self-styled countess and her companion, a blackmailer, alchemist, magician and thief"

Sunday Night Link Treat

“I’m sorry I made you wait. But, I was busy making you wait.”

“No, you don’t want to have to compare yourself to that”