Sitemap - 2024 - Coté's Wunderkammer

Private cloud is just fine, and here to stay, so build a great platform for yourself

How to write better conclusions

Hyping on Twitter Mostly Garbage Now

Making money with open source, a discussion

Contemplate contemporary men’s waistlines

Need to contemplate the difference and overlap between "being genuine" and "being a jackass."

Mastering Corporate Asshat Improv

Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web for November 4th, 2024

That which never moved can never move back

AI is terrible at shift-left

Always talk salary first - working with tech recruiters

Three fun fonts and stories of enterprise data integration

Avoiding all the usual, boring app development problems with AI

“The Curious Case of the Strategic Snoozer.”

How I got 8,700 views for my talk about developer productivity.

"a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity"

Fake Software Defined Talk #487

"Make content about what you're curious about, not what you know."

The flavor is a little...spare

Deep Dive: Digital WTF book discussion

Deep Dive: Five Years of State of Kubernetes Surveys

Deep Dive: Jeffrey Dahmer - AI Generated

Deep Dive: Weird Chips - AI Generated

Cheese wedge mindfulness

Using app architecture constraints and templates in platform engineering

Software is cheap

Employee Mode

20+ years of all this cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering stuff, interview with Purnima Padmanabhan, GM of VMware Tanzu

How to support 1,000's of developers for your internal developer platform

What the AIs think of the US presidential debate

How DevOps can come back from the dead, and why it must

Beyond mystic management mind-games

perplexity.ai is great

Private Cloud at VMware Explore - Notebook

Enterprise-grade Spring, and quick AI apps with Java

There never was a rug - the social norms of open source staying open have changed

Platform engineering problems: can ops actually do product management?

Finding your podcast style and character

"weird varieties of beastman" & tips on platform engineering

Platform Engineering ROI - three examples of how to do a platform engineering ROI

Selling shoes on the internet, the risks of waterfall enterprise AI

What people buy for Kubernetes

My favorite PaaS

Kubernetes getting better at speeding up development - State of Kubernetes survey, 2024

There's a lot of private cloud out there

Platform Engineering is just adding Product Management to Ops

How to blackmail your boss into adopting platform engineering, DevOps, agile, etc.

Publishing an annual survey is a great marketing tool, even better for thought-leadership

What I do with AI, what I've given up on

Tactics for having a good executive dinner

"Consistency" - the less platforms, the better

Developer productivity metrics, 1970s sausage fonts, only the “grown and sexy” are welcome

Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web

65% of developers learning to live with Kubernetes

"Right Now, It's Like This"

The Tanzu Platform - platform engineering in a box

"Be an active bystander."

Microwaving Fish & Rice Cookers

Not one of my most famous newsletters

Buy your platform, don't build it

60 to 100 days to onboard a developer - Highlights from the Harness State of Developer Experience survey

Commoditize your condiments, or, open source business models considered

6 views on open source business models

3 Kubernetes Market-Sizes: mid to low single digit billions ~5 years from now.

The Digital Transformation Card Game - an interview

DevOps used to manage 35% of enterprise app portfolios, 60% of testing activities are not automated

You should automate your builds and tests - 71% of people do not “use continuous integration to automatically build and test my code changes.”

The Port State of Platform Engineering in two surveys

The podcast fake-out video

The State of Platform Engineering surveys - Perforce/Puppet 2024

Enterprise AI, D&D with ChatGPT, & DevBurgerOps

How to make an Enterprise AI strategy

Commonplace book of links, quips, and two things I made

Taking a bath outside while worm-mushrooms sing to you and steal your clothes

Platform engineering design and UX

How to write a business book proposal

"Is a platypus a Kubernetes symbol?"

What junior/senior developers and CTOs need to know about internal developer platforms

Good strategy

“Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.”

How to avoid working too much

devPRops - better put PR in your backlog

Potato chips that taste like Thanksgiving stuffing - what could go wrong?

I only give one talk a year, but I give it many times

This apple has a butt

The easiest presentation format that works

ChatGPT can't take over the world until it can play D&D

A ChatGPT prompt for solo roleplaying Dungeons & Dragons

"14 pints of mouthwash rations per week" - alcohol in Wes Anderson movies

Getting Buck-Wild in PowerPoint

“Don’t Try” Expanded

Lessons from Uber on developer productivity & platforms

If you're not changing tools, you're not changing

What does "synergies mean"?

We built a platform, but no one uses it!

Touching the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Tamale House

Backstage, Java, and remote work - three more things to watch in 2024

Does kubernetes make application development and delivery better? - 2024 Watch List

American Christmas, part 3