Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #55
Original content DevOps Metrics for Technical, Business and Culture Transformation This is the talk I gave at VMworld this year. It goes over three types of...
Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #54
Developers don’t actually want to change the batteries. Bruegel Original content Install kubernetes easily & for free with the VMware Tanzu Community...
Coté's Commonplace Book
Developers don’t actually want to change the batteries. Bruegel Original content Install kubernetes easily & for free with the VMware Tanzu Community...
Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #53
Excuses to keep doing exactly the same thing, if not even less. From The Fight Between Carnival and Lent. Original content Software Defined Talk Episode...
The #legacytrap kills flexibility - Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #52
Another take at writing up why app modernization is important for business, and the usual links to stuff and my recent podcasts, etc. Smuggling in...
Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #51
Lots of original content this week, and unstructured tips on moderating a panel. Since it’s been two weeks, a passel of links too. We fear change We Fear...
Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #50
Nothing profound this time. Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam Free DevOps conference, DevOps Loop, Oct 4th Promotional gif A conference I helped put together,...
Coté's Commonplace Book
How I find time to make thumbnails for my enterprise videos. Sorry, I flaked The most operational self-help tactic I’ve learned in years is: get comfortably...
Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #48
How was your week? A free conference I helped make: DevOps Loop, Oct 4th Next month is DevOps Loop. It’s a conference I’ve been helping out together and it...
Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #47
The newsletter is back, for now. This is actually issue #156, but who’s really counting? Your author, as drawn by daughter. New book, free Since sending out...
Two for one! Speed up with Test-driven Development & Don’t forget to measure
Speed up with Test-driven Development Doing test-driven development is the best way to maintain software release speed and avoid “legacy” software slowing...
Better, more decisive meetings
Better, more decisive meetings Most meetings should result in a decision. However, most meetings are not run well enough to get a decision. Today, I...
The mayonnaise measuring epiphany
The mayonnaise measuring epiphany – better software with discovery and framing https://youtu.be/hhKWUiaHbHU More than likely, your initial ideas for your...
How COVID changed IT priorities & spending, with Rita Manachi
How COVID changed IT priorities & spending, with Rita Manachi Tanzu Talk: How COVID changed IT priorities & spending, with Rita Manachi - YouTube Off in...
Everything I know about platform operations and platform as a product
(I don’t usually talk about the “show on the show,” but I’m trying something new here - quicker, smaller, hopefully daily things. Hopefully if I have smaller...
Staycation and small scale eternal return
Staycation Last week the kids had off, so I took it off as well. They actually gave Monday and Tuesday off as well, but a week is about as long as I can...
Lizard brains in digital transformation
Lizard brains in digital transformation Lessons from child psychology: my daughter fell on her bike recently, twice. She actually did "well" at falling, in...
Kubernetes is an enterprise architecture
Kubernetes is an enterprise architecture Five years ago, in the Pivotal Cloud Foundry days, we had a lot bravado. We almost challenged people, dared them to...
Economy in writing, or not
Source: wikipedia. I’ve been listening to The Sandman in Audible. The writing is, literally, comic book simple. It’s so bald and direct, people say instead...
"I can work only in small, intense bursts."
I am not good at constructing major pieces of work. I have a short concentration span. I can work only in small, intense bursts. I don’t seem to work...