Things Americans living in Amsterdam ask me to bring back from the US
Webinar! (hole on, this is just an ad, there's a lot more, don't delete this email yet - but read the below - it'll be cool, I promise. Totally chill!) Rick...
Valuing unpaid time
There’s a week left! Pardon the ad, but I’ve worked a lot (and many, many people much, much more than me!) on my company’s annual conference, SpringOne...
Staffing an enterprise software conference booth
Staffing an enterprise software conference booth The point of being at a booth is to talk with people, to tell them about your company, and to see if your...
Find a burning platform
Find a burning platform In the near decade funk of "software eating the world" there are still plenty of companies who see no need to change. They might be...
King Ranch Chicken, talk ideas for agile, dev_ops, and DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
I’ve read that you’re not supposed to complain about travel if you’re in the thought lord and lady racket. This is fine. I must say though, when the Fall...
Be a "tech company"
Be a “tech company” This is a little speech I wrote for an “executive dinner” in Munich. I of course didn’t read it, it just organized my thoughts. It’s a...
IT spending - ~70% to keep the lights on
IT spending - ~70% to keep the lights on What do organizations spend their IT dollars on? Mostly what you’d expect, but you can see one trend relevant to my...
It takes a long time
Tell you friends! I have enough momentum (me actually doing it) and some praise for this newsletter that I’ll pander to you now: help me get more...
The boring maturity model, and, pricing higher
The boring parts of a platform Container people are playing with a “make it boring” maturity model. They’ve tinker away at containers for years and now want...
Developers don't want to use your words
Developers don’t want to use your words People in the Cloud Foundry world are frustrated that the kids are just discovering the helpful, self-service, robust...
Get to know your people
Get to know your people When you use the word “users” with a certain type of, ahem, like, enlightened, happy person (the DevOps Reports calls them “high...
Chicken
Getting more productive isn’t really “cost savings,” at least not until you actually do something new Most “cost savings” metrics we talk about are...
Pancakes in The Hague
Pancakes in The Hague It's travel season for my type, the external facing vendor person. There's conferences, planned executive dinners, and the occasional...
The thrilling world of transit privatization
People are happy to do free work for private companies. Especially stuff like this: It’s driven in part by the understanding that local governments aren’t...
Proving that agile works is a waste
Schwartz's new book is, of course, good: War and Peace and IT. He's the rare tech book author who has style, let alone business book writer. An excerpt on...
Hunter Thompson was more than just gonzo
I finished up the Gonzo movie awhile ago. As ever reflecting on “the production method” and the life-style of a creator is good for meditation. There’s those...
7-10 years for new infrastructure layers to win
7-10 years for new infrastructure layers to win With VMware going all in on kubernetes, my co-host Brandon says the next phase for this market is offering...
The Finance Bottleneck, draft excerpt from my new book
I've been working on a new book for a couple months now. It's taken me many false starts to figure out what I'm writing about and then figure out what to...
Coté's Weekly Wunderkammer
I like to write in an over-the-top style. Hunter Thompson is, of course, one of my favorite writers, along with Nietzsche, and then contra to that Hemingway....
Monolithic Transformation now available in Safari
Just a short note, here, live-to-email from Cape Town! My book is now available in Safari If you’re one of the people who wanted to read Monolithic...
Coté's Weekly Wunderkammer
Hello again. As always, my notebook is emptied at the top, there’s a bunch of links at the bottom, and miscellaneous other things slice in here and there....
Coté's Weekly Wunderkammer
DevOps, monolithic architectures, craftsmanship – an unpublished interview I’m too wordy when I reply to reporters. This is mostly true everywhere I produce...
Wunderkammer
Containers are mostly just for large enterprises Here, you see a shift in intentions to use containers, a pretty large one: less people are planning to use...
Book finally out: Monolithic Transformation
Hello there! My little booklet on how enterprises are improving their software organizations is finally out: Monolithic Transformation. It’s one of those...
Coté's Commonplace Book #45
I’ve spent most of my content-time this week editing Monolithic Transformation. It’s rewording to simplify text here and there, and even better to slice out...
Coté's Commonplace Book #44
There is no Thanksgiving in the Netherlands. WHO KNEW?! Winter is settling in here. As a Texan, I barely understand winter. But, also as a Texan, I find cold...
Coté's Commonplace Book #43
There’s an insane block of travel coming up for me in October, and then Asia in November. Figuring out a “road warrior” job is difficult, and I’m constantly...
Coté's Commonplace Book
There’s an insane block of travel coming up for me in October, and then Asia in November. Figuring out a “road warrior” job is difficult, and I’m constantly...
Coté's Commonplace Book #42
I’ve been trying to figure out micro.blog as a platform. Hosting all my stuff over there seems much nicer than at WordPress. I think I’ve got all my stuff...
Coté's Commonplace Book
I’m a Texan, so cold weather is always welcome. Rain and cold weather is even better. Here in Amsterdam, people apologize for the rainy weather, they seem to...
Coté's Commonplace Book #40
I was down in France, just around Paris this week to speak at an event. The audience gave me the chance to work on a military-centric version of my standard...
Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #39
I’ve been in Berlin at a quarterly sales meeting this week. It’s a big room of people, new and veterans. Traveling from Amsterdam to Berlin is just an hour,...
Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #38
I’ve been in this quiet before the business-travel shit-storm for the past two weeks. Next week it slowly starts up. In the meantime, it’s given me time to...
Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #37
We’re in Amsterdam now, all moved into our house - rented, of course. I missed last week due to packing and moving. Original programming Magic little scripts...
Coté's Commonplace Book
We move to Amsterdam in 5 days. We’re nearly done packing up our whole house. It’s surprisingly easy to just get rid of things, all things: clothes, kitchen...
Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #35
20 July 2018 We move to Amsterdam in 11 days. Cloud Native Journey, 3rd edition In my capacity as an enterprise thought lord, I write up how large...
Coté's Commonplace Book #34
The problem with me and newsletters is that I constantly want to make one, but they’re a lot of work. I long for the old blog days of just a splatter of...
Private cloud all up in my grits, plus, Cloud-native Enterprise Architecture - Coté Memo #33
This week, news around Microsoft’s Azure Stack drove a lot of private cloud talk around these parts. Also, I’ve been trying to figure out what “Cloud-native...
Coté's Commonplace Book
This week, news around Microsoft’s Azure Stack drove a lot of private cloud talk around these parts. Also, I’ve been trying to figure out what “Cloud-native...
Coté Memo - Issue #32
It’s a short week, what with July 4th on Tuesday. There’s a few podcasts below and bit less than a handful of links. Podcasts Software Defined Talk: “Do I...
DevOps Hustlers, Cloud-native Ops, Amazon + Whole Foods - Coté Memo - Issue #31
We had a two week vacation over at Gulf Shores, Alabama. Despite three days of rain, it was great. If you’re looking for a Gulf-beach vacation, it’s an...
People use JavaScript, Internet mattresses, password stink - Coté Memo #30
Just a few updates and links this week. I don’t list them all below, but there’s several interviews from OSCON and DevOpsDays Austin in the Coté Show Variety...
Private cloud, beans and franks, and bathrooms - Coté Memo #29
There was some interesting container orchestration news this week which we discussed in Software Defined Talk. If you’re into Slack, I started a Slack...
Coté's Commonplace Book
It seems like all I do now-a-days is podcasts. So, here’s some down below, plus some links of interest. Recent Podcasts Pivotal Conversations: The management...
Innovate or die, & make sure you're lucky - Coté Memo #27
Just a few podcasts and links today. I should have a The Register column on OpenStack up by next issue (gotta write that next!). Cloud-Native Strategy...
Erryone's after the cold cash - Coté Memo #26
I’ve been at OSCON this week and have a pile of video-cum-podcasts to edit and post, still from DevOpsDays Austin! The usual links and such below. Enjoy!...
Private cloud rules, containers, IT still (mostly) blows - Coté Memo #25
I’m at DevOpsDays Austin this week. This must be the 4th or 5th one, and I’ve been to all of them. It’s a good show, put on by good people. Next week I’ll be...
Coté's Commonplace Book
I’m at DevOpsDays Austin this week. This must be the 4th or 5th one, and I’ve been to all of them. It’s a good show, put on by good people. Next week I’ll be...
Spreading the happy-sauce - Coté Memo #24
Hello, as I like to do every six or so months, I moved some publishing infrastructure around. This time, back to Revue from the fully automated Mailchimp....
Coté's Commonplace Book
Hello, as I like to do every six or so months, I moved some publishing infrastructure around. This time, back to Revue from the fully automated Mailchimp....