No one likes being told their dead, dev skills, books to read - Coté Memo #23
It’s the end of the year - might as well be over once I wrap up today. On the other hand, if you’re in sales, it’s hardly the end of the year. It might be...
The many meanings of "DevOps," legacy software, & adulthood - Coté Memo #22
I’m in New York today for a quick meeting, ostensibly on DevOps, but as ever on how organizations can do software better. “DevOps” has increasingly become...
Coté's Commonplace Book
I’m in New York today for a quick meeting, ostensibly on DevOps, but as ever on how organizations can do software better. “DevOps” has increasingly become...
Largile, living with nudists, containers, & jobs - Coté Memo #21
It’s turkey time! In the US at least. There’s a few pieces of my content below and some links. I’m hoping to just have two more trips this year, but we’ll...
Coté's Commonplace Book
It’s turkey time! In the US at least. There’s a few pieces of my content below and some links. I’m hoping to just have two more trips this year, but we’ll...
Getting paid to podcast, trump's possible effects on tech - Coté Memo #20
The long break is coming up - Thanksgiving and then Christmas, the holidays as it were. For sales people, Q4 of course is anything but a break, so hug your...
Coté's Commonplace Book
The long break is coming up - Thanksgiving and then Christmas, the holidays as it were. For sales people, Q4 of course is anything but a break, so hug your...
Help me finish this agile PDF, hear @bwhichard complain about Agile - Coté Memo #19
It’s the day before elections in the US. If you haven’t already, go out and vote. Kim and Cormac are up in Ohio block walking to get out the vote, which is...
Coté's Commonplace Book
There’s not much to say at the moment, just some travel here and there before Thanksgiving and then Christmas. The end of the year is fun, it cools down and...
Smelly coders, profitless stacks, & digtal whatnot - Coté Memo #17
Make sure to go vote, early if possible! This issue is a round-up of some links and content I’ve been up to since last time. I’ve had the iPhone 7 Plus for...
Coté Memo #16 - Outsourcing & DevOps, Lovecraft, 38% DevOps penetration
Fall is finally coming to Austin, which means it’s nice and cool. With a long lull in travel, I’ve been working on a second edition of my “cloud native...
Back at Dell, Docker Forking, Healthcare IT, & DevOps - Coté Memo #15
With summer over, there’s a new round of conferences, and my kids are back at school. My 6-year-old, Cormac, is starting 1st grade. We looked around at lot...
Coté Memo #14 - Wet Phones, Podcasts, and #S1P
Since last time, I was at SpringOne Platform and took a week off for beach-time. Both were fun. I have very little travel over the next few, well, months....
Coté Memo #13 - LAS Twice, Circle of Code
I’ll be in Las Vegas two weeks in a row, which is a rarity. Las Vegas was a frequent destination when I was an analyst at RedMonk and 451: big vendors like...
Coté Memo #12 - The Gibberish of PaaS, Multi-cloud, Agile, etc.
Last week I had a tiny tour of Poland, speaking in Warsaw and in Devoxx in Krakow. It was fun! I got to give the long version of my “Surviving and Thriving...
Coté Memo #11 - Why would MSFT buy LinkedIn? Lots-o-links too!
What’s more delightful than finding a cup of coffee you forgot about earlier in the morning? Bonus coffee, more than you thought was left. I have some trips...
Coté Memo #10 - DevOps talk recordings, cash on hand, towel meat
The nook of the IT world I operate in now - application development and delivery - had a good event this week in the Cloud Foundry Summit. This is the annual...
Coté Memo #9 - "Let's meet in Bender, it's usually free."
This week I’m at OSCON in Austin - loads of people are in-town! Next week I’ll be at CF Summit in Santa Clara. It’s a good chance to see people talking about...
Coté's Commonplace Book
This week it’s DevOpsDays Seattle after a few days at home. I have two extra passes to give out to that conference if you’re interested, plus a discount...
Coté Memo - Issue #7
It’s the thick of conference season. I was at DevOpsDays earlier this week, and Agile & Beyond right now. Next week it’s DevOpsDays Seattle, then OSCON in...
Coté Memo #6 - OpenStack, big cloud transformation
The OpenStack Summit was pretty good stuff. Coming up next week is DevOpsDays Austin where I’ll be speaking on Tuesday and staffing the table. I’m then off...
Coté Memo #5 - OpenStack, an interest in cheese
I’ll be at the OpenStack Summit in Austin this week, meandering about talking with folks, at the Cloud Foundry Foundation booth a few afternoons, getting...
Coté Memo - Issue #4
Hello again. It’s been raining cats and dogs here in Austin, worse over there in Houston. We lived in years of draught, so downpours are always miraculous. I...
Coté's Commonplace Book
Things are thin this episode as I took some time off for family. "An ongoing battle" “Beer versus scientist represented a kind of schism between the banality...
Coté Memo - Issue #2
Hello there, welcome to the second re-birth issue. Go to a conference on the cheap! Discount Codes I round up all sorts of discount codes for conferences and...
Coté Memo #83, now back to #1, and linky!
Hello there! Let’s be honest, the highly manual-driven newsletter of mine was mostly dead. I stumbled across Revue.co which looks like the exact level of...
Coté Memo #082: Disrupting with high prices, indulging in colonialism porn, and dying among the tomatoes. Oh, and Docker!
Come to the Austin Docker Meetup this Thursday (Jan 7th) to see me and some much smarter people talk about “The Container State of the Union.” See below for...
Coté Memo #081: The best steak I've ever eaten, and the slow train problem
Tech & Work World How Microservices Fixes the Slow Train Problem I write little columns for the internal Pivotal newsletter we have sometimes. Here’s one...
Coté Memo #080: Come on, register for this God damn webinar
This week is a lull in travel. I’m closing out the year by going to lots of DevOpsDays (Charlotte, where I’m speaking, and Silicon Valley next week), a few...
Coté Memo #079: No Comment, Slack Behavior
Tech & Work World No Comment Big news for the company I work in this week. Sadly for my desires to write about and link to interesting stories on it, I have...
Coté Memo #078: Spiceworld 2015, Spiceworks Momentum, Enterprise Use, and DevOps
Tech & Work World I was at Spiceworld, briefly, last week. This is Spiceworks’ big user, annual conference in Austin; they have one in London as well. I’ve...
Coté Memo #077: Avoid going from "VP of Having a P&L" to "VP of Special Projects"
Chicago I’ll be at DevOpsDays Chicago in a few weeks, August 26th to 27th. If you want to go and haven’t registered yet, you can use the code PIVOTAL10 to...
Coté Memo #076: How cloud native makes customers awesome
Follow-up The piece on “cloud journeys” I excerpted from last time is now posted. Tech & Work World Cloud Native I’ve been writing some pieces on “cloud...
Coté Memo #075: Dealing with legacy code in a cloud native world
Get your lurn on - this weekend! Do you want to bone up on your product management skills? Check out this two day workshop from Craftman PM. I used to work...
Coté Memo #074: "Let's start an anonymous club."
It’s mostly links this week, with a big add video ad for my pal below: Get your lurn on Do you want to bone up on your product management skills? Check out...
Coté Memo #073: If you like tater-tots, go to Minneapolis
I’m in transit between Minneapolis and San Francisco right now. The MSP airport is delightful, with a long mall at the base and concourses reaching out, it...
Coté Memo #072: Since last time...
It’s been forever since a memo! Here’s this week’s. I’ve tried to craft a work-flow that will allow me to collect links I want to share, in addition to...
Coté Memo #071: How to eat a bubble at #ApacheCon
View this on the web In this episode: who comes up the ApacheCon booths, a seemingly coordinated conversation about tech bubbles, and “how to eat.” The Cloud...
Coté Memo #070: Lost in the review hole, Lord of Computing
View this on the web There’s few links today, just some pointers to now published material that I’ve alluded to recently, and some moaning on needing to be a...
Coté Memo #069: Chili Cheese Tots, shift key avoidance syndrome
Follow-up, Follow-forward The column I excerpted from last time is up, over at FierceDevOps: Software-defined businesses need software-defined IT...
Coté Memo #068: Are they really making $48,000 a month just talking about Apple?
Tech & Work World Podcasting Rates Brandon shared some podcast revenue estimates with me from the Hot Pod newsletter recently. I’m all for there being lots...
Coté Memo #000: No jokes here.
Tech & Work World “What kind of company do you think we are?” Here’s some excerpts from a FierceDevOps column I submitted yesterday. Quick tip: if you’re in...
Coté Memo #066: The best time to post is an hour after closin' time.
Follow-up It’s been awhile, a little over a month. I hope to see y’all more regularly. I was reading the excellent TechReckoning Dispatch and thought: what...
Coté Memo #065: Back home, finally
After two weeks away from home, I’m finally back. Sponsors This Memo is sponsored by The Craftsman PM - Amp up your skills and get to the top at this Whole...
Coté Memo #064: I'm calling from Mexico, someone has stolen the Venus de Milo!
Follow-up We’re up to 90 subscribers and one of you went a helped out one of our sponsors (The Craftsman PM), so thanks! Tech & Work World Sayulita I had a...
Coté Memo #063: Working at Pivotal and Yak shaving
Follow-up In reponse to the analyst access commentary from last time, a reader wrote in: Are you familiar with Securosis? They’re a security-only analyst...
Coté Memo #062: The Problem with Analyst Access
We’ve got a new sponsor this week, see below. There’s a 10% coupon. I’m planning on going to the event to get my lurn on. Also, I wrote this pretty fast....
Coté Memo #061: On the tedious need to have an opinion
Tech & Work World Having an opinion, or not In the types of jobs I've found myself in over recent years - analyst, strategist, "content producer" in the form...
Coté Memo #060: Mark all cookies as read
Follow-up The Docker piece I mentioned last time is up. Check out the summary on my blog, and 451 clients can read it behind our paywall. Because Docker...
Coté Memo #059: Containers make butter-scotch pudding delicious and floors shine
Tech & Work World Floor wax, dessert topping As I mention below, I've had more time to write reports recently. I just submitted one titled "Docker: floor-wax...