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“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.“ —Hemingway

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Joined April 2009
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    Jun 23

    The best argument I've ever seen for why bare metal k8s isn't often a winning bet....

    Kubernetes is only as good as the IaaS layer it runs on top of. Like Linux, Kubernetes has entered the distro era.
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    12 hours ago

    Our free, virtual conference is starts tomorrow (Sept 2-3)! Register if you haven't at . , , and I talked about it today:

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  3. 16 hours ago

    That is a ridiculously great quote from Pat.

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  4. 17 hours ago

    "The last 10 years we were all focused on cost, the next 10 years we will all be focused on resilience" --

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    19 hours ago

    starts tomorrow! Register now:

    TOMORROW! We're kicking off and you can still join us. 🙌 Register now:
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    20 hours ago
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    Feature request for Zoom: tiny dossiers of every participant.

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    21 hours ago
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    Don't worry, you nailed it :)

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    Aug 31

    I really liked this conversation w/ and on the current landscape for enterprise apps. Agree with the idea that finding gaps in app portfolios has become an important focus area for CIOs, especially with the current climate.

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    Aug 30
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    Not going to happen. In next 10 years you will see emergence of platform as service that can be deployed anywhere. Also, most of the workloads that migrated to public cloud will actually move back to private clouds on prem.

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    Aug 30
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    Hedging is understandable! Market needs more cloud infrastructure players to compete with current dominant ones...IaaS / PaaS with portability. The fear of cloud vendor lock-in is real! We have seen this movie play before 🤔

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    Aug 30
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    I used to think 'cloud only' until I started spending my own $ on data infrastructure. ZColo + commodity hardware gets the job done at about 1/8the the annual cost including depreciation. The reality - most businesses simply don't need infinitely scalable infrastructure

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    Aug 30
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    Great point!

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    Aug 30
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    VC predictions ~ 3 years ago that on-prem would disappear were/are naive. On prem is being transformed and will look more like the public cloud with 3rd party vendors providing tooling similar to what AWS/MS/GCP have built in-house.

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    Aug 30

    Excited to speak at this week! Ria Stein and I will talk about how to thwart malicious intent using and some ~creative~ user stories 😈

    Scheduled conference talk on Thursday September 3 and 8:05AM PDT: As an Attacker, I want your data. Anticipating Security threats by two women, Ria Stein, a software engineer at VMware and Kate Griggs, a Product Manager at Zendesk. on the Agile Leadership track of SpringOne 2020 conference.
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    Aug 30

    The datacenter colocation market has now grown to $40B per year. Seems less and less likely that "on-premise" enterprise software will completely disappear as some had predicted.

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    Aug 30

    is coming! Join the event for product updates, technical deep dives and lots of living coding.

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    Aug 28

    Space Force boldly goes to Silicon Valley to get a Star Trek-flavored software boost

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    Aug 28

    Google Trends: ITIL vs. DevOps. Cc

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    Aug 28

    One way of explaining product marketing to technical founders: humans are I/O bound and a limiting factor in caring about your product is getting them to understand it. Good product marketing is like a kind of “compression” that let’s you get big ideas through a maxed out bus.

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    Aug 27

    Great conversation from two people who shape where we are going ! Thanks ...

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  21. Aug 26

    “And so the ideal person dwells In substance, not dilution, In reality, not glory.” —Tao Te Ching

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