Part 6 of 16 We’ve got to quit telling people, especially kids, that they’re special. They’re not. We tell our kids, “you’re a winner at everything, you’re wonderful. Wow, here’s your trophy for coming in 23rd out of 24 kids […]
Hiring the unhireable: You’re not so special (Really, you’re not) Read More »
Sometimes you can learn as much from what isn’t said in a report. ThePuppet Labs 2015 State of DevOps Report details a number of valuable trends and insights distilled from the survey results, but it also reveals some interesting information based
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We run around talking about how important analytics is and yet there are few really compelling examples of how well it is working. Part of this is because the vast majority of implementations are still in process and haven’t gotten
How GoPro is using Amazon, BMC, and Cloudera to kick everyone else’s butt Read More »
Docker Hub has a problem. It’s not entirely unique to Docker Hub because it’s an issue facing just about any public repository. The issue is that flaws and vulnerabilities are discovered after the container images are pushed to Docker Hub
More than 30 percent of Docker Hub containers have security issues Read More »
Part 5 of 16 Airline pilots don’t learn how to fly. They learn how to safely crash. Security folks learn how to fly the networks – not how to survive a crash. (See the disconnect?) As a society, and I
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Part 4 of 16 Degrees? To hell with them. “Only those with a BS or MS need apply.” Talk about an arbitrary discriminator of zero value. By that standard, I am worthlessly unemployable. By that standard, a majority of my
Hiring the unhireable: Celsius or Fahrenheit? Read More »
It’s the end of the world as we know it–or maybe it’s just the end of the world. If the climate change, the ice age, or the catastrophic earthquake don’t get us DevOps will help connect artificial intelligence with mechanical
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Expert analysis is great, but in many respects a crowdsourced opinion has more validity. For example, a professional critic will provide a deep analysis of a movie–the directing, the acting, the dialogue, the cinematography. In the end, though, crowdsourced word-of-mouth
Gartner and its Magic Quadrant challenged by crowdsourced market research Read More »
A new IDC report by Al Hilwa provides an in-depth look at how microservices are driving the future of IT. DevOps and container technologies are both closely-related elements of microservices, but microservices isn’t a specific tool or practice. Microservices is
Microservices movement fueled by DevOps and containers Read More »
Things didn’t work out so well for Microsoft with the Nokia purchase, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some smart acquisitions to be made–like Docker. Nokia was the wrong company in the wrong market at the wrong time. Docker is
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