Staring at clouds. Writing stuff down.
One of the big themes at LISA18 was the fast emerging discipline of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). This approach to resiliency was born out of hyper-scale consumer cloud apps like Google, Facebook and Netflix but the principles are starting to resonate across the industry. Failure at Netflix velocity, by Dave Hahn, Netflix Netflix is big, […]
Read More LISA18 Session notes – Failure at Netflix velocityLast week, I had the pleasure of visiting Nashville, Tennessee, for the Usenix LISA18 conference. Its always refreshing to take a break from the Microsoft conference circuit and spend some time learning from the wider industry. I try to travel light at conferences like this, relying on pen and paper – but over the next […]
Read More LISA18 session notes – SLO BurnTL;DR – It’s about time Windows had its own take on apt-get. Use the new Win10 PackageManagement (OneGet) powershell commands to install your favorite apps from the Chocolatey repo (and others). Chocolatey has packages to all the common apps you use like Chrome, WinRAR, 1Password, DropBox, Visual Studio etc etc. For Office, use the powershell […]
Read More Don’t install apps one-by-one, use Windows 10’s PowerShell PackageManagement. Here is how…Ignite 2015 seemed like only yesterday – but is now over 3 months ago. Now that Office 2016 is being finalized, its almost time to update some of this guidance and get out on the road again. Anyway, here is my session on planning for Office 365 deployments from Chicago, back in May. Preparing […]
Read More Planning for Office 365 – from Ignite 2015I don’t usually like to comment on areas directly related to my day job and I am in no way an impartial observer, but this is already an important week for Software as a Service. I imagine it as a tectonic movement that may seem small and inconsequential at first glance, but signals a new emerging landscape of IT. In the […]
Read More Time to stop thinking about software as an IT assetA few years ago I found myself sitting next to a gentleman working for a rival technology firm on a 14 hour plane flight. Competitors are always great people to chat with and to butcher a Great War analogy, when you’re in the trenches, you have a lot in common with anyone else in a trench, regardless of which side they’re on. […]
Read More The Fallacy of Strategy (or, Just F*%$ing Execute!)In polite society, this is often the opening gambit to an elaborate discussion that can take hours and require the use of a powerpoint deck or visio diagram. Unfortunately, this question gets asked when we are not properly equipped – at dinners, in bars, family gatherings and even at airports (although the stuff they ask at airports […]
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