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How Weird Twitter's @fart became a DevOps idol

Jon Hendren is a special kind of Twitter user. He exists in that place called Weird Twitter , where users tell in-jokes , spew political commentary, and reveal love affairs with their cats. According to legend, Hendren (better known as @fart ) is committed to making sure Hermit Thrush doesn’t have…

9 years ago

Micro-Services for Dysfunctional Teams

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Jan Steen, Argument over a Card Game, Wikimedia Commons. Update: I have received a ton of feedback on this post, and some of the well meaning criticism is concerned with the term ‘dysfunctional’, considering it a bit ‘judgy’ from somebody that is supposed to help these same teams. Apart from…

9 years ago

OpenStack comes up huge for Walmart

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For those skeptics who still think OpenStack isn’t ready for prime time, here’s a tidbit: @WalmartLabs is now running in excess of 100,000 cores of OpenStack on its compute layer. And that’s growing by the day. It’s also the technology that ran parent company Walmart’s prodigious Cyber Monday and…

9 years ago

Survey: 70% of enterprises adopting Docker containers - SD Times

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As Docker and application container software become more widespread in deployment automation, enterprises are jumping on the bandwagon in droves. Docker automation startup StackEngine published the results of its inaugural “State of Containers” survey, polling 745 respondents in the enterprise…

9 years ago

Opinion: What Should I Run in My Containers? — On Docker — Medium

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Jeff Nickoloff Feb 16, 2015 · 5 min read TL;DR Run exactly what your software needs and what you need to own your software. Tonight a friend of mine asked what I thought about single vs multi-process containers. I’m glad he did. Its a popular topic in the container world, but I haven’t written much…

9 years ago

Gabe Rivera on tech media: 'A lot of intellectual dishonesty'

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You get into a lot of Twitter fights. What’s the deal there? All those “fights” are easy and fun. Are they strategic? I’m not straining in any way to stir things up, nor am I insincere in any of my non-sarcastic remarks. But I guess these fights do align nicely with what we do. At Techmeme and…

9 years ago

Why We Threw 4 Months of Work in the Trash; or How we Failed at OpenStack

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To help Packet meet its goal of operating thousands of installs 24/7 and be up and running in a few short months, I became interested in leveraging OpenStack’s innovations in infrastructure plumbing as building blocks for our services. This is the story of how I tried (and failed) to do so. Early…

9 years ago

Why AWS Lambda is a Masterstroke from Amazon

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Amazon launched AWS Lambda at its re:Invent conference in November 2014, and though there were over half a dozen other cloud services also announced, Lambda stood out as the most innovative and unique. The service runs snippets of JavaScript code in response to events generated by data services like…

9 years ago

Ten Years of Podcasting: Fighting Human Nature (Soundcloudbusting)

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Matt Haughey Dec 22, 2014 · 12 min read Podcasting started about ten years ago and I remember watching Dave Winer and Adam Curry devise a way in public, in near real-time, to transfer what were essentially voicemail mp3 files to one another, but time-shifted because Winer was in the Bay Area while…

9 years ago

To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home - HBR

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Loading... Productivity Comment 6 Buy Copies View more from the January–February 2014 Issue Explore the Archive Loading... The study: Nicholas Bloom and graduate student James Liang, who is also a cofounder of the Chinese travel website Ctrip, gave the staff at Ctrip’s call center the opportunity to…

9 years ago

Why Remote Engineering Is So Difficult!?#@%

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I have spent a lot of time trying to manage work so it is successful outside of a single location. I’ve had mixed results and have found only three patterns which are described below. Before that, two quick points. First, this topic has come up this time related to the Paul Graham post on the other…

9 years ago

What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs

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Eric Jackson was sitting in his hotel room on Sea Island, Ga., watching his kids splash around in the pool, when he clicked “publish” on his latest blog post for Forbes.com. Jackson, an influential hedge-fund manager, had become fixated on Yahoo and the efforts of its chief executive, Marissa Mayer,…

9 years ago

Why Podcasting Is Bigger Than You Think – Edison Research (Annotated Tab Pile)

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In Edison’s recent edition of our Share of Ear℠ study, we released a graph showing that nearly 2% of the total time spent listening to audio was devoted to podcast listening. There were some who may have seen that figure and thought it small. It is not small. Certainly, as a “share” of audio, you…

10 years ago

EMC Files Muted Response To Activist Investor Push For EMC-VMware Split

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Click to enlarge image. Courtesy Elliot Management EMC said Thursday it is considering ways to enhance shareholder value in response to an open letter from one of its top shareholders pushing EMC to sell its VMware stake and engage in merger or acquisition talks with other large IT vendors over the…

10 years ago

How “Normal” Is Your Drinking?

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Abnormal. Photo by Simone Becchetti/Thinkstock The last time I saw my doctor, she asked me how many drinks I have per week. “I don’t know, maybe 10,” I said. She wrote my answer on a clipboard. “No wait, I guess it’s more like 15. Or 20?” “Well, which is it?” I had no idea, and that seemed like a…

10 years ago

Here's The Investor Presentation Slide That Will Have Every Hewlett-Packard Employee Worried

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Hewlett Packard Hewlett-Packard has confirmed reports the company will separate itself into two businesses . One business will consist of personal computers and printers. The other would consist of corporate hardware and services. "In short, by transitioning now from one HP to two new companies,…

10 years ago

HP News - HP To Separate Into Two New Industry-Leading Public Companies

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HP To Separate Into Two New Industry-Leading Public Companies Hewlett Packard Enterprise will define the next generation of technology infrastructure, software and services for the New Style of IT HP Inc. will be the leading personal systems and printing company delivering innovations that will…

10 years ago

Meg Whitman: The lady IS for TURNING. HP to lob printers'n'PCs OVERBOARD • The Channel

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HP has confirmed the industry’s worst kept secret – since yesterday anyway – that it is to carve the business in two, with printers and PCs on one side and all things enterprise on the other. This is a massive U-turn by CEO Meg Whitman, who has claimed repeatedly the organisation would not be split…

10 years ago

Mesosphere To Bring Google-Style Cluster Management Mainstream

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Enterprises that want to run their clusters the way that Google does will soon have that ability now that Mesos, an open source cluster controller, is getting a commercial backer that will provide enterprise-grade support for the tool. Mesos was inspired by the system management programs at Google,…

10 years ago

StackEngine Brings Automation To Docker Containers

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The rush to commercial Docker software container technology for Linux systems is well underway and very likely getting close to a hype cycle, but the fact remains that Docker is a transformational tool that is hitting the IT market in precisely the right way at exactly the right time. A startup…

10 years ago

Ten Startups to Watch in Austin and San Antonio

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The criteria for being a hot startup in Central Texas is the founders need to disrupt an existing industry and create something compelling enough that people want to open up their wallets and buy their product. The following ten startups in Austin and San Antonio fit that bill. In Austin Makexyz – a…

10 years ago

large creative teams (including Quartz) (Brace yourself for the corporate journalism wave)

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Frederic Filloux Oct 13, 2013 · 4 min read Last week , we looked at Atlantic Media’s business site Quartz ( qz.com ) from an editorial and product standpoint. Today, we focus on its business model based on an emerging form of advertising. The Quartz business model is simple: it’s free and therefore…

10 years ago

Anthony Bourdain Has Become The Future Of Cable News, And He Couldn't Care Less

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“Ready to eat well?” asks Anthony Bourdain. The chef turned TV star is leading the way toward a pair of narrow seats at the New York outpost of a Michelin-rated Tokyo yakitori joint called Tori Shin, a tightly packed establishment that’s Bourdain’s kind of place: little-known, deeply authentic, and…

10 years ago

Meet the New Enterprise Customer, He’s a Lot Like the Old Enterprise Customer - Ben's Blog

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Meet the new boss same as the old boss —The Who, Won’t Get Fooled Again Every day I hear from entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists about an exciting new movement called “the consumerization of the enterprise.” They tell me how the old expensive Rolex wearing sales forces are a…

10 years ago

Podcasts are back — and making money

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Correction: An earlier version of this story inaccurately said that downloads of podcasts through iTunes reached 1 billion last year. Subscriptions of podcasts, not downloads, reached 1 billion. The story has been corrected. This American Life executive producer Alex Blumberg, left, who's starting…

10 years ago

Microservices, or How I Learned To Stop Making Monoliths and Love Conway's Law - Boundary

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TrueSight Run and reinvent IT and cloud operations to build a more agile enterprise Watch video (2:00) Analyst research: Gartner: Market Guide for AIOps Platforms Download report › Live Webinar: The Roadmap to AIOps Register for July 25 broadcast › Analyst research: RIA Vendor Selection Matrix –…

10 years ago

An Exciting Year for Spark - insideBIGDATA

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Apache Spark has had an amazing year, and the people behind the open source large-scale data processing engine have pulled some data to show just how fast it has grown in the last 12 months. Databricks , who spun out of AMPlab at UC Berkeley after creating Spark produced the infographic below that…

10 years ago

On ‘Krazy Kat’ and ‘Peanuts’ by Umberto Eco | The New York Review of Books

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George Herriman’s Krazy Kat came into existence around 1910–1911 and ended in 1944 with the death of the author. The dramatis personae were three: a cat of unspecified sex, probably female; a mouse, Ignatz; a dog acting as policeman, Offissa Pupp. The drawing was remarkable, with certain…

10 years ago

How To Be Prolific: Guidelines For Getting It Done From Joss Whedon

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Note: This article is also included in our year-end creative wisdom round-up. Few people get things done in as consistent and impressive a fashion as Joss Whedon. His Avengers was the rare superhero movie to break box office records as it garnered critical acclaim. And while he was editing that…

11 years ago

The Wisdom of Jeff Bezos, Part 1 - VentureBlog

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On a plane flight the other day I was catching up on an issue of Wired Magazine that had sat in my backpack for several weeks (as an aside, Wired continues to be my go-to airplane reading -- it is so well written, well designed, well researched, always entertaining -- I definitely qualify as a Wired…

12 years ago

How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review

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View more from the July–August 2010 Issue Explore the Archive Executive Summary Reprint: R1007B Harvard Business School’s Christensen teaches aspiring MBAs how to apply management and innovation theories to build stronger companies. But he also believes that these models can help people lead better…

12 years ago