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With the rise of Kubernetes, enterprise investments in legacy datacenters can become significant economic leverage, by converting legacy IT ops into private clouds. While many enterprises have considered divesting their datacenter infrastructure, and moving primarily or purely into public cloud environments, they may be missing a significant economic opportunity. Kubernetes, along with other automation, provides a unique opportunity to transform cost centers into value-producers, creating efficiencies and accelerating innovation.

Kubernetes is becoming a defacto standard for cloud computing, and the platform of choice for hosting blogs. Perhaps in the declining minority, however, I will not adopt Kubernetes as a blogging platform, and here’s why.

How my team pivoted a product strategy, delivered a product from idea to alpha in weeks, and launched a new product with mind-boggling speed.

This year in my career has been absolutely amazing. We’ve delivered profound results by learning a new way to produce software that our customers love, quickly and responsively. This story conveys my recollection of this pivotal time in our careers, and the agile software principles that made us successful.

As long as we’re voting for the lesser of two evils, the next election will bring a greater evil. Let’s start voting for Good, regardless of popularity.

Streamline your Python development with GitLab CI; automate build, test, and publication of libraries to PyPI package repositories.

A reflection on the personal dynamics of leadership. As leaders, we sometimes find that our character, reputation, and past successes have earned us new responsibilities, and new challenges: these are opportunities under our stewardship. Some of these will come with new teams, new staff, and new initiatives. Some of these will be strategically important to our companies and our careers.

My last published post was on October 26, 2016. That’s forever ago. A lot has happened since.

The world of data, intelligence and analytics perpetually evolves, so too will the data structures we work with. With the rising popularity of data lakes, there’s a steadily increasing need for developers, consultants, and vendors to work with all kinds of data, be it structured, unstructured, or semistructured.

Finding the optimal length of a blog post is tricky, and depends on your subject matter, your audience, and the purpose of your publication. I’ve turned up a few solid recommendations for targeting Social media, organic search, and reader engagement with different formats.

Redshift is a great OLAP database environment, though its limitations may surprise you. Many of its benefits are derived from its simplicity, belied by these limitations. Provided these techniques and design considerations can be applied, Redshift offers the flexibility needed for growing, evolving organizations to leverage their data at massive scale. Overcoming these limitations requires a tooling ecosystem surrounding Redshift, whereas Redshift must be respected for the simple, efficient, and yet robustly queriable datastore that it is.

Product integrity (HBR, 1990) represents the alignment of business processes, workflow, and the production lifecycle that yield your product or service; the end result is your customers’ experience of your company. Every process in your business must be oriented to delivering your brand to the customer.

Ya, mon, dis are di slides from my presentation to ya in Jamaica, at Superweek, 2016. Presentation (PDF)

In which I remark on the long hiatus in blogging, and efforts to reinvigorate my blog presence with a new platform.