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Strata: Analytics overhyped? Data science, and big data meets big business
Data Science Debate at Strata 2012 (credits: O’Reilly Radar); Full video linked from image In the true RedMonk spirit, you heard it here last. I attended O’Reilly’s Strata conference earlier this...
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OSCON wrap-up
On my whirlwind tour of the country last week (Minneapolis-Portland-Chicago-Minneapolis-Portland-Minneapolis), I spent a day and a half at OSCON, O’Reilly’s big open-source show. In many ways, OSCON is...
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Strata: Analytics overhyped? Data science, and big data meets big business
Data Science Debate at Strata 2012 (credits: O’Reilly Radar); Full video linked from image In the true RedMonk spirit, you heard it here last. I attended O’Reilly’s Strata conference earlier this...
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Nexus Q: On the importance of failing fast
Google’s cancellation of the Nexus Q launch was a surprise to me, even though I expected its introduction to be an utter disaster. The surprise, from my POV, was that even a company like Google, which...
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Openness tends to win: the Open Compute Project
Amir Michael of Facebook gave a keynote at LinuxCon/CloudOpen last week on the Open Compute Project [GreenMonk write-up], which adds to the existing movement to migrate the open-source philosophy...
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Opening the infrastructure stack: Why we need an Affero LGPL
When you’ve got open-source software available under a permissive license with multiple companies trying to make money off it, an eternal concern is fragmentation. Fragmentation of standards, of APIs,...
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VMworld wrap-up: Still trucking along
Early last week, I was at VMworld — VMware’s huge annual show. 21,000 people showed up; it was truly awe-inspiring to be at a show of that magnitude. Walking across the expo floor took close to 10...
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CloudOpen / LinuxCon wrap-up
I spent the latter part of last week in San Diego at the inaugural CloudOpen conference, along with LinuxCon, which are both co-located with the Linux Plumbers Conference and the Linux Kernel Summit....
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What can data scientists learn from DevOps?
I was at Strata NY the week before last, and fortunately I got out just in time to beat Sandy. I’ve been thinking at Strata and since about how the relatively new discipline of data science could learn...
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The opportunity in packaging Netflix’s open-source software
Netflix has a unique take on how to present its open-source software on GitHub. Today, Netflix released yet another component of its infrastructure as open-source software — this time the culprit was...
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Heroku Waza: Art and technique in software and beyond
Art and technique at Heroku’s Waza conference. Click through for a larger image. Clockwise, from top left: Musicians playing as attendees entered; drummer and gong play as an artist uses a broom-sized...
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DevOps and cloud: A view from outside the Bay Area bubble
I saw two starkly different worlds of IT almost side-by-side last week, thanks to the absurdities of airline pricing, and it illustrated very clearly the contrast between how we perceive the world in...
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Why isn’t everyone racing to get Hadoop into Linux distros?
The biggest opportunity, and the biggest threat, I see for the commercial Hadoop distributions is who becomes the default provider for Hadoop packaged by the popular Linux distributions. Today, none of...
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6 reasons you can’t ignore the new SAP, and 1 huge caveat
I was at SAP’s Sapphire conference earlier this summer, and it was a great glimpse into the early strides one of the most boring software companies in the world (in a good way, just like boring...
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RedMonk’s analytical foundations, part 2: 2006–2007
a.k.a. the advent of Coté In celebration of RedMonk’s 10th birthday year, this is the next post in the continuing series on RedMonk’s foundational works, which continue to define our philosophy and...
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VMworld: the pundits versus the practitioners
After coming home from last year’s VMworld, I said this: My overall impressions of VMworld were that VMware had one of the world’s largest stages to make some huge announcements, and it didn’t —...
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The parallel universes of DevOps and cloud developers
When I think about people who live in that foggy world between development and operations, I can’t help being reminded of a China Miéville novel called The City & the City. It’s about two cities...
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Go: the emerging language of cloud infrastructure
Over the past year in particular, an increasing number of open-source projects in Go have emerged or gained significant adoption. Some of them: Docker Packer Serf InfluxDB Cloud Foundry’s gorouter and...
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IBM’s piecemeal march toward open source
I attended IBM’s Pulse conference earlier this month, which has traditionally been focused around the former Tivoli division. It’s is a strange mix of software for sysadmins and software that can do...
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Upcoming speaking engagements, come find me!
I’ve got a number of speaking engagements in the next couple of months, so if you want to hear what I’ve got to say or just grab a beer, find me here: The Minneapolis DevOps meetup tomorrow, on the...
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