Not much going on today on this sleepy Thursday—JUST KIDDING! Google VP of Research and Strategy @nicolefv and her team have released the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. A tweet thread. #ASODR
It begins with such a gorgeously designed cover that I can only assume it was snuck past Google's branding team. #ASODR
31,000 professionals and six years of data went into this. It categorizes folks at the good part of the bell curve as "elite performers." Fascinating, since you'll never get folks to self identify as anything else. #ASODR
Software delivery being quick, reliable, and safe is at the heart of technology transformation and org. performance. If you had "slow, janky, and dangerous" instead, my condolences on your loss. #ASODR
Respondents indicate that only 16% of teams include women (!!!), down from 25% last year (!!!!!!). That's concerning as hell, as are the other D&I groups they've analyzed. #ASODR
"How do we compare" is a section. The real answer is that it doesn't matter; comparison is the thief of joy. (Try that one on your boss; it may be the only graceful escape you've got.) #ASODR
"Excel or Die" talks about the Retail apocalypse. I think that @msexcel's marketing efforts are just a smidgen heavy handed here. #ASODR
Ah, the section that resonates with me: "How you implement Cloud Infrastructure matters." 80% of respondents are using it. Far fewer are using it well. #ASODR
An entire section on Cloud Cost in here which I wholeheartedly endorse. They nailed it here. "Without visibility, there will be no cost savings" is a truism. #ASODR
They do not hype multi-cloud here, presumably because they have nothing to sell you that depends upon you not going all-in on a single provider. #ASODR
"If you have a heavyweight change management process, your organization is almost certainly a shit carnival full of weasels" isn't exactly what they say, but it captures the gist. #ASODR
A section on psychological safety is likely to be glossed over by the people who need to read it the most. If you manage via fear, I can't wait to hire people out from under you. #ASODR
"We don't recommend Centers of Excellence." THANK YOU. The term sucks, the practice sucks, it adds bottlenecks and elitism. It separates theory from practice. #ASODR
Today's cloud marketing story is called "The Tale of Hot Rebecca," and is a truthful recounting of dinner last night.
Strap in; it's a fun ride.
Back in my early 20s, I had a number of friends / acquaintances in my (primarily Jewish) social circle named "Rebecca." It was kind of a problem.
("Can't we spray for them?"
"…not since the 1940s.")
So every Rebecca got an adjective, much like the seven dwarves. One of them asked me once what her adjective was, and I responded in a fit of unadulterated honesty, "you're Hot Rebecca" because honestly? Damn.
Made it to the #GoogleCloudNext keynote seating finally. Let's see how this goes now that the world is starting to wake up to a "much of the AI hype is unwarranted" reality.
Boeing: "HOW ARE THEY DOING IT?!"
Airbus: "We bought a torque wrench?"
Boeing: "No, how are you being a featured customer testimonial at #GoogleCloudNext?"
Airbus: "Oh, that? We made a strategic decision to not be walking poster children for corporate negligence."
And now, some DevOps / SRE / Sysadmin / Ops / ENOUGH already tips I learned from early in my career--brought to us by our friends at Chex™ Mix. All of these are great ideas that you should implement immediately...
DNS is notoriously unreliable, so use configuration management to sync all of the servers' /etc/hosts files. Boom, no more single point of failure.
Future-proofing is an early optimization, so don't do it. Every network should be a /24 because that's how developers think. I mean come on, what are the odds you'll ever have more than 253 hosts in a network?
And the Amazon earnings are out for Q4. A miss on @awscloud revenue by $20 million because analysts didn't expect one of you to turn off a single Managed NAT Gateway.
Let's explore deeper into their press release.
For 2023, AWS sold $90.8 billion of services, most of which were oversized EC2 instances because you all refuse to believe Compute Optimizer when it tells you there are savings to be had if you're just a smidgen more reasonable.
Word frequency in the earnings release:
Customer: 87
Employee: 11
Generative: 16
Cloud: 24
Serverless: 3
DynamoDB: 2
Union: 0
It's once again the most wonderful time of the year: the newly-renamed @Gartner_inc Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services!
This year there are no visionaries or challengers, just "cloud" vs. "you pretend to be a cloud." Let's explore together!
We're going to ignore the "niche players" because for three of them I don't speak Mandarin, and for @IBMcloud I don't speak ancient Greek.
That leaves @awscloud, @Azure, @googlecloud, and @OracleCloud.
@IBMcloud @awscloud @Azure @googlecloud @OracleCloud First up is AWS due to its undisputed alphabetical supremacy.
Strengths include its "everything but the kitchen sink" approach, its innovation in hardware design, and its large feeding ground--I mean, partner ecosystem.
Amazon Q / "an AWS spokesmodel" is easily proving incredibly, incredibly helpful at answering the @awscloud questions its human predecessors in corporate comms refused to address.
According to an AWS spokesmodel, EC2, S3, and DynamoDB have all seen price increases. I did not know that!
I was missing a handful of these on my deprecation list; thanks, AWS spokesmodel! You're incredibly helpful!