Operators who develop. Infrastructure as code. Automation permeating systems. Very good. As a one time sysadmin, I hold to the notion that the better an operator the more of her work she eliminates through code. But developers operating? No. I don’t want coders, especially app coders, anywhere near infrastructure. Specialization and abstraction create a big [...]
Archives for May, 2012
how I learned to love noops
by Aneel Lakhani | May 31, 2012 | 4 Comments
customer as enemy
by Aneel Lakhani | May 31, 2012 | 5 Comments
I saw this question come through on my Facebook feed. The context is large, public technology companies. Why, so often, are customers seen as the enemy? Because they’re the thing in between the company and the revenue. Because the real customer is shareholders and the buying-customer is part of the supply chain. Because product managers [...]
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civil disintermediation
by Aneel Lakhani | May 22, 2012 | 1 Comment
Adrian Cockcroft of Netflix has said/tweeted/presented: IaaS = Ops without Hardware PaaS = Devs without Ops SaaS = Business without Devs Ops getting rid of infrastructure, infrastructure vendors, infrastructure support, infrastructure architects, infrastructure engineers, infrastructure procurement, infrastructure maintenance. Devs getting rid of ops change control, ops provisioning, ops maintenance windows, ops support. Business getting rid [...]
hello cloud!
by Aneel Lakhani | May 18, 2012 | Submit a Comment
Dear CloudTechEtc Blogosphere, The powers that be (my boss) have seen fit to let me on the Gartner Blogger Network. My coverage area is the management and operations of virtualization and cloud infrastructure. Other interests run across technology adoption, innovation and change, competitive strategy, organizational culture, marketing, social media, the attention economy, and on and [...]
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