The best conference in cloud native is right around the corner, SpringOne Platform, Dec 4th to 7th. Chock full of actual end-users and enterprises (along with your friends from Pivotal), it'll be a great time to learn about new technologies and how to improve how your organization does software. There's somewhere around 150 sessions. Richard and Coté go over some of their highlights, what to get out of the conference, and, as always, some recent infrastructure software news.
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News
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It’s re:Invent week! The usual flurry of announcements and nervous partners. OpenStack big tent.
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Bet your career on Pivotal. Business Insider say it’s ok!
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Azure Automatic tuning introduces Automatic plan correction and T-SQL management. Are we getting into the age of self-maintaining databases?
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MongoDB on demand in PCF. Per-dev clusters, now available.
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Old people got a lot to offer, sonny: "Contrast this to turnover rates for mid-twenties, which are up to 40 percent. By the late twenties, this rate drops to 20 percent and drops again to 10 percent for employees in their early 30s.... The cost of replacing a tech worker, as measured in lost productivity and new employee ramp up, is generally ballparked at around 150 percent of base salary." Coté's related column on addressing the so called "skills gap" in IT.
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Observability update: Charity Majors interview, older discussion on Software Defined Talk.
Topic - S1P preview
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Overall agenda
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A look at sponsors
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Preview of the main stage
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Talks you shouldn’t miss (Richard’s picks)
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The extra stuff: analyst day, CIO summit, ignite karaoke and lightning talks. Coté's ignite karaoke from DevOpsDays Kansas City.
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