The best leaders I’ve ever known had two consistent traits: self-awareness and humility.
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Greg Knieriemen
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Hitachi cheerleader and cloud / hybrid-cloud / multi-cloud technology advocate. Live in The Land, work in The Valley. I speak only for myself.
Cloud Services & SolutionsCleveland, OH / San Jose, CAJoined April 2009
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Great read and advice! I would add, hybrid cloud can also be part of a multi-cloud strategy as you think about the right data (and workloads) in the right place, for the right cost for the right business outcomes.
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My new @googlecloud post on multicloud offers do's and don'ts around multicloud.
Obsess over lock-in
Bet on OSS
Expect full-stack products
Pick anchor tech
Supercloud your app
Pick a journey
Lose dev focus
Invest in portable skills
cloud.google.com/blog/transform
Obsess over lock-in
Bet on OSS
Expect full-stack products
Pick anchor tech
Supercloud your app
Pick a journey
Lose dev focus
Invest in portable skills
cloud.google.com/blog/transform
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For tech, projects and planning will have a dramatically shorter window for value creation and ROI. We talk a lot about the flexibility to scale up but the language is changing and consumption models are being tested.
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The Conference Board’s survey of CEOs revealed that confidence among CEOs is at its lowest level since 2009, with 98% of respondents preparing for a recession in the U.S.
Feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy… with broad implications, particularly in tech.
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Brief trip to Warsaw and learning loads… this is the Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki) last night. A communist era relic… a “gift” from Stalin.
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Truly amazed by the efficiency of Zurich airport customs when connecting through to another flight.
No line at all.
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And it’s got some value apparently
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This isn’t just any edition of Windows 7, it’s the ULTIMATE Steve Balmer signature edition…
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I can’t imagine a scenario where Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware doesn’t get approved.
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UK authorities open preliminary probe into Broadcom's VMware acquisition reg.cx/46wv?utm_sourc
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Not sure what to think about tech friends claiming they are leaving Twitter but will inevitably return once they have a conference or POV to promote.
I’m inclined to block the haters rather than cut my nose off to spite my face.
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Complexity is the enemy to reliability
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The right question should have been: "What is the business outcome we are trying to deliver?"
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Twitter employee: "With regards to our infrastructure costs and migration to cloud, what’s our goal? Do we want to be in cloud? Do we want to be our own DC? Mix of two?"
It's not just Twitter, this is far too common. Cloud (or not) is never "the goal".
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I have a couple of random people constantly popping into my LinkedIn profile, not requesting a connection but it does prompt a ‘viewed your profile’ notification.
Is this a connection tactic? Trying to figure out the point. No industry connection that I can see.
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It's almost like this wasn't predictable...
Flashback from : a16z.com/2021/05/27/cos
#cloud #HybridCloud
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Opendoor has $8B in revenue. Their market cap has dropped from $19B at their peak to $1B today
Bird dropped from $2.4B to $115M
Twilio has ~$3.6B in revenue; they dropped from $70B to ~$8B
Here's why gross margins can kill a business...
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We have confirmation: Twitter verification is not a verification process, it is indeed a status symbol. Awfully disappointing and it confirms everyone’s worst suspicions about what the new Twitter is going to look like.
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A lot of folks have asked about how you'll be able to distinguish between @TwitterBlue subscribers with blue checkmarks and accounts that are verified as official, which is why we’re introducing the “Official" label to select accounts when we launch.
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If you step back from the technical requirements for #hybridcloud, it’s ultimately about:
“The right data, in the right place for the right cost”.
Of course this sounds obvious… but users are expecting:
❗Architecture flexibility
❗Simplicity
❗Cost visibility / mgmt
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For anyone threatening to leave Twitter, good luck trying to find this fire content on any other platform
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I think this is true for all teams. Domain expertise is the hardest and is most critical for managers and senior leaders.
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5 things I wish I'd known BEFORE building my first #data team:
1 - Too much control is bad
2 - Too much freedom is worse
3 - Unicorn teams > Unicorn people
4 - T-shaped skillsets are essential long term
5 - Domain knowledge and expertise is the hard bit
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This is a great little article on the performance, portability, size and security benefits of #WebAssembly versus #containers.
Thanks to for pointing me to it.
arxiv.org/pdf/2010.07115
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As I've said for a long time, everyone should have the ability to be verified and that wasn't happening before.
There also seems to be deep-rooted disagreement if verification is a privilege or a right.
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I'm assuming there is a cost to verify that you are a real person and not a bot. I don't know if $20/mo is reasonable though. I would surely pay it just to avoid anonymous trolls.
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It's interesting how most people seem to be losing their minds about paying to be verified on Twitter.
I never thought verification equalled "status" as most of you seem to be inferring. It's verification that you are a real person - that's the point.
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Looks like I'll be parachuting into #KubeCon / Detroit briefly tomorrow to catch up with a few peeps.
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#Supercloud is neither super, nor a cloud.
In which we examine the exercise in marketing this is the Supercloud, and how it is unhelpful as a term and concept.
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Playing with the drone yesterday above the house… great colors, no filter.
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Today’s word of the day: Bluster
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An amazing thread and a story not well covered in most tech pubs. Significant implications and possibly some unintended consequences…
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THREAD: The US government's new export controls are wreaking havoc on China's chip industry.
New rules around "US persons" are driving an "industry-wide decapitation."
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Congrats to this distinguished gentleman who has left after 4 years to “repatriate” back to to resume his auspicious nerd modeling career.
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I wanted to take some time today to respond to regarding the term "platform engineering" and whether or not it is simply hype.
It is not. In fact, it represents a very important shift in the way IT operates.
A 🧵:
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Leading the market or letting the market lead you?
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda:
“Everything is going to be up to the customers to decide”
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This is ridiculous, a lot of people are sh*tting on the “supercloud” term. It’s a dumb, lazy and opportunistic term. Dunking on one person in the community for challenging it is really awful.
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