When we're trying out a new career development program or something for our personal fitness, it can become quickly apparent that it doesn't work for us. It's a bad match. And just like you wouldn't run a marathon in tap dance shoes, you shouldn't force yourself to adopt a program that's a bad fit. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: htt...
Jun 01, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Does public cloud cost more than on-prem? It depends. Should companies repatriate their workloads? It depends. Could software companies save billions by running their own infrastructure? It depends. Regardless of the alluring titles and promise of hard numbers, there's a lot of context missing in this a16z article. The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox: https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/ --------------------...
May 28, 2021•13 min•Season 5Ep. 19
Learning the concepts behind a technology will serve you better than memorizing implementation. Concepts are transferrable and reusable. You can apply a concept to different situations that go beyond the technology. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github.com...
May 27, 2021•10 min•Season 5Ep. 18
Pluralsight courses, domestic travel, and a new Day Two Cloud episodes are among some of what I have planned for the second half of 2021. It's going to be an exciting time and I'm looking forward to seeing some of you in person! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https...
May 27, 2021•11 min•Season 5Ep. 17
Whenever I try to learn a difficult new concept or product, I will eventually hit a wall of frustration. And if I'm not sufficiently motivated, that's where I might give up and walk away. It's important for vendors to think about the product experience and try to remove friction and frustration whenever possible. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com P...
May 25, 2021•10 min•Season 5Ep. 16
There's a lot of pressure in consulting to stay billable, learn new things, and get certifications. Whether or not we want to admit it, brain dumps helped a lot with that last one. But now, certifications are adding a practical component to the exam. What does that mean for a consultant who's already burning the candle at both ends? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https:/...
May 25, 2021•11 min•Season 5Ep. 15
I suffered through it, so you have to. It's an approach I've seen far to often. We should be willing to assess the suffering we had to endure and really question whether it had a positive impact on our life. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github.com/ned1313...
May 21, 2021•11 min•Season 5Ep. 14
I get many unsolicited requests for my time, both paid and unpaid. Often these request are terribly written and serve no purpose beyond annoying me. Here are some tips for increasing your chances of getting a positive response. Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Ned1313/status/1395386286588956676 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: http...
May 20, 2021•11 min•Season 5Ep. 13
At least in the cloud datacenters and megascalers. And not just AMD, but also ARM processors. The megascalers have the deep pockets to experiment with new tech. At the SMB datacenter though, I think it will stay Intel now and in the foreseeable future. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-...
May 20, 2021•11 min•Season 5Ep. 12
It could happened to you! No, no, seriously. It can and probably will happen to you. As long as paying the ransom is cheaper than implementing and maintaining an anti-ransomware solution, we are going to keep seeing it in the headlines. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHu...
May 18, 2021•11 min•Season 5Ep. 11
I participated in my first Twitter Space today and I'm not sure about the medium. As much as I love consuming audio, I also love time-shifting it to when is convenient for me. It also left me wondering how Spaces plans to monetize. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: ht...
May 14, 2021•10 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Lots of Microsoft info in my reading feed this week. I though I would highlight a few things. The death of Windows 10X , the deep discount on the Surface Duo , and discontinuing of Azure Blockchain . I appreciate that Microsoft is willing to experiment with new ideas and drop those ideas when they don't pan out. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pl...
May 13, 2021•10 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Spoiler alert! It's super-complicated. Identity started out relatively simple. You had your on-premises Active Directory or LDAP organization and you were good to go. The cloud era has brought new challenges to managing identity between cloud providers and SaaS solutions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/pr...
May 12, 2021•10 min•Season 5Ep. 8
And just like that, poof, it's dust in the wind. Well, maybe not right away. But I'm thinking Windows as a server and desktop operating system has about ten years left in it. What will replace it? Hint: it's already here. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://gith...
May 12, 2021•11 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Your career is going to be a long series of failures, punctuated by occasional success. Learn from those failures and bask in the success! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github.com/ned1313...
May 11, 2021•11 min•Season 5Ep. 6
The beginning of May marks the two year anniversary of my self-employed life. I thought I might reflect on what I've learned over the last 24 months, and what the future holds. May 6th is World Password Day and that means two things to me. First, start using a password manager. Second, enable 2FA on any sites you use frequently. Together we can make passwords better, or even better make them disappear. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
May 07, 2021•10 min•Season 5Ep. 5
May 6th is World Password Day and that means two things to me. First, start using a password manager. Second, enable 2FA on any sites you use frequently. Together we can make passwords better, or even better make them disappear. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https...
May 06, 2021•10 min•Season 5Ep. 4
The magic of cloud isn't the elasticity or the cost model, it's the API candy store! If on-prem wants a fighting chance to host new applications, it needs to adopt the magic of cloud and offer services developers care about. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://g...
May 05, 2021•10 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Keeping yourself a little removed from a technology or a fandom helps tremendously with perspective. Whether its Star Wars, Kubernetes, or BTS, having perspective allows you to place things in the proper context and act appropriately. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub:...
May 04, 2021•9 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Have you ever found that you do better on a task the first time you try it than the subsequent attempts? Does it take you five or six tries to get back to the same level as that first attempt? That happens to me a lot, and I think I know why. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance...
May 03, 2021•9 min•Season 5Ep. 1
It might be tempting to hitch your wagon to the latest trend, but don't let it consume you. Externalizing your identity means you loses control over that identity. That can be damaging for your self image and your career. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://gith...
Apr 30, 2021•9 min•Season 4Ep. 22
As much as I like the shiny and the new, sometimes I have to admit that we may have overcomplicated things. I spent a whole day frustrated with a piece of software that has failed at every turn to tell me what is wrong. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github...
Apr 29, 2021•7 min•Season 4Ep. 21
I am flummoxed. Seriously, I just don’t understand the decision or the way it was approached. Your employees are the reason you have a business. You might want to consider that before you do something stupid. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github.com/ned131...
Apr 29, 2021•10 min•Season 4Ep. 20
I participated in the Tech Field Day Extra event with Scality and HPE today. Scality announced their new product called Artesca, which is a cloud-native, light-weight object store. The sales motion of selling DevOps tooling to an enterprise crowd got me thinking. Tech Field Day Extra: https://techfieldday.com/event/tfdxscality21/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://ne...
Apr 27, 2021•11 min•Season 4Ep. 19
Do you build a platform or rent one? Do you host your own content or put it on a platform? What if the platform goes away? There's a lot of risks and rewards to consider when building a brand and a career. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github.com/ned1313...
Apr 26, 2021•11 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Got my second shot and super excited! Also, I'll be participating in a Tech Field Day Extra for Scality and Turbonomic's Apps On Cloud Summit. Definitely check both out! Apps On Cloud Summit: https://turbonomic.events.cube365.net/events/apps-on-cloud-summit-2021 Tech Field Day Extra: https://techfieldday.com/event/tfdxscality21/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://ned...
Apr 24, 2021•7 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Well, not exactly pointless, but making long-term detailed plans is a lesson in futility. That's doubly true in the world of technology, where things change at such a rapid pace. It's really not worth making a plan more than two years into the future. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-b...
Apr 22, 2021•10 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Coming for you with the multi-cloud reality! Sorry, got a little excited. Here's a topic people feel passionately about, and their passion doesn't matter one iota. Multi-cloud is here and it's here to stay. The best we can do is deal with it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance...
Apr 21, 2021•10 min•Season 4Ep. 15
Complexity and feature bloat are a natural by product of listening to the customer. I don't envy the product manager who has to decide between opinionated software and customer requests. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github.com/ned1313...
Apr 20, 2021•12 min•Season 4Ep. 14
Taking the long view on technology, we tend to commoditize, standardize, and abstract away complexity. I don't need to know how a car works to drive, how electricity works to turn on a light, or how to operate a web server to have a website. Why on earth would I need to know how Kubernetes works to run my application? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud....
Apr 20, 2021•11 min•Season 4Ep. 13
