Bio
Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. His daily-ish newsletter is at newsletter.cote.io.
My Talks
Developer productivity is waste
We're developer productivity obsessed, worse, developer productivity METRICS obsessed. Deployment frequency! MTTR! eNPS! It's become a delightful distraction. Besides, who really benefits from this...
FinOps?! But I just learnt DevOps! Or, Kost Management With FinOps
You care about cloud costs. Your boss does, at least. This is especially true with containerized apps and Kubernetes. The new FinOps discipline is developing using standards to help. This talk cove...
How to survive and thrive in a BigCo (Ignite Talk)
This talk will go over what I’ve learned working in large companies from my strange adventure working with a bunch of MBAs in corporate strategy at Dell, to working with large companies as an indus...
Low Growth DevOps
DevOps is no longer a fast growing mindset and set tools. Some surveys show that 70% of people are still not automating their builds, let alone production deployment. DevOps companies are facing gr...
Platform as a Product - transforming from service delivery into continuous operations
Developers don't need "services" from ops, they need products: continuously innovated platforms that evolve weekly. Once ops toil is removed, ops can focus on their customers' - development - needs...
Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!
How do you manage the AI services developer add to their apps? The field of AI platform engineering barely exists right now. But, to avoid shadow AI in production we need to figure it out quickly. ...
What the goblins can teach us about AI - lessons learned from two years of playing D&D with GenAI
Playing D&D with AI is a let down. You'd think it would be excellent! Hallucinating is the basis of the entire game! But, after a the first magical week, things started to slide. I’ll share my expe...