Bio
Michael Coté focuses studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Monolithic Transformation and The Business Bottleneck cover this topic. 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. Cf. cote.io, and is @cote in Twitter. Texas Forever!
My Talks
Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means
Nailing down “culture” is hard - the veritable nailing Jello to the wall. This talk will define what culture is and then cover several methods for leading culture change based on recent case studie...
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...
Krafting the kubernetes developer experience
What is the ideal developer experience and toolchain for kubernetes? It doesn’t exist yet, but the community is working on it. This talk summarizes the current state and problems for developers on ...
Kubernetes is not for developers...?
Kubernetes is the new platform for running apps. And yet, we’re told that kubernetes is not for developers, it’s too complex, there’s too much yaml. If kubernetes is so great, why is it so difficul...
Monolithic Transformation - changing the culture of large organizations, or, what to do when your meatware stinks
The cliche we all recite is that technology isn't the problem, culture is. Put another way, if the hardware and software are fine and fresh, it must be the meatware that smells. Come hear several d...
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...
The blinking cursor, or, kubernetes for developers, architects, & other people who aren't supposed to use it (k8s4devs)
"I got kubernetes up and running and all I got was this blinking cursor!" Drawing on case studies, you'll get a brief introduction to what kubernetes is from a developer's perspective and then guid...