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Approaching the IT Transformation Barrier
Part 1 – The New Steely Eyes of IT Just like the Star Trek episode “Where No Man Has Gone Before” depicts the wondrous, perhaps frightening aspects of traversing a Big Cosmic Line, we’re likewise...
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Approaching the IT Transformation Barrier (2)
Part 2 – The Compositional Frontier In my previous installment, I introduced the idea that the Information Technology industry is approaching, and perhaps is already beginning to cross, a major point...
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Approaching the IT Transformation Barrier (3)
“Cloud isn’t a technology. It’s a force of nature.” Part 3 – The Power of Steam I’ve previously advanced the notion that the IT industry has reached and is in the act of collectively crossing a...
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Approaching the IT Transformation Barrier (4)
“…the direct to consumer aspect of the container model is at the heart of its transformative capabilities.” Part 4 – The Tupperware Party This is the fourth installment of a multi-part series...
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Approaching the IT Transformation Barrier (5)
“Cracking the code of how to best implement and monetize APIs is crucial to success in the emerging API economy.” Part 5 – The Planet of the APIs After a brief holiday hiatus, we’re back to inspect...
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Approaching the IT Transformation Barrier (6)
“The need for a common language requirement is the chief problem microservices solve.” Part 6 – Episode IV: A New OOP Our series exploring the six independent yet related threads that are converging...
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Approaching the IT Transformation Barrier (7)
“New use cases and their subsequent solutions are like a feedback loop that creates a gravity well of chaotic innovation.” Part 7 – Panning for new Use Cases This is the last of a seven-part series...
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Outdated Best Practices: How Experienced Programmers May Fail at Building...
I’m a big believer in formal education because of the importance of understanding “first principles” – the foundational elements upon which engineers design and build things. The strengths and...
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What’s Worse than Cloud Service Provider Lock-in?
“If you are running your IT systems in a traditional private data center, you are already locked-in, and not in a good way.” I was recently in a job interview before a panel of IT industry analysts,...
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So, it has been almost a year now since I accepted a position with Gartner Inc. as an IT industry analyst. In that time, all of my thinking and writing about the industry has been redirected to...
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