malachismith

I'm sure we can all list a dozen great CEOs off the tops of our heads who are neither -- unless we do as the author has done and redefine each to be so broad they are meaningless. Really dumb article.

We're huge Mailgun fans at AppFog and LOVE the new analytics!! Nice work.

And I hope that someone gives me a free Ferrari that runs on water.

the trouble is that the Cogs Model (as it is put here) allows you to get shit done with lower skill levels. sure, it won't be perfect. and yes, if you had better programmers you could do it better. but these are pragmatic timse for most of us.

so he's right (in the abstract).

but for the reality most of us operate in he's wrong because Done is Better than Perfect.

that said... the "New is Good" thing needs to die. We're not freaking magpies people.

PDX used to be a non TSA Airport. And I think it won "best small airport in the US" for 5 years running. I didn't hate it.

At the end of last year, TSA took over.

The difference is dramatic. I fly through PDX at least 4 times a month. Average security wait time has more than tripled for me. They've installed scanners. But the big change is the way travelers are treated. As a woman waiting in line next time me on one trip put it, "these TSA guys act like they're Prison Guards - and we're convicts."

It's turned a not terrible experience into a truly awful one. It's turned PDX from one of the best US airports into just another shit show.

I know that I would absolutely fly to a less convenient airport if it were not TSA staffed.

One correction... I believe that Forrester "invented" the term NoOps and did so quite a while ago.

Actually I think Gartner did that first.

I think Pinboard's piece is great - but only talks about the past. This piece talks about the future and a "NoOps" option that doesn't exist in Pinboard's piece.

I'd argue that the total PaaS penetration in aggregate is less than 2% so yeah, I don't buy the "cut throat" line either.

Oh HELL yeah

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Good god do we ever wish there were...