Five for Friday – February 18, 2022

My calendar has been…exploding lately (all good meetings – just re-org aftermath). I’ve been using reclaim.ai to keep an eye on meeting trends and to automatically block out 30-60 minutes every afternoon in order to make sure I don’t get too far behind. Here’s a nice article asking, Do I need Kubernetes Old article, but…

I had a short bit of travel this week, and got a bit of reading done on the flights. I love my kindle, and use it when in the air, but I also pack a magazine or two to read during takeoff and landing. On the way home, I was catching up on a few…

As 2012 comes to a close, I thought I’d recap the year. I think this little exercise is mostly for me, but I suppose new blog readers (or people with too much free time) may find some points of interest. Some more from the non-Microsoft front follows. My most popular blog posts from the last…

Like most Microsoft employees, I have a whiteboard in my office, and mine (also like most) gets used a lot for notes, explanations, architecture, or whatever. This is nothing new – it’s part of the software culture. A few years ago, I recorded a few handfuls of these talks (some slightly staged) with some all-star…

In early January, I’ll hit my 19 year anniversary of working at Microsoft (I’ve worked for Microsoft 18.5 years, and as a vendor at Microsoft for the first 5 months or so). There’s been a lot of change over the years, but perhaps never as much as is going on right now. We’re getting a…

It’s Thursday night, and I have just returned home from STAR East. Lee Copeland said that he thought it was the best STAR conference ever, and I know many who agreed with him. As for me, I had a great time, but was a bit too distracted from trying not to suck at my keynote…