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Book Review: Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
It is so good to see Michael Lewis back to writing books that don’t have an agenda. I have read every book Lewis ever ...READ MORE
Book Review: Wiring the Winning Organization by Kim and Spears
I’ve always found Gene Kim’s work interesting and his new book is no exception. When I read The Pheonix Project I was a relatively ...READ MORE
Jonabot Post 4: Adding RAG for Context
This is the fourth post in a series about creating Jonabot, the Generative AI version of me!If you missed the post where I explained ...READ MOREJonabot Post 3: Training on My Previous Writings
This is the third post in a series about creating a Chatbot that mimics me as a consultant. I’m calling him Jonabot. If you ...READ MOREJonabot Post 2: Setting Up the Environment and Using Prompt Engineering
This is the second post in a series about creating a Chatbot that mimics me as a consultant, I’m calling him Jonabot. If you ...READ MOREJonabot Post 1: This Year’s Holiday Project, Build a GenAI Consultant
Why Do a Holiday Project in GenAI? I run Kyndryl’s Applications, Data, and AI Consulting practice in the US. One of the things that ...READ MOREThe Barriers To Entry on Data Are Lower Than Ever
Like everyone else helping customers navigate the fast moving waters of Data and AI, I have been following the new technologies and products that ...READ MORE
What Should Digital Transformation Mean for You?
Ten years ago, everyone was talking about industries getting “Ubered.” The expectation was that every company would be a software company in a very ...READ MORE
Book Review: The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
This book didn’t change my life like how discovering an agile methodology for software development or reading Mindset did, but it is a great ...READ MORE
Summit Talk Part 3: Fit-For-Purpose Platforms
I got the chance to present at AWS Summit in NYC on 7/12! I’ve had several people ask me what the speech was about ...READ MORESummit Talk Part 2: A Cloud Transformation Program That Gives Confidence
I got the chance to present at AWS Summit in NYC on 7/12! I’ve had several people ask me what the speech was about ...READ MORESummit Talk Part 1: My CIO Doesn’t Do Enough Cloud
I got the chance to present at AWS Summit in NYC on 7/12! I’ve had several people ask me what the speech was about ...READ MORE
The Next Phase of the Cloud Revolution
5-7 years ago it seemed obvious that most companies were going to perform huge transformations that included moving most of their applications and data ...READ MORE
The Toughest CTO Decision in 2022
For an organization with more than a handful of development teams, the hardest decision in technology right now is to decide where the cutoff ...READ MORE
Dev Teams are Blocking Infrastructure
I recently took the job within Kyndryl of helping to establish and expand our Application and Data Consulting Practice. Kyndryl is known as an ...READ MORE
Machine Learning Holiday Project Part III: Using the Model to Predict Games
In this post I’ll cover creating the actual machine learning model to predict bets and how it worked for the fist slate of games. ...READ MOREMachine Learning Holiday Project Part II: Loading the Data
If you’ve done any reading on AI/ML you’ve probably heard someone say that the real challenge is collecting and organizing the data. That discussion ...READ MOREMachine Learning Holiday Project Part I: Overview
Why do a Big Data Project over the Holiday? In 2021 the machine learning market was a little over $15B. That is projected to ...READ MORE
Clever Idea: Serverless, Cloud Native CI/CD
If you've met me for more than a few minutes you've heard me talk about my passion project, Leave the House Out of It ...READ MORE
Book Review: Thank You for Being Late, by Thomas Friedman
The word “optimist” in the subtitle is very well earned here. Friedman’s book explains why/how someone can hope that the same technologies and macro-trends ...READ MORETakeaways From 2021 State of DevOps
Why the State of DevOps is such a good report to read each year and what the takeaways are for 2021.READ MORE
Book Review: Mindset by Carol Dweck
I can usually tell by 15 pages in to a self-help book whether it’s going to resonate with me; usually, it’s not going to. ...READ MORE
Book Review: Invent and Wander (collected Jeff Bezos)
Jeff Bezos built a company that’s worth about the same on the stock market ($1.67T) as the entire circulating supply of Pakistani Ruppees ($1.68T). ...READ MORE
Book Review: Promised Land by Barack Obama
I rarely bother to post books I read for pleasure on the blog, but I thought that a lot of the people that I ...READ MORE
Book Review: Ahead in the Cloud by Stephen Orban
I found a lot of great nuggets in this book, but I’m not sure I’d recommend it to everyone. If you’re trying to sell ...READ MORE
2021 New Years Resolutions
2020 was a year where I expected to just entrench and work on establishing myself at IBM. It was a really good year for ...READ MORE
Book Review: Leading the Transformation by Gruver & Mouser
If you’ve read much of Gene Kim’s work you’ve heard of the transformation that HP Printers made to their firmware development process. Kim cites ...READ MORE
Book Review: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work by Karen Martin
I confess, Value Stream Mapping as a technique is something I already do with clients and I was reading this book mostly to make ...READ MOREBook Review: Unicorn Project
I actually finished the Unicorn Project a couple weeks ago and didn’t take great notes on it, so this won’t be as extensive of ...READ MORE
Book Review: Prediction Machines
If you’re going to be working in technology for more than 10 years, you should read this book. It’s written by a set of ...READ MORE
“Book” Review: Beyond the Phoenix Project
This “book” is actually a set of conversations recorded by John Willis and Gene Kim. The main thing I can offer by way of ...READ MORE
My Next Move: IBM “Journey to the Cloud”
I’m really excited to announce that I’ve taken a job with IBM, in their advisory cloud consulting service. The team I’ll be leading will ...READ MORE
Clever Idea: Leave The House Out of It (my app)
One of my favorite experiences has always been going to Las Vegas on an NFL Sunday. Looking at all of the potential wagers, reading ...READ MORE
Book Review: War, Peace, & IT by Mark Schwartz
The book bills itself as being for the CEO that’s looking to make sense of how the changes in IT should change the way ...READ MORE
Clever Idea: Serverless is Commitmentless
I’ve decided to start a bit of a series of blog posts called “Clever Idea”. I’ll use the space to talk about something I’m ...READ MOREBook Review: Algorithms To Live By
This book has a clever punch line… “What can we as humans learn from computers about how to approach problems that face us in ...READ MOREClever Idea – Invitations with Angular and OAuth
I’ve decided to start a bit of a series of blog posts called “Clever Idea”. I’ll use the space to talk about something I’m ...READ MORE
Book Review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
I had extremely high hopes for this book after listening to an interview with the author. Unfortunately, most of what I liked about the ...READ MORE
Book Review: Who Can You Trust? by Rachel Botsman
I was inspired to read this book by an interview with Botsman on a podcast I listen to. It’s based on a compelling overall ...READ MOREFantasy Baseball WAR
Whether you care about baseball or not. Whether you wanted to hear about it or not. If you’ve had more than three conversations with ...READ MORE
New Year’s Resolutions 2019
2019 is starting off in a great place; I’m very happy with the friendships/relationships that I’ve formed in New York over the last couple ...READ MORE
The Blog of Burgher Jon Returns!
I’m sure the nearly no one who almost never read it will rejoice. It’s not a cgrand re-entry; I’m as ambivelant as ever about ...READ MORE