Mark Bodman

Check out my latest article: Why Product-Centricity within IT is critical linkedin.com/pulse/why-prod… via @LinkedIn

@BoredElonMusk People soup.

Water park in Qatar. I guess the theory here is to conserve water by concentrating it within a small radius. But also this probably makes it extra disgusting.

@elonmusk You know, ServicNow has an app to manage certificate and catch them before they expire. Just saying.

Caused by expired ground station cert. We’re scrubbing the system for other single-point vulnerabilities.

Sorry, slight glitch with @SpaceX Starlink. Coming back online now.

@CharlesTBetz I haven’t installed one but they are very common in Argentina and used them quite a bit. I do think they work well the main challenge is regulating the heat vs volume. At low volume it’s very hot and high volume not as hot.

Twitterverse, has anyone installed a whole house electric tankless water heater? Satisfied/no?

@meedabyte I think your agreement aligns with the IT4IT V3 Digital Product definition just published. In essence, a Digital Product executes code to realize outcomes. Consumers may be other teams or customers, contract formality will vary. Take a look at V3 to see if it aligns.

Excellent CX will be more easily producible by leveraging on agreements between largely independent nodes and composable product/modules as I explained in my recent piece “Towards Modular and Composable Markets boundaryless.io/blog/towards-m…”.

In our work at @boundaryless_ we rely heavily on the vision of organizations as based on self-managed, independent teams and we have a strong bias for the idea that units should manage their resources, wallets, and - at the end of the day - their profit and loss statements.

@CharlesTBetz @cyetain @matthewpskelton @SteveElsewhere @byron_miller @DrJohnRayKnight Platforms provide self service capabilities for those creating the products on the platform, and a provision processes to allow consumers of the products built on the platform. Often a store is included to allow consumers to obtain the products

@cyetain @matthewpskelton @SteveElsewhere @byron_miller @DrJohnRayKnight It's a service offering of a service management platform. And now we are all the way down the meta rabbit hole and need @markbodman.

A platform isn't just the curation of services and knowledge as a product, it's the *encoding* of such into a self-service capability. It's encoding in resilience, safety, observability - it encodes your SLA/SLOs and is expressed to those who rely on your platform.

@CharlesTBetz @cyetain @matthewpskelton @SteveElsewhere @byron_miller @DrJohnRayKnight We came up with a number of characteristics that a platform has such as being able to host other types of Digital Products such as workflows, services, applications etc.

@CharlesTBetz @cyetain @matthewpskelton @SteveElsewhere @byron_miller @DrJohnRayKnight Yes, a rabbit hole indeed. There was some work I participated in at The Open Group to create a standard definition for platforms that wasn’t published that informs my thinking on the topic.

@CharlesTBetz Exactly.

“Platform engineering” is not the point, and not the right topic of focus. While engineering excellence will always be needed, it’s not the constraint. The real problem is managing platforms as products.

New, long form blog post: "Platform product management versus platform engineering." forrester.com/blogs/platform… #DOES22

@thejackbeyer @NASASpaceflight Stackasaurus.

Ship 24 has once again been stacked on top of Booster 7. Now hopefully it's time for some full stack testing! @NASASpaceflight Missed it? Re-watch our commentated stream here: youtu.be/y0RReBGYE-o

@marksmalley Just works for the smallest of humans

Some things don't scale. While you can use a microwave to successfully defrost a frozen hamster, it won't work with humans. They are just too big. youtu.be/2tdiKTSdE9Y

@CharlesTBetz You can stay with an older windows OS and it will likely be Ok. Problem is newer OS don’t cater to older HW very well. Had to ditch an old Dell laser printer recently. Barely got drivers working for it in windows 10 and 11 was a definite no go.

So built a new workstation with the help of Micro Center. Tech suggested I bring old one in to figure out what was wrong w/networking. Took one look at the motherboard and said that’s your problem —E 2200 chipset is obsolete and the last Windows update bricked your workstation.

@CharlesTBetz Usually. Vendors also amp up the audits to find extra income when market is soft.

Software title normalization and the broader topic of vendor technology lifecycle management is getting more and more attention. Sign of economic headwinds?

@CharlesTBetz Yup. Wife roped me into the series.

outlander is so damn good

@thomsinger Way to go Thom!!

Looking forward to my new role with the Austin Technology Council. #austin #austintech #atc #atx

@PPathole @elonmusk A nice pair.

It never stops blowing my mind seeing Falcon 9 boosters land. 🤯 Reusable rockets is how we build a self sustaining city on Mars. @elonmusk

@CharlesTBetz Yes, saw this in the MAC Reddit forum. 11 weeks on some models. Matches what you are seeing here.

Ordered the maxed out Macbook Pro (64/8/M1 Max). They seem to be having supply chain problems.

@CharlesTBetz Yes it was a great movie.

Saw Everything Everywhere All At Once. Amazing.

@elonmusk Tag sale?

Raptor 2 rocket engines at Starbase, each producing over half a million pounds (230 tons) of force

Something happen at Starlink this evening? @elonmusk