ICYMI: SMK at SdXCentral
March 13, 2023
5:24 pm
Sean Michael Kerner now writes for SdXCentral… watch for his copy soon.
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Cheat Sheet: Devops Targets
September 26, 2022
5:42 pm
We’ve done a few cheat sheets on aspects of devops, but never one that focused on core devops news and trends. This is the one you’ve been waiting for — 21 names listed in “audience descending order.”
Cheat Sheet: Managing Coders & Engineers
May 12, 2022
9:33 am
Who writes about the fine art of managing techies — programmers, coders and engineers? We turned out 10 suspects, most of whom toil for small web audiences. Nonetheless, these are some of the folks whose words technical workers read and respect.
Q&A: Adrian Bridgwater, contributor
April 20, 2022
2:53 pm
Focused on developers and data, B2B tech edit freelancer Adrian Bridgwater writes for UK-based ComputerWeekly, Enterprise Networking Planet, eWeek UK, Forbes and IDG Connect.
Cheat Sheet: No Code/Low Code Targets
January 23, 2022
12:28 pm
Here are 11 targets who cover no code/low code at least occasionally. There’s a lot of overlap with more general devops reporters. There’s a good mix of Tier 1 and trades.
Cheat Sheet: MLOps
October 18, 2021
5:34 am
Here’s a baker’s dozen’s worth of targets who cover MLOps, where machine learning meets app development. You’ll see that we’ve rounded up the usual suspects, with a couple of exceptions.
Cheat Sheet: Kubernetes Reporters
June 15, 2021
3:17 pm
Lots of targets to choose from, with multiple names in a single title. In this cheat sheet, we debut the appearance of traffic numbers from SimilarWeb. We also present the targets in descending order, based on the size of their audience.
Cheat Sheet: MLOps
September 10, 2019
10:20 am
Machine learning is transforming a whole lot and devops is no exception. Here’s a cheat sheet on edit specialists in the field.
Profile: Sean Michael Kerner, freelancer
July 15, 2019
10:52 pm
Sean Michael Kerner is a B2B tech reporter, and according to his LinkedIn profile, is an “Internet consultant, a strategy and developer/writer and sometimes entrepreneur.” While Sean no longer writes for eWeek, he recently picked up freelance work at Business Insider and still writes for Enterprise Networking Planet, eSecurity Planet, ServerWatch and ITPro Today.
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