{"id":868,"date":"2016-03-08T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=868"},"modified":"2018-07-05T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T21:06:12","slug":"23-cloud-devops-leaders-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/23-cloud-devops-leaders-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 23 Cloud and #DevOps Influencers to Follow on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-597\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/06\/Twitter-Accounts-to-Follow-for-Cloud-Computing.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter-Accounts-to-Follow-for-Cloud-Computing\" width=\"600\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Staying on top of the latest industry news and trends is a big part of the job for any IT pro, and Twitter is a great resource, but with 243 million active users, it can be difficult to parse the good from the bad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lucky for you, we\u2019ve combed through the Twittersphere (all 243 million users, I swear) and pulled the top 23 DevOps and Cloud influencers and thought leaders in the Twittersphere, presented here in no particular order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For a more concise and printable overview of the state of cloud computing in 2016, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/free-cloud-platform-solutions-paas-iaas-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Solutions Review\u2019s all-new 2016 Cloud Platforms Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/a>, and\u00a0don\u2019t forget to follow me (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CloudTechReview\" target=\"_blank\">@cloudtechreview<\/a>) for cloud and information security news and best practices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>James Urquhart<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesurquhart\" target=\"_blank\">@jamesurquhart<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Years ago (2010?) I predicted VMW\u2019s peak revenue year would be 2016. I\u2019m beginning to think I may have nailed it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HUCjv4YMaQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/HUCjv4YMaQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesurquhart\/status\/704679646365749254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A leader in cloud computing with a background in business system development with distributed service based systems, Urquhart is a frequent guest on the popular The Cloudcast podcast and has been named one of the 10 most influential people in cloud computing by MIT Technology Review.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Aaron Delp\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aarondelp\" target=\"_blank\">@aarondelp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/aarondelp\/status\/706993674878652416<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Aaron Delp is one-half of the team that makes up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecloudcast.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Cloudcast<\/a> (as featured in our <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/are-you-subscribed-to-these-cloud-computing-podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\">top cloud podcasts list<\/a>) and the director of cloud solutions at Solidfire. With four years of podcasting and over 200 episodes under his belt, it\u2019s fair to assume that Delp knows his way around the cloud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Brian Gracely <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgracely\" target=\"_blank\">@bgracely<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Microsoft continues to become more OS-agnostic under Nadella.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z0xo8vaZ4g\">https:\/\/t.co\/z0xo8vaZ4g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Gracely (@bgracely) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgracely\/status\/706953764230434816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Brian Gracely co-founded the Cloudcast with Delp in 2011\u00a0and has since established himself as an authority on all things cloud computing. Gracely is currently the lead Cloud\/DevOps analyst at Wikibon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Randy Bias\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/randybias\" target=\"_blank\">@randybias<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You know you are out of ops practice when you make two simultaneous changes assuming that there won&#39;t be any interaction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Randy Bias (@randybias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/randybias\/status\/705502722070433792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An early vocal supporter of the OpenStack project, Randy Bias is currently VP of Technology for EMC, and previously served as CEO of Cloudscaling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Jeff Sussna<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffsussna\" target=\"_blank\">@jeffsussna<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffsussna\/status\/706900359755599872<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An early proponent of DevOps and Public Cloud, Jeff Sussna is an author with over twenty years of experience in the design, development and delivery of cutting-edge software and services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>John Willis<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/botchagalupe\" target=\"_blank\">@botchagalupe<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cloud in Government: Promise and Practice .. I&#39;m talking <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/devops?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#devops<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/docker?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#docker<\/a> .. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xdEXpeIMkx\">https:\/\/t.co\/xdEXpeIMkx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Better angels playing mystic 9th chords of memory (@botchagalupe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/botchagalupe\/status\/705163208278016000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A frequent guest on the Cloudcast, Willis recently began work with Linux container company Docker, arguably the hottest company in the cloud today. For <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/glossary\/#container\" target=\"_blank\">container<\/a> news and insights, Willis\u2019s feed is a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Jeff Barr\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffbarr\" target=\"_blank\">@JeffBarr<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This looks intriguing: VoiceOps: Command &amp; Control <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AWS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AWS<\/a> ENV with Amazon Echo &amp; Lambda  &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zgfk71xH3U\">https:\/\/t.co\/zgfk71xH3U<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a3FLIJo7jK\">pic.twitter.com\/a3FLIJo7jK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Barr \u2601\ufe0f (@ \ud83c\udfe0 ) \ud83d\udc89 (@jeffbarr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffbarr\/status\/707006959640190976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As Chief Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, Jeff Barr should be your go-to guy for the latest news and chatter about the world\u2019s most popular public cloud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Marc Benioff\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Benioff\" target=\"_blank\">@Benioff<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I didn&#39;t understand how bad it&#39;s been for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IBM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IBM<\/a> over the last two years until they laid off 1\/3 of their employees. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YZhaUobrH5\">pic.twitter.com\/YZhaUobrH5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marc Benioff (@Benioff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Benioff\/status\/706978232407461888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is a great source of\u2026 you guessed it\u2026 Salesforce information. Benioff regularly tweets about new products and information from the Software as a Service (SaaS) giant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Mike Olson\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeolson\" target=\"_blank\">@mikeolson<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Because I care about the English language, I insist that \u201cleverage\u201d is not a verb. Because I am a software engineer, I insist that \u201c404\u201d is.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Olson \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@mikeolson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeolson\/status\/703013081421635586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mike Olson is the Chief Strategy officer for Cloudera, but that doesn\u2019t mean he limits himself to posting about the big data platform. Olson is an excellent source for big data news and thought leadership, as well as pithy one-liners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Dana Gardner\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dana_Gardner\" target=\"_blank\">@Dana_Gardner<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gartner?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gartner<\/a> warns IT leaders about the perils of using private platform as a service <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PaaS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PaaS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cloud?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cloud<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/containers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#containers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fqgjSknj15\">https:\/\/t.co\/fqgjSknj15<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dana Gardner (@Dana_Gardner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dana_Gardner\/status\/707219091262709764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dana\u00a0Gardner is a creative thought leader on enterprise software, cloud, mobile, big data and social strategies, and also\u00a0a prolific blogger and podcaster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Barb Darrow\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gigabarb\" target=\"_blank\">@gigabarb<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mountain to Mohammed: Microsoft Brings SQL Server to Linux! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8Pk7faodZv\">https:\/\/t.co\/8Pk7faodZv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Barb Darrow (@gigabarb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gigabarb\/status\/707178221561896960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Barb Darrow is a cloud reporter for Fortune, formerly of Gigaom. Darrow is a prolific tweeter\u00a0and a consistent source of the latest industry news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Paul Miller\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulMiller\" target=\"_blank\">@PaulMiller<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Always worth pausing the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FutureOfData?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FutureOfData<\/a> of data conversation, from time to time, to look out of the window. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vrdwWNyAld\">pic.twitter.com\/vrdwWNyAld<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Miller (@PaulMiller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulMiller\/status\/704778913822560256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Paul Miller is a UK-based writer, speaker, and cloud computing and \u00a0big data analyst and consultant. Miller is a former Gigaom\u00a0research analyst and a current \u00a0Forbes contributor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Ralph Loura<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RalphLoura\" target=\"_blank\">@RalphLoura<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForbesCIOSummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ForbesCIOSummit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tonyscottcio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tonyscottcio<\/a> FITARA has been biggest single thing that puts IT governance at the forefront for US agencies<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ralph Loura (@RalphLoura) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RalphLoura\/status\/706955001860481025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ralph Laura is CIO of the Enterprise Group at Hewlett Packard.\u00a0Laura blogs regularly and is a frequent guest at high-profile events and summits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Adrian Cockcroft <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adrianco\" target=\"_blank\">@adrianco<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not the quote I would have picked, I was mostly telling my version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NetflixOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NetflixOSS<\/a> story. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IMf7HyYcsA\">https:\/\/t.co\/IMf7HyYcsA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Cockcroft &#8211; now @adrianco@mastodon.social (@adrianco) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adrianco\/status\/705637183156125696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Cockcroft is a technology fellow at Battery Ventures, previously of Netflix, eBay Research Labs and Sun Microsystems. Cockcroft speaks at various conferences around the world and advises startups in IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Cameron Haight<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/haightspeech\" target=\"_blank\">@haightspeech<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As always some good thoughts to ponder from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allspaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@allspaw<\/a> &#8211; An Open Letter To Monitoring\/Metrics\/Alerting Companies: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PaV3loSgyX\">https:\/\/t.co\/PaV3loSgyX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cameron Haight (@camhaight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/camhaight\/status\/596096063158800387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Cameron\u00a0Haight is a a Senior Vice President at Gartner and an experienced expert on all things Cloud, DevOps, and Web-Scale IT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Bridget Kromhout\u00a0<\/strong><a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bridgetkromhout\" target=\"_blank\">@<span class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">bridgetkromhout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Printed up some DevOps Against Humanity cards, as one does. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TX09SqiFMQ\">pic.twitter.com\/TX09SqiFMQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bridgetkromhout\/status\/462009165347450881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Bridget Kromhout is principal technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal and Co-organizer of Velocity and DevOps Days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Bryan Cantrill<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bcantrill\" target=\"_blank\">@bcantrill<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If this is your first tech bubble, let me give you some advice that was once given to me: enjoy the party, but dance close to the door<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bcantrill\/status\/572952707788505088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Bryan Cantril is Joyent&#8217;s chief technology officer and the author of a <a href=\"https:\/\/dtrace.org\/blogs\/bmc\/\" target=\"_blank\">popular blog<\/a>. Cantril was named by MIT as one of the top 35 technologists under the age of 35.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Dave Farley<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davefarley77\">@davefarley77<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If heartbeat was a clock cycle, retrieving data from fastest SSD is equivalent to crossing whole of London on foot  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/__Abigor__?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@__Abigor__<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/qconlondon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#qconlondon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dave Farley (@davefarley77) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davefarley77\/status\/707174461200572416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dave Farley is the co-author of the award-winning book Continuous Delivery, an independent dev and consultant, and a thought leader in the DevOps space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Kelsey Hightower<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kelseyhightower\">@<span class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">kelseyhightower<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nice getting started with rkt post by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukeb0nd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lukeb0nd<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nw30I7gX4i\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nw30I7gX4i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kelseyhightower\/status\/707035498263531521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Kelsey Hightower is the author of <em>Kubernetes: Up and Running,<\/em>\u00a0developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform and previously an employee of CoreOS, New Relic, Monsoon Commerce, and Puppet Labs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Tim Crawford<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tcrawford\">@<span class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">tcrawford<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;400 Million new servers needed by 2020 &#8211; Think Different or Lose&quot; by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mthiele10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mthiele10<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LinkedIn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LinkedIn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GA5iku1vOX\">https:\/\/t.co\/GA5iku1vOX<\/a> &lt;Grt start. Need more!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Crawford (@tcrawford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tcrawford\/status\/707233051105857536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tim Crawford is a CIO strategic advisor and thought leader who curates content on cloud, DevOps, IoT, and BigData.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Chris Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Murph_CJ\">@<span class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">Murph_CJ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How the Idea of Industry-As-A-Platform Will Drive a Wave of Disruption, from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dberlind?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dberlind<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IoT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IoT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e8dYAHutxb\">https:\/\/t.co\/e8dYAHutxb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Murphy (@Murph_CJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Murph_CJ\/status\/702141898492878848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Chris Murphy is the director of cloud content at Oracle, and formerly an editor for Information Week. 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