Hi
everyone!
It has been quite quiet here on this blog since last
month, but there’s of course some reasons for that.
I would like to use this opportunity to give you a
heads-up on an upcoming whitepaper that I have been working on together with a
few other subject matter experts.
This blog post is not about the specific whitepaper
itself, but the goal is rather to give you an explanation of why we are having this
approach – putting a lot of effort into a whitepaper instead of publishing
books.
I have personally been authoring books myself, and also
together with other authors. The experience was interesting to say the least,
and also required a lot of my time. Not just to do the research, testing and
writing, but also to meet the deadlines, engage with reviewers and much more.
In short, the flexibility you have to modify – or even
change the subject, is very very limited when working with books.
The limited flexibility is a showstopper in a business
where drastic changes (as in new features and releases) happens at a much
faster cadence than ever before.
In order to be able to adopt, learn and apply all what’s
happening, – writing whitepapers seems like a better idea than doing books.
At least this is what we think. When discussing
this with some of our peers, we often get questions around royalties etc. to be
honest, you will never ever get rich by writing a book, unless you are writing
some fiction about some magic wizard with glasses, or a girl describing her
fantasies of a rich man.
So jokes aside, we do this because of the following
reasons:
·
We enjoy doing it
This is not a secret at all. Of course we will spend some
massive amount of time on these projects, and probably our significant others
would have a grin every now and then. But we enjoy so much, that it is worth
the risk and potential penalty we might get.
·
For our own learning and knowledge
Let us be honest. We dive deep into this to learn it by
heart. There’s no secret that the technology we will cover will be our bread
and butter, so we better know what we are doing.
·
To share it with the community
Do it once –and do it right. We spend a lot of our time
in forums, conferences, etc and engage with the community. Being able to point
towards a rather comprehensive guide that many can benefit from, instead of
supporting 1:1 is beneficial for all of us
·
Recognition
If you do something good and useful, I can ensure you
that many people – regardless whether they know you or not, will appreciate it
and give you credits. We’ve heard several times from our previous whitepaper
(Hybrid Cloud with NVGRE (Cloud OS) ) that it helped peers, IT-pro’s,
engineers, students and CxO’s to make a real difference. This is probably worth
the effort all alone.
So let me introduce you to the upcoming whitepaper that
will hit the internet very shortly:
“Cloud Consistency
with Azure Resource Manager”
This whitepaper will focus on cloud consistency using
Azure Resource Manager in both the public cloud with Azure, as well as the
private and hosted clouds with Azure Stack.
I won’t disclose more about the content, structure or the
initial thoughts right now, but I encourage you to stay tuned and download it
once it is available on the TechNet Gallery.
Thanks for reading!