Benjamin Bryant

A Digital Gearhead

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

When someone tries to blame Trump for the current high costs of housing

[Todd Dailey @twid]

Here’s an Apple secret:
Success comes from culture, not technology.

Like many at Apple, I worked for many years under John Brandon, our longtime head of sales. He had his “Top Ten Rules for Success” which I carried around and lived by.

It’s easy to spot someone from Brandon’s team by how they collaborate. I tried to be one of them. I mopped the floor (literally at times), I shared everything I knew without gatekeeping, I always assumed the customer knew their business.

I think about AI the same way. Most AI advice right now is for builders. Almost nobody is helping the marketers, sales engineers, and execs who actually have to put AI in front of customers. That’s the gap I work in.

I left Apple last month after 22 years. After some thinking and a lot of conversations, I’m now doing what I did inside Apple, but for other organizations: AI positioning, helping businesses understand AI, and creating Apple-level presentations and content.

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

https://t.co/f6NT3JgpSo

@confluentinc has an opening in the @DeveloperAdv team. Well suited for DA's with strong technical competency and a desire to learn about and drive developer awareness of event-streaming programming patterns and approaches using @apachekafka

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

I'm now streaming live tweets into @apachekafka with a producer coded in Java 8, following the @udemy course written by @StephaneMaarek https://t.co/SaHpJZ4TmZ Great stuff.

[Hacker News Bot @newsycombinator]

Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V https://t.co/pGw7B0JNy6

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

@liko9 @confluentinc Thanks Brian! I will increase my resistance to that temptation. :-)

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

I’m pretty jazzed about my new SE gig at @confluentinc...let the technical onboarding begin!

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

Thanks @N1QL Team!

[N1QL = SQL + JSON @N1QL]

Snappy Data Exploration using AMD Ryzen Threadripper, JSON, and SQL++
Talk by @bl_bryant
https://t.co/38ztWO7qGv
#Couchbase #Analytics #SQL #NoSQL #AMD

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

Cheapest fill up I’ve seen...not sure how much I spent on groceries to get it, but hey...

[Couchbase Dev @CouchbaseDev]

The #Couchbase Connect conference is going virtual this year. We have an open CFP, and we'd love to provide you a platform for you to share your experience and knowledge: https://t.co/ETuIQV0nli

[Hacker News Bot @newsycombinator]

Why are CEOs failing software engineers? https://t.co/3ivqllYjwW

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

Jupiter and Saturn with the full moon (+1 day).

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

@_jenniferopal Hey Jennifer! Thanks for using Couchbase technology. I’m eager to get you working. What’s happening? And what material are you trying to follow?

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

@_ssaallmmaann Thanks for using Couchbase! It good to hear that your are looking for help. If you aren’t yet comfortable in the forums or in StackOverflow we can certainly help you more directly. Just ask away.

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

I’ve been waiting for this.

[Hacker News Bot @newsycombinator]

Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month https://t.co/Dk1b7Xd1Hb

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

@mgroves Whatever...

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

@adamhjk @mgroves @daschl @couchbase <raising hand enthusiastically>

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

@9to5mac @ChanceHMiller

[Benjamin Bryant @bl_bryant]

@mgroves @oracleopenworld @reverentgeek David’s is totally awesomer! I feel a little shy next to him... ;-)

[Couchbase @couchbase]

Hey #OOW19 attendees: #Couchbase is in the house! Stop by and see us at booth #610 (South Hall). We'd love to show you around! #Couchbase #NoSQL