Summary
Platforms are often represented in enterprise architectures, “marchitectures,” or as I like to call them, “burgers.” Today, I walk through some past, great burgers, from CORBA, to J2EE, to Cloud Foundry, and more. In doing so, I over some advice about how to find and care for your burger, especially when it comes to keeping your burger fresh.
Planned on topics
- All the great burgers.
- We’re talking about distributed applications – an application and the services (“backend,” “middleware,” database, ERP-system, etc.) run as their own application, accessed over an API (usually over a network, but could be on the same box, too).
- What is it in service of? Software for large organizations: enterprise architectures.
- Examples:
- Older Delta Airlines, as in Enterprise Architecture as Strategy, 2006:
- Generic banking:
- Early on, CORBA. Hard nope.
- J2EE.
- Then SOA; RedMonk COA.
- Me on PaaS in 2011.
- We realized that ops was a problem, and part of the application (Shafer, 2005, and all the rest of the DevOps people).
- Overcoming Infrastructure Obstacles When Depoying Product-Ready Kubernetes, Nathan LeClaire (unplublised/in review): “fuzzy seperation between how the app is defined and how the app is run.”
- Brian Gracley finally defines the cloud native burger:
- “Structured-” vs “Unstructured Platforms” framing.
- The burger with all the toppings:
- A big burger with all the vendors:
- ~2017 PCF diagram:
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- New cloud native burger – Janakiram MSV, The New Stack, Oct. 2020:
- This week’s burger, Digital Ocean’s App Platform, in feature matrix pricing form!
- Protecting your burger:
- Guard against bloat and innovation slow-down – Spring has always been a hedge for this in Java.
- Vendors should do enterprise product management.
- Industry (defacto) standard: broader knowledge, staff interest, bigger partner/integration ecosystem.
- Always sniff out the vision – the implicit/explicit appdev/ALM model; “shift-left”‘ing; enterprise features over “don’t do that” (governance, AD, har, har).
CTA

- Learn kubernetes more better: kube.academy.
- Learn the Tanzu development way: tanzu.vmware.com/developer
- See cote.pizza for more as well, including getting that workshop.
Colophon
- Broadcasting at ~11am Amsterdam time here: https://www.twitch.tv/vmwaretanzu
- See archives and other README stuff at cote.io/tanzutalk/