Year: 2023
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Netherlands enables contactless payments on entire public transport network – Yup, it’s pretty great.
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Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button – If you value writing by the time put into it (“thoughtfulness”), the AI stuff is going to mess with your judgements. // “Now consider all the other tasks where the final written output is important because it is a signal of the time spent…
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7 Core Elements of an Internal Developer Platform – The reinvention of PaaS continues // The Eternal Recurrence of DevOps. To be fair, this time there’s tighter integration with CI/CD and ops doing some territory grabbing into SDLC.
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The Care and Feeding of Internal Developer Platforms – Five benefits of monitoring and managing internal developer platforms are noted: improved system performance, cost reduction, scalability, enhanced security, and improved feedback loops. Achieving these benefits entails securing deployment environments, establishing system baselines, setting up alerting rules, monitoring application performance, and automating processes.
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Avoid cloud lock-in with Kubernetes, findings from the 2023 VMware State of Kubernetes Survey
{{< youtube uqgxkL4KfKE >}} 76% of respondents in our State of Kubernetes 2023 survey say they use multiple clouds – they’re multi-cloud. I look at the driving forces behind multi-cloud adoption, most notably the desire to avoid vendor lock-in. For more insights into multi-cloud strategies, Kubernetes benefits, and the challenges being tackled by your peers,…
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How to find an are.na RSS feed
I like are.na – it’s fun, and not icky. Having to pay a little bit to post more than 200 items has a great filtering effect on the content. Anyhow, I wanted to include the things I put in are.na here, on micro.blog, but finding their RSS feed is elusive. Thanks to Fridaycat, I found…
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Monoliths, Microservervices and Mainframes – Reflections on Amazon Prime Video’s Monolith Move – “The supposed development time difference between the two methods is not based on the technology itself, but the context in which you’re deploying it. The argument made by the table is tendentious. It’s based on comparing the worst case for ‘traditional’ application…
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Escape the Legacy Trap: 5 Keys to Successful Application Modernization – Modernize those apps!
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2023-06-07 day note
Mid-day, when I have time. Another webinar in the can: my analysis of our 2023 State of Kubernetes survey. I positioned it as input and guidance into doing your own Kubernetes stuff. My theory on Kubernetes is that everyone wants to do it – “it’s the future” – but very few apps are running in…
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2023-06-05 day note
I had two recordings today. One on the platform maturity model draft, a paper I got the chance to review early on. There’s a live stream of it up, and I’ll lightly edit it down to a podcast episode later this week. I also did a small panel (with two other people) talking about how…
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Old School FRP
In the library of Castanamir the Mad (Jeff Easley, AD&D module C3: The Lost Island of Castanamir by Ken Rolston, TSR, 1984) <figure>







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