This is just my, personal take on what Tanzu is, not an official statement. But I think it’s a pretty good one! :)

For a more in-depth look, check out Dekel’s recent videos.

Also, if you like the full on corporate sheen take, take a look at the Tanzu Platform Solution brief.

Wastebook

• “the ontological trick of discursive reductionism.” Here.

• Working title: “Working Hard at Nothing - Why Productivity Is Ruining Our Lives.” // I’ve done a while of chatting this week in a category I’m thinking of as “death by productivity.”

• Right now, it’s summer in Finland which is like winter in LA.

• “Reluctant Refusal: When a creature offers the leprechaun the chance to partake in merriment or revelry such as a song, a dance, or a good meal, the leprechaun must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or have the charmed condition for 24 hours. While charmed in this way, the leprechaun partakes of the offering, treats the creature as a trusted friend, and seeks to defend it from harm. The charmed condition ends if the creature or any of its allies damage the leprechaun, force the leprechaun to make a saving throw, or steal from the leprechaun.”

• Related: “Looking for suggestions for how to create a layer of grain in a silo. Just doing it bagged for now and I’m not satisfied.” // I showed this to my wife and she was shocked that I thought it was funny: “It would look better with a layer of grain.”

• “a much-remarked-upon toe ring” - it was a simpler time.

• “The employees murmur what but everyone seems to accept it.” (Translated to English from the Dutch.)

• “vibecession” // sounds like “uninformed decisions that things are worse than they are”?

• Unsettling picture.

• That five blind men and the elephant parable is, like, 1,500+ years old!

• Consumer tech companies drink their own champagne. Enterprise tech companies make dog food for owners to buy to feed their dogs. They do not eat the dog food, and rarely own dogs.

• “The Lock-in Boogeyman.”

• ”Join the Czech and Slovak mechanical keyboard community in celebrating our hobby and come check out just how deep the rabbit hole goes.” From the Mechanical keyboard meetup.

• “no-collar American food.” He didn’t like it.

• J: “I didn’t have to explain. I could have just spilled something on their tie and ran off.” M: “That’s what they call ‘the podcaster’s exit’!” - RotL #544

• L’esprit de l’escalier: “the predicament of thinking of the perfect reply too late”

This week’s podcast: Bring a point of view

On this week’s Software Defined Talk, Brandon and I talk a lot of wasted time at work, so called “bullshit work” and how management might could fix it: “This week, we discuss Google possibly buying Wiz, why "meta work" leads to too many meetings, and why it took forty years to get spell check in Notepad. Plus, we share some thoughts on enjoying your vacation.” This was a long episode (an hour and 40 minutes). We discussed writing and using AI to write in the after show. You can also watch the unedited video of the recording.

Relative to your interests

• White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now - “Gloria Mark of UC Irvine has found that workers require an average of 25 minutes to return to their original task after an interruption. By this measure, a 30-minute meeting is, for the typical worker, best thought of as a one-hour detour.” // For 25+ years, a significant part of developer productivity has been the simple of idea of “stop interrupting me.”

• The Silicon Valley Would-Be Vice President - Those capital gains taxes always stick in folk’s craw.

• Next Gen Application Delivery: Getting Started with Intelligent Apps Powered by AI - “Our numbers show that 65% of all enterprise developers use Java, making it essential for business-critical applications. Development frameworks, like Spring AI, enable Java developers to interact with AI models and vector databases through the framework, rather than having to learn new skills.”

• 15 hours a week - ‘And yet, for most of that time, I’ve continued to find that exertion harder to exercise than most, while my flair and ability have gained me attention and love, I’ve seen less of whatever today’s equivalent is of “a satisfactory grade in the public examinations”’

• VMware’s ‘Private Cloud’ Solution Emerges Under Broadcom - “Previously, five different business entities were responsible for delivering our product. We have now consolidated these sectors into one organization with a unified product team, global support team and a single management direction. This alignment ensures a critical focus on product development and seamless delivery.”

Conferences, Events, etc.

Talks I’m giving, places I’ll be, and other plans.

This year, SpringOne is free to attend and watch online. There’s an on-site conference as well at Explore if you’re interested. But, for those who can’t, now you can watch all the fun!

Our analysis of the State of Cloud Native Platforms 2024 survey, online, speaking, July 24th, 2024. SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024. DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, speaking, September 4th-5th. SREday London 2024, speaking, September 19th to 20th. VMware Explore Barcelona, speaking(?), Nov 4th to 7th.

Discounts. SREDay London (Sep 19th to 20th) when you 20% off with the code SRE20DAY. And, if you register for SpringOne/VMware Explore before June 11th, you’ll get $400 off.

Logoff

Don’t forget to check out the talk I’ll be part of next week, July 24th on our recent Kubernetes/cloud native platform survey. There’s a few charts in there that don’t show up in the actual report or in my blog post on it, so unique charts for you!

Register to watch it for free here, or in LinkedIn. Also in YouTube, if you prefer that.

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I’m off to vacation for a few weeks. Finland!

When I get back - which seems like forever from now - I feel like it will be a new year