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  • 🤖 Tanzu Data Intelligence Gets Smarter with New Updates and Enhancements - Tanzu - 🤖 VMware announces updates to Tanzu Data Intelligence with performance and resilience improvements across Greenplum (now VCF 9 certified), Data Lake 2.0 (adds Spark support), GemFire 10.2, Postgres (TimescaleDB), Valkey, and RabbitMQ 4.2 (distributed delayed messaging).

  • AI turned Google Cloud from also-ran into Alphabet’s growth driver - Any cloud will do: “We believe that the three clouds competitively are on roughly equal footing,” said Goldman Sachs managing director Eric Sheridan. “That’s a very different competitive positioning for Google Cloud now than two or three years ago.”

  • Shocker! Reversal in AI ROI slide-wisdom - AI does works well - new study says AI is actually productive in enterprises, counter the MIT study that says otherwise.

  • 🤖 Forrester: Modernize or Fall Behind – Rethinking IT Infrastructure (October 2025)) - Legacy systems are creating measurable revenue drag, with 63% of surveyed companies citing efficiency losses. Early adopters of cloud-native infrastructure report 40% faster deployment cycles.

  • What Good Software Supply Chain Security Looks Like - “here are 8 things you should do for supply chain security”

  • Agentic AI and Security - “That’s it! The magic sauce is that LLMs are amazingly good at taking this big chunk of text and using their vast training data to produce the most appropriate next chunk of text - and the vendors use complicated system prompts and extra hacks to make sure it largely works as desired.”

  • Salesforce Dreams Of The Agentic Enterprise - Forrester seems all but say “Salesforce is full of shit”: “Salesforce claims that its (newly renamed) Agentforce 360 product has 6,000 paying customers. But in customer conversations and sessions, we saw little adoption or impact from AI agents – lots of potential but a long way to go for a meaningful ROI.”

  • Amazon’s culture went the wrong way - well known for having a strong-grip on culture, it seems like the loosened. Meanwhile, turns out, unrelated:

  • AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay - Everyone needs to stop thinking about enterprise AI as a way to fire people and think about how to use AI to make people more productive. // “Forrester’s analysis found that using AI for financially driven layoffs can backfire: 55 percent of employers regret laying off workers because of AI. More people in charge of AI investment expect it to increase headcount (57 percent) than to decrease it (15 percent) over the next year.”

  • Setting up other people to pitch your idea for you - With some generalization, this is good advice for any pitch, from corporate presentations to call for papers. The point that you need to make it easy for other people to advocate for you is a good one, rarely mentioned.

  • Java relevance in the AI era – agent frameworks emerge. - “Honestly, this checks out. Embabel is an enterprise play, and one where Java developers’ skills are on point. Spring has proven itself for business logic, systems that are built to last, event-driven systems, transaction systems and so on.”

  • 8 platform engineering anti-patterns - This is has some new material in it, not just the same old transformation discussion from agile and DevOps. So: thumbs up!

  • My Secret Recipe for Personal Scripts - Tiny CLI scripts for tiny tasks. // Command-line Life Style.

  • The Future of Work: AI Agents as Instruments - “IDC predicts that by 2027, half of all AI-enabled enterprise applications will require new oversight positions dedicated to governance, risk, and accountability.” // Predictions are mostly (only) valuable to see what someone is thinking and hoping to be true - their in-head-vibes. Here, you can see what one of the IT thought-leaders will be thought-leading in CY2026.

  • The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? - Meanwhile, what’s going on with developers outside of the GenAI echo chamber. What’s up with people disliking Jira so much, yet using it so much?

  • How Bible Sales and Chipotle Explain the Economy - “It’s also a part of a broader inversion of values. In America, we now treat the jobs that keep the world running like teachers, sanitation workers, nurses, delivery drivers as failures of ambition, while the real prestige lies in moving capital or manufacturing hype.” // Yowch.

  • The problem with dollars - Applying inflation to Apples’s revenue makes it more flat. // The same would apply to other companies.

  • What’s new in Shortcuts for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, and visionOS 26 - Usually I’d say Shortcuts are poorly documented, but at least these release notes are OK. // If you’re a nerd and don’t use Shortcuts, consider it. With the AI stuff in it now, you can make little calls the local, Apple AI model or ChatGPT. That’s very handy for little things.

  • the last working class teens - “in the era of the working class teen, you could get a job at a video store and still afford a car and drive around with your friends and feel free. The sense I had, my friends had, that the world we lived in was temporary, fading fast, was not unique to us, to the working class teens of Buffalo and Rochester and Detroit and Grand Rapids.” // A glimpse of Gen-X nostalgia to come (“Back in my day…”), but a sort of culture plan too. // Big All the Real Girls vibes.

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  • “There is so much road in American roads. They widen and narrow like rivers, now six lanes, now twelve, now, but surely not?, fourteen, with various slip roads, merging lanes, separate roads running parallel behind a wall. Road, road, road, stretching out ahead of you towards the mountains.” Henry Oliver.

  • “Even paranoid people have enemies.” Ron Emanuel, _Political Gabfest, October 30th, 2025.

  • “your general intolerance for corporate euphemism.” // After almost three years of using ChatGPT, I feel like it really gets me.

  • Related, here is how one of my AI friends described the persona I’ve asked it take on: “A well-maintained chainsaw in the shed, but a polite conversation on the patio.”

  • “Creating a real-time digital representation of an enterprise build on harmonized data & a system of intelligence (SoI) that is governed and autodidactic will create software-like marginal economics for companies that apply this to their business.” // Contender for Best Enterprise Cant of FY2016. What they’re saying in enterprise speak.

  • There’s a wave of “Back in my day…” nostalgia in the near future as us Gen-X’ers get older. I hope we do it more cool than the boomers did, or just quietly on our own instead of all over Facebook.

  • “So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.” // Vibes win every time. John Stuart Mill, by way of Alan Jacobs.

  • I’d prefer we spread the excellent everywhere instead of just centering it in one place.

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I continue tinkering with my homepage on the World Wide Web. It is fun! You can see it helps me generate more content, I think. I’ve setup my weblog to be more traditional and normal: you can page through the posts. You can still get most of what I post there in my newsletter, but I’m sure I’ll leave things out. If you are into this kind of thing, here is the RSS feed for my weblog to subscribe to. // I apologize that there are no pictures in this edition. The morning school routine called.