Histoires Prodigieuses, Forward Deployed Vibes, and Skyrgamur – Related to your interests, Wednesday

Also: Spring still number one, KubeCon AI workloads, the end of Doctor No, and a buyer’s market for employees.


Line chart showing Java web framework usage from 2021 to 2025. Spring dominates at ~65-80%, dipping slightly in 2025. 'None' sits around 20-25%. Quarkus, Ktor, and JSF cluster near 5% or below.
Spring still king, from The State of Java 2025, JetBrains.

Related to your interests


Diagram comparing microservices (what K8s was tuned for: stateless, loosely coupled, horizontally scalable, rolling updates, placement-agnostic, ~5K-node benchmark target) versus AI training (what we actually run: gang-scheduled all-or-nothing, pinned to TPU slice/rack, weeks-long restart-averse, fabric- and topology-aware, outside the tuned envelope).
AI workloads in Kubernetes.

Wastebook

  • Skyrgamur – when in Iceland during Christmas, keep an eye on yogurt.
  • Snark! ‘Quote: “Our favorite holding period is forever”. Action: Trade Apple to realize gain.’ Here.
  • “Forward Deployed Vibes.” Here.
  • ”…franchise…lettuce…offerings…” Kenji.
  • “the nice thing about picking your own battles is that when you’re battling yourself, you can let yourself win by not caring too much.” Ibid.

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