Charles Schwab Adopts PostgreSQL (With VMware Tanzu) - Why Charles Schwab chose Postgres over Oracle, and chose to pay for Tanzu Data Services support.
Platform Engineering Reshapes Software Dev at Bechtle - Customer case or Bechtle using Humanitec.
DOJ, Nvidia, and why we restrict monopolies - “A company getting it right does not give it some kind of permanent license to coast while printing money. The question that all antitrust seeks to answer is simple: how much is enough? When do the well-deserved riches and power that accumulate to companies that make big bets, execute well, and invest wisely start to be toxic for society or humanity as a whole, and for competition itself? Are the riches that the largest companies make earned, or are they simply the product of being large? If it’s the former, great! But if it’s the latter…"
Cycle Time - Time spent figuring out this nuance is time spent not coding and getting your apps out the door and kicking in the product management feedback cycle. Still, good discussion of the nuances of the phrase.
Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds - Oracle runs its stack in the various clouds.
How Heroku Is Positioned To Help Ops Engineers in the GenAI Era - “We decided that the best thing for us strategically was to use Kubernetes underneath the covers, essentially to replace a lot of the code that we have been using to do the same thing. That’s a big migration effort for us. There’s a lot of expertise that needs to be built."
Under New Management: Impressions from VMware Explore 2024 - “Tan made comments about not chasing ‘bright shiny objects.’ The context around these comments – particularly from the analyst session – indicate Tan’s statements could reasonably be interpreted as pointed commentary about Kubernetes. The Tanzu platform has two available runtimes: Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. More airtime was given to Cloud Foundry than Kubernetes, and the leadership team made statements about ‘focusing on existing customer success.’ All together, there were signals that read as the company focusing on nurturing the assets from the Pivotal acquisition over the Heptio acquisition, and prioritizing solutions centered around its VM-centric past more broadly."
Broadcom CEO: VMware still ringing the cash registers - ‘That translates into 32% quarter-on-quarter VMware bookings growth." And: ‘When it comes to revenue tailwinds, AI is driving “about two-thirds in compute and one-third in networking” said Broadcom CFO Spears.'
Executive translation. - “Many high-agency managers try to prevent executives from doing silly things, but it’s almost always more effective to translate their energy for a silly thing into energy for a useful thing. It also leaves the executive feeling supported by your work rather than viewing you as an obstacle to their progress."
Tanzu 10 Sets New Standard for Private Cloud-Native Platforms - The Futurum Group - ”According to a recent survey by Futurum Research, organizations that have adopted cloud-native technologies have seen an average of 20% faster time to market and a 15% reduction in IT costs.”