Just fun finds and links today. Wastebook“FWD: RE: radioactive fungus email from grandma” Here. “I don’t know about you, but I think a campaign setting ruled by evil angels and their witch-wives, populated by giants (perhaps not 3,500 metres tall) who eat one another and human beings, and who have sex with animals to produce many weird varieties of beastman, is one that somebody could do a lot with.” Here.

Creating ROI models for platform engineering is difficult. Here’s three examples of approaches I’ve come across recently. You’re trying to convince your organization to put an app platform in place (probably either buying one or building one on-top of Kubernetes), to shift your ops team to platform engineering (just after HR finally changed titles from “Systems Analyst II” to “DevOps Engineer”!), or, if you’re like me, sell people a platform.

Just links and wastebook today. Relative to your interestsSpring Boot 3.3 Boosts Performance, Security, and Observability - All these years later, Spring is still in wide use and still evolving. ‘You are a helpful mail assistant,’ and other Apple Intelligence instructions - Not that many, but interesting. Gartner Predicts 30% of Generative AI Projects Will Be Abandoned After Proof of Concept By End of 2025 - ”At least 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025, due to poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs or unclear business value, according to Gartner, Inc.

Where the Kubernetes spend isHere’s a presentation recording going over our recent Kubernetes survey. I’ve mentioned it several times here, but there’s some new charts (like the above) and commentary in this talk I did with Rita and Danielle. Check out it for free in LinkedIn. Wastebook1 cup toilet chemical solution, three cups water. Add every three days or so. This year it’s gonna be beef rib buffet at SDT club.

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.

Survey says…Kubernetes getting out of appdev improvement slump This is the chart I look forward to in our annual State of Kubernetes report1: It’s been a rocky few years as Kubernetes has gone mainstream. I pay attention to the “shortened software development cycles,” which you can see started going down. It’s been going up for the past two years, so that’s good. As more “normals” start using Kubernetes, the tolerance the early adopters have erodes.

…right?I’ve been looking around for estimates on how many custom written apps run on private vs. public cloud. There’s a lot of coverage and estimates of people using multiple clouds, but finding breakouts is tough. IT IS VERY HARD TO FIND! Here’s what I’ve found recently: "According to Forrester’s Infrastructure Cloud Survey in 2023, 79% of roughly 1,300 enterprise cloud decision-makers surveyed said their firms are implementing internal private clouds.” Here.

I don’t know. I’ve been trying to sort out what platform engineering is for awhile.1 It matters a lot for my job! While I haven’t verified it, it seems like it started as a marketing campaign from Humanitec and then took on a life of its own. Now the likes of Gartner have practice areas for it and are hiring analysts to cover it. This means that people in enterprises are trying to sort out what to do about platform engineering.

This is a good talk listing some tactics for changing how organizations work. It’s targeted at executives. What’s bonkers is that, as the screenshot below, it has just 27 views. In the talk, we have a former group CIO at American Airlines. She’s telling you her tips for how to introduce change in a large organization. As Gene “The Phoenix Project” Kim says in his intro, American Airlines is the biggest airline in the world.

Using Surveys for MarketingWastebookThey dress like they’re Chaotic Good, but they’re totally Lawful Good under all that sloppy couture. This is some buck-wild ABM: a direct appeal to Delta to buy their AI stuff. “I wrote this one when my family was in Hawaii, too. I kind of had a meltdown there, to be honest.” Blue Cheese. If you were to watch Furosia and Fury Road back-to-back, as one movie, it might just be the best action movie ever made.