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.

Consumer-grade Chat Gen-AI Churn UpdateOverall, the generative AI things have been a disappointment for me. For writing, they seem helpful for generating and starting content, but it ends up being more work to fix and, then, rewrite what they do. Over the years, people have ghostwritten things for me. Like, humans! I’d too often have to (want to) go through and inject my voice and style, and also add play around with the core ideas.

I’ve hosted a lot of executive dinners for work - maybe 50 or 60 over the past several years…? These are commercial oriented. At my work, we’re trying to meet new people to sell our software to, or people who know people, etc. Getting to know “executives” is directly related to the sales process. The secondary goal is more brand and thought-leadership marketing: just making the attendee aware of us and what we do, and, hopefully, our “vibe.

Have you tried having less?Standardized. Centralized. Consistent. Those words I use over and over when talking about platforms. In large organizations, you’ve got hundreds, even thousands, of applications. There are likely tens of “platforms”: the stacks of runtime and middleware goo that all those apps run on. Maybe even hundreds if the company is large enough, old enough, and has gone through enough acquisitions (most all global banks). The more of those platforms your have, the more time you’ll spend managing them, governing them, securing them, and figuring out how to trouble-shoot problems.

Once again, I am bringing you only links and funny pieces of text. Relative to your interestsMeasuring Engineering Productivity, at Google, circa 2020 - “If the decider doesn’t believe the form of the result in principle, there is again no point in measuring the process.” // Some great advice in here about improvement programs. Come up with metrics and needs from the (economic/strategic) stakeholder who has the power to make changes.