Beware of High Expectations in Enterprise TechHere are three charts. First, while everyone is freaking out about AI, it’s had little impact thus far: Shared by Mark Hinkle.Second, since 2020, usage of cloud seems to have leveled off at a 50/50 split between on-premises and public cloud: Source:  IDC, The Evolution of Cloud Infrastructure: Multicloud to Hybrid; Shared to Dedicated, doc #DR2023_T1_DM, March 2023But don’t worry, everyone is planning to move more to public cloud in the next three years.

Finding an estimate of how many developers there are in the world is difficult. Oh, there’s plenty of people making estimates, but those estimates vary so much that the estimates are suspicious. For example: Microsoft/GitHub recently said they now have 100 million developersusing GitHub. “We estimate that, as of Q1 2023, there are 35.6 million active software developers in the world,” says Slashdata (who the CNCF uses for surveys).

Only 22% of software developers say they have a clear understanding of what they need to do to comply with security policy, to make sure the applications they're writing for their organization, are good in a security sense. Now, it'd be easy to say the developers are just dopes and they don't know what they're up to. But I think what this is indicating is that figuring out how to practically do security policy at the software layer is difficult.

Our final talk in our software stuff for financial organizations is coming up tomorrow. Above is a little anecdote that Darran made to me as we were working on it. If you’re into security, compliance, that kind of thing, check out the third part of our series: “How Cloud Native Improves & Ensures Security, Governance, and Trust in Finance.” Summarizing Articles with ChatGPT Works AgainRecently, I’ve been complain that I can't use ChatGPT to summarize things anymore because it won't pull from URLs.

A bonus Sunday episode! Waking up this morning, my first thought was how different my job is now with less travel. Like many tech companies, we have smaller budgets for travel. The means I can only take three or so trips a quarter unless I get someone else to pay for it, or for customer/sales visits. I dropped down a level in airline status due to decreased travel over the past year (and the lack of KLM maintaining your status to make up for COVID-times for several years).

I listen to a lot of podcasts, and have for, I don’t know, over 20 years. I’ve made and make a lot of podcasts. You might call me both a podcast listening and podcast creating expert. In the classic sense: a critic. I should review podcasts more frequently! If Books Could Kill - Worth the Resulting Shitting-On VibesA few times I year I try to eliminate all the bad vibes media from my life.

When a good teacher seems like cheatingAll of the worrying about cheating with ChatGPT is hiding its biggest potential: being a teacher. As an “expert” (or, at least, well read) in digital transformation, DevOps, cloud native, blah blah, when I ask ChatGPT to do things for me, it’s mostly smell-free garbage, kindergarten stuff. But, when I ask it to tell me about something I don’t know about, it’s great. For example, I’ve been reading Against Purity, which does the community thing of using a bunch of jargon without explaining it.

LEGACY SOFTWARE AT BANKS! That's the topic of the talk my colleague and I are giving tomorrow. You can watch it for free, check it out. In addition to the talk, you’ll get a free copy of my book on managing legacy software, Escaping the Legacy Trap Here’s the slides we have so far, a preview: The eternal first inning of cloudAccording to the chart below, the movement of apps to the public cloud has stalled out at about 25% since getting to around 20% in 2017.

Recent picture of me trying to figure this all out. (I seem to have forgotten my toupee that day.)Source CodeI’ve almost figured out the drama around Red Hat redoing how they distribute the source code for RHEL. Is this it?Here is my understanding of it: Before the changes, anyone could get the source code (and I assume configuration, build methods, etc.) so that they could create an exact copy of RHEL (“bug for bug,” as people like to say).

I really liked how this first talk in out three part series came out. I wanted to talk as much as possible about actually strategy, business-think, so to speak, when it comes to how financial enterprises do software. All of us cloud native people spend a lot of time talking about the general benefits of cloud native stuff: better developer productivity and getting closer to the agile, deliver once a week (or daily!