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!

Here’s my talk from Cloud Foundry Day, last week: The Cloud Foundry community has been around for a long time and the PaaSes built on it have been in use for awhile as well (many for at least five year, some for well over 7 years). In this talk, I first wanted to go over some advice on growing and sustaining a community build around a platform. And, second, I wanted an excuse to point out that Cloud Foundry works well for people and, you know, it’s kind of weird that we’re, once again, table flipping it all and starting over.

Has DevOps reached its goals from way back in the late 2000’s: deploying multiple times a day and having developers work closely with operations people? Adam Jacob brought up this question in two interviews recently, on my podcast, interviewed on my podcast by Matt Ray this week (which I [cough] haven’t, well actually listened to yet - maybe on the dog walk after I finish up here], and the Cloudcast, interviewed by Brian Gracely (I listened to that one real-good-like!

I’m at Cloud Foundry Day today - travel, conference, etc. I realized I’m giving the last talk, which is kind of a good slot to have. I’ll have to do some kind of “end of the conference” commentary on life. It’s Germany, and it’s hot. People leave the doors open for a breeze, so there’s the light smell of cigarettes here and there. (The Texan in me is a bit mystified, even stressed out at seeing open doors when there’s air conditioning.

Recommended theme song: Dog walk through the parkOut on a dog walk on a recent evening, there were several things to see. The homeless guy who lives in the parkwas sitting in his little area and there was a young guy sitting there with him. They were talking about something, smiling and laughing a lot. On the bridge there was a girl and a guy fishing. She was sitting in a chair and the guy was leaned over the side of the bridge with a fishing pole, while the girl was tearing up something to throw in.

Do you like words like: security - governance - PCI - regulation - SBOMs?! Then you should attend our talk series on cloud native app development in banks, insurance companies, and financial services. It’s online and, of course, free. Relevant to your interestsThe Quest for Better, Faster Deals - The highest quality deals are driven by strategy and vision needs at the buyer, the lowest by regulation needs and projects done by external consultants.

Midjourney: a datacenter filled with clouds in the style of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.Just when you thought (perhaps, hoped) we finally had an understanding of what “platform engineering” is, Gartner and Forrester came out with a Magic Quadrant and a Wave that re-confuses the category.  Or, if you like, helps bring more clarity to the category! Perhaps just a sub-set of it. Let’s find out. The PDFs reduce it down to CI/CD…mostly…with some optional metrics and IDP seasoning thrown in to varying degrees by each firm.