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.

What is the deal with Disney live action kid shows? Do they have a team that makes sure they all have the same…vibe? It’s so weird. (This Jessie show is ok. Not sure about the handsy ten year old: Jessie: “Do you have an off switch?” Handy ten year old: “yup. Do you wanna try and find it?!") I asked Ram about Cloud Foundry a lot today. I’m still not sure what I think about Kubernetes being “the future” when there’s so much work to do to make it easy to use.

Midjourney: a Soviet style poster with a software developer standing triumpantly on-top of a pile of software developers robots.Names are magicI don’t really know what I think about the idea and movement of “platform engineering.” It definitely has the feel of a market and category now. I reference it all the time, as do “us all” in the cloud native world. I suspect over the next year it’s the phrase everyone will be using for whatever it is exactly.

I have a new video, opining on multi-cloud and how Kubernetes might could help with fears of lock-in (a concept that I think is kind…basic?), check it out below: Relevant to your interestsThe Care and Feeding of Internal Developer Platforms - Five benefits of monitoring and managing internal developer platforms are noted: improved system performance, cost reduction, scalability, enhanced security, and improved feedback loops. Achieving these benefits entails securing deployment environments, establishing system baselines, setting up alerting rules, monitoring application performance, and automating processes.

Mostly links today. I’ve been traveling this week and preparing and bunch of stuff to publish in the future. Tragic for the desire to publish now, now, now… How I TravelRelative to your interestsMaximizing value, controlling cost with cloud FinOps - “Among current users, 56% report that spending on public cloud was significantly over budget (by 30% or more) or somewhat over (by 10%-30%) in 2022, compared with 45% of respondents saying the same in 2021.

Just links this episode. Some fantastic #gartnercoreFrom “Technical Insights: Battle of the APIs — Will REST be Toppled by GraphQL, gRPC or AsyncAPI?,” Gary Olliffe, GartnerRelative to your interestsThinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) - As with most things, the whole SBOM push is probably a lot simpler to solve than it seems. Also, a delightful “old man yells at secure software supply chain hype” vibe as only Jon could do well.

Suggested theme song for this episode: 30% in 2025 implies low use in 2023 From the recent Gartner Marketing Symposium highlights: 64% of marketers have deployed, or are piloting, AI/ML to support autonomous campaign creation, execution, and optimization capabilities. [But:] Gartner predicts that by 2025, 30% of outbound marketing messages from large organizations will be synthetically generated. If you’re in marketing, you need to be using ChatGPT (or WHATEVER) today, as much as possible.

Read to the end to see an illustration of the inner workings of cloud infrastructure. For all the interest in Kubernetes, there's not actually many apps running on it right now. Gartner's Wataru Katsurashima estimates that "by 2027, 25 percent of all enterprise applications will run in containers, an increase from fewer than 10 percent in 2021." When I look at that, it makes me think that, I don't know, there's at best 15% of apps running in kubernetes this year.