This is an excerpt from my upcoming blog series analyzing our 2023 State of Kubernetes survey. Multi-cloud for flexibility, sovereign cloud, and because it’s just thereThis year, our survey found several motivators for doing multi-cloud. Let's look at some of them plus some that I hear about a lot that aren't in the chart. Flexibility"Lock-in" is always a touchy subject. You've got two camps. On the one hand, why not go with just one cloud to get both the best of breed and also the benefits of a single-source, integrated stack.

This is from our recent survey. There were 752 respondents, all working at companies of over 1,000 employees, with “about a third (34%) have between 100 and 1,000 developers, 8% have 1,000 to 2,500 developers, and 20% have more than 2,500 developers.” I’ve been writing up a series of blog posts and accompanying videos looking at the survey. Here’s the first video, going over the developer and overall benefits. I think they’ll come out over the next three or four weeks.

The FFS Social Media ReboundTwitter Sinks.I got an invite to Blue Sky (thanks Ashley!). Now I have Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, some Slack channels, a newsletter, and a mostly dead blog - other stuff probably (what even is a “Facebook Page”?). I haven’t bothered with those other ones that popped up after The Sink Incident. I checked out Artifact for awhile, but without ad blockers it was just all Internet trash.

Developers using kubernetes are seeing a steady growth in benefits as represented by shortening release cycles. 60% of respondents say that their developers are more productive with kubernetes. That's according to the VMware State of Kubernetes 2023 survey. Check out the full survey for the full findings, including more on the operational benefits and challenges, security needs and considerations, and multi-cloud usage and motivation. You can watch the video in YouTube as well, for whatever reason.

Kubernetes Security and Governance Tools on the RiseThis is an excerpt from a series analyzing the VMware State of Kubernetes 2023 survey. It’s a three part blog series that’ll be published over the next three weeks or so. I hope! Anyhow, in the meantime: From the VMware State of Kubernetes Survey 2023.People are always interested in ("concerned with," if you prefer) security for kubernetes, as the above chart from our survey shows.

Just links this episode. DevOpsDays Austin is back for the 11th year! You should go for two days of DevOps, cloud computing, DevSecOps, and more on May 4th to 5th, 2023, in Austin, Texas. Learn more at https://devopsdays.org/austin, the schedule is live! You can get 15% off the registration price when you use the code FRIENDLY_NEIGHBORHOOD_SDT_23. Relevant to your interests On the shift to oat and the milk hysteresis curve - Coffee problems.

If you work at a company, or in an open source projects, you’ll have a lot of chances at a tech conference to sell your organization’s stuff: products, cloud services, consulting, promoting your project, or just yourself. You’ll get a lot of opportunities to do this, especially if you’re a sponsor of the event and have a booth, or are giving a talk. I’ve been in this situation many times over the pat 18 years, and here’s what I try to do.

That’s from a 15 minute version of my platform talk. I focused just on the seven tips to get your platform group started and scale it. I’m recording this for a conference, but I think I’ll need to record it again - which means this version is a bonus video! 🤖 Fully dedicated to “juggling everything developers need”ChatGPT4 did a pretty good job converting the transcript for that little video into a “blog article.

Now that you know how Amsterdam works, here’s some sites and fun things to do. You know, straight up tourist shit! I’ll throw in a few things I left out from yesterday’s Amsterdam advice too. My wife, Kim, helped out with a lot of these. Also, apologies for typos and stuff. I have some other work I need to get to. Oh, and also, I’ll be speaking five times at our KubeCon booth (see below for a listing) on platform engineering, whatever “shift left” means, and some other topics that I should really go remember before I give the talks.

How Amsterdam WorksComing to KubeCon EU? Here's tips on Amsterdam from an American expat - me! I moved from Austin to Amsterdam almost five years ago. For those of you coming here for KubeCon, here’s some tips, things to do, and other advice on having an enjoyable time. This first part is, like, how everything works, a manual for getting comfortable with the city, sort of API and docs. I’ll follow-up tomorrow with the “fun” stuff.