New at the Rijksmuseum room at Schipol AirportBoomgaard te Eemnes, by Richard Roland Holst, c. 1888-1895One of the delights in the international part of the Amsterdam airport, Schipol, is a large room that the Rijksmuseum fills with paintings and other art works. There’s usually, say, six or eight paintings in there. There's a new exhibit, landscapes. Here’s the newest one they have. The description on the card next to it is as magical as the painting itself:

Confusion Over PicklesBurger King in Antwerp, Nov 14th, 2018.In Ghent, for a quick dinner, I went to Burger King. I ordered a burger - the “steakhouse” or something, which was a mistake because as Texan, I can’t stand sweet BBQ sauce, but it was fine. When I went to the counter to pick it up, I asked for extra pickles. This is something Taco Bob taught me to do one year at Devoxx in Antwerp and it was magic.

The more kubernetes you use, the more frequently you release softwareFrom the CNCF 2022 survey.The CNCF has a new kubernetes survey out. We discussed it in more length in today’s Tanzu Talk News (it’s not published yet, but subscribe to it and you’ll get it tomorrow). Here’s some notes of mine: I did not make the time to read the raw data. When I have in the past, it’s always been a treat.

Generic Plan for a Starting a Platform Team in a Large EnterpriseOn Friday, I had a discussion with someone just starting to think about how they’d put a platform in place at their very large organization. I have my ever evolving prattle about that, of course. But rather than talk about (only) that, I wanted to give a very concise, prescriptive, “never mind theory and decks with one big word or pictures on each slide, here’s what you can do right now,” sort of list.

Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distractionOpening questionOr, here if that’s your thing. Shaking the snow globeWhen you watch the making of kubernetes documentary, you’ll notice a strange character. Time and time again Amazon is referred to directly or indirectly. But, Amazon’s spokesperson in the documentary is a silent, cinematic drone shot of an Amazon building. (This is my memory, at least. I apologize if I am dead wrong.

Sadly, I don’t really have any original content for you today. VMware’s app dev stack for kubernetesHere’s an overview of how one organization uses our platform to get development teams working together better, API sharing and use, setup up project templates, automate deployments, and run on multiple clouds: WastebookMy Internet is down so I can get very little work done. However, once I started playing these choice tracks, I felt like my labor contribution alone were going to increase GDP by two basis points.

👔 How AI could help and harm management consultant firmsFrom Midjourney.Here is a question from Andrew Citera in the Software Defined Talk slack: Do you think this tech will eventually replace consultants or do you think it just adjusts the human capital leverage factor? E.g. an industry company hires an “AI-driven consultancy” and that consultancy has an onboarding process to train / tune its models and then can deliver a project with XYZ less # of consultants in a shorter time period vs.

In Enterprise Software, the Synergy is SalesIn my experience, when a tech larger company acquires a smaller one, the most important synergy is sales. “Synergy” in my use just means “the things that make the two companies more money because they are now one.” In enterprise software (or cloud, or whatever), this means changing the sales people’s compensation plans so that they make more money selling the acquired stuff. So:

A reminder that having fun is possible It’s hard finding fun - and especially joy - in life. Family is frequently just about getting through the every day grind and fighting to have some time to “hear myself thinking.” Even getting together with friends can seem like planning an all hands meeting. Beware of Luxury, Jan Steen. I have this picture on my desk to remind me that fun is possible, with family and friends.

Pretty long one below, but fun if you’re into exploring the potential for AI stuff to make work-life less tedious. In case you just wanted something fun, scroll to the bottom to see me become the victim of my daughter’s favorite joke. Coming up with a digital transformation for a pharmacy company Midjourney prompt: a relaxed and happy female CIO talking with a six armed robot that is gesturing with its arms in the same room to discuss software strategy in a corporate conference room, the room has whiteboards full of diagrams and writing, the conference room table has Chinese food take-out boxes, photorealistic black and white photograph in the style of Wes Anderson, super wide angle.