Norway, leaving OSL.My recap of Cloud Foundry Day is up on the Tanzu blog: check it out! I gave an opening talk at Cloud Foundry Day last week. I ended up shortening it a lot and, of course, I didn’t exactly give the talk I’d written down. Here’s the script I wrote for myself. It goes over the opportunity the Cloud Foundry community has right now. I gave a talk later in the day that more systematically made the case below.

Max Ernst, 1934.Relative to your interestsMCP Authorization in practice with Spring AI and OAuth2 - Filling in the missing piece of MCP: security. The Battle For Grounding Your AI Agents Has Begun - Data gravity considerations for AI. We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. - It’s still hard to know how much energy AI uses…until the big AI companies start telling us.

Relative to your interestsWhen was peak message in a bottle? - Only 80s kids will get this: “grandfather clocks; suits of armour; quicksand; spontaneous human combustion.” Also: big foot and UFOs. Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor? - Checks out on both sides. Pricing: A List of Tactics - Some mind-tricks to play with pricing. The coyote trap. - “Call it whatever you will, I don’t care, but we’re on a new path and companies are doing more than ever to extract every ounce of value out of everyone in the payroll system.

My ContentTwo Software Defined episodes this week: "I used to eat 7-Eleven pizza," startups, open source, and more, with Sarah Christoff - After an extensive discussion of 7-Eleven pizza cuisine, in this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Sarah Christoff. They discuss working at startups, the point of startups, working in open source and balancing commercial and community interests, moving to Europe, and more! This is a “hit by pitch” - This week, we discuss Zenoss finally getting acquired, Databricks buying Neon, and the debut of WizOS.

More on the Tanzu AI StackAs you may recall, along with several colleagues, I worked on the Tanzu annual update which came out last month. I’m sure you’ve watched the entire video, right? How else would you get to see my AAA skills at talking with my hands at the end? I mean, I even cut my hair for the thing, so you know I put some effort into it.

Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. This is more of a “smoke break chair,” but I’ll allow it.Relative to your interests28 slightly rude notes on writing - “All emotions are useful for writing except for bitterness.” // “Somehow, whenever I finish a draft, my first few paragraphs almost always contain ideas that were necessary for writing the rest of the piece, but that aren’t necessary for understanding it.” // Lower down, that first part to delete is called "

I was on Cloud Foundry Weekly yesterday. We discussed “vibe coding.” More precisely, what I think of as “half ass vibe coding.” I get the AIs to write code for me, but then ask it questions, maybe even mess around with it myself. I think that might just be “coding with an AI assistant,” but as Nicky put it, it’s also pretty close to pair programming. I know that ChatGPT sure has a lot more personality than a lot of people I’ve programmed with - know what I mean?

This was a fun discussion: Also, subscribe to the podcast! During the interview I realized that there’s a lot of my professional-life friends that I’ve know for 20+ years across all sorts of companies, wave after of wave of tech trends, etc., including Melissa. I’m lucky to be in that situation. Relative to your interestsDid we just make platform engineering much easier by shipping a cloud IDP? - Google Cloud’s take on a platform (IDP).

One quick things up-top: this week (tomorrow!), get an overview and demos of the private AI stack and development frameworks we’ve been working on at Tanzu. Register to check it out online, either live or the recording after the event. Spy on the DM with Model Context Protocol Servers in JavaHere’s my latest walk-through is writing Model Context Protocol Server tools…to play D&D. Here, I build some slightly more complicated Oracles and show how to do logging.

Two quick things up top: in a little over a week we’re going to talk about what what us Tanzu folks been doing with enterprise AI, register to check it out online. Next month, at Cloud Foundry Day you can come to an in-person workshop for even more. I’ll be there, hopefully talking about the goblins and AI, as well as MC’ing. Mole enchiladas at El Cerrito, Menlo Park, California.Wastebook“They’re not chasing perfection–they’re chasing momentum.