Check this out from my pal DaShaun: in May of 2025, 60% of Spring Boot downloads were for versions no longer supported by the open-source project. That’s a lot. Too much, really. I can see how it happens. You get an app into production, it runs fine, and then you moveon to the next thing. Meanwhile, the version drifts into “End of Life” territory. OSS support ends (like way back in mid-2023 for the Spring version DaShaun mentioned).

Tony was on the the team that lead platform engineering at Home Depot for many years. Here’s what he thinks platform engineering: This is a livestream Tony and I have started. Tuesdays at 10am US eastern time/4pm Amsterdam time.

Above related to spending on EU sovereign cloud for AI, the lack of AI app explosion in the enterprise (see the product management/design take), and pondering why banks don’t run 100% of their IT in the public cloud.

In this Tanzu Talk interview, Coté talks Brian Friedman about his extensive experience working with Pivotal, Tanzu, and Broadcom. They discuss the intricacies of modernizing enterprise applications, the relevance of .NET in the current tech landscape, and the role of platforms like Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. They also explore using AI, the challenges of application transformation, and the importance of leveraging the right tools and methodologies to drive successful tech modernization initiatives.

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We don’t tell Cloud Foundry stories enough. Here are four: This talk was also a request to make more “case studies” and “customer references,” that is stories. So, I try to go over how to do that as well. At the last Cloud Foundry Day, I spoke more generally about the need for more Cloud Foundry marketing. Maybe I’ll become “that one guy who talks about Cloud Foundry marketing at CF Day”…if they let me.