This is a talk I give at the start of Spring workshops we do. Here is the recording. The point is to show people that being a Java and Spring developers is fantastic right now. Here’s the description:
Spring developers are in a strange position in 2026: everything is changing: AI, platform engineering, enterprise architecture. And yet Spring keeps getting stronger.
In this talk, Coté walks through why this is actually a great moment to be a Spring developer, especially in large organizations.
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Your Boss Doesn’t Know What to Do With AI
Enterprise AI Has a Product-Market Fit Problem. Enterprise AI isn’t stalled because the models are weak. It’s stalled because we haven’t discovered product-market fit inside the enterprise yet.
You don’t find real AI value by theorizing in workshops. You find it by running experiments for months inside your actual systems - against real data - in a governed environment.
That requires a platform.
Without one, AI pilots turn into disconnected experiments, shadow infrastructure, and compliance risk. With one, experimentation compounds into institutional learning.
In this video, I break down:
- Why enterprise AI is still in discovery mode
- Why experimentation must be long-running, not one-off
- How governance enables innovation instead of blocking it
- Why a secure platform foundation is the baseline for AI ROI
If you’re thinking about AI strategy, platform engineering, or how to make AI experimentation safe and scalable, this is where to start.
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Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn't need new platforms
Enterprises should focus on resilience and learning in AI projects by experimenting with applications rather than building new infrastructure.
The weird bastion stuff in D&D 5e 2024 makes a lot more sense after reading Dungeon Crawler Carl.
How much does it cost to build an internal developer platform? - Tanzu Catsup
This week’s Tanzu Catsup is about how much you need to pay people to build your own internal developer platform:
I think building your own platform is a terrible idea, especially for larger organizations. My co-host Tony ran the platform for Home Depot and now talks with other platform teams a lot, so I wanted to get his take.
Here’s an excerpt if you prefer something shorter.
This is our seventh episode, and they’re getting better and better.
This week’s Tanzu Catsup: AI tools have solved code generation, probably. But they’ve created a new constraint: Day 2 operations. When the volume of applications jumps 10x driven by a flood of “small” line-of-business apps manual “run teams” and traditional onboarding processes break down.
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What do platform engineers need to do to prepare for a flood of AI-generated apps? If enterprises let loose “knowledge workers” with code generation, I think we’ll see 10x the amount of little applications out there. This is going to be a flood of Day Two problems for platform engineers, security, people, etc. So, on this week’s Tanzu Catsup, I asked Tony how he’d recommend handling that flood.
60% of you Java people are living dangerously
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).
I wasn’t really sure what hardned images were, let alone “distroless,” so Tony and I were lucky to get William on this week’s Tanzu Catsup to sort it out. We also discuss how it fits into platform engineering.
What is a platform and how do you do platform engineering at scale? Find out in this interview on tales from Home Depot and beyond.