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Kubernetes use rising, large organizations slowest to adapt, not many people train their own AI model or deploy new AI models frequently
The CNCF cloud native report indicates a growing adoption of Kubernetes and container usage in production, with larger organizations facing cultural resistance as a primary barrier to implementation.
This week’s Software Defined Talk: This week, we discuss the end of Cloud 1.0, AI agents fixing old apps, and Chainguard vs. Docker images. Plus, the mystery of Dutch broth is finally solved.
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This week’s Software Defined Interviews: we talk with Nathen Harvey, who leads the DORA research program at Google Cloud. They talk about what 15 years of DevOps and delivery data actually says about AI. The answer feels something like “it makes you even better at what you’re already good at.” High-performing teams get better, while struggling teams just move faster into bottlenecks. The talk about AI-assisted software development, why throughput is rising while stability drops, how culture still beats tools, and why “user-centric” work remains stubbornly hard despite being obvious.
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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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Enterprise AI ROI is still elusive. What IT can do to fix it. It's not "culture."
Despite high expectations for AI’s impact on business productivity, over half of CEOs report no benefits from its implementation, highlighting a significant disconnect between technology investment and cultural readiness.
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.
How to use AI for solo roleplaying with Dungeons & Dragons
Here’s my talk from AI for the Rest of Us:
What the goblins can teach us about enterprise AI. // I’ve learned what agentic AI is by fighting goblins, talking with trolls, and buy custom made boots from gnomes. After a few years of playing solo D&D with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc., playing the role of a DM, I started writing little plugins (Model Context Protocol servers) to give the ChatDM.
After the Dream - Software Defined Talk #555
This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast: This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start?
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