Despite its status as a critical tool for cloud-native applications, Kubernetes remains complex and challenging to manage, with experts advising caution before adoption.
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“If you already have zero enterprise apps in Python, that remains the right number and Gen AI should not change that at all.” Rod Johnson, October, 2025.
Reducing the 7 R's of modernization down to 3 - new take on tech debt, from Charles Betz
Where once there were 7, now there are three:
Forrester data provides clear guidance on where organizations should focus. Knowledge and process debt, selected by 37% of respondents, demands immediate attention through process improvement, reengineering, and organizational change management. Unsupported vendor software and redundant IT systems, each selected by 30–32% of respondents, require proactive migration planning before crisis points emerge. System inflexibility, identified by 35%, calls for architectural investments that preserve future options.
Only three kinds of AI products actually work - “For my money, the current multi-billion-dollar question is can AI agents be useful for tasks other than coding?” // Good thinking about productizing AI: what seems to work and not work.
AI, banks, mainframes, and on-premises
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.
The ultimate bike-shedding story, and, always make your own slides
The iterative design process for the Mac calculator app highlights the challenges of executive feedback and suggests that executives should use AI to better articulate their visions.
We should be calling it all “AIaaS,” but I don’t think anyone could pronounce that without going PG-13 in every EBC and MQ.
Stop Building Frameworks, Go With Good Enough. And, check out the full discussion I had with Brian.
Some of the risks of having AIs write codes and AIso check code, “recursive AI security loops.” There’s also some advice about what to do, a post from Camille Crowell-Lee.
3 factors is all you need - Notes on Modernizing Enterprise Apps
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.