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.

Grok’s AI video generation is like lazy Sora. All you have to do is upload a picture and it does the rest. You can then refine it through chat. Some of these are the first versions, no input from me. They are mostly pictures from the internet. There are some ones that were still images made in ChatGPT. I think Grok is pretty good at this kind of thing.

This week on Software Defined Interviews, talk with Russell Davies about…all sorts of things, very content-y, advertising, being interesting. Just, you know, lots of delightful “and stuff” that results from someone who “mucks about on the internet.” (I need to get better at writing podcast descriptions.) It was fun! Here is the traditional podcast version which you can listen to. below: You should subscribe to the podcast, you know.

Plus, a lot of talk about Java and Spring in large organizations.

The talk discusses how platform engineers can navigate AI support, emphasizing the need for middleware, customer engagement, and rapid experimentation.

From a longer video on avoiding resume driven development when building your own internal developer portal.

Somewhere between 40% and 60% of apps run on private cloud, you just never hear about it.

Let’s get the AI to build D&D adventures for us with a Model Context Protocol Prompt. I haven’t found much value in MCP Prompts until now. What makes them excited is when you use them a “recipe” to chain together other tool calls. In this episode of my MCP programming series, I show you how to make two MCP Prompts. First, a simple one that boot-straps playing D&D. Second, a more complex one that pulls together an adventure overview using multiple tools and “reasoning.

The AIs are good at being a Dungeon Master for Dungeons & Dragons, but their memory is limited. How can you make sure they don’t forget all that loot you just got, or ensure that cobbler back in the village remembers the type of boots you orders and paid for up front? I’ll show you how to use Model Context Protocol (MCP) to create a DM Journal. This is done by writing an MCP Server tool that write journal entries and then an MCP Server Resource that allows you to read them.