Category: newsletter
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Kubernetes getting better at speeding up development – State of Kubernetes survey, 2024
Survey says… Kubernetes getting out of appdev improvement slump This is the chart I look forward to in our annual State of Kubernetes report1: It’s been a rocky few years as Kubernetes has gone mainstream. I pay attention to the “shortened software development cycles,” which you can see started going down. It’s been going up…
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There’s a lot of private cloud out there
…right? I’ve been looking around for estimates on how many custom written apps run on private vs. public cloud. There’s a lot of coverage and estimates of people using multiple clouds, but finding breakouts is tough. IT IS VERY HARD TO FIND! Here’s what I’ve found recently: “According to Forrester’s Infrastructure Cloud Survey in 2023,…
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Platform Engineering is just adding Product Management to Ops
I don’t know. I’ve been trying to sort out what platform engineering is for awhile.1 It matters a lot for my job! While I haven’t verified it, it seems like it started as a marketing campaign from Humanitec and then took on a life of its own. Now the likes of Gartner have practice areas…
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How to blackmail your boss into adopting platform engineering, DevOps, agile, etc.
This is a good talk listing some tactics for changing how organizations work. It’s targeted at executives. What’s bonkers is that, as the screenshot below, it has just 27 views. In the talk, we have a former group CIO at American Airlines. She’s telling you her tips for how to introduce change in a large…
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Publishing an annual survey is a great marketing tool, even better for thought-leadership
Using Surveys for Marketing Wastebook They dress like they’re Chaotic Good, but they’re totally Lawful Good under all that sloppy couture. This is some buck-wild ABM: a direct appeal to Delta to buy their AI stuff. “I wrote this one when my family was in Hawaii, too. I kind of had a meltdown there, to…
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What I do with AI, what I’ve given up on
Consumer-grade Chat Gen-AI Churn Update Overall, the generative AI things have been a disappointment for me. For writing, they seem helpful for generating and starting content, but it ends up being more work to fix and, then, rewrite what they do. Over the years, people have ghostwritten things for me. Like, humans! I’d too often…
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Tactics for having a good executive dinner
I’ve hosted a lot of executive dinners for work – maybe 50 or 60 over the past several years…? These are commercial oriented. At my work, we’re trying to meet new people to sell our software to, or people who know people, etc. Getting to know “executives” is directly related to the sales process. The…
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“Consistency” – the less platforms, the better
Have you tried having less? Standardized. Centralized. Consistent. Those words I use over and over when talking about platforms. In large organizations, you’ve got hundreds, even thousands, of applications. There are likely tens of “platforms”: the stacks of runtime and middleware goo that all those apps run on. Maybe even hundreds if the company is…
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Developer productivity metrics, 1970s sausage fonts, only the “grown and sexy” are welcome
Once again, I am bringing you only links and funny pieces of text. Relative to your interests Measuring Engineering Productivity, at Google, circa 2020 – “If the decider doesn’t believe the form of the result in principle, there is again no point in measuring the process.” // Some great advice in here about improvement programs.…
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Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web
Hello there! Wastebook “I spent my early childhood in a 15-minute city. It was called the 1950s.” Here. “a cybercriminal selling data from these breaches told its researchers that they had been able to compromise a Snowflake employee’s ServiceNow account using credentials stolen via infostealer malware, bypassing SSO provider OKTA.” // Security in 2024. What…
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65% of developers learning to live with Kubernetes
State of Spring Survey 2024 The State of Spring Survey 2024 is out, you can get it for free, of course. Spring is widely used by Java developers, and Java is widely used for enterprise app development. Thus, what Spring people are doing is relevant to what large organizations are doing in software development. Let’s…
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“Right Now, It’s Like This”
Enterprise AI in Healthcare Here’s my interview with my co-worker, JT Perry, on actual uses (current and possible) for AI in healthcare. It’s good! Watch it all: There’s a podcast version if you prefer audio only. Wastebook “a PR-driven concept exploring how Sony will ‘seamlessly connect multi-layered worlds where physical and virtual realities overlap to…
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The Tanzu Platform – platform engineering in a box
The Tanzu Platform – platform engineering in a box for private cloud This week, at my work, we launched the Tanzu Platform. This is both actual, new things and strategic tuning of many of our existing products. In brief, we’re focusing a lot more on private cloud PaaS now, and private cloud data services. (Sure,…
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“Be an active bystander.”
Just wastebook and links this episode. Wastebook If you’re a writing type suffering from imposter’s syndrome, spend some time as an editor. You’ll soon discover that writing is incredibly hard, so if you can pull it off, you’re the real deal. “Preview The Magnitude Of Our 2024 Agenda” – subject line of a Forrester email.…
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Microwaving Fish & Rice Cookers
Just links and waste book today. Wastebook “If it ain’t broke, don’t cloud it,” me, 2011. Follow and mute. “Dell’s employees, whom I believe are mostly adults and not small children, will be given colour-coded ratings to shame those who don’t come into the office enough.” Justin Warren’s newsletter, “The Crux #93.” “Largest companies most…
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Not one of my most famous newsletters
Today it’s just a links and wastebook clean out. Two Recent Garbage Chairs on Amsterdam I’ve found a few Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam recently. Truth be told, I stopped looking. When I moved here, the locals were bemused about all my photos “I never really thought about that,” they’d say, “but; yeah, there are a…
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Buy your platform, don’t build it
When it comes to cloud native application platforms, we’re at an important evolutionary point: will the best practice for platform strategies be to build or to buy? Should you choose the components you need for a platform and integrate them together, or should you buy a pre-integrated platform? Unless you’re a handful of organizations, the…
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60 to 100 days to onboard a developer – Highlights from the Harness State of Developer Experience survey
Today’s survey: “State of the Developer Experience 2024,” Harness/Wakefield Research. Most enterprises need to automate their build and deployment pipelines. This is more than just building code and automating tests (which 71% of people are not doing), but also automating governance and security checks (which 41% of developers are not doing). In my mind, this…
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Commoditize your condiments, or, open source business models considered
Business models are fascinating. Most business models come down to a type of arbitrage, at least as I understand it. You find something you have that you can sell to someone else, crucially, at a price above what it cost you to make that thing.1 In, let’s call it, The Capatalist Upbrining, there is a…
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6 views on open source business models
On that random person in Nebraska Open source is important for the entire industry, sell side (especially in the cloud era) and buy side. Things would go very bad if it did not exist as method of software production and innovation. (Source: see the QED from that one xkcd.) Open source is a bad business…
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