Category: newsletter
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possibly, love birds
Recommended theme song: Dog walk through the park Out on a dog walk on a recent evening, there were several things to see. The homeless guy who lives in the parkwas sitting in his little area and there was a young guy sitting there with him. They were talking about something, smiling and laughing a…
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Catching up on the HOT links
Do you like words like: security – governance – PCI – regulation – SBOMs?! Then you should attend our talk series on cloud native app development in banks, insurance companies, and financial services. It’s online and, of course, free. Relevant to your interests The Quest for Better, Faster Deals – The highest quality deals are…
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Platform Engineering is just CI/CD infused with enterprise goop (jk…I think?)
Midjourney: a datacenter filled with clouds in the style of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Just when you thought (perhaps, hoped) we finally had an understanding of what “platform engineering” is, Gartner and Forrester came out with a Magic Quadrant and a Wave that re-confuses the category. Or, if you like, helps bring more clarity to…
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DevOps vs. Platform Engineering
Midjourney: a Soviet style poster with a software developer standing triumpantly on-top of a pile of software developers robots. Names are magic I don’t really know what I think about the idea and movement of “platform engineering.” It definitely has the feel of a market and category now. I reference it all the time, as…
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Are you a backpack only, or a carry on bag with wheels traveler?
Mostly links today. I’ve been traveling this week and preparing and bunch of stuff to publish in the future. Tragic for the desire to publish now, now, now… How I Travel Relative to your interests Maximizing value, controlling cost with cloud FinOps – “Among current users, 56% report that spending on public cloud was significantly…
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Some UK digital transformation retros
Just links this episode. Some fantastic #gartnercore From “Technical Insights: Battle of the APIs — Will REST be Toppled by GraphQL, gRPC or AsyncAPI?,” Gary Olliffe, Gartner Relative to your interests Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) – As with most things, the whole SBOM push is probably a lot simpler to solve…
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Don’t wait until 2025, you should be using generative AI stuff for most all of your marketing work today
Suggested theme song for this episode: 30% in 2025 implies low use in 2023 From the recent Gartner Marketing Symposium highlights: 64% of marketers have deployed, or are piloting, AI/ML to support autonomous campaign creation, execution, and optimization capabilities. [But:] Gartner predicts that by 2025, 30% of outbound marketing messages from large organizations will be…
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Kubernetesless is just someone else’s Kubernetes
Read to the end to see an illustration of the inner workings of cloud infrastructure. For all the interest in Kubernetes, there’s not actually many apps running on it right now. Gartner’s Wataru Katsurashima estimates that “by 2027, 25 percent of all enterprise applications will run in containers, an increase from fewer than 10 percent…
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“the unsalvageable West”
Just links today, but first! I’m giving the opening talk at the VMUG Belgium, on June 1st. It’s in Brussels, which is always a nice place to be. It seems like it’s free, so of course you should come in you’re in the neighborhood. There’ll be a wide range of talk from traditional VMware topics…
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“cut off like sausages”: “the wasteland of images that surround us”
App Stories I’m working on a new idea for a project – a series of interview and case studies about applications inside, you know, large organizations – my ongoing interest. These are my favorite types of stories: why an application was needed, how people came up with what to do, how they wrote the app,…
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from tasty broth to jiggly chicken slime in the fridge
That’s a chart from our recent State of Kubernetes survey that I’ll probably use a lot this year. Here’s my commentary on it from a blog post this week: In our surveys, I’ve been using the software release cycle question to represent developer benefits. For the most part, the faster developers can release software, the…
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What Computers Do At Banks, deployment frequencies, some platform engineering, microservices nothing burger(?)
What Computers Do At Banks Here’s two diagrams from a 2021 BCG report on banking that show, basically, everything that IT does for the business part of retail banking. First, the “value streams,” or lines of business and products: Second, what the typical IT stacks look like to support these value streams: Pretty good stuff!…
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“Multi-cloud” should just mean “all the computers”
Source: IDC, The Evolution of Cloud Infrastructure: Multicloud to Hybrid; Shared to Dedicated, doc #DR2023_T1_DM, March 2023 Each year when we do the State of Kubernetes survey, we’re of course interested in “multi-cloud.” That’s one of the reasons to use a Kubernetes management suite stack, like VMware Tanzu. The term can mean many things. The…
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Avoid leading with the sharp bag of knives marketing story 🔪
This tech is so complex that you really should be using it Here is a tech marketing anti-pattern that I agree with. It makes me think of another one. Let’s call it “you don’t realize this yet, but what you want is very complex!” All of us in the tech world have done, and will…
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From software to meatware
Last week I talked with my co-worker Fouad Hamdi about a mainframe modernization project he worked on last year. I mean, the team he was on of course, not him single handedly. He wrote a great over of the process and I was eager to ask him a few questions. The video included in this…
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3 Multi-cloud Motivations
This is an excerpt from my upcoming blog series analyzing our 2023 State of Kubernetes survey. Multi-cloud for flexibility, sovereign cloud, and because it’s just there This year, our survey found several motivators for doing multi-cloud. Let’s look at some of them plus some that I hear about a lot that aren’t in the chart.…
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Kubernetes marketshare across cloud and on-premises, from the State of Kubernetes 2023 survey
This is from our recent survey. There were 752 respondents, all working at companies of over 1,000 employees, with “about a third (34%) have between 100 and 1,000 developers, 8% have 1,000 to 2,500 developers, and 20% have more than 2,500 developers.” I’ve been writing up a series of blog posts and accompanying videos looking…
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Surviving the New Social Media Startup Boom
The FFS Social Media Rebound Twitter Sinks. I got an invite to Blue Sky (thanks Ashley!). Now I have Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, some Slack channels, a newsletter, and a mostly dead blog – other stuff probably (what even is a “Facebook Page”?). I haven’t bothered with those other ones that popped…
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