Category: newsletter
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Running your AI in your own private cloud
Tips on running AI on your private cloud Some brief comments on using Tanzu Platform to run your private GenAI stuff. If you’re interested in more than that short clip, check out my co-worker Nick’s talk on this topic. You can check out the Tanzu Platform more at TryTanzu.ai. Relative to your interests Two strategies…
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Everybody talks about digital transformation, but nobody does anything about it.
Recording of my AI platform engineering talk This is a new talk of mine going over how platform engineers can support AI. Well, it’s more about how we don’t exactly know, but we can speculate based on a handful of early use cases. Here’s the slides if you’re into that kind of thing. Here’s the…
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Workers controlling the means of ROI
The Golden Era of PaaS is Still Here I’m playing around with trying to, I don’t know, re-introduce the notion of PaaS to the platform discussion. I don’t think what’s going on now is as good as it could be. I mean, yeah, I’m biased. But, you know, also biased to awesome. As you may…
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AI Center of Excellence Gatekeepers Guild
Getting over the AI policy board bottleneck Also, people have suggested that have just two roles on the AI Center of Excellence Gatekeepers Guild is a good idea. Those two roles being security and legal. The theory is that the security people are used to this kind of thing and have processes in place. Also,…
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So many links, so many finds
PaaS Talk We’re trying to amp up more technical explanations and demos of why Tanzu Platform/Cloud Foundry are great. Here is a little front-runner for a demo I’m going to extract from this same talk. Relative to your interests I didn’t take the time to organize these by topic. Apologies and kisses. UK government productivity…
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Getting a slice of the Kubernete$ management pie
How big the Kubernetes market? TAM-time for managing Kubernetes: The container management market has grown more than 20% over the past year, with a market value of over $2.5 billion in 2024. The market is forecast to exceed $4.5 billion in constant currency by 2028, with a 17.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Gartner, August,…
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Why you should buy your internal developer platform
Building your own internal developer platform is a lot of work, buy it instead Here’s a transcript: One of the reasons internal developer platforms are so valuable is because they do so much, and that’s something that you run into if you’re trying to build your own platform instead of buy it. The goal of…
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Highlights from VMware Explore
Summer. For most of my life I lived in Texas, where the heat of summer melts your face off. Summer was fun because I wasn’t in school, not because it was sunny. Now that I live in a part of the world where summer is mild, I really like summer. I see what all the…
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The airwaves are always there
You should check this out: You can try out our AI platform with a 90 day trial. It’ll host models in private cloud, act as a proxy to public models (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, whatever), and has tight integration with Java apps. Python works fine too, of course: you can host LangChain in it to get…
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“Let’s face it, everything runs on computers now.”
Original content Here’s two of my podcasts to share with you: Capitalism is working, Software Defined Talk #534: “This week, we discuss the US backing Intel, SaaS staying power, and AI’s impact on deep work. Plus, Matt Ray’s moving tips and more kolache talk in the after show.” Also available, unedited, in video form. The…
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Don’t kill your darlings, put them in the dead pool
Here is some (book) writing pedantry for business book writing. Of course, the way to write anything is to “just start writing.” For some people, this works. For most, the question is, “yes, but how ‘just start writing’?” That is, how do you start with a blank screen/blank sheet of paper? For me, I start…
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The long slog to enterprise AI ROI. Or, digital transformation is back, baby!
Lots of AI slowdown and skepticism in the past week. Likely due to the letdown of the GPT-5 release, I guess? First, though from last month, The Economist asks “Why is AI so slow to spread?” GPT5 says it says: Integration Costs and Technical Frictions Many businesses haven’t integrated their datasets effectively into the cloud,…
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Practical platform engineering, the industry analyst business dies again, personal utopia – three good videos
Three good videos Platform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now. Most platform engineering talks are very frustrating for me. The same stuff over and over since about 2015. The platform engineering space is rife with people who’ve made the monumental mistake of thinking Kubernetes is a platform and then finding out they have so…
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AI Reviews Aren’t Very Good
Making AI Reviews More Useful From Robert Brook, posted July, 2025. Reading all the ChatGPT 5 coverage confirms my feeling that no one knows how to review these models yet. It’s either those incomprehensible charts (and also, who cares how good they are at math? More: who understand what those tests even mean?) or people…
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Luck, belly fat, & a typical existentialist
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, July, 2025. Relative to your interests How to Secure MCP Servers Modern Applications on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 – When you want to build your own platform with Kubernetes. Moral Deskilling: why you spend more time on admin than your actual job – I think what this is saying is: when…
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“It will probably be bad. But in the end, it doesn’t matter.”
Original Content Internal developer platform marketing series – just as a round-up, here’s my series on internal developer platform marketing: part one, part two, and part three. // I talk with people setting up and running platforms in large organization frequently, and this topic is the number one thing they respond to with “oh, we…
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Platform engineering for private cloud
Here’s a recording of my latest “how to do platform engineering in large organizations” talk. In this version of it, I go over what matters most for private cloud platforms. Here’s the slides for the talk if you’re into that kind of thing. This talk is based on many years of observing people run platforms,…
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Internal Developer Platform marketing: the people, the community management
Driving Platform Adoption: Community Is Your Value If you want developers to actually use your platform, you’ve got to give them more than APIs and automation. You need a community. In the third piece in our platform marketing series, Rita and I look at how the most successful platform teams invest in support forums, internal…
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Using t-shirts to drive internal developer platform use
Is Swag the Secret to Platform Adoption? Turns out, T-shirts might matter more than YAML. In this post, I dig into how internal platforms benefit from strong branding – not just logos and names, but a clear identity and ethos that developers can rally behind. When your platform has a name people actually want to…
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Internal Developer Platform Marketing, part 01
Driving Platform Adoption: Community Is Your Value If you want developers to actually use your platform, you’ve got to give them more than APIs and automation. You need a community. In the third piece in our platform marketing series, Rita and I look at how the most successful platform teams invest in support forums, internal…
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