Category: newsletter
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Still a lot – private cloud check-in, Spring 2025
Where are the workloads? Let’s check in on how much private there is nowadays. I think it’s somewhere in the range of 40% to 60% of workloads1 globally. If you narrow down to “enterprises” (let’s say organization that have 5,000, even 10,000 employees), my sense is that the number goes way up, maybe 70%. The…
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Dark leisure, eating sausage and vodka before a morning run
Relative to your interests Looks like it’s all AI except one link. Can you find it? Your First Spring AI 1.0 Application – Making a full AI-driven app with Spring. Production-Worthy AI With Spring AI 1.0 SEO for AI: A look at Generative Engine Optimization How does ChatGPT work? What is AI, really? – Good…
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Now’s a great time to rediscover PaaS
Norway, leaving OSL. My recap of Cloud Foundry Day is up on the Tanzu blog: check it out! I gave an opening talk at Cloud Foundry Day last week. I ended up shortening it a lot and, of course, I didn’t exactly give the talk I’d written down. Here’s the script I wrote for myself.…
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Minimum Viable All the Things
Max Ernst, 1934. Relative to your interests MCP Authorization in practice with Spring AI and OAuth2 – Filling in the missing piece of MCP: security. The Battle For Grounding Your AI Agents Has Begun – Data gravity considerations for AI. We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. –…
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Patience, plumbing, and the pricing of everything
Relative to your interests When was peak message in a bottle? – Only 80s kids will get this: “grandfather clocks; suits of armour; quicksand; spontaneous human combustion.” Also: big foot and UFOs. Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor? – Checks out on both sides. Pricing: A List of Tactics – Some mind-tricks to play with pricing.…
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“the great murderer of boredom”
My Content Two Software Defined episodes this week: “I used to eat 7-Eleven pizza,” startups, open source, and more, with Sarah Christoff – After an extensive discussion of 7-Eleven pizza cuisine, in this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Sarah Christoff. They discuss working at startups, the point of startups, working in open source and…
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GenX – working as designed
More on the Tanzu AI Stack As you may recall, along with several colleagues, I worked on the Tanzu annual update which came out last month. I’m sure you’ve watched the entire video, right? How else would you get to see my AAA skills at talking with my hands at the end? I mean, I…
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iPad Goat Ears
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. This is more of a “smoke break chair,” but I’ll allow it. Relative to your interests 28 slightly rude notes on writing – “All emotions are useful for writing except for bitterness.” // “Somehow, whenever I finish a draft, my first few paragraphs almost always contain ideas that were necessary for…
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Half-ass Vibe Coding
I was on Cloud Foundry Weekly yesterday. We discussed “vibe coding.” More precisely, what I think of as “half ass vibe coding.” I get the AIs to write code for me, but then ask it questions, maybe even mess around with it myself. I think that might just be “coding with an AI assistant,” but…
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The whole arc of OpenStack
This was a fun discussion: Also, subscribe to the podcast! During the interview I realized that there’s a lot of my professional-life friends that I’ve know for 20+ years across all sorts of companies, wave after of wave of tech trends, etc., including Melissa. I’m lucky to be in that situation. Relative to your interests…
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Writing good docs is important for agentic AI and Model Context Protocol, and developers are terrible at writing good docs
One quick things up-top: this week (tomorrow!), get an overview and demos of the private AI stack and development frameworks we’ve been working on at Tanzu. Register to check it out online, either live or the recording after the event. Spy on the DM with Model Context Protocol Servers in Java Here’s my latest walk-through…
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“SOAP for AI tools cool cool.”
Two quick things up top: in a little over a week we’re going to talk about what what us Tanzu folks been doing with enterprise AI, register to check it out online. Next month, at Cloud Foundry Day you can come to an in-person workshop for even more. I’ll be there, hopefully talking about the…
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How to code agentic AI tools in Java with goblins
The goblins get into agentic AI. The above video is exciting for me: it’s me relearning programming, playing D&D with the robot, and coming up with a new type of way I can help out at work. In this introductory video I go over the basics of making a tool (an “MCP Server”) for Claude.…
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“Pageants of minor chaos”
Just wastebook and links this episode. Wastebook “So what is a critic for? This is the second quote that’s in my notebook. It’s in every notebook because I always write it on the first page: ‘Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this…
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“Significant improvement but still issues.”
Not much today. Found at the ITQ offices. Wastebook “decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Career advice in 2025. ”a concept as antiquated as intent.” NYTimes. “a felicitous remove.” Spicy. “Significant improvement but still issues.” Oxide and Friends. Relative to your interests A Conversation Algorithm I Cribbed From Clinical PsychologistsWhat does…
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The Illiterate Corporation
I’m the guest on this week’s When Shit Hits the Fan podcast. You can hear about two of my fan shattings. Here’s the podcast in Apple, Spotify, and Overcast. Favor documents over slides Slides are an oral culture, not a written culture. Imagine civilization without writing: that’s what organizations relying on slides instead of documents…
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The agentic AI hype-cycle is nearly done
To Have and Have Not, Christopher Still. Found in Leiden thrift. Wastebook “We live in the age of ‘fuck around and find out’ – of iteration and experimentation.” 8Ball wisdom. “15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.” Noah Smith, via…
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For enterprise AI, avoid repeating the wasted DIY year
You’re about to waste at least a year and millions of dollars on enterprise AI projects. Here’s how to avoid it. Here’s a new article on enterprise AI from me and a co-worker. As with most maturity models, it’s 2/3 prescriptive and 1/3 “here’s some ideas that might help.” A bit of map and territory.…
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What we love is good for us, sometimes
What we love is good for us David Lynch on smoking: “But that said, he admitted smoking played a huge part in his life. “I don’t regret it. It was important to me. I wish what every addict wishes for: that what we love is good for us.” He went on: “A big important part…
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How to find waste with the robot
My first law of enterprise AI: if you end up having two robots talk with each other to complete a task, that task was bullshit in the first place, and you should probably eliminate it rather than automate it. For example, if AI is used in both sides of B2B procurement (enterprise software sales), then…
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