Category: newsletter
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I used to be from here
Things expats notice when they’re back in America The night of arrival, at Stiles Switch. We go back to Texas each year for Christmas. You see things differently when you’ve been away for a long time. Here’s some from this year: Waymo everywhere, in Austin. So much yoghurt. Grown ass adults going to the store…
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Enterprises need AI middleware, not just models
AI Stone Soup One of my co-workers, AI Adib, pointed me towards the AI stone soup, uh…analogy? Parable? Anyhow, the point of it is that the models at the core of all this AI stuff are cool, but it’s the layers and layers of applications and people on-top that make the difference. The app that…
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Where do modernized apps go to live?
Where are people putting their modernized apps? Here’s a recent survey chart on that topic from 451: Recent Content Three things for you today: The private cloud equilibrium – my most recent attempt to figure out how much private cloud is out there. Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser – this week’s…
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There is no open source business model. It’s always about selling something that’s closed source, or, at least, proprietary
Open Source $$$ Ethics, How Analysts use AI, Advanced Chicken Nugget Diplomacy, with Rachel Stephens In this episode of Software Defined Interviews, Whitney Lee and Coté dive into the insights of Rachel Stephens from RedMonk about the world of being an industry analyst. They discuss experiences from working as an analyst, the balance between qualitative…
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Private cloud is just fine, and here to stay, so build a great platform for yourself
I did a second interview with the GM of my division at work, Tanzu. The first one was about Prunima’s career in IT management and, now, cloud. This second one is all about private cloud. Here’s a video except: Here’s a summary from our AI friend: When it comes to cloud infrastructure, Purnima Padmanabhan, Tanzu…
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How to write better conclusions
Use the last paragraph for something fun Watching the video is more fun, but here’s he transcript you can’t be bothered: The way you learn to write a conclusion to an essay or a paper or whatever kind of text you’re writing in school: just totally forget that. What you want to do when you…
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Hyping on Twitter Mostly Garbage Now
Comparing two years of Twitter engagement to a month of Bluesky engagement Like everyone else, I consider giving up on Twitter daily, especially with the US election bullshit. I don’t really read much on there anymore (I’ve tried all the tricks, even subscribing some months ago), but I still post things hoping to get the…
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Making money with open source, a discussion
Making Money with Open Source – Software Defined Interviews We talked about a lot more than making money with open source in this interview with RedMonk’s Rachel Stephens, but the part was pretty good: In this episode, Whitney Lee and Coté dive into the insights of Rachel Stephens from RedMonk about the world of being…
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Contemplate contemporary men’s waistlines
Private PaaS Along with our summary of Explore EU last week, around the start of this I go over my thinking about private PaaS, VMware, and Tanzu. At least that’s what I remember doing. Wastebook “THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER—BUT THEY’RE IMPROVING” Systemantics. The Systems Bible, John Gall. And: “we are interested, not in the…
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Need to contemplate the difference and overlap between “being genuine” and “being a jackass.”
Detroit, 2015. Wastebook “I’m still in my pajamas — haven’t changed since Tuesday night. I’m also drinking a fair amount…” ProfG. “My conspiracy theory has a much higher budget.” Lordess. “To create this post, I used a cascade of AIs.” Tomasz Tunguz. “improvident” is an adjective meaning lacking foresight or failing to plan ahead, often…
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Mastering Corporate Asshat Improv
Improvised Corporate Asshole I’ve been listening to the book Impro by Keith Johnstone. Somewhere I read that it’s on Palantir’s new employee reading list, which made me interested. The section on status is both weird and intriguing. It’s very prescriptive – there’s no “it depends.” People love this book: it has 4.3 stars on Goodreads.…
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Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web for November 4th, 2024
Code Neo (Pearl Sijmons), Joana Schneider, 2024. Relative to your interests Priorities CIOs Must Address in 2025, Insights from the 2025 Gartner CIO Survey – “only 48% of digital initiatives meet or exceed their business outcome targets. This statistic highlights a significant challenge for organizations aiming to achieve their digital transformation goals.” // It could…
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That which never moved can never move back
The Cloud Equilibrium As you know, I enjoy the impossible chase to track down the elusive chart that shows how many workloads are running on private cloud1 versus public cloud. I last rounded up my findings in July, 2024. Of particular interest is the IDC CloudPulse report. I don’t have access to the most recent…
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AI is terrible at shift-left
Start with good content, get better content I’ve seen enough generative AI used to help marketing now that my theory is: you should only use it if you’re already good at making whatever “the content” or strategy is. The AI will help you make it better, or more broadly consumable. It will do a terrible…
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Always talk salary first – working with tech recruiters
Whitney has a LinkedIn problem Our second episode of the Software Defined Interviews reboot is up: Whitney and Coté talk with Sidney Miller about tech recruitment. They talk a lot about the process from both sides: people hiring and people looking for jobs. Plus, some thoughts on working at Neiman Marcus. Find Sidney in LinkedIn.…
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Three fun fonts and stories of enterprise data integration
Let’s start with some YAGV (yet another goofy video): Relative to your interests Spring AI: An AI framework for Java developers – No python? No problem. The Great Data Integration Schlep – ‘Every company has something fucked-up and dumb going on somewhere, no matter how admirable they are in other respects, and if they’re facing…
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Avoiding all the usual, boring app development problems with AI
Most of the generative AI applications we’ll see in the coming years will be just new features added to existing applications. Even more pragmatically, simply improving how existing applications work will drive a lot of the AI benefits. When it comes to applications, this means we should manage AI like we would any other service,…
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How I got 8,700 views for my talk about developer productivity.
The recording of one of my talks has 8,400 views. That’s a lot more than other talk recordings. How does YouTube work, I sure don’t know! Confusing it more is that the same talk given at a different conference has 85 views. At least I wore a different shirt each time. Oh, and while I’m…
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“a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity”
My daughter’s opinion of platform engineering is “cool story, let’s go get that kibbeling.” Relative to your interests Ask HN: What happens to “.io” TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands? – Not good. Users engage with only 6% of product features: Product benchmark findings – ”We found that even the best product teams…
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“Make content about what you’re curious about, not what you know.”
Our new podcast is out, Software Defined Interviews, with me and Whitney Lee. For the first episode, I interview Whitney. I’ve known her and worked with her now for, I don’t know, three years? She’s so great to talk with and so smart on all the cloud native stuff. In our episode, we go over…
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