Category: newsletter
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Cheese wedge mindfulness
(1) What seems to you like an everyday, boring experience may be totally foreign and inaccessible to other people. It can be delightful and helpful for them to see it, even if you’ve seen it for nine years everyday. This is one of Noah’s stated principles. (2) I like Dutch Golden Age still life paintings.…
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Using app architecture constraints and templates in platform engineering
Platforms have many opinions, app architecture is one of them This is an excerpt from a new blog post of mine covering a recent panel with platform engineers from Charles Schwab. I’ve made some slight changes. Ensuring platform scalability and resilience starts with making sure applications are architected appropriately. Nowadays, that usually means using a…
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Software is cheap
And software is valuable You want to maximize the amount of weird stuff you’re doing across the business to generate asymmetry with your competitors, with the admittedly serious caveat that the pathway to this particular ancient ruin is littered with skulls. Pay attention to the skulls. (From the HST or tech.) Software costs very little…
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Employee Mode
You are a company of one: Click here to watch the video. If you liked that, there’s more of my take on “employee mode” in the ten part video series I did for O’Reilly: “How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company: Tactics and Practices to Manage Your Time and Relationships.” How about that…
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20+ years of all this cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering stuff, interview with Purnima Padmanabhan, GM of VMware Tanzu
Code to Production: From Cloud to DevOps to Platform Engineering, with Purnima Padmanabhan There’s not that many people who’ve worked through the early years of cloud, the rise of cloud and IaaS, DevOps, cloud native apps, and now platform engineering…but my colleague Purnima Padmanabhan sure has. So, it was fun to talk with her about…
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How to support 1,000’s of developers for your internal developer platform
Let’s start with some good looking cheese: Still Life with Cheese and Fruits, Roelof Koets, 1625. Community is Mission Critical for Platform Engineering Establishing an internal community is one of the keys to enterprise platform engineering. A lean platform team can’t support all the support and consultative requests from thousands of developers. When you create…
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What the AIs think of the US presidential debate
Today it’s just links and fun finds that I’ve been storing up for a about a week. Great “Please Eat Me” specimen, from Russell Davies. Also, a big sign of the same. What the AIs thinks of the debate I asked Perplexity about the US presidential debate last night. I wasn’t very interested in “fact…
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How DevOps can come back from the dead, and why it must
The DevOps community is running on fumes and at the lowest point in mindshare and interest that it’s ever been at. This is stupid. The practices, tools, and mindset of DevOps are vital to how most organization run their software1 and DevOps has improved the way the software we use everyday is built and run,…
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Beyond mystic management mind-games
Searching for Cheap Tricks The amount of AI content and conversations out there is getting exhausting. It’s almost as bad as the burbling font of platform engineering content that gets rewritten and published each week. The below RAND paper and commentary got me thinking though: a lot of the AI talk is just talk about…
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perplexity.ai is great
Just links and fun finds. Before “fun” was invented. Found in Amsterdam thrift shop. Relevant to your interests I didn’t do link round-ups this past week, so there’s a backlog. Also, I’ve been using Perplexity to summarize some articles (not listed here, usually). I think it’s pretty good, and I recommend you use it. Amazon’s…
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Private Cloud at VMware Explore – Notebook
Normally I wouldn’t disclaim this since I think you, dear readers, are wise enough to know that it always applies, but: these views are my own, not my employer, VMware Tanzu by Broadcom. Also, we covered the below on this week’s Software Defined Talk. If you prefer to listen a podcast, it’ll be out on…
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Enterprise-grade Spring, and quick AI apps with Java
SpringOne Yesterday we put on Spring One. There’s still sessions going on, which you can watch live if you register for free. Here’s some highlights. We went over one of the most valuable products the Tanzu team has put out this year: the Spring Application Advisor. You set this up in your pipeline and it…
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There never was a rug – the social norms of open source staying open have changed
From Iceland. This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast We talk about the open source “rug pull” du jour in this week’s Software Defined Podcast: “This week, we discuss CockroachDB’s relicensing, the ongoing debate about remote work, and platform engineering. Plus, some thoughts on the use of speakerphones in public.” We both steer us towards a…
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Platform engineering problems: can ops actually do product management?
Are you at a large organization doing platform engineering? Have you been building and/or using a platform? How are you introducing product management in your operations group? I want to test a theory that’s come up in my conversations a lot this summer: introducing product management into ops and infrastructure organizations is too difficult. It…
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Finding your podcast style and character
Figuring out what kind of podcast you’re doing Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam One of my co-workers is started a podcast and had some questions. Here’s my answers. As with most “how do I do this?” sessions, it focuses a lot on gear which I scoot away from in my answers, you know, following the cliche…
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“weird varieties of beastman” & tips on platform engineering
Just fun finds and links today. Wastebook “FWD: RE: radioactive fungus email from grandma” Here. “I don’t know about you, but I think a campaign setting ruled by evil angels and their witch-wives, populated by giants (perhaps not 3,500 metres tall) who eat one another and human beings, and who have sex with animals to…
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Platform Engineering ROI – three examples of how to do a platform engineering ROI
Creating ROI models for platform engineering is difficult. Here’s three examples of approaches I’ve come across recently. You’re trying to convince your organization to put an app platform in place (probably either buying one or building one on-top of Kubernetes), to shift your ops team to platform engineering (just after HR finally changed titles from…
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Selling shoes on the internet, the risks of waterfall enterprise AI
Just links and wastebook today. Relative to your interests Spring Boot 3.3 Boosts Performance, Security, and Observability – All these years later, Spring is still in wide use and still evolving. ‘You are a helpful mail assistant,’ and other Apple Intelligence instructions – Not that many, but interesting. Gartner Predicts 30% of Generative AI Projects…
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What people buy for Kubernetes
Where the Kubernetes spend is Here’s a presentation recording going over our recent Kubernetes survey. I’ve mentioned it several times here, but there’s some new charts (like the above) and commentary in this talk I did with Rita and Danielle. Check out it for free in LinkedIn. Wastebook 1 cup toilet chemical solution, three cups…
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My favorite PaaS
This is just my, personal take on what Tanzu is, not an official statement. But I think it’s a pretty good one! :) For a more in-depth look, check out Dekel’s recent videos. Also, if you like the full on corporate sheen take, take a look at the Tanzu Platform Solution brief. Wastebook “the ontological…
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