Coté

Category: Tanzu

  • The weird bastion stuff in D&D 5e 2024 makes a lot more sense after reading Dungeon Crawler Carl.

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  • How much does it cost to build an internal developer platform? – Tanzu Catsup

    This week’s Tanzu Catsup is about how much you need to pay people to build your own internal developer platform: I think building your own platform is a terrible idea, especially for larger organizations. My co-host Tony ran the platform for Home Depot and now talks with other platform teams a lot, so I wanted…

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  • This week’s Tanzu Catsup: AI tools have solved code generation, probably. But they’ve created a new constraint: Day 2 operations. When the volume of applications jumps 10x driven by a flood of “small” line-of-business apps manual “run teams” and traditional onboarding processes break down. Hey guys! Like and subscribe.

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  • What do platform engineers need to do to prepare for a flood of AI-generated apps? If enterprises let loose “knowledge workers” with code generation, I think we’ll see 10x the amount of little applications out there. This is going to be a flood of Day Two problems for platform engineers, security, people, etc. So, on…

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  • 60% of you Java people are living dangerously

    Check this out from my pal DaShaun: in May of 2025, 60% of Spring Boot downloads were for versions no longer supported by the open-source project. That’s a lot. Too much, really. I can see how it happens. You get an app into production, it runs fine, and then you moveon to the next thing.…

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  • I wasn’t really sure what hardned images were, let alone “distroless,” so Tony and I were lucky to get William on this week’s Tanzu Catsup to sort it out. We also discuss how it fits into platform engineering.

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  • What is a platform and how do you do platform engineering at scale? Find out in this interview on tales from Home Depot and beyond.

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  • What is platform engineering? What is a platform? How do you show platform ROI?

    Tony was on the the team that lead platform engineering at Home Depot for many years. Here’s what he thinks platform engineering: This is a livestream Tony and I have started. Tuesdays at 10am US eastern time/4pm Amsterdam time.

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  • AI, banks, mainframes, and on-premises

    Above related to spending on EU sovereign cloud for AI, the lack of AI app explosion in the enterprise (see the product management/design take), and pondering why banks don’t run 100% of their IT in the public cloud.

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  • Stop Building Frameworks, Go With Good Enough. And, check out the full discussion I had with Brian.

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  • 3 factors is all you need – Notes on Modernizing Enterprise Apps

    In this Tanzu Talk interview, Coté talks Brian Friedman about his extensive experience working with Pivotal, Tanzu, and Broadcom. They discuss the intricacies of modernizing enterprise applications, the relevance of .NET in the current tech landscape, and the role of platforms like Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. They also explore using AI, the challenges of application…

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  • How Tanzu Platform Fixes the AI Deployment Problem

    You need a proper AI platform: Interested? Try a 90 day trial of the Tanzu Platform: https://trytanzu.ai.

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  • 3 + 1 Cloud Foundry Stories

    We don’t tell Cloud Foundry stories enough. Here are four: This talk was also a request to make more “case studies” and “customer references,” that is stories. So, I try to go over how to do that as well. At the last Cloud Foundry Day, I spoke more generally about the need for more Cloud…

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