Category: tech
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Winning in AI, story mode
Winning in AI is now defined as having a great chat app, not the AI infrastructure running that app. Amazon (AWS) has no chat app (that I know of, which is the point!), so people don’t think they’re winning. If AWS did have an app, and evolved it as a product, they would be at…
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This week’s Software Defined Interviews episode is with Lian Li: In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Lian, a “cloud-native human” with a 15-year career in tech. Lian discusses her transition from tech to performance art, her experiences in amateur musical theater, stand-up comedy, and improv theater. She talks about platform engineering, the importance…
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The Alpha and The Omega, Software Defined Talk #554: This week, Brandon and I discuss AI’s impact on Stack Overflow, Docker’s Hardened Images, and Nvidia buying Groq. Plus, thoughts on playing your own game and having fun. If you don’t like the traditional podcast format, check out the unedited recording.
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Virtual machines still run the world
The above is from a recent IDC white paper. Container use is growing. Even then, VMs still run everything. Most of those containers run in VMs: IDC forecasts that 85% of containers will run in VMs in 2028. Meanwhile, there is a huge installed base of traditional applications in VMs that will be around for…
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Adding security and governance to Model Context Protocol – How Broadcom uses MCP
Here’s the benefits Broadcom is getting from using MCP (running on Tanzu Platform): This capability allows for seamless task completion, such as linking internal ticketing systems directly through to code commitment, significantly reducing the time required for ticket resolution. Specifically, developers can utilize natural language processing to direct an AI agent to find their next…
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Why people build their own platforms anyway – resume-driven development and the joy of building
Every list of reasons to build your own platform leaves off the real ones: resume-driven development, and that builders like building things. Do you fight that, or adapt the platform philosophy to it?
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Spending less money on IT is always the priority, and how to get around it
The survey of more than 200 CFOs, taken during August 2025, showed that 56% of CFOs rank achieving enterprise-wide cost optimization targets in their top five. Gartner CFO survey. The easiest way to show the value of IT is to show how it means spending less money. There’s occasional moments where “ROI” is achieved by…
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Highlights from that OpenAI “The state of enterprise AI report”
On average, ChatGPT Enterprise users attribute 40–60 minutes of time saved per active day to their use of AI, with data science, engineering, and communications workers saving more than average (60–80 minutes per day). That’s the headline grabbing piece from the recent ChatGPT for work study. The theory take-away from that is that the more…
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People don’t read vendor1 PDFs anymore. This is oft said. Is it true for you? Should anyone be writing white papers anymore? Or should we (1) do short form pieces from social media micro-content, blog posts, advertorial, (2) do a lot more videos and podcasts (by that, I mean interview videos that happen to have…
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If I could only give one piece of feedback for the rest of my career on all tech marketing content it would be this: rewrite to describe the activities done, not the outcome achieved.
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What does Agile Smell Like? I tried to answer that question back in 2006 when I worked at RedMonk in the form of a PDF. This guide helps you sniff test how Agile an organization is. A “sniff test” is a quick way to establish a gut-feel about something. It helps you determine what to…
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Managing the eels
I need a Google family bundle hat includes storage, YouTube Premium, Google Fi, and Gemini into, let’s say, $120 to $150 a month. It might need to be $200, but looking at similar services I have, bundling it all to Google might be good. We have two ChatGPT subscriptions and a Claude subscription, so that’s…
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The platform that needs a platform
How big is the Kubernetes market? Here’s an estimate from a recent IDC PDF: The rapid growth of cloud-native applications, driven by DevOps, containers, and microservices, has made container orchestration a critical capability because containers are challenging to manage at scale without an orchestration layer. This trend is driving significant market growth, with IDC forecasting…
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Private Cloud AI Platform Engineering, at SREDay Amsterdam
I’m at SREDay Amsterdam today, hosted by ING at their lovely Cedar building. Here’s the slides I’m going to present later today: I’m not sure if they’re recording it. But, of course, if they are, it will be on my weblog. Update: Some photos of presenting, taken by the SREDay people. Fancy!
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How many apps are written in Java? How many apps use the Spring Framework and Spring Boot?
I’m always trying to find how many apps are written (and, of course, running) in Java. Here are recent numbers I have on hand: “[N]early 70% of respondents say that more than half of their applications are built with Java or run on a JVM.” Azul survey, 2025. “98% of companies we surveyed use Java,…
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Cloud Foundry Day, October 7th, 2025
Next week in Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025: Cloud Foundry Day. I’m speaking in my ongoing attempts to help out the CF community with…marketing! Here is the agenda:
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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 🤖 on my key points: Platform engineering…
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You get the enterprise AI you deserve, or, while management search for AI workloads, workers gobble up the AI ROI
A round-up of recent “how is enterprise AI use and outcomes going?” links: Value seems to accrue to employee, the not enterprise. The ROI is, therefore, not legible. Related: Brian on “smart people” profiting from and using UI. The US military wants AI on every desk: “‘We want to have an AI capability on every…
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I’m giving a talk on what platform engineers seem to be doing (and probably will do) to manage AI a #SREDay London today. Here are the slides: speakerdeck.com/cote/ai-p…
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All of the nerd content I’ve made this fiscal year, so far
This is “content” I’ve made from November, 2024 to today that has something to do with my work. Mostly “to do with” means “talks about the tech world,” if not directly about the concerns and products we have and do at Tanzu. Items include videos, podcasts, white papers, published recordings of conference talks, guesting on…
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