Cloud Foundry in Action: Real Customers Stories from Cloud Foundry Day - ”We run a tremendous number of applications on top of Cloud Foundry. The ones that really impress me might surprise some people. It’s not just Black Friday sales but also the Amazon Prime events. When these events kick off, there’s an incredible surge in load across everything we care about, including credit card points processing, all handled by Cloud Foundry.” - Tom Brisco, JPMorgan & Chase Co.

A note on the EU AI Act - “The requirements look entirely reasonable considering these products are being positioned to become central to modern software – they’re effectively positioned to become the entirety of modern computing."

The employment effects of a guaranteed income - “1.3-1.4 hour per week reduction in labor hours.” // Yes, and: if we buy into the premise that a lot of work is Bullshit Work, this isn’t enough, we need more like six to 8 hours of wasted time to convert to living, not sitting in inefficient meetings.

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 trick of discursive reductionism.” Here.

• Working title: “Working Hard at Nothing - Why Productivity Is Ruining Our Lives.” // I’ve done a while of chatting this week in a category I’m thinking of as “death by productivity.”

• Right now, it’s summer in Finland which is like winter in LA.

• “Reluctant Refusal: When a creature offers the leprechaun the chance to partake in merriment or revelry such as a song, a dance, or a good meal, the leprechaun must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or have the charmed condition for 24 hours. While charmed in this way, the leprechaun partakes of the offering, treats the creature as a trusted friend, and seeks to defend it from harm. The charmed condition ends if the creature or any of its allies damage the leprechaun, force the leprechaun to make a saving throw, or steal from the leprechaun.”

• Related: “Looking for suggestions for how to create a layer of grain in a silo. Just doing it bagged for now and I’m not satisfied.” // I showed this to my wife and she was shocked that I thought it was funny: “It would look better with a layer of grain.”

• “a much-remarked-upon toe ring” - it was a simpler time.

• “The employees murmur what but everyone seems to accept it.” (Translated to English from the Dutch.)

• “vibecession” // sounds like “uninformed decisions that things are worse than they are”?

• Unsettling picture.

• That five blind men and the elephant parable is, like, 1,500+ years old!

• Consumer tech companies drink their own champagne. Enterprise tech companies make dog food for owners to buy to feed their dogs. They do not eat the dog food, and rarely own dogs.

• “The Lock-in Boogeyman.”

• ”Join the Czech and Slovak mechanical keyboard community in celebrating our hobby and come check out just how deep the rabbit hole goes.” From the Mechanical keyboard meetup.

• “no-collar American food.” He didn’t like it.

• J: “I didn’t have to explain. I could have just spilled something on their tie and ran off.” M: “That’s what they call ‘the podcaster’s exit’!” - RotL #544

• L’esprit de l’escalier: “the predicament of thinking of the perfect reply too late”

This week’s podcast: Bring a point of view

On this week’s Software Defined Talk, Brandon and I talk a lot of wasted time at work, so called “bullshit work” and how management might could fix it: “This week, we discuss Google possibly buying Wiz, why "meta work" leads to too many meetings, and why it took forty years to get spell check in Notepad. Plus, we share some thoughts on enjoying your vacation.” This was a long episode (an hour and 40 minutes). We discussed writing and using AI to write in the after show. You can also watch the unedited video of the recording.

Relative to your interests

• White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now - “Gloria Mark of UC Irvine has found that workers require an average of 25 minutes to return to their original task after an interruption. By this measure, a 30-minute meeting is, for the typical worker, best thought of as a one-hour detour.” // For 25+ years, a significant part of developer productivity has been the simple of idea of “stop interrupting me.”

• The Silicon Valley Would-Be Vice President - Those capital gains taxes always stick in folk’s craw.

• Next Gen Application Delivery: Getting Started with Intelligent Apps Powered by AI - “Our numbers show that 65% of all enterprise developers use Java, making it essential for business-critical applications. Development frameworks, like Spring AI, enable Java developers to interact with AI models and vector databases through the framework, rather than having to learn new skills.”

• 15 hours a week - ‘And yet, for most of that time, I’ve continued to find that exertion harder to exercise than most, while my flair and ability have gained me attention and love, I’ve seen less of whatever today’s equivalent is of “a satisfactory grade in the public examinations”’

• VMware’s ‘Private Cloud’ Solution Emerges Under Broadcom - “Previously, five different business entities were responsible for delivering our product. We have now consolidated these sectors into one organization with a unified product team, global support team and a single management direction. This alignment ensures a critical focus on product development and seamless delivery.”

Conferences, Events, etc.

Talks I’m giving, places I’ll be, and other plans.

This year, SpringOne is free to attend and watch online. There’s an on-site conference as well at Explore if you’re interested. But, for those who can’t, now you can watch all the fun!

Our analysis of the State of Cloud Native Platforms 2024 survey, online, speaking, July 24th, 2024. SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024. DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, speaking, September 4th-5th. SREday London 2024, speaking, September 19th to 20th. VMware Explore Barcelona, speaking(?), Nov 4th to 7th.

Discounts. SREDay London (Sep 19th to 20th) when you 20% off with the code SRE20DAY. And, if you register for SpringOne/VMware Explore before June 11th, you’ll get $400 off.

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Don’t forget to check out the talk I’ll be part of next week, July 24th on our recent Kubernetes/cloud native platform survey. There’s a few charts in there that don’t show up in the actual report or in my blog post on it, so unique charts for you!

Register to watch it for free here, or in LinkedIn. Also in YouTube, if you prefer that.

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I’m off to vacation for a few weeks. Finland!

When I get back - which seems like forever from now - I feel like it will be a new year

White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now - The Atlantic - “Gloria Mark of UC Irvine has found that workers require an average of 25 minutes to return to their original task after an interruption. By this measure, a 30-minute meeting is, for the typical worker, best thought of as a one-hour detour.” // For 25+ years, a significant part of developer productivity has been the simple of idea of “stop interrupting me."

The Silicon Valley Would-Be Vice President - Those capital gains taxes always stick in folk’s craw.

Next Gen Application Delivery: Getting Started with Intelligent Apps Powered by AI - “Our numbers show that 65% of all enterprise developers use Java, making it essential for business-critical applications. Development frameworks, like Spring AI, enable Java developers to interact with AI models and vector databases through the framework, rather than having to learn new skills."

15 hours a week - ‘And yet, for most of that time, I’ve continued to find that exertion harder to exercise than most, while my flair and ability have gained me attention and love, I’ve seen less of whatever today’s equivalent is of “a satisfactory grade in the public examinations”'

Survey says…

Kubernetes getting out of appdev improvement slump

This is the chart I look forward to in our annual State of Kubernetes report1:

It’s been a rocky few years as Kubernetes has gone mainstream. I pay attention to the “shortened software development cycles,” which you can see started going down. It’s been going up for the past two years, so that’s good. As more “normals” start using Kubernetes, the tolerance the early adopters have erodes. That’s my theory at least.

You can check out my analysis of the survey in this week’s blog post of mine. And, we have a webinar coming up next week looking at the survey as a whole.

You should watch this talk I’ll be doing in a few weeks, FREE in the comfort of your own home/RTO-job!

Register to watch it for free here, or in LinkedIn. Also in YouTube, if you prefer that.

Relative to your interests

Mostly an enterprise AI edition.

• CIOs resist vendor-led AI hype, seeking out transparency - There’s a lot of AI de-hyping now. First, you have the “they’re stealing our IP” stuff. Second, you have the “no one has come up with (enterprise) apps for it yet” sentiment. Thankfully, there’s no “AI will kill us” vibing.

• GenAI or Die - Big time pro AI for ERP here, with notes of “what’s ERP done for me lately.”

• The “Little Tech Agenda” is Just Self-Serving Nonsense - FTC: “Your therapy bots aren’t licensed psychologists, your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends, your griefbots have no soul, and your AI copilots are not gods. We’ve warned companies about making false or unsubstantiated claims about AI or algorithms. And we’ve followed up with actions”

• Measuring the impact of Developer Relations on Revenue - Figure out how to gather leads, and figure out how to get attribution in the sales pipeline. The second is difficult, especially if your company is already bad at it. But, it’s important to figure out.

• Are platforms pointless? - ‘So much of “platform engineering” treats the application process itself as the main event. Sure, great, you make it easy for me to run hundreds of Nginx’s with whatever-the-fuck behind them, and restart and blue-green deploy and autoscale. Great. That’s not my performance bottleneck.’ // He says: (1) It’s just a way to avoid Terraform, and, (2) database management is a more important problem.

Goals of a platform in pictures

This paper by Torsten Volk has a good diagram of the point of platforms, that is, “the outcomes,” the benefits.

Also, the hassles of building you own platform:

Conferences, Events, etc.

Talks I’m giving, places I’ll be, and other plans.

This year, SpringOne is free to attend and watch online. There’s an on-site conference as well at Explore if you’re interested. But, for those who can’t, now you can watch all the fun!

Our analysis of the State of Cloud Native Platforms 2024 survey, online, speaking, July 24th, 2024. SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024. DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, speaking, September 4th-5th. SREday London 2024, speaking, September 19th to 20th. VMware Explore Barcelona, speaking(?), Nov 4th to 7th.

Discounts. SREDay London (Sep 19th to 20th) when you 20% off with the code SRE20DAY. And, if you register for SpringOne/VMware Explore before June 11th, you’ll get $400 off.

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I am continuing to enjoy “Hi-fi relaxation.”

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Twitter has been slow here in Amsterdam. And I have fiber! Is this some kind of petty revenge, or just standard fail whale problems?

GenAI or Die - Big time pro AI for ERP here, with notes of “what’s ERP done for me lately."