Tag: cloudfoundry
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Platform as a Product, 2017 to 2026
I updated our Platform as a Product paper recently, available here as a PDF. This paper has a long history: it was first published in 2017, updated in 2018, and then 2021. The concept was core to Pivotal Software – both in Pivotal Labs and with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. After Humanitec killed DevOps, around 2022,…
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Use yours secrets to get generative AI ROI
From an article by my colleagues and me: For generative AI (GenAI) apps to deliver real business value, they need access to your company’s proprietary data. Without it, models default to the public data they were trained on–meaning you get the same generic ideas as your competitors. If everyone is starting with the same new…
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Good Management Is a Fad, Use Women’s Razors, and AI Saves Three Hours a Week
3 factors is all you need 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…
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Cloud Foundry is alive and well, running lots of really important shit
Here’s my talk from Cloud Foundry Day. It’s four stories of large organizations using Cloud Foundry: Three are banks, and one is a German tax accountant and back-office SaaS. I start talking about the value of case studies for enterprise software. The opening keynote was from the German police, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA). We used to…
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Never mind the business value, this about resume value
The last of my don’t build your own internal developer platform tiny videos: Check six more reasons in the white paper, no lead-in or anything, just a fancy PDF. Relevant to your interests VMware Explore and SpringOne Highlights from the Tanzu Division’s Chief Marketing Officer Kevin Strohmeyer – ”I think explaining to our customers the…
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Spring Cloud Services for Tanzu Platform – Spring Cloud Services for Cloud Foundry v3.3 introduces an enhanced dashboard UI, improved configuration validation, and simplified secret management.
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PaaS is Better Than Kubernetes
CaaS Problems Nicky lists the advantages of a real platform over Kubernetes. The platform is Cloud Foundry, and it’s been in development and use for many years, all ready to use. Building platforms I think he goes a little strong on the “sometimes Kubernetes is good for…” part, but that’s mandatory seasoning for such commentary.I…
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The Cloud Foundry Renaissance, Julian Fischer, CF Day EU 2024 – This is a good talk, content wise and also structure wise. It has a point of view, a vision, finds a problem, and then launches a product.
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Tanzu Postgres for Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry adds new features – Faster, incremental backups using pgBackRest, AI/ML support with Pgvector, and streamlined restore options with adbr
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3 Key Practices for Perfecting Cloud Native Architecture – Some notes on cloud native architecture and app patterns. That is, apps you want to run in container platforms like Cloud Foundry or Kubernetes.
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5 Lessons For Building a Platform as a Product – They’re doing a good job trying to evolve the Pivotal Cloud Foundry philosophy of platforms. // “I talked to a CTO at one of the world’s top banks, who explained that he loved what Cloud Foundry could do but wondered what would work for the…
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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…
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Enterprise AI, D&D with ChatGPT, & DevBurgerOps
Lots of original content this week, starting with this prediction about “enterprise AI”: I also made these since last episode: Another go-round at figuring out playing D&D with ChatGPT. It went pretty well! Here’s my retro/analysis of it, and here’s the actual play session with inline commentary. I was the guest co-host on this week’s…
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We built a platform, but no one uses it!
This year we’ll see a lot app platform teams struggle to get developers to actually use and appreciate their platforms. I know this because this has happened to every platform team I’ve talked with over the 9 years when they’ve put Cloud Foundry in place, failed to appreciate the “Kubernetes is not for developers” paradox,…
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Lessons learned from Cloud Foundry for the platform engineering community
Here’s my talk from Cloud Foundry Day, last week: The Cloud Foundry community has been around for a long time and the PaaSes built on it have been in use for awhile as well (many for at least five year, some for well over 7 years). In this talk, I first wanted to go over…
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Link catsup
I’m at Cloud Foundry Day today – travel, conference, etc. I realized I’m giving the last talk, which is kind of a good slot to have. I’ll have to do some kind of “end of the conference” commentary on life. It’s Germany, and it’s hot. People leave the doors open for a breeze, so there’s…
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Improving developer productivity with Platform as a Product, from PlatformCon 2023 – Great talk from the Cloud Foundry team at Mercedes-Benz on how they’ve been doing platform engineering. 300 apps, 1,500 platform services, and by my count, about 7 years of running it.
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On-Premises Cloud Is a Failure. Google Has the Fix – Or you could run Cloud Foundry and call it a day.
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Product Management in Platform Engineering
Suggested soundtrack: I really enjoy the London Eye show. I don’t listen to it enough. This morning I gave my talk on platform stuff – platform engineering, building an app stack on kubernetes, etc. It was fun as always. I think there were some parts that were more shallow than usual, but I like the…
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Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.5, Now GA, Harnesses the Power of Istio and Envoy to Make Your Developers More Productive
Whole lotta features: > – Weighted routing uses Istio and Envoy to simplify blue-green deployments (beta) > – Platform Automation for PCF, the engine of your perpetual upgrade machine (beta) > – Windows Server 2019, Microsoft’s most container-friendly OS yet, now powers PAS for Windows (coming soon) > – Consume upstream Kubernetes your way with…
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