Tag: cloudnative

  • This apple has a butt

    This apple has a butt

    Never use slide notes Relative to your interests Organize Your Change Initiative Around Purpose and Benefits – ‘An easy method of finding a change project’s purpose is to continuously ask, “Why are we doing the project?” Usually, you need to ask this question three to four times to get to the core purpose.’ // Does…

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  • Second Wave DevOps – The tools keep changing: “Let’s face facts: our implementation is what’s letting us down. What worked for John and Paul in 2009 is, in broad strokes, exactly what we have been asking every single DevOps practitioner to do since. We’ve replaced all the individual tools in the system multiple times (look…

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  • Summarizing Articles with ChatGPT Works Again

    Summarizing Articles with ChatGPT Works Again

    Our final talk in our software stuff for financial organizations is coming up tomorrow. Above is a little anecdote that Darran made to me as we were working on it. If you’re into security, compliance, that kind of thing, check out the third part of our series: “How Cloud Native Improves & Ensures Security, Governance,…

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  • Lessons learned from Cloud Foundry for the platform engineering community

    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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  • Catching up on the HOT links

    Catching up on the HOT links

    Do you like words like: security – governance – PCI – regulation – SBOMs?! Then you should attend our talk series on cloud native app development in banks, insurance companies, and financial services. It’s online and, of course, free. Relevant to your interests The Quest for Better, Faster Deals – The highest quality deals are…

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  • DevOps vs. Platform Engineering

    DevOps vs. Platform Engineering

    Midjourney: a Soviet style poster with a software developer standing triumpantly on-top of a pile of software developers robots. Names are magic I don’t really know what I think about the idea and movement of “platform engineering.” It definitely has the feel of a market and category now. I reference it all the time, as…

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  • 2023-05-30 day note

    I recorded a podcast today on security in cloud native. Security can seem like an incomprehensible complexity from the outside, but when you ask an expert to break it down, it’s simple. Sure, lengthy and tedious and precise, but not impossible. I’ll post it in the Tanzu Talk podcast feed sometime this week. I spent…

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  • Touchpoints, coalescence and multi-platform engineering — thoughts from Kubecon 2023 – A sum up of the trends and state of the kubernetes/cloud native community, but an even better picture of the setting and tone.

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  • 📹 Kubernetes is getting better for developers, especially as they manage it less themselves

    {{< youtube GJoFKzNKYIw >}} This is the first of a few videos and blog posts I have on our annual Kubernetes survey, which you should check out if you’re into that kind of thing.

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  • As developers manage kubernetes less, their productivity goes up, from the State of Kubernetes 2023 Survey

    As developers manage kubernetes less, their productivity goes up, from the State of Kubernetes 2023 Survey

    Developers using kubernetes are seeing a steady growth in benefits as represented by shortening release cycles. 60% of respondents say that their developers are more productive with kubernetes. That’s according to the VMware State of Kubernetes 2023 survey. Check out the full survey for the full findings, including more on the operational benefits and challenges,…

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  • 🗂 Link: The superpower to change one thing about Kubernetes

    “It’s optimized for cloud native applications – those that follow the patterns that are in my book for example. That represents only a subset of the applications that our enterprise customers need to address. Our 2020 strategy is to broaden the definition of our platform. To be more than just Cloud Foundry, but to broaden…

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  • 🗂 Link: VMware is bringing VMs and containers together, taking advantage of Heptio acquisition

    “Kubernetes is a way of bringing a control metaphor to modern IT processes. You provide an expression of what you want to have happen, and then Kubernetes takes that and interprets it and drives the world into that desired state,” McLuckie explained. More from another article: The Tanzu portfolio also includes Project Galleon, which harnesses…

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  • Link: Pivotal Build Service, Now Alpha, Assembles and Updates Containers in Kubernetes

    The service provides the layer of automation and operational control enterprises need to utilize Cloud Native Buildpacks at scale. In particular, Build Service includes three key capabilities: automated image updates, image promotion, and build configurations. Source: Pivotal Build Service, Now Alpha, Assembles and Updates Containers in Kubernetes

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  • 🗂 Pairing at DBS

    > There are various mechanisms and methods that we use to transform the skills of our incumbents. Dedicated classroom training programs is one way, but it is the least preferred option. Mostly, we believe in pairing employees who need to be trained with others who are native to those capabilities; we have found this to…

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  • Coté’s Commonplace Book #44

    Coté’s Commonplace Book #44

    There is no Thanksgiving in the Netherlands. WHO KNEW?! Winter is settling in here. As a Texan, I barely understand winter. But, also as a Texan, I find cold weather novel and fun. We’ll see if that lasts, but for now, it’s awesome. Also, biking turns out to be fantastic. Living all my life in…

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  • Link: Mission capability delivered at startup speed

    More coverage of the US Air Force going all in on digital XP, lean design, and cloud native to dramatically – almost unbelievably so – modernize their software. The mission capabilities these war fighters received in 120 days or less span deliberate targeting, mission reporting, advanced target production, refueling operations and many more, saving over…

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  • Link: New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round

    “The company says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in recent months” Original source: New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round

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  • Link: Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Harbor Into CNCF Sandbox

    “Harbor is a privately hosted registry, which allows running either on-premises or in any of the major cloud vendors, making it a possibility for organizations that cannot use a public container registry or want to implement a multi-cloud strategy. Harbor started as an internal VMware project and became open source in 2016. Multiple partners, including…

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  • Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #38

    Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #38

    I’ve been in this quiet before the business-travel shit-storm for the past two weeks. Next week it slowly starts up. In the meantime, it’s given me time to get back to writing on the cloud native book I’ve been working on it. There’s links to some excerpts in progress below. Also, I made the entire…

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  • Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #35

    Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #35

    20 July 2018 We move to Amsterdam in 11 days. Cloud Native Journey, 3rd edition In my capacity as an enterprise thought lord, I write up how large organizations are managing to improve their software every few years. It’s the main thing I talk with people about and “work on.” I’ve been working on a…

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