Tag: devops

  • No More Coders? You Still Need DevOps.

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  • Kubernetes Isn’t Enough for a Production-Ready Platform – Yeah. You should buy your platform instead of build it.

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  • How Snowflake’s DevProd team operates –

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  • Can you add AI to existing application – it’s unsatisfying…so far

    Can you add AI to existing application – it’s unsatisfying…so far

    If you program enterprise apps, it’s likely in Java. And if you Java, you probably use the Spring Framework. Come to the Spring conference by the Spring people, SpringOne, August 25th to 28th in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. There’s several sessions posted now: you can see there’s stuff from foundational Spring stuff, AI and MCP,…

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  • Broadcom VMware hardens vDefend, drops Tanzu branding in VCF – The Tanzu Kubernetes stuff is renamed and now part of VCF: ”The Tanzu brand for the Kubernetes services within VCF is no more…. The VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service and Tanzu Kubernetes were rebranded in early March as the VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and…

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  • Announcing The Forrester Wave™: DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025 – “GitHub Actions is becoming a de facto standard. For continuous integration in particular, competitors seem to be converging toward a slightly modified version of GitHub Actions. It’s not a select-all/copy/paste, but in some cases, it’s close — a copy/paste with a few extra lines in the…

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  • Platform Engineering: Evolution, Trends, and Future Impact on Software Delivery –

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  • Scaling Vibe-Coding in Enterprise IT: A CTO’s Guide to Navigating Architectural Complexity, Product Management and Governance devops.com/scaling-v… There’s some AI middleware considerations (people stuff) towards the end of this how to enterprise vibe coding (in the expansive definition of vibe coding, just using AI to help write code). Part of it is: you still have…

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  • After months of coding with LLMs, I’m going back to using my brain – “I’m leveraging them to learn Go, to upskill myself. And then I apply this new knowledge when I code.” And: “But I’m not asking it to write new things from scratch, to come up with ideas or to write a whole…

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  • Developers spend most of their time not coding – Developers spending something like 50% to 60% of their time on stuff that should be automated and built into the process.

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  • [Kubernetes Cloud Repatriation Saves Millions for Data Platform Provider](https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/01/yellowbrick-cloud-repatriation/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global) – “It has reported an annual saving of $3.9 million by moving its development and testing environments away from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. According to Neil Carson of Yellowbrick, the company had been spending about $6 million per year across the three major cloud…

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  • Kubernetes Cloud Repatriation Saves Millions for Data Platform Provider – “It has reported an annual saving of $3.9 million by moving its development and testing environments away from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. According to Neil Carson of Yellowbrick, the company had been spending about $6 million per year across the three major cloud…

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  • PaaS is Better Than Kubernetes

    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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  • How platform engineering is different than DevOps

    How platform engineering is different than DevOps

    How platform engineering is different than DevOps, plus, narwhal teeth and spider digestion, with Viktor Farcic Software Defined Interviews #89 This is a good one, Viktor is great, almost an iconoclast on DevOps and platform engineering: In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, about platform engineering, the evolution…

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  • DORA Report 2024 – A Look at Throughput and Stability – Developer productivity is fine, but: “We thought the bottleneck was developers writing code, but in fact the bottleneck is putting good code into production.” // Maybe the current trend in DevOps/platform engineering/cloud native to to stop caring about developer productivity, rather, re-silo and let…

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  • Platform Engineering Is The New DevOps – “Once hailed as the savior of organizational dysfunction, DevOps is causing friction in teams finding that operations is work they never really wanted to do. To get back to a happier balance, DevOps teams are finding that platform engineering helps them to split out operations from application development…

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  • [Platform Engineering as a Service](https://bravenewgeek.com/platform-engineering-as-a-service/) – It’s like DevOps, but you centralize and standardize the platform: ‘This is where Platform Engineering comes in. Rather than having each development team own their entire infrastructure stack, platform engineering provides a centralized, productized approach to infrastructure and developer tools. It’s about creating reusable, self-service platforms that development teams…

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  • Platform Engineering as a Service – It’s like DevOps, but you centralize and standardize the platform: ‘This is where Platform Engineering comes in. Rather than having each development team own their entire infrastructure stack, platform engineering provides a centralized, productized approach to infrastructure and developer tools. It’s about creating reusable, self-service platforms that development teams…

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  • Platform Engineering: Why You’re Doing It Wrong – Hopefully also how to do to real right.

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  • Viktor Farcic: There is no such thing as a DevOps engineer – Platforms bundle services developers use to make it easier and faster for them. // Viktor’s platform engineering definition: “In practice, certain experts are codifying their experience into services. Hence, if you’re a database administrator, you’re an expert. Instead of waiting for somebody to…

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