Tag: Enterprise2.0
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“PE 2.0”
We are seeing a distinct movement where infrastructure is being reclaimed as a first-class platform concern. In the early days, platform engineering focused heavily on developer experience, often treating the underlying infrastructure as a utility that was managed separately. That is no longer sufficient. To succeed in the AI era, platform teams must have deep…
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McDonald’s Geofence, Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose, and Big Things Are Trusted Less – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: AI makes marketing opaque, execs value humans less, and clown world logic. You’re either left holding the bag, or pro-activity delivering “value creation” The answer is pretty clear: TryTanzu.ai. Related to your interests What’s New in Tanzu Platform 10.4: Powering Agentic Apps at Scale – Nick and Keith walk through it. Quit VMware and…
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Headless AI, Evals as Levers, and Spaghetti Topped With Spaghetti – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Cloudflare’s wholesale memory, custom Claude Code, and Google Cloud math From The Edge Not Taken. Related to your interests Headless everything for personal AI – What if we go back and o the command line? // DOS was good enough for our grandparents, it’s good enough for us. The Harness Is the Lever: Why…
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Say you love business logic without saying “business logic.”
Model Eats the Software: Why the Marginal Cost of Enterprise Software Approaches Zero More on agentic AI changing the software business from Jason Hoffman: Andreessen specifically predicted that Salesforce would disrupt Oracle. Fourteen years later, Oracle is roughly 2.5x the size of Salesforce. Salesforce sells application logic – workflows, configurations, business rules. Oracle sells infrastructure…
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“Unlocking data.” Since the 2000’s we’ve been trying to “unlock” data in organizations. We’re still talking about it. What keeps it all locked up? Is this driven by the need to access it, or lower bills? How do we keep ending up locked up data? I feel like there’s a Straussian read on this enterprise…
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“Come on down and chum some of this shit.”
Everyone needs to stop thinking about enterprise AI as a way to fire people and think about how to use AI to make people more productive: Forrester’s analysis found that using AI for financially driven layoffs can backfire: 55 percent of employers regret laying off workers because of AI. More people in charge of AI…
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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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Actually changing is what matters most
If you make huge changes to how your under performing business works, there’s a good chance you’ll improve things. That applies whether you introduce a new tool – like AI – or not. Just changing how you run meetings for example is a big enough change that could have massive effects. You could say the…
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Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B – That’s a good match, and a quick exit.
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Five Vide Coding Lessons for the Enterprise – ‘In an enterprise, the “context window” isn’t just a technical term; it’s the accumulated technical debt, undocumented tribal knowledge, and complex dependencies that hold your systems together. A new developer or a new AI tool can’t simply be dropped in and expected to understand this history. The…
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Accelerating Enterprise Application Upgrades Through Legacy Dependency Migration: Spring Application Advisor 1.4 – Upgrading software is sort of a boring topic. But, when we talk about this with customers, they get more excited than talking about AI. I shit you not. Just upgrading your ancient Java versions (as in this product release) is a huge…
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Private Cloud’s Comeback: Driving the Enterprise IT Reset –
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Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Managers and the Allocation of Workers to Jobs by Virginia Minni :: SSRN – Match workers to jobs they’re good at. // “My results imply that the visible hands of managers match workers’ specific skills to specialized jobs, leading to an improvement in the productivity of existing workers that outlasts…
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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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Beyond Launch – ‘In enterprise environments, silence gets interpreted as stagnation. Stakeholders will assume “if I’m not hearing about progress, there probably isn’t any” – and they’re usually right!’
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The new economics of enterprise technology in an AI world – This is a strange collage of IT project success and failure. I think it’s saying that if your IT projects don’t show legible business improvement. They’re considered a failure. // Also, you have to look at an IT project as a big system, not…
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“Still Federating After All These Years”: The Realities Of EA Maturation – Letter from the enterprise architect club.
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KubeCon 2025: Technology Resilience, Sovereignty, And Security In An Era Of Political Change – ”Enterprise maturity is here. As demonstrated by HSBC’s implementation, which handles 600 million hits daily across over 7,000 production services, enterprise maturity is here.”
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The good times in tech are over – ”If you were an engineer who loved working on your company’s open-source libraries, it’s probably sensible to confront the fact that the company never really cared about it that much.”
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Stuck in the pilot phase: Enterprises grapple with generative AI ROI – ”More than 90% of leaders expressed concern about generative AI pilots proceeding without addressing problems uncovered by previous initiatives, according to the Informatica report. Nearly 3 in 5 respondents admitted to facing pressure to move projects along faster. ”
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