Tag: Kubernetes
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Docker Launches 2024 State of Application Development Report – Survey for future newsletter analysis.
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Cloud Native App Platforms: New Research Shows Struggles and Hope – Building your own (Kubernetes) platform takes a long time: “61% of respondents indicated that at least one of their platforms is custom-built, the journey from concept to implementation is far from smooth. Alarmingly, 41% of these organizations took more than a year to develop…
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65% of developers learning to live with Kubernetes
State of Spring Survey 2024 The State of Spring Survey 2024 is out, you can get it for free, of course. Spring is widely used by Java developers, and Java is widely used for enterprise app development. Thus, what Spring people are doing is relevant to what large organizations are doing in software development. Let’s…
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The Tanzu Platform – platform engineering in a box
The Tanzu Platform – platform engineering in a box for private cloud This week, at my work, we launched the Tanzu Platform. This is both actual, new things and strategic tuning of many of our existing products. In brief, we’re focusing a lot more on private cloud PaaS now, and private cloud data services. (Sure,…
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60 to 100 days to onboard a developer – Highlights from the Harness State of Developer Experience survey
Today’s survey: “State of the Developer Experience 2024,” Harness/Wakefield Research. Most enterprises need to automate their build and deployment pipelines. This is more than just building code and automating tests (which 71% of people are not doing), but also automating governance and security checks (which 41% of developers are not doing). In my mind, this…
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6 views on open source business models
On that random person in Nebraska Open source is important for the entire industry, sell side (especially in the cloud era) and buy side. Things would go very bad if it did not exist as method of software production and innovation. (Source: see the QED from that one xkcd.) Open source is a bad business…
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3 Kubernetes Market-Sizes: mid to low single digit billions ~5 years from now.
Kubernetes is popular. If you’re in my business, you know that it’s widely considered to be how enterprises run and will their applications. So, it must be a huge market right? Lots of money flowing around. Well…not really! Let’s look at some numbers: “The container management market has seen accelerated growth of 28.6% over the…
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DevOps used to manage 35% of enterprise app portfolios, 60% of testing activities are not automated
Container, DevOps, and Generative AI for Testing Usage My work sponsored an IDC paper going over ways to use generative AI (and ML) at various stages of software development (the “Application Development and Product Life-Cycle Management”). There’s some interesting ideas in there, you should check them out. As always, I like to collect the numbers…
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Kubernetes community capitalizes on open source and AI synergies – Among AI talk, 451’s Kubernetes TAM: $1.46bn in 2023, growing to $2.85bn in 2028.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon – if you build it, your customers might not come. Why? – Platform as a product!
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From Here to GitOps and Back Again – GitOps as a feature of CI/CD.
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State of Platform Maturity in the Norwegian Public Sector – Hans Kristian Flaatten – If you’re interested in how the Norwegian government is using cloud native stuff (like Kubernetes), this is a survey readout circa 2023/2024.
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Platform engineering design and UX – three KubeCon talks on treating the platform as a product
Three talks from KubeCon EU Platform Engineering Day on designing a platform developers actually want to use, not just delivering IT capabilities and services.
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“Designing for Success: UX Principles for Internal Developer Platforms,” Kirsten Schwarzer, KubeCon EU, March, 2024. – – Good tour of applying design-think to platforms. That is, what do designers do on platform engineering teams. Some items: (1) Do at least one hour long user interview a week. This gives you an idea of what your…
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“Boosting Developer Platform Teams with Product Thinking,” Samantha Coffman, KubeCon EU, March 2024. A lot of good commentary and advice on product managing the platform, some techniques, mindsets, etc. Chief among them: focus on the value/problem you’re solving first, then how you solve it second…also trying to quantify what the problem is so you can…
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Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs! – Abby Bangser, Syntasso & Whitney Lee, VMware – How can you start to take a design/UX-driven approach to building your platform (you know, your pile of Kubernetes stuff to pull it all together for app developers)? Whitney Lee & Abby Bangser have a good mind-model to…
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“Is a platypus a Kubernetes symbol?”
Wastebook “portal platform.” #outmeated. “Those sizzlers are nice.” “Tell him I’m eating,” 9 minutes in. “chair-use disorder.” Here. “Is a platypus a Kubernetes symbol? Developers love to take scary things and make them cute.” (Overheard in the crowd before a Cory Quinn talk at SCaLE 21x.) Also: “what about you, Charles, what are your thoughts…
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“Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.”
Just links today. Relevant to your interests Two methods for designing better, more developer friendly platforms – Two ways to make good platform product management decisions: go to where the developers are, ask the developers // a little article by me. Platform Engineering: Orchestrating Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure – A big overview of platform engineering.…
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I only give one talk a year, but I give it many times
Relative to your interests Can we reenergize the transactional workforce? – Hmm. Cloud without Kubernetes – Start by hiding Kubernetes, only touch it as needed. There’s enough work to do already. Wastebook “Unhappiness with air travel took a new turn when maggots rained down on passengers on a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan,…
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