Tag: microblogimport20260616
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Does Platform Product Management & Design Really Happen? Or is it all just platform engineering? – Tanzu Catsup
Most organizations treat infrastructure as a series of projects to be “completed,” but successful platform engineering requires a permanent product mindset. In this episode, we explore why platform teams need dedicated product management to balance competing priorities—like security, cost, and developer experience—and why the “why” scales much better than the “what” in large enterprises. We…
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Developers crave AI tools for various tasks beyond coding, but that’s only about 20% of their work. But, ops people freak out about security and control challenges, like cost, regulatory compliance, and usage tracking.
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Bad advice from Wall Street on enterprise AI.
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Automating everything but changing how people work – Relative to your interests, Friday
Enterprise AI apps (or lack thereof), ROI surveys, CFO budget pivots, agile’s stubborn relevance, platform engineering vs. private cloud, Heroku’s freeze, IRS tech cuts, and Europe hedging on AI tools Peter Klúcik’s The Hobbit illustrations. Related to your interests Where are the enterprise AI apps? Part n + 1 – AI capacity demand is high,…
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You Can Feel It Coming – Software Defined Talk
This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and “The Modern Stack” simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them. See the traditional podcast listing for links and more.
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Progressive Delivery, with Heidi Waterhouse – Software Defined Interviews
See the traditional podcast version for more and Heidi links.
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Why it’s great to be a Spring developer now, and how to make it even better – State of Spring, 2026
This is a talk I give at the start of Spring workshops we do. Here is the recording. The point is to show people that being a Java and Spring developers is fantastic right now. Here’s the description: Spring developers are in a strange position in 2026: everything is changing: AI, platform engineering, enterprise architecture.…
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Best review of The Sound and The Fury, in Mad Men, s2e11: “Sex is good. This book is just OK.”
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Management is always eager to “reduce costs.”
The real story lies “in collapsing headcount growth expectations, from 6% in 2025 to just 2% in 2026 with just 21% of CFOs planning staff increases of 4% to 9%, down from 31% last year,” Nauman Abbasi, vice president analyst in Gartner’s finance practice, said in the release. “This marks a structural pivot from labor…
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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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AI still not good at basic knowledge worker workflows, which is likely an apps problem
Here is one account of AI being shit at multi-step activate outside of coding: I think my request of “Hey Gemini, show me a list of all the articles I wrote over the last year and arrange them into categories by subject” is a straightforward one, and I came away from this experience surprised that…
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Where are the enterprise AI apps? Part n + 1
Outside of programming, there’s still a dearth of enterprise AI apps, it seems. Palo Alto’s CEO: “Consumers are far outstripping enterprise for the moment, but we expect enterprise will surely and slowly get on that bandwagon,” he said on the company’s Q2 earnings call. … “Right now … tell me how many enterprise AI apps…
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Attention, Autonomy, and AI in the Critical Path – Related to your interests – February 17th, 2026
“‘CEO said a thing!’ journalism” – fantastic new phrase! How AI Is Redefining Product Teams – What do product managers do in AI code gen land? NatWest hails progress after £1.2bn spent on tech last year, but true AI transformation to come – “According to the bank, more than 70,000 hours were saved through automated…
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Your Boss Doesn’t Know What to Do With AI Enterprise AI Has a Product-Market Fit Problem. Enterprise AI isn’t stalled because the models are weak. It’s stalled because we haven’t discovered product-market fit inside the enterprise yet. You don’t find real AI value by theorizing in workshops. You find it by running experiments for months…
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There’s a lot of business logic in Java, decades worth…
We have invested a lot in domain models, some of which are even very good. And, to be able to leverage that as we move to the new world is really, really important.” Rod Johnson. Source: “GenAI Grows Up: Building Production-Ready Agents on the JVM,” Rod Johnson, GOTO, October 1st, 2025. That reminds me of…
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If OpenAI fails, the most likely mode is the Yahoo path: not a dramatic collapse but a slow fade into irrelevance through a thousand mediocre product extensions. ChatGPT becomes a utility everyone uses but nobody pays premium for. Enterprise goes to companies with better compliance stories. The consumer product goes ad-supported. Revenue grows but margins…
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Proof of value lies in the results. To date, more than 90% of the top 10,000 VMware customers have purchased VCF, including nine of the top 10 Fortune companies. Leading companies such as Audi, ING Bank, Lloyds Banking Group and Walmart are adopting VCF and deepening their partnerships with Broadcom. Broadcom’s own internal IT teams…
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“Greedy work” refers to jobs in which earnings are convex in hours – meaning that working longer, more continuous, and less flexible hours is rewarded disproportionately rather than proportionally. {Summarized by the robot.} And, from Claudia Goldin: Greedy work can be defined as a job that pays disproportionately more on a per-hour basis when someone…
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AI Is Normal Now – The Enterprise Is Not
Original Content Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn’t need new platforms – I’ve been circling a theme this week after reading “AI as a Normal Technology” (Spring, 2025). This is some stream of conscious on it. Enterprises are gonna enterprise-y, especially with AI. Also available in LinkedIn, if you prefer that kind of…
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