Tag: PaaS
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Talk: VCF + Tanzu Platform = The Private Cloud Enterprises Actually Needs – June 25th, 2026
I’m doing a Global VMUG session with Oren Penso this Thursday, June 25th, 5:40pm CEST. Virtual, free. Title: “VCF + Tanzu Platform = The Private Cloud Enterprises Actually Needs.” The abstract: VMware Cloud Foundation 9 brings modern infrastructure to your private cloud. Tanzu Platform layers on as the application platform layer – giving developers PaaS…
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Platform as a Product, 2017 to 2026 – not much changed, which is the point
The Platform as a Product paper, first published in 2017 and updated for 2026. The concept survived Pivotal, the platform engineering category, and kubernetes blocking out the sun for five years.
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Three reasons why a “batteries included” platform is urgently needed right now
Removing product as a bottleneck: The conversation around PaaS is urgent again, and AI is why. Code generation can speed up your development cycles, building and pushing features faster, but production delays will persist if you’re still deploying at the same speed as before. To avoid eroding the benefits of code generation, you need to deploy…
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Hard pass with a 20% registration discount
The author at SCALE, March 2023. I’ve been having a terrible time getting talks accepted at conferences. Talking at conferences has, you know, been a huge part of my life for about 20 years, so this is kind of a bummer. Care to join me in some self-pity-partyingcare? I’ve got the wrong haircut What gives…
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Tanzu Platform 10.4 Source Coverage
Here’s coverage of our recent Tanzu Platform 10.4 announcements. This is a big agentic AI release, bringing in to Tanzu Platform all sorts of features to secure, standardize, and otherwise make agentic AI work more enterprise-y. My think on 10.4 is listed below too. There’s also the short video I made on the 10.4: Tanzu…
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Pruning the AI Garden, Backrooms Gothic, and a Saxophone Deficit – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: Managed Agents, password manager angst, and vibe-coded home dashboards NASA’s “A Crater of Remembrance,” from Artemis II. Full set here. Related to your interests Suits won’t quit AI spending, even if they can’t prove ROI – “[I]n a survey of 2,110 business leaders globally, the consultancy found 70 percent of UK business leaders think…
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Internal Developer Platforms – Build vs. Buy
From Abby Bangser’s KubeCon US 2025 keynote: Now, I’m sure that at least some of you are shaking your heads and thinking, I’m saying we have to all build our own PaaS. Haven’t we been there before with platforms as a service? But I am absolutely not suggesting that we walk up to Sisyphus, give…
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Feels a little bit like a platform standard so powerful that you need an AI front-end to make it usable by mere mortals.
Yes: Kubernetes started as a way to orchestrate containers, but its true innovation lies in its API model. The declarative resource pattern, with its desired state, actual state and continuous reconciliation, has proven to be a universal abstraction. It works for workloads, infrastructure, policies and more. That universality is why Kubernetes has become the foundation…
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Being exhausted is exhausting
That title says it all. There are two people I think of here: Tyler Cowen is eternally optimistic. He may say he doesn’t like something or he thinks something is “not the best it could be,” but he’s rarely “negative,” and never bitter. James Watters, despite a rough couple of decades for PaaS (his life’s…
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Anthropic is building a PaaS.
Anthropic is building a PaaS. They’ve got isolated VM’s/containers, they’ve thought out support languages for the major languages. You can even write code in the browser…with the AI. And it checks your stuff into GitHub? Plus, of course, it runs your code for you, at least with Claude Skills. 🔗 Claude Code for web –…
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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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Workers controlling the means of ROI
The Golden Era of PaaS is Still Here I’m playing around with trying to, I don’t know, re-introduce the notion of PaaS to the platform discussion. I don’t think what’s going on now is as good as it could be. I mean, yeah, I’m biased. But, you know, also biased to awesome. As you may…
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So many links, so many finds
PaaS Talk We’re trying to amp up more technical explanations and demos of why Tanzu Platform/Cloud Foundry are great. Here is a little front-runner for a demo I’m going to extract from this same talk. Relative to your interests I didn’t take the time to organize these by topic. Apologies and kisses. UK government productivity…
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VMware Explore and SpringOne Highlights from the Tanzu Division’s Chief Marketing Officer Kevin Strohmeyer – Tanzu – ”I think explaining to our customers the movement of all the Kubernetes resources into VCF was important in positioning VCF as a complete infrastructure solution and then having clarity that Tanzu Platform is a true, pre-engineered Platform as…
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Practical platform engineering, the industry analyst business dies again, personal utopia – three good videos
Three good videos Platform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now. Most platform engineering talks are very frustrating for me. The same stuff over and over since about 2015. The platform engineering space is rife with people who’ve made the monumental mistake of thinking Kubernetes is a platform and then finding out they have so…
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Why we’ve decided to decommission GOV.UK PaaS (Platform as a Service) – Government Digital Service – “It has enjoyed uptime of 99.95%, and suffered only one major incident in its 7 years. All this while tenants deployed services more than 122 times a day, made up of 3,200 applications.” // It worked well, but people…
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Platform engineering for private cloud
Here’s a recording of my latest “how to do platform engineering in large organizations” talk. In this version of it, I go over what matters most for private cloud platforms. Here’s the slides for the talk if you’re into that kind of thing. This talk is based on many years of observing people run platforms,…
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FinOps Foundation’s FOCUS 1.2 Expands to SaaS, PaaS – Update from FinOps land. Still seems like a lot more people could be doing it.
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Still a lot – private cloud check-in, Spring 2025
Where are the workloads? Let’s check in on how much private there is nowadays. I think it’s somewhere in the range of 40% to 60% of workloads1 globally. If you narrow down to “enterprises” (let’s say organization that have 5,000, even 10,000 employees), my sense is that the number goes way up, maybe 70%. The…
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