Tag: PaaS
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What are people asking for when they want to see your tech’s ROI? I don’t think they’re asking for ROI at all.
I’m thinking through the topic of ROI for infrastructure software again (obviously for our PaaS stuff). I get asked about this every year or two. Each time I look at it, I get more confused. This ask always come from sales, presumably because the buyers are asking it. But, I don’t think the ask is…
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Now’s a great time to rediscover PaaS
Norway, leaving OSL. My recap of Cloud Foundry Day is up on the Tanzu blog: check it out! I gave an opening talk at Cloud Foundry Day last week. I ended up shortening it a lot and, of course, I didn’t exactly give the talk I’d written down. Here’s the script I wrote for myself.…
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An example of coaching ChatGPT to be less wrong
Here is an example of how you have to steer the robot (ChatGPT, below) to the right answer. You can almost feel it trying to give you what you “want” (more like: what seems the predictable next words): Me: Did Ricardo use the example of the British sending wool to Portugal and importing port from…
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Reports of Deno’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated – ”Most developers weren’t deploying simple stateless functions. They were building full-stack apps: apps that talk to a database, that almost always is located in a single region.” // People love the CRUD app. // Also, a tales from PaaS-land.
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Patience, plumbing, and the pricing of everything
Relative to your interests When was peak message in a bottle? – Only 80s kids will get this: “grandfather clocks; suits of armour; quicksand; spontaneous human combustion.” Also: big foot and UFOs. Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor? – Checks out on both sides. Pricing: A List of Tactics – Some mind-tricks to play with pricing.…
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Platform Engineering: Evolution or Rebranding? – Get yourself a PaaS. // “the idea of a dedicated team removing frictions by building tools and resuable abstractions is an idea that’s here to stay.”
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Revisiting the clouds – “Fast forward to today, and the PaaS market has been significantly reshaped, largely by the rise of Kubernetes and other technologies. The landscape is very different. Apparently, somewhere along the line we lost the ease of deployment that platforms like Heroku and Cloud Foundry were well known for … progress” //…
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The 2024 State of Platform Engineering? Fledgling at Best – ”Only about 9% of respondents were indeed mature by the CNCF Platform Maturity Model’s standards.” // (1) There must be a lot of Tanzu Platform users in that 9%, (2) good thing we decided to throw out all the previous PaaS work and build up…
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Recovering from the platform dark ages, and freaking out about cheap AI
Interview: Brian Gracely Whitney and I interviewed Brian Gracely for this week’s Software Defined Interviews episode. It was a great, big ol’ basket of topics: the process of gathering and reporting cloud news, the evolution of PaaS, and the pros and cons of working at small startups versus large companies. Also: career advice, the importance…
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Return to PaaS: Building the Platform of Our Dreams – The New Stack – It’s a tough slog.
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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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Broadcom Announces the General Availability of VMware Tanzu Platform 10 – Tanzu – New version of our new PaaS. If you write and run your own app in big companies, you should check it out. Kubernetes for mortals, and Cloud Foundry for the gourmands.
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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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Contemplate contemporary men’s waistlines
Private PaaS Along with our summary of Explore EU last week, around the start of this I go over my thinking about private PaaS, VMware, and Tanzu. At least that’s what I remember doing. Wastebook “THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER—BUT THEY’RE IMPROVING” Systemantics. The Systems Bible, John Gall. And: “we are interested, not in the…
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Continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO) needs a DevSecOps platform – This is written in US Federal government speak, but the same benefits apply to commercial enterprises. If you use a centralized PaaS for your apps instead of customized infrastructure per each app, you can certify the layers below the application as compliant to use. Then…
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Five Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Platform-as-a-Product – Text version of a good talk.
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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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Lessons learned from Cloud Foundry for the platform engineering community
Here’s my talk from Cloud Foundry Day, last week: The Cloud Foundry community has been around for a long time and the PaaSes built on it have been in use for awhile as well (many for at least five year, some for well over 7 years). In this talk, I first wanted to go over…
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7 Core Elements of an Internal Developer Platform – The reinvention of PaaS continues // The Eternal Recurrence of DevOps. To be fair, this time there’s tighter integration with CI/CD and ops doing some territory grabbing into SDLC.
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