Tag: software
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The Other Bubble – What the enterprise software market looks like from the outside. Also with a side of AI-washing.
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Fake Software Defined Talk #487
The Deep Dive crew does their version of a Software Defined Talk episode.
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How DevOps can come back from the dead, and why it must
The DevOps community is running on fumes and at the lowest point in mindshare and interest that it’s ever been at. This is stupid. The practices, tools, and mindset of DevOps are vital to how most organization run their software1 and DevOps has improved the way the software we use everyday is built and run,…
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There never was a rug – the social norms of open source staying open have changed
From Iceland. This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast We talk about the open source “rug pull” du jour in this week’s Software Defined Podcast: “This week, we discuss CockroachDB’s relicensing, the ongoing debate about remote work, and platform engineering. Plus, some thoughts on the use of speakerphones in public.” We both steer us towards a…
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The World Is Eating Software – The software bubble. Also commentary on power steering.
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What Factors Explain the Nature of Software – “The only way to know exactly what software we want to build is to fully specify it: without doing so, there will be gaps between our vague ideas and harsh reality. However, a complete, abstract specification is, in general, at least as much work as creating the…
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Commoditize your condiments, or, open source business models considered
Business models are fascinating. Most business models come down to a type of arbitrage, at least as I understand it. You find something you have that you can sell to someone else, crucially, at a price above what it cost you to make that thing.1 In, let’s call it, The Capatalist Upbrining, there is a…
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Do software companies actually have good margins? – ’In other words, software development costs are COGS. Not literally; not according to the accountants. But in practice, if you can only sell SaaS software—and retain customers—by promising a steady stream of new releases, how are the expenses associated with developing those releases functionally any different than…
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We should probably just fix networking instead of putting on another layer of paint
Here’s the final installment of my talks with Here’s the third little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talk about things that slow developers and other staff down. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to…
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HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business – Extensive look into the HasiCorp financials and talk of their OSS licensing shift.
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Mindsets and Tactics for New Leaders of Software Teams – Seems like good stuff.
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Developers are bad at estimating in at least three ways.
Midjourney: Olan Mills style photograph of software programmers standing around a conference table in 1980s sitcom style Software people are bad at estimating Here are three ways that software people (developers, mostly) are bad at estimating: Estimating the feasibility of writing code for new features, that is, the risk of failure – if the new…
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Waiting for the close of open – how long can the 2000s spirit of open source and open APIs last?
Midjourney: Medieval serfs defending a castle from demons in the style of Hieronymus Bosch, from venusinfurs. The changing nature of “open” In our tech world, the idea of “open” has changed a lot in the past few years. Instead of it meaning “open to everyone,” the classic notion of “open source,” now it more means…
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IT spending soars, generative AI investments barely leave a mark – These forecasts have been confusing in recent years. They’re always increasing, and yet the trends are always cost savings: ‘“Digital business transformations are beginning to morph,” said Lovelock. “IT projects are shifting from a focus on external-facing deliverables such as revenue and customer experience,…
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The mystery of how many developers there are in the world: is it 100 million, or more like 16 million?
Finding an estimate of how many developers there are in the world is difficult. Oh, there’s plenty of people making estimates, but those estimates vary so much that the estimates are suspicious. For example: Microsoft/GitHub recently said they now have 100 million developers using GitHub. “We estimate that, as of Q1 2023, there are 35.6…
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The eternal first inning of cloud
LEGACY SOFTWARE AT BANKS! That’s the topic of the talk my colleague and I are giving tomorrow. You can watch it for free, check it out. In addition to the talk, you’ll get a free copy of my book on managing legacy software, Escaping the Legacy Trap Here’s the slides we have so far, a…
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Take care of your legacy software before it kills your ability to innovate
I want to try a new video format: the Quick Comment. Just one “fact” or idea and 45 seconds or so of commentar. We’ll see if I like it and/or keep it up.
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Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) – As with most things, the whole SBOM push is probably a lot simpler to solve than it seems. Also, a delightful “old man yells at secure software supply chain hype” vibe as only Jon could do well.
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from tasty broth to jiggly chicken slime in the fridge
That’s a chart from our recent State of Kubernetes survey that I’ll probably use a lot this year. Here’s my commentary on it from a blog post this week: In our surveys, I’ve been using the software release cycle question to represent developer benefits. For the most part, the faster developers can release software, the…
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