Tag: tech
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🤖 Findings and CIO Retention Guide: Gender, Priorities, and Exit Triggers in High Tech
Original: Beyond the Pipeline: A Gender Lens on Priorities and Exit Triggers in the High-Tech Industry by researchers at The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Communications of the ACM. Summarized by Claude AI on July 2, 2026. The Findings Men are far more committed to staying. 44.9% of men selected “no intentions to leave” vs.…
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making money, taking care of people
The counter-point to all those Europe is decadent economic charts people put out: After roaming the Earth for 35 years, my conclusion is the U.S. is the best place to make money and Europe is the best place to spend it.” … In terms of moving bits, the Netherlands is one of Europe’s key connection…
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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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How AI change your software development organization
A catch-up with Purnima Padmanabhan, GM of the Tanzu Division at Broadcom, on what her team has actually learned shipping enterprise software with AI for the last year and a half: code generation is the small part, beautiful code is the new uncanny valley, and you cannot solve the agent boundary problem from inside the…
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🤖 Valiantys-Glean Partnership Bets That Cross-Platform Knowledge Graphs and Behavioral KPIs Are What Move Enterprise AI Past Pilots
Original: Enterprise AI is still stuck at experimentation – Valiantys and Glean think they know why by diginomica. Summarized by AI on June 3, 2026. Most enterprise AI pilots stall, and the diagnosis from Nathan Chantrenne, Chief AI Officer at Valiantys, is that the field measures the wrong things and fragments its tooling. The dominant…
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Enterprise self-harm: cleaning the data is the hard part
I think the critical part of it was really realizing that we had built the original product presupposing that our customers had data integrated, that we could focus on the analytics that came subsequent to having your data integrated. I feel like that founding trauma was realizing that actually everyone claims that their data is…
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50%+ failure is normal
Analyst firm Gartner thinks at least half of all generative AI projects “will overrun their budgeted costs due to poor architectural choices and lack of operational know-how,” and most organizations that try to build custom models “will abandon their efforts due to costs, complexity and technical debt in their deployments.” Yes, and this matches decades…
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Patching CVEs at AI speed is a platform engineering problem
AI-assisted vulnerability discovery cut the gap from CVE published to weaponized exploit from weeks to hours. Quarterly patch windows and hand-rolled CVE spreadsheets are no longer a defensible posture.
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trying your best properly rated
widely accepted reading of the-west-wing, as such, is that of a liberal Fantasia, not because it depicts the Bartlet administration as being liberal, but because it depicts a world in which the best possible thing you can do is to try very hard to do the right thing — and the liberals, or really the…
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AI backlash, from the read the room/Picard face-palm files.
The normies don’t like AI, esp. The Kids: They’re being told, usually by people who already have theirs, that they should be more excited about the latest evolutions in software automation. “Why aren’t you more interested in nuanced conversations about the latest evolutions in software automation,” fans of the latest evolutions in software automation will…
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Now you can react faster than ever to security problems
This is an excerpt from our Tanzu Catsup last week. In that episode we talked all about how this AI stuff is changing – for the better – how you can handle security problems at the app layer. It’s Monday morning. Your boss walks up, says “scrap the backlog, we’ve got a list of CVEs…
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Datacenter NIMBYism: What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?
Tech people are amazingly bad at marketing to The Community. And by “the community,” I mean normal people, not the “open source community.” Take the datacenter problem. Tech companies need more compute, so they need datacenters. They plop them down in some small town, avoid paying taxes, and consume huge amounts of electricity and water.…
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Always taste the digital transformation while you’re making it
At a large enterprise I recently worked with, the board asked the Chief Digital Transformation Officer to develop an AI adoption strategy to drive innovation, growth, and cost efficiency. His consultant of choice conducted stakeholder interviews and proposed a three-phase program scheduled to last 3.5 years: Phase 1: Fix digital basics and address the leftover…
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 – private cloud, private AI, enterprise-grade kubernetes
Our cousins over in VMware announced the most recent version of VMware Cloud Foundation, 9.1, yesterday. We all call this “VCF.” It’s at the center of Broadcom’s strategy to be the private cloud stack for large enterprises. You know: banks, governments, large retailers, manufactures, et. al. Our layer, the Tanzu Platform, sits a-top VCF like…
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Treat AI as a stoner
The right mental model for working with an AI, according to my co-host David. If you’ve spent any real time with an AI, you know exactly what he means. The model can do impressive work in a tight scope. Step out of that scope, or feed it more than fits, and you’re suddenly explaining the…
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Software Defined Talk #122: Emily Long, VCs, startups, Edera, etc.
In this episode, Whitney and I talked with Emily Long, CEO and co-founder of Edera about their hardened container runtime – the kind you can swap in without re-platforming or kicking off yet another zero-trust migration. The pitch is basically: stop chasing detect-and-respond alerts and just fix the foundation. We also got into the messy…
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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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Let them tinker – hacking developer resistance to sound enterprise architecture and platforms
Developers need to tinker or they’ll reject your platform. That is a lesson that people who build tools and platforms for developers learn. The more ambitious your platform is in scale, the more tinker resistance you encounter – you want it to be the platform that 10,000’s of developers at a bank use, for example.…
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Using a custom CLAUDE_CODE_DIR does not work
I’ve tried to use a different $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR for several weeks now. This way, I can have partitioned off harnesses for real life stuff, versus code, versus experiments. It doesn’t work, however. Sometimes Claude obeys it, sometimes it doesn’t. This means the wrong permissions, memories, rules, and ways of operating get loaded and mixed in. You…
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