Tag: tech
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If you can’t wait until Friday for the perfectly edited and polished Software Defined Talk podcast episode, you can watch the unedited, full recoding – in glorious color video – in the meantime.
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Tanzu Platform 10.4: a private cloud platform for AI harnesses (or, “agentic AI”)
AI companies are building platforms for running agentic applications. Right now, those applications are primarily for software development, with a little bit of knowledge worker stuff. In each case, you get a “harness,” an application that wraps all sorts of functionality around a model. This harness app is way beyond the chat-based apps we grew…
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What cf push actually does
When I see a platform engineering conference talk about building an internal developer platform on Kubernetes, I think about cf push. Cloud Foundry has been doing this – the actual thing, the single command that takes you from source code to running app – for more than a decade. People keep rebuilding it on top…
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Don’t forget what I told you yesterday – AI memory and the mind palace – Tanzu Catsup
If you’ve spent any real time with Claude Code or Cursor, you know the feeling. The thing you told the agent five minutes ago is now optional as far as it’s concerned. The fix isn’t a smarter model. It’s architecture. This week David Zendzian and I dig into memory for AI agents – what it…
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Hot modems, dinergoths, the platform bottleneck, and the SaaSpocalypse – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: sovereignty’s control plane, 81,000 people tell Anthropic what they want, Google sells its fiber, and oats for the sparrows, and cake Related to your interests My pal Adib Saikali wrote up an MCP security guide covering how to think about securing MCP servers in the enterprise (no lead-generation required, just a straight-up PDF download).…
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Securing AI
More “how do we secure this AI stuff” talk with David Zendzian on today’s live stream. He’s recently gone Claude Crazy so I wanted to get his CISO-supremo talk on thinking through the risk management for AI in enterprises. Each time I tried to come up with a problem, he was good finding the fix.…
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MCP Security Guide
My pal Adib Saikali wrote up an MCP security guide covering how to think about securing MCP servers in the enterprise (no lead-generation required, just a straight-up PDF download). It gets into access tiers (open, group, and user-level servers), authentication with OAuth 2.1, identity propagation models (when to use service accounts vs. forwarding user identity),…
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KubeCon EU 2026, bottlenecks, Corporate Bullshit Receptivity, and the End of the Meat-Mouse – Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: sovereign AI, Claude Code auto mode, FCC bans foreign routers, Walmart digital price tags KubeCon EU 2026 KubeCon is crazy big. James says something like 13,500+ people. They’re going for another infrastructure grab: all the stuff used to run AI. It’s worth asking who they’re competing with there. I have no idea how OpenAI…
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Kubernetes is the bottleneck, and you can get through it with a platform
Photo by Daniel Bryant. Another great KubeCon talk from Abby Bangser imploring the Kubernetes people to remember how important platforms are: they make all of his stuff usable for developers and valuable to the organizations that run it all. Without a platform, you’re just put another bottleneck in place. Also, see the go she started,…
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VMware/Broadcom at KubeCon EU 2026
Here’s Claude’s take on VMware’s stuff at KubeCon – just some light editing for me. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 ran March 23-26 in Amsterdam. Here’s what VMware by Broadcom announced. VKS 3.6 Ships The VKS stack as seen at VMUG Connect Amsterdam 2026. VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service 3.6 shipped with Kubernetes 1.35 support, RHEL…
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The end of the meat-mouse
The agency in agentic AI feels a lot more like giving the users – the humans – agency they didn’t have. That’s what’s making it useful for me, from sorting out dumb-shit home-networking incompatibilities, figuring out taxes, and otherwise sorting my shit out. When you unleash something like Claude code on all the messy and…
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Using AI to help with SRE, ops, etc.: The problem, he said, is that Claude “will get wrong correlation versus causation.” It’s like a new joiner on the team, they will think “oh, it’s a capacity problem, when actually you lost your cache.” “This is why we can’t trust LLMs for incident response,” said Palcuie.…
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Art Degrees, Sun Microsystems, and How Kubernetes Scales Contributions, with Josh Berkus – Software Defined Interviews #121
Our interview for this week is up, it’s with Josh Berkus: Whitney and Coté discuss with Josh Berkus (Red Hat, Kubernetes contributor) how liberal and fine arts degrees (philosophy, photography, sculpture, pottery) apply to tech careers. Berkus details how early hardware experience influenced his database performance work, noting hardware’s renewed relevance with AI and multi-arch…
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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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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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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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