Tag: tech
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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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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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