Tag: tech
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There’s a lot of business logic in Java, decades worth…
We have invested a lot in domain models, some of which are even very good. And, to be able to leverage that as we move to the new world is really, really important.” Rod Johnson. Source: “GenAI Grows Up: Building Production-Ready Agents on the JVM,” Rod Johnson, GOTO, October 1st, 2025. That reminds me of…
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Tanzu Catsup: The Risk of Relying on AI for Platform Engineering
Internal development teams and executives are increasingly looking at AI to automate the creation of internal developer platforms. However, cobbling together open-source components with AI is a far cry from building a scalable, secure, and “enterprise-grade” environment. In this conversation, we explore why betting your internal infrastructure on AI-generated platforms is a high-stakes risk and…
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Related to your interests, Thursday
Why it was a Boston vacation. Europe set to treble sovereign cloud investment – “European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.” More context: Sovereign Computing, panel – This was a great panel, very detailed…
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Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn’t need new platforms
For your enterprise AI projects, what you want now is resilience. I’m using that term from a paper called “AI as a Normal Technology.” There, resilience means ” taking actions now to improve our ability to deal with unexpected developments in the future.” There’s a lot of great thinking in that paper, but I want…
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The weird bastion stuff in D&D 5e 2024 makes a lot more sense after reading Dungeon Crawler Carl.
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Go cheap on innovation. Otherwise you just buy PowerPoints. Jana Werner on using tight timelines and small teams to force real progress. From our interview with Jana Werner.
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Two theories of the AI investor spook-out
First, there is the fear that AI generated apps will replace existing software companies. This from Benji Edwards at Ars: These releases occurred during a week of exceptional volatility for software stocks. On January 30, Anthropic released 11 open source plugins for Cowork, its agentic productivity tool that launched on January 12. Cowork itself is…
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Relative to your interests, Friday
A Perfect Match for Big Data: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service and Tanzu Greenplum MCP Auth made easier in Spring – doing auth in MCP has always been a shit-show. The AI Free Lunch is Over – Links to several analyst surveys on enterprise AI. Enterprise Architecture Has Never Been Stronger – Soon, we’ll all be…
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AI, open source, talent, and more, live at cfgmgmtcamp 2026, with Andrew Clay Shafer
This week’s Software Defined Interviews episode was recorded live at #cfgmgmtcamp with Andrew Clay Shafer as a returning guest: Spotting talent, getting innovation adoption and driving use, open source, AI, and developing taste – those are the major topics Andrew and I discussed this week at a live recording. Also, a framework for creating the…
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
Codex App – OpenAI’s Claude Code competitor. U.S tech backlash grows as countries and startups seek alternatives – Big revealed preferences tests coming up here. Related, the investor angle: “Europe is hitting the kills witch on some U.S. tech.” AWS destiny: becoming the next Lumen – ‘The real problem is that developers don’t choose AWS…
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Relevant to your interests, Monday
I’m at cfgmgmtcamp today and tomorrow, in Ghent. Later today, I have a talk, and then a live Software Defined Interviews recording, with returning guest Andrew Clay Shafer. Americans can expect to live longer than ever, per the latest CDC data – ”newborn Americans in 2024 could expect to live to 79 on average” CIOs…
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Here are the slides for the talk I’ll be giving at @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social later today, at 2pm. It’s based on the DIY pitfalls paper I revised recently. CfgMgmtCamp #PlaformEngineering
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Related to your interests, Saturday
Your Life is the Sum Total of 2,000 Mondays – “If your life is going to be 80% Mondays and their equivalents, the design specifications for Monday matter more than the design specifications for your vacation.” The State Of GenAI And Consumers For 2026 – As agentic AI ascends, companies are grappling with control –…
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How much does it cost to build an internal developer platform? – Tanzu Catsup
This week’s Tanzu Catsup is about how much you need to pay people to build your own internal developer platform: I think building your own platform is a terrible idea, especially for larger organizations. My co-host Tony ran the platform for Home Depot and now talks with other platform teams a lot, so I wanted…
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Enterprise ROI is elusive – maybe ROI is just headcount chopping, not revenue growth and “transformation”
From “that meeting could have been an email” to “that meeting could have been a ChatGPT session.” Recent Forrester survey summary: AI is still stuck in “efficiency mode.” In many organizations, a technology organization leads AI efforts and is treated as a cost center. Those CIOs are incentivized to optimize for efficiency, not growth. The…
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Relevant to your interests, Wednesday
How the 1944 CIA Sabotage Manual Accidentally Became Your Software Acquisition Playbook – as always, have less meeting. Stellan Skarsgård: ‘Don’t try to be perfect. Tell your children: I’m sorry, I’m a piece of crap, but I love you’ – “I believe that art is important because it allows you to see the world through…
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Internal Developer Platforms – Build vs. Buy
From Abby Bangser’s KubeCon US 2025 keynote: Now, I’m sure that at least some of you are shaking your heads and thinking, I’m saying we have to all build our own PaaS. Haven’t we been there before with platforms as a service? But I am absolutely not suggesting that we walk up to Sisyphus, give…
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Kubernetes use rising, large organizations slowest to adapt, not many people train their own AI model or deploy new AI models frequently
The new CNCF cloud native report shows a continual spread of Kubernetes, and container usage, in organizations. The chart above shows a shift from experimenting with Kubernetes to trying it out in production, to running in production. At the same time, containers, as you’d expect, are also moving steadily into production. Application containers in production…
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This week’s Software Defined Talk: This week, we discuss the end of Cloud 1.0, AI agents fixing old apps, and Chainguard vs. Docker images. Plus, the mystery of Dutch broth is finally solved. I recommend the traditional podcast format.
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This week’s Software Defined Interviews: we talk with Nathen Harvey, who leads the DORA research program at Google Cloud. They talk about what 15 years of DevOps and delivery data actually says about AI. The answer feels something like “it makes you even better at what you’re already good at.” High-performing teams get better, while…
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