Tag: tech
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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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This week’s Tanzu Catsup: AI tools have solved code generation, probably. But they’ve created a new constraint: Day 2 operations. When the volume of applications jumps 10x driven by a flood of “small” line-of-business apps manual “run teams” and traditional onboarding processes break down. Hey guys! Like and subscribe.
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Enterprise AI ROI is still elusive. What IT can do to fix it. It’s not “culture.”
Everyone is excited about AI improving how organizations’s work. Reducing costs, bringing in more revenue. You know “productivity.” How is it going three years after the release of ChatGPT? Here are some recent headlines and excepts: 56% of companies getting nothing out of AI, PwC research says; chairman blames forgetting the basics. (On the same…
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What do platform engineers need to do to prepare for a flood of AI-generated apps? If enterprises let loose “knowledge workers” with code generation, I think we’ll see 10x the amount of little applications out there. This is going to be a flood of Day Two problems for platform engineers, security, people, etc. So, on…
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How to use AI for solo roleplaying with Dungeons & Dragons
Here’s my talk from AI for the Rest of Us: What the goblins can teach us about enterprise AI. // I’ve learned what agentic AI is by fighting goblins, talking with trolls, and buy custom made boots from gnomes. After a few years of playing solo D&D with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc., playing the role…
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After the Dream – Software Defined Talk #555
This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast: This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start? Watch the video (above), or if you prefer traditional podcasts, subscribe to it.
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60% of you Java people are living dangerously
Check this out from my pal DaShaun: in May of 2025, 60% of Spring Boot downloads were for versions no longer supported by the open-source project. That’s a lot. Too much, really. I can see how it happens. You get an app into production, it runs fine, and then you moveon to the next thing.…
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Here’s a cynical, but good overview of Anthropic’s attempt to use Claude code for generic knowledge work, a tool called Cowork. One part: Cowork may find fans among knowledge workers who have to create presentations but take no pride in their work. Come on. This is an application of that caustic Protestant belief that godliness…
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Winning in AI, story mode
Winning in AI is now defined as having a great chat app, not the AI infrastructure running that app. Amazon (AWS) has no chat app (that I know of, which is the point!), so people don’t think they’re winning. If AWS did have an app, and evolved it as a product, they would be at…
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I wasn’t really sure what hardned images were, let alone “distroless,” so Tony and I were lucky to get William on this week’s Tanzu Catsup to sort it out. We also discuss how it fits into platform engineering.
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It’s good to keep building the future, though it’s sometimes absurd to hear someone pivot, mid-breath, from declaring that salvation lies in the blockchain to announcing that AI will solve everything. California tech people can be really exhausting. Read the rest from Dan Wang for a very accurate write-up of why. 🔗 Dan Wang’s 2025…
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This week’s Software Defined Interviews episode is with Lian Li: In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Lian, a “cloud-native human” with a 15-year career in tech. Lian discusses her transition from tech to performance art, her experiences in amateur musical theater, stand-up comedy, and improv theater. She talks about platform engineering, the importance…
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