Tag: tech
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Why people build their own platforms anyway – resume-driven development and the joy of building
Every list of reasons to build your own platform leaves off the real ones: resume-driven development, and that builders like building things. Do you fight that, or adapt the platform philosophy to it?
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Scoping questions for business books
What type of organization is this book for? IBM or Facebook or OpenAI? Netflix or Warner Brothers? Mercedes or Tesla? Alaska or Belgium? Delta or SpaceX? HSBC or Square? Does this apply to management, employees, VCs, Wall Street investors, or customers? Feel free to pick multiple, but explain. Is this a playbook for how a…
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Spending less money on IT is always the priority, and how to get around it
The survey of more than 200 CFOs, taken during August 2025, showed that 56% of CFOs rank achieving enterprise-wide cost optimization targets in their top five. Gartner CFO survey. The easiest way to show the value of IT is to show how it means spending less money. There’s occasional moments where “ROI” is achieved by…
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Highlights from that OpenAI “The state of enterprise AI report”
On average, ChatGPT Enterprise users attribute 40–60 minutes of time saved per active day to their use of AI, with data science, engineering, and communications workers saving more than average (60–80 minutes per day). That’s the headline grabbing piece from the recent ChatGPT for work study. The theory take-away from that is that the more…
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People don’t read vendor1 PDFs anymore. This is oft said. Is it true for you? Should anyone be writing white papers anymore? Or should we (1) do short form pieces from social media micro-content, blog posts, advertorial, (2) do a lot more videos and podcasts (by that, I mean interview videos that happen to have…
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If you have PowerPoint pillars, your organization probably has strategy BO. From The Octopus Organization.
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Agile fails quickly if you don’t follow the practices.
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If I could only give one piece of feedback for the rest of my career on all tech marketing content it would be this: rewrite to describe the activities done, not the outcome achieved.
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Claude Skills are top on my list of “important things no one is talking about” for this year. They’re both an AIPaaS and showing a new programming model and mindset. The educational angle (“View Source”) is a good take. 🔗 What MCP and Claude Skills Teach Us About Open Source for AI The original is…
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Getting ready for an AI app influx. Did we learn from the digital transformation era?
Will IT get ahead of the chaotic introduction of a new technology, AI, into their organization? Probably not, they rarely do, creating Shadow Whatever the New Tech is. But, for those that do, here’s Tony and I’s recommendations. Platform engineering’s etc. This our second Tanzu Talk livestream. We do it weekly on Tuesdays at 4pm…
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An XDG library for Java – xdgj
Each time I write a small utility, either a command line one or for an MCP server, I need to store state and config in the file system. I’ve come up with many ways of doing it. You know, like, you want to store a default LLM prompt in a file. You want to store…
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What does Agile Smell Like? I tried to answer that question back in 2006 when I worked at RedMonk in the form of a PDF. This guide helps you sniff test how Agile an organization is. A “sniff test” is a quick way to establish a gut-feel about something. It helps you determine what to…
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🤖 Open Source Maintainers Are Burning Out and Walking Away
Summarized by AI. Open source software is sustained by overworked, often unpaid volunteers, many of whom face crushing workloads and relentless community pressure. A recent study by Miranda Heath, supported by Sentry’s Open Source Pledge, reveals that burnout among maintainers is not an isolated issue but a systemic failure threatening the stability of the global…
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What is a platform and how do you do platform engineering at scale? Find out in this interview on tales from Home Depot and beyond.
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What is platform engineering? What is a platform? How do you show platform ROI?
Tony was on the the team that lead platform engineering at Home Depot for many years. Here’s what he thinks platform engineering: This is a livestream Tony and I have started. Tuesdays at 10am US eastern time/4pm Amsterdam time.
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There’s probably around 50 million developers world-wide, and 20.5m professional developers. That’s what I’d start saying after seeing a chart from IDC’s September 2025 developer study update. They forecast it to be ~59 million in 2029. If you want to be very precise, a breakdown of the survey puts “professional developers” at around 20.8m in…
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Managing the eels
I need a Google family bundle hat includes storage, YouTube Premium, Google Fi, and Gemini into, let’s say, $120 to $150 a month. It might need to be $200, but looking at similar services I have, bundling it all to Google might be good. We have two ChatGPT subscriptions and a Claude subscription, so that’s…
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The platform that needs a platform
How big is the Kubernetes market? Here’s an estimate from a recent IDC PDF: The rapid growth of cloud-native applications, driven by DevOps, containers, and microservices, has made container orchestration a critical capability because containers are challenging to manage at scale without an orchestration layer. This trend is driving significant market growth, with IDC forecasting…
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“If you already have zero enterprise apps in Python, that remains the right number and Gen AI should not change that at all.” Rod Johnson, October, 2025.
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Reducing the 7 R’s of modernization down to 3 – new take on tech debt, from Charles Betz
Where once there were 7, now there are three: Forrester data provides clear guidance on where organizations should focus. Knowledge and process debt, selected by 37% of respondents, demands immediate attention through process improvement, reengineering, and organizational change management. Unsupported vendor software and redundant IT systems, each selected by 30–32% of respondents, require proactive migration…
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