Tag: tech
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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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Only three kinds of AI products actually work – “For my money, the current multi-billion-dollar question is can AI agents be useful for tasks other than coding?” // Good thinking about productizing AI: what seems to work and not work.
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AI, banks, mainframes, and on-premises
Above related to spending on EU sovereign cloud for AI, the lack of AI app explosion in the enterprise (see the product management/design take), and pondering why banks don’t run 100% of their IT in the public cloud.
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The ultimate bike-shedding story, and, always make your own slides
Steve Jobs had a lot of feedback on the original calculator app. He sent the programmer on a rock-fetching canard, demanding changes each day and then finding new things he didn’t like. Eventually, the developer just added an extra window, below, that allowed Jobs to tinker with all the UI aspects. That ended the back…
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We should be calling it all “AIaaS,” but I don’t think anyone could pronounce that without going PG-13 in every EBC and MQ.
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Stop Building Frameworks, Go With Good Enough. And, check out the full discussion I had with Brian.
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Some of the risks of having AIs write codes and AIso check code, “recursive AI security loops.” There’s also some advice about what to do, a post from Camille Crowell-Lee.
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3 factors is all you need – Notes on Modernizing Enterprise Apps
In this Tanzu Talk interview, Coté talks Brian Friedman about his extensive experience working with Pivotal, Tanzu, and Broadcom. They discuss the intricacies of modernizing enterprise applications, the relevance of .NET in the current tech landscape, and the role of platforms like Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. They also explore using AI, the challenges of application…
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Private Cloud AI Platform Engineering, at SREDay Amsterdam
I’m at SREDay Amsterdam today, hosted by ING at their lovely Cedar building. Here’s the slides I’m going to present later today: I’m not sure if they’re recording it. But, of course, if they are, it will be on my weblog. Update: Some photos of presenting, taken by the SREDay people. Fancy!
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Organizations are measuring DevEx metrics more, JetBrains survey
JetBrain’s The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity survey is out. It’s an oddly, narrowly focused survey. Mostly on metrics used to measure developer experience. Above, the metrics most used for tracking/rating/metric’ing development..As the conclusion says, measuring DevEx is getting better: The good news is that companies are getting more serious about tracking developer…
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There’s still enterprise marketing writing that beings “In today’s fast-evolving technology landscape…”
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How Tanzu Platform Fixes the AI Deployment Problem
You need a proper AI platform: Interested? Try a 90 day trial of the Tanzu Platform: https://trytanzu.ai.
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3 + 1 Cloud Foundry Stories
We don’t tell Cloud Foundry stories enough. Here are four: This talk was also a request to make more “case studies” and “customer references,” that is stories. So, I try to go over how to do that as well. At the last Cloud Foundry Day, I spoke more generally about the need for more Cloud…
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