Tag: videos

  • Your Boss Doesn’t Know What to Do With AI Enterprise AI Has a Product-Market Fit Problem. Enterprise AI isn’t stalled because the models are weak. It’s stalled because we haven’t discovered product-market fit inside the enterprise yet. You don’t find real AI value by theorizing in workshops. You find it by running experiments for months…

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • All dads are ethnic dads.

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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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  • 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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  • “He’s just… ✋👋🖐✋👋🖐👋✋🤚 …different”

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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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  • Stop Building Frameworks, Go With Good Enough. And, check out the full discussion I had with Brian.

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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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  • 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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