Where Technology Executives Will Be Investing In 2026 - Looks like lots of datacenter buildout.
Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me - Less time coding means more time designing and product managing.
Java licensing snafus cost millions, drive developers to open source - ”One-quarter of respondents said their organization spent between $50,000 and $100,000 resolving software non-compliance issues, while licensing issues cost 17% of surveyed organizations up to $1 million.”
Beyond London Summit 2025: Decoding Google Cloud’s Scale Narrative - Summary of stated Google cloud strategy, from Bola.
AI industry’s size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues - Doing enterprises AI isn’t free in terms of time, money, opportunity cost, and risk. You need target things that have a pay off, an ROI. I hope that this will mean doing more, not cutting costs. That is growth, not firing people.
Why I’m Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) - ‘Meanwhile, the winners will be teams building constrained, domain-specific tools that use AI for the hard parts while maintaining human control or strict boundaries over critical decisions. Think less “autonomous everything” and more “extremely capable assistants with clear boundaries."'
Internal Developer Platform Marketing, part 01
Most platform teams forget they have a product to sell to developers. Part one of my new series over at The New Stacklays out why internal platform marketing is incredibly important. Here’s excerpt on positioning:
Platform Positioning: What Is It Good For?
Positioning defines where your platform fits in your organization’s technical landscape. It answers the crucial question: “When and why should developers choose this platform over other options?”
Oftentimes, platforms are positioned as the everything solution that solves all the problems and, thus, should be used for all applications.
Internal Developer Platform Marketing, part 01
Driving Platform Adoption: Community Is Your ValueIf you want developers to actually use your platform, you’ve got to give them more than APIs and automation. You need a community. In the third piece in our platform marketing series, Rita and I look at how the most successful platform teams invest in support forums, internal events, and actual human beings whose job is to make developers feel connected, heard, and empowered.
VMware Tanzu enhances support for generative AI and agents with Tanzu AI Solutions - “As customers move from AI experimentation to implementation, they stand to benefit from closer integrations between technology components as they redefine “Ops” frameworks within their businesses. VMware Tanzu AI Solutions are designed to do just that, with specific enhancements like AI middleware that boosts performance, fosters security and reduces time to value when it comes to operationalizing AI models and applications. Tanzu AI Solutions are polyglot for those who are unfamiliar with preferred data science languages or use other languages, and should appeal to Java developers with the launch of Spring AI. Spring AI also includes dedicated feature sets to control, observe, and evaluate models and, ultimately, agents, as organizations' AI capabilities progress. Model context protocol (MCP) is also supported in Tanzu Platform."
Identify, solve, verify - “My job is to identify problems that can be solved with code, then solve them, then verify that the solution works and has actually addressed the problem."