Still a lot - private cloud check-in, Spring 2025
Where are the workloads?Let’s check in on how much private there is nowadays. I think it’s somewhere in the range of 40% to 60% of workloads1 globally. If you narrow down to “enterprises” (let’s say organization that have 5,000, even 10,000 employees), my sense is that the number goes way up, maybe 70%.
The way I think about the question “how much private cloud is there?” is “where are all the applications and services running.
What are people asking for when they want to see your tech's ROI? I don't think they're asking for ROI at all.
I’m thinking through the topic of ROI for infrastructure software again (obviously for our PaaS stuff). I get asked about this every year or two. Each time I look at it, I get more confused. This ask always come from sales, presumably because the buyers are asking it. But, I don’t think the ask is about the basic ROI calculations: the amount we paid for this tech is less than the amount of money we make using it.
Reinvent the Wheel - ”Reinvent for insight. Reuse for impact.”
Using ChatGPT as a therapist - …people like it.
How to Lead an All-Hands After Delivering Bad News - “Create a shared mental model to make sure your team understands what the new context means for how they work together."
MCP Is RSS for AI: More Use Cases for Model Context Protocol - I like this: “I’m inclined to think of MCP as RSS for AI.” // Once prompts are used as intended - to be user initiated activity in the UI, we’ll see if things evolve. Think of an MCP prompt as adding a new button, or command to the UI…sort of. Most MCP things now are “tools” reading data or writing data, the AI puts some text into the tool, some text comes out. But, the tool user is the AI, not the human. Of course, the human can tell the AI to use it. We have demos of configuring Cloud Foundry this way. An MCP prompt’s user it meant to be a human, directly typing or clicking something. This might be too nuanced of a distinction and turn out not to be useful. The MCP clients, like Claude need better implementations of it (it should start with auto-complete slash commands, the example in the MCP spec!). // Another point: the MCP spec is making a big semantic gamble on the distinction between tools, prompts, and resources. Looking at all the tools so far, the others aren’t needed to get the functionality you want, but they do seem like a cleaner design. The people writing the MCP Servers will determine if those extra semantics (prompts and resources) are useful, needed.
Dark leisure, eating sausage and vodka before a morning run
Relative to your interestsLooks like it’s all AI except one link. Can you find it?
Your First Spring AI 1.0 Application - Making a full AI-driven app with Spring.
Production-Worthy AI With Spring AI 1.0
SEO for AI: A look at Generative Engine Optimization
How does ChatGPT work? What is AI, really? - Good overview of the basics.
Agentic AI delivers measurable value to early adopters - "More than one-quarter of respondents are planning for [AI] budget increases of at least 26% in the next 12 months.