“Socrates drawing at a whiteboard with a rapt audience set in ancient Athens, but the whiteboard is like a contempory whiteboard,” Midjourney, January, 2025.Socrates Didn’t WhiteboardThis week’s Software Defined Talk: “This week, we discuss the latest news about DeepSeek, how to make sense of the countless hot takes, and a review of The Nvidia Way. Plus, some thoughts on Valentine’s Day.” Take a listen, or watch the unedited recording, and subscribe if you don’t already.
Taking advantage of cheap AI
Take a walk with me and ponder cheaper AI:
I found some good charts for this one:
"State of Enterprise Tech Spending," Battery Ventures, September, 2024. “Where's the Value in AI?" BCG, October, 2024. 🍃 Spring AI, an open source SDK for using AI.
Tanzu AI Solutions and VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA.
This chart in particular is helpful. It’s showing that there aren’t actually that many - hardly any!
Spring Cloud Services for Tanzu Platform - Spring Cloud Services for Cloud Foundry v3.3 introduces an enhanced dashboard UI, improved configuration validation, and simplified secret management.
The 2024 State of Platform Engineering? Fledgling at Best - ”Only about 9% of respondents were indeed mature by the CNCF Platform Maturity Model’s standards.” // (1) There must be a lot of Tanzu Platform users in that 9%, (2) good thing we decided to throw out all the previous PaaS work and build up from the Kubernetes studs…
Nosferatu (2024), review from Warren Ellis - Great review of a great movie.
GKE and its developer appeal to scale workloads - Giving people what they need to operate at “Google Scale”…whether they need to or not.
GKE and its developer appeal to scale workloads - Giving people what they need to operate at “Google Scale”…whether they need to or not.
“What advice would you give to people about how to prepare for advanced AI?" - Lots of advice about integrating the outcomes of AI into your life. No prompts or anything, but more how everyday life could change if we have AI doing more stuff.
Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red - Dimensional/Azul survey “found the percentage of Oracle Java users considering switching to alternative JVMs or JDKs based an open approach increased from 72 percent in 2023 to 88 percent in 2024. The proportion wanting to leave Oracle reached 92 percent in France and 95 percent Germany…. in 2023, research from Gartner showed that costs could be between two and five times greater under the new licensing model, for using the same software."
Trump cribs Musk’s “fork in the road” Twitter memo to slash gov’t workforce - Big layoff vibes for 2025.