- Unleashing Transformation - Yup, this all of the stuff. Arguably, it’s missing #8: actually do it and stop blaming “culture."
- Embracing Antifragility: Building Resilient Products in an Uncertain World - You can read this as a take on what it means to be a “learning organization.” As ever, the hardest, most mysterious, least airport business book-ized topic is “how do we change from ‘traditional’ to this whiz-bang method?"
- Stop Team Topologies - Don’t use an understandable system to avoid asking why you’re doing anything in the first place. // Or: all the value is in the “it depends."
- Building A Generative AI Platform, Chip Huyen - This is a fantastic overview of what an enterprise AI architecture probably looks like, taking into account not only technical stuff, but also business concerns like cost and risk/accuracy.
That which never moved can never move back
The Cloud EquilibriumAs you know, I enjoy the impossible chase to track down the elusive chart that shows how many workloads are running on private cloud1 versus public cloud. I last rounded up my findings in July, 2024. Of particular interest is the IDC CloudPulse report. I don’t have access to the most recent one, but you can see one of the older charts in an older blog post of mine.
Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry’s Hidden Superpowers, Save Money with Java Native - “you can reduce your Java app’s memory usage by 90%. This allows your applications to use fewer resources, which directly contributes to cost savings and more compute capacity”
Docs are the new something - The Google Docs web.
Google NotebookLM: AI-Powered Document Analysis Tool - Ideas for using NotebookML.
Citi taps Google Cloud for app migration, AI adoption - “As evidence of progress, CFO Mark Mason pointed to 450 apps retired by the bank since the start of the year. Citi has reduced tech sprawl by eliminating 1,250 apps in the last two years, Mason said.” // Thinks of all the zombie apps like that across every organization in the world.
How PostgreSQL is Dominating AI and Multicloud - Postgres never goes away.