Customers don’t trust AI, and the rift might be hurting business - ”Participants were then asked questions to determine their willingness to buy the TV. Those who saw AI in the product description were less likely to make the purchase.”
How PepsiCo capped cloud overspend - ‘“FinOps is all about evangelization,” Woo said. “This is probably the most difficult side of running a FinOps practice, because when you are a FinOps practitioner you’re trained to do IT work. You may have had a finance background. You weren’t trained to be a mediator or therapist.”'
CIOs: Get Tech Sprawl Under Control - “According to Forrester’s Q2 2024 Tech Pulse Survey, a staggering 77% of US technology decision-makers report moderate to extensive levels of technology sprawl. This sprawl can result in unsustainable costs, slower IT delivery, reduced operational resilience, and increased security risks."
20+ years of all this cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering stuff, interview with Purnima Padmanabhan, GM of VMware Tanzu
Code to Production: From Cloud to DevOps to Platform Engineering, with Purnima PadmanabhanThere's not that many people who've worked through the early years of cloud, the rise of cloud and IaaS, DevOps, cloud native apps, and now platform engineering...but my colleague Purnima Padmanabhan sure has. So, it was fun to talk with her about the history of all of that - something I've been involved in and equally curious about these past 20+ years.
How to support 1,000's of developers for your internal developer platform
Let’s start with some good looking cheese:
Still Life with Cheese and Fruits, Roelof Koets, 1625.Community is Mission Critical for Platform EngineeringEstablishing an internal community is one of the keys to enterprise platform engineering. A lean platform team can’t support all the support and consultative requests from thousands of developers. When you create and garden an internal community you’re trying to get the developers to talk with each other and help solve each others problems.
Business leaders are losing faith in IT, according to this IBM study. Here’s why - “Fewer than half (47%) of business leaders surveyed think their IT organization is “effective in basic services,” down from 69% surveyed in 2013, the survey shows. Only 36% of CEOs in the survey see IT as effective, down from 64% since 2013. Chief financial officers give a bit more credit to IT, with 50% seeing its effectiveness, but this is down from 60% since 2013."
IDC #US52372824 (June 2024). Source: IDC DevOps Survey, - “79.1% of respondents are extending, using, or piloting Wardley Mapping to diagram the value chain and application components, demonstrating the value it can add to strategic application planning.” IDC #US52372824 (June 2024). Source: IDC DevOps Survey, November 2023, n = 311. // I never would have guessed that, but people do talk about those maps a lot.
What the AIs think of the US presidential debate
Today it’s just links and fun finds that I’ve been storing up for a about a week.
Great “Please Eat Me” specimen, from Russell Davies. Also, a big sign of the same.What the AIs thinks of the debateI asked Perplexity about the US presidential debate last night. I wasn’t very interested in “fact checking,” but in how different the coverage in the New York Times and Fox News was. I added in a “partial transcript” of the debate as well to compare both to what actually happened.
Charles Schwab Adopts PostgreSQL (With VMware Tanzu) - Why Charles Schwab chose Postgres over Oracle, and chose to pay for Tanzu Data Services support.
Platform Engineering Reshapes Software Dev at Bechtle - Customer case or Bechtle using Humanitec.