Cloud Foundry in Action: Real Customers Stories from Cloud Foundry Day - ”We run a tremendous number of applications on top of Cloud Foundry. The ones that really impress me might surprise some people. It’s not just Black Friday sales but also the Amazon Prime events. When these events kick off, there’s an incredible surge in load across everything we care about, including credit card points processing, all handled by Cloud Foundry.” - Tom Brisco, JPMorgan & Chase Co.
A note on the EU AI Act - “The requirements look entirely reasonable considering these products are being positioned to become central to modern software – they’re effectively positioned to become the entirety of modern computing."
The employment effects of a guaranteed income - “1.3-1.4 hour per week reduction in labor hours.” // Yes, and: if we buy into the premise that a lot of work is Bullshit Work, this isn’t enough, we need more like six to 8 hours of wasted time to convert to living, not sitting in inefficient meetings.
My favorite PaaS
This is just my, personal take on what Tanzu is, not an official statement. But I think it’s a pretty good one! :)
For a more in-depth look, check out Dekel’s recent videos.
Also, if you like the full on corporate sheen take, take a look at the Tanzu Platform Solution brief.
Wastebook“the ontological trick of discursive reductionism.” Here.
Working title: “Working Hard at Nothing - Why Productivity Is Ruining Our Lives.
White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now - The Atlantic - “Gloria Mark of UC Irvine has found that workers require an average of 25 minutes to return to their original task after an interruption. By this measure, a 30-minute meeting is, for the typical worker, best thought of as a one-hour detour.” // For 25+ years, a significant part of developer productivity has been the simple of idea of “stop interrupting me."
The Silicon Valley Would-Be Vice President - Those capital gains taxes always stick in folk’s craw.
Next Gen Application Delivery: Getting Started with Intelligent Apps Powered by AI - “Our numbers show that 65% of all enterprise developers use Java, making it essential for business-critical applications. Development frameworks, like Spring AI, enable Java developers to interact with AI models and vector databases through the framework, rather than having to learn new skills."
15 hours a week - ‘And yet, for most of that time, I’ve continued to find that exertion harder to exercise than most, while my flair and ability have gained me attention and love, I’ve seen less of whatever today’s equivalent is of “a satisfactory grade in the public examinations”'
Kubernetes getting better at speeding up development - State of Kubernetes survey, 2024
Survey says…Kubernetes getting out of appdev improvement slump
This is the chart I look forward to in our annual State of Kubernetes report1:
It’s been a rocky few years as Kubernetes has gone mainstream. I pay attention to the “shortened software development cycles,” which you can see started going down. It’s been going up for the past two years, so that’s good. As more “normals” start using Kubernetes, the tolerance the early adopters have erodes.
GenAI or Die - Big time pro AI for ERP here, with notes of “what’s ERP done for me lately."