Private Cloud - What’s in a Name? - “Forrester’s “Private Cloud Market Insights, 2023” reporting that 79% of surveyed cloud decision makers are implementing internal private clouds” (Source: "Private Cloud Market Insights, 2023," Forrester).
AI may be distracting organizations from other IT priorities - Well, things are getting better, but enterprise AI is a distraction from keeping the lights on. // “IBM reports that fewer than half of the respondents believe their IT organization is effective in delivering basic services, compared to 69 percent from a survey in 2013. Among chief execs, that figure is 36 percent today, down from 64 percent previously, while for chief financial officers, the figures are 50 percent now, down from 60 percent before…. What might be causing this? The Armonk-based biz says that 43 percent of surveyed tech CxOs indicated that concerns about their IT infrastructure have increased over the past six months due to the focus on optimizing their infrastructure for generative AI."
Platform engineering problems: can ops actually do product management?
Are you at a large organization doing platform engineering? Have you been building and/or using a platform? How are you introducing product management in your operations group? I want to test a theory that’s come up in my conversations a lot this summer: introducing product management into ops and infrastructure organizations is too difficult. It won’t work. There are teams here and there that can do it, and they show up at conferences.
Finding your podcast style and character
Figuring out what kind of podcast you’re doingGarbage Chairs of AmsterdamOne of my co-workers is started a podcast and had some questions. Here’s my answers. As with most “how do I do this?” sessions, it focuses a lot on gear which I scoot away from in my answers, you know, following the cliche that the tools matter less than what you do with them. Also, the tools are tedious, but easy to learn.
Walmart used AI to crunch 850M product data points and improve CX - “The primary in-store improvement is that associates’ can use in-store technology like mobile tools to quickly locate inventory and get items on shelves or to waiting customers — a significant upgrade from the ‘treasure hunt’ of finding items in years past”
Travel Spending On Track To Return To Pre-Pandemic Levels By End Of 2024 - ”Global travel spending is roaring back and will fully recover to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2024, surpassing $2 trillion.”
"weird varieties of beastman" & tips on platform engineering
Just fun finds and links today.
Wastebook“FWD: RE: radioactive fungus email from grandma” Here.
“I don’t know about you, but I think a campaign setting ruled by evil angels and their witch-wives, populated by giants (perhaps not 3,500 metres tall) who eat one another and human beings, and who have sex with animals to produce many weird varieties of beastman, is one that somebody could do a lot with.” Here.
5 Lessons For Building a Platform as a Product - They’re doing a good job trying to evolve the Pivotal Cloud Foundry philosophy of platforms. // “I talked to a CTO at one of the world’s top banks, who explained that he loved what Cloud Foundry could do but wondered what would work for the other 99% of workloads he had responsibility for."
AI or bust? Only one part of US tech economy growing - “Assuming the bubble does not burst, S&P forecasts global AI spending to grow by more than 20 percent through 2028, when it is estimated to account for 14 percent of total global IT spending, up from 6 percent in 2023."
How We Migrated onto K8s in Less Than 12 months - Always hide the yaml: “Having users define services directly in YAML can be confusing. Instead, we worked to define a golden path for users and allow customization for special cases. By being explicit about what users can and should customize—and otherwise enforcing consistency by default—you’ll save users time and energy while also simplifying maintenance and future changes."