Join the public beta for GenAI on Tanzu Platform today! - Get your own private AI in a box sandbox going on.
Why Supercloud Architectures Could Upend Cloud Computing – Or Not | IDC Blog - ”IDC’s March 2024 Cloud Pulse Survey (n = 1,350) shows that 74% of cloud buyers have multicloud strategies. It’s no longer a big deal to use multiple clouds.”
DevOps Isn’t Dead, but It’s Not in Great Health Either - Round-up of surveys showing that the benefits of DevOps are flattening/slowing. Perhaps it’s not dead, it’s just had the final victory. That is: it’s much better than 15, even 10 years ago.
Publishing an annual survey is a great marketing tool, even better for thought-leadership
Using Surveys for MarketingWastebookThey dress like they’re Chaotic Good, but they’re totally Lawful Good under all that sloppy couture.
This is some buck-wild ABM: a direct appeal to Delta to buy their AI stuff.
“I wrote this one when my family was in Hawaii, too. I kind of had a meltdown there, to be honest.” Blue Cheese.
If you were to watch Furosia and Fury Road back-to-back, as one movie, it might just be the best action movie ever made.
A Eulogy for DevOps - “Feels like somehow Developers got stuck with a lot more work and Operation teams now need to learn 600 technologies a week. Surprisingly tech executives didn’t get any additional work with this system. I’m sure the next reorg they’ll chip in more."
Kubernetes Security Report: Evolving Landscape of DevSecOps - Red Hat Kubernetes surveys results, here, looking at the security part. The theory is: there’s too many different parties working on security, causing “confusion and delay."
Gartner Survey Shows 66% of Finance Leaders Think Generative AI Will Have Most Immediate Impact on Explaining Forecast and Budget Variances - What’s also remarkable is how low they rate other use cases. I’m a bit confounded about reports that consulting firms are getting billions in sales in AI stuff.
Don’t be results-oriented - Make sure your factory is functioning well.
What to put in tech marketing newsletters
I’m always telling my marketing friends that they should do more newsletters. They have so many objections and hurdles - mostly self-imposed ones. Here’s why I think they’re good, easy, and how to come up with things to put in them.
What I do with AI, what I've given up on
Consumer-grade Chat Gen-AI Churn UpdateOverall, the generative AI things have been a disappointment for me. For writing, they seem helpful for generating and starting content, but it ends up being more work to fix and, then, rewrite what they do. Over the years, people have ghostwritten things for me. Like, humans! I’d too often have to (want to) go through and inject my voice and style, and also add play around with the core ideas.