Spring Now Offers Free Access for the Spring Academy Pro Content - Free Spring training for all: “The Spring team has announced that the Pro Content from their Spring Academy will no longer require a paid subscription, effective April 5th 2024, to improve the learning experience for the Spring community. The Spring Academy will continue to provide new content in the future."
The Chilling of TikTok - Yeah, never good for a tech company to be get its feelings hurt: “the bigger concern will simply be the distraction of it all. Product decisions will take longer. Timelines will slip. Executives will be absent. Employees will leave."
A Shift in LLM Marketing : The Rise of the B2B Model - Enterprise AI requirements are different than consumer AI requirements: “For a data-focused customer base, SQL generation, code completion for Python, & following instructions matter more than encyclopedic knowledge of Napoleon’s doomed march to Moscow."
Inside TSMC’s Phoenix, Arizona expansion struggles - Rest of World - Sounds like a shitty place to work! Long hours, sometimes filled with low value work. The TSMC people must think Europeans are insane. In contrast, for the American work-culture, this feels like a “thank the unions” story.
IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, seeks software boost - Enterprise AI businesses case are difficult: “But he also said buyers’ initial enthusiasm for generative AI has eased as they ponder whether it can generate return on investment. Users are finding that applying generative AI to a single business process could cost as much as $300 million, a figure Krishna said is unlikely to produce positive ROI."
You should automate your builds and tests - 71% of people do not “use continuous integration to automatically build and test my code changes.”
The CD Foundation Survey, 2024Today’s survey: “State of CI/CD Report 2024: The Evolution of Software Delivery Performance,” CD Foundation and SlashData, April, 2024.
Are people getting better at frequently releasing software and fixing problems in production? The most recent CD Foundation survey says…no: On average, 29% of respondents say they release software once a week or even more frequently; 40% take a more than month. The numbers here have been pretty stable over the past 4 years.
Finally have access to ChatGPT memory
This feels like an accurate depiction of the halfling druid character I’ve been playing in D&D. Here, probably, enjoying Elevensies (11am), maybe Afternoon Tea (3 pm).
The Port State of Platform Engineering in two surveys
When I look at recent platform engineering surveys, the results are positive: people see the value in platforms and platform groups. I’d say this is because platforms are helping speed up the app release cycle by automating a lot of the infrastructure work app developers would otherwise need to do, baking in/automating security and compliance, and, to a lesser extent, standardizing how apps are built, run, managed, and optimized.
Below are my notes one of the many, recent surveys.