Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion – Home With The Armadillo - Seems weird. // “New reporting from The Wrap details how Substack’s decision to implement a new “follow” feature — part of its transition from newsletter publishing platform to social media site — has tanked subscription growth for lots of newsletter writers."
Kubernetes community capitalizes on open source and AI synergies - Among AI talk, 451’s Kubernetes TAM: $1.46bn in 2023, growing to $2.85bn in 2028.
How to make an Enterprise AI strategy
I don't think we really know what "enterprise AI" is yet, what apps will be helpful. So you need to just mess around and see what works. Come on a dog walk with me in Amsterdam and I'll tell you more.
Check out the experimenting we're doing with private AI in the VMware Tanzu Platform.
LogoffNo links or anything today, just the video above which I liked making. Will people actually watch six minute and 12 second video?
Commonplace book of links, quips, and two things I made
Here’s two things of mine to check out:
What we do at my workWe broadcast our updated Tanzu overview yesterday. I MC it and do a Q&A session at the end. I tried to get a lot of my views of the platform engineering, what we do, build vs. buy, and the usual stuff in through my questions and the intro and outo parts. It’ll give an idea of what people do with our stack, you know, when it comes to building, running, and managing their apps.
Americans increasingly using ChatGPT, but few trust its 2024 election information, Pew Research Center - Techmeme summary: “A survey of 10,133 US adults: 43% of those aged 18-29 used ChatGPT in February 2024, up from 33% in July 2023, compared to 27% of 30-49 and 23% of all adults”
AI - two reports reveal a massive enterprise pause over security and ethics - “When we go into a CIO discussion, it’s ‘How can I use Gen-AI?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t know. What do you want to do with it?’ And the answer is, ‘I don’t know, you figure it out!’"
Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals - Defending yourself against the three public clouds.
Skinny jeans hot for AW24? Two writers argue over the demonised drainpipes - Some real passion about skinny-jeans here: ’at least with skinny jeans there’s no chance of soaking up every puddle you slosh through on a rainy day, until the water reaches your knee and you develop a very real chance of developing trench foot. ’
Stop Chasing Unicorns - ‘When it comes to ways of working, what do the companies that beat you in deals do better product, design, and engineering-wise?" Silence. “Do they do better discovery and research, ship higher quality work, run more experiments, kill bad decisions faster, retain passionate team members, or have a more effective org design?'
The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact - Index funds.