We try the Marks and Spencer Roast Beef and Onion Crisps, or Chips as us Americans would say.
Money spent on containerized workloads is growing fast, but overall spend is still small compared to traditional infrastructure
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Hunting for the cloud native and kubernetes pay-offThis is an excerpt from my talk yesterday with Bryan Ross, his theory here is fun, clever, and probably right:
What the New Relic Sale Means for SaaS - Time to go start Wily 3.0!
Why haven’t internet creators become superstars? - “Internet stardom bestows no glamor."
Shadow IT guidance - Advice from the UK government: “Though clearly not desirable, the existence of shadow IT presents your organisation with learning opportunities. If employees are having to resort to insecure workarounds in order to ‘get the job done’, then this suggests that existing policies need refining so that staff aren’t compelled to make use shadow IT solutions. Security people should focus on finding where shadow IT exists, and where possible, bring it above-board by addressing the underlying user needs that shadow IT is seeking to address.” // Shadow IT exists because people need something that IT is not giving them.
The Super App Window Has Closed - “58% of online adults in metro China said that they trust the content that brands post on social media, compared with just 20% in the US” // As someone quipped on The Dithering Podcast, no one is going to trust their money to the Bank of Twitter, let along “X Bank."
Experts expect Sumo Logic match post-New Relic acquisition - I would not recommend “fusing” together any two software portfolios that are more than two - maybe three - years old. // “Further, multiple industry analysts predicted that New Relic and Sumo Logic will be fused under their new owners to create a broader set of products to better compete with vendors such as Datadog and Splunk."
The eternal principles of an (enterprise) app stack
Suggested vibe for this edition:
The eternal principles of an (enterprise) app stackThese are not all of them, but it’s a start.
The function of an app stack is to allow your developers to be creative, use fast release cycles, and create software that can run in production: that stays up and meets whatever compliance (regulations, security, etc.) you need.
We keep trying to merge the dev tools stack and the runtime tools environment into one platform.
Fantasy Meets Reality - “If it looks neat, people will want to take a photo with it. If it looks comfortable, people will want to sit on it. If it looks fun, people will play around on it.”
Why is developer experience so bad if we all think software is so important?
This week’s Tanzu Talk podcast (video above) is all about developer experience, and COBOL:
"75% of IT and business executives say that their companies’ ability to compete is directly related to their ability to release quality software quickly" reads a recent Forrester Consulting report. If that’s the case, why are so many developer in large organizations have a bad developer experience? Paul Kelly wrote up the case for good DevEx and what it looks like for developers on the VMware Tanzu blog recently.