Are you a backpack only, or a carry on bag with wheels traveler?
Mostly links today. I’ve been traveling this week and preparing and bunch of stuff to publish in the future. Tragic for the desire to publish now, now, now…
How I TravelRelative to your interestsMaximizing value, controlling cost with cloud FinOps - “Among current users, 56% report that spending on public cloud was significantly over budget (by 30% or more) or somewhat over (by 10%-30%) in 2022, compared with 45% of respondents saying the same in 2021.
2023-06-02 day note
Traveling back home, to Amsterdam, today. Yesterday’s VMUG Belgium talk went fine. Since it was to VMware admin types, I positioned my platform talk as a glimpse of their future. Whenever the infrastructure changes, you can use new application architectures…and then that drives new types of infrastructure and management needs…and so forth. It means that the people building and running infrastructure need to update their tools and how they work.
2023-05-31 day note
The day’s not over yet, but I’ve got two but things coming up the rest of the evening and will probably want to zone out after them: I’m hosting a fireside chat with Purnima Padmanabhan, the GM of our group at VMware (streamed in LinkedIn). She should be fun to talk with. And then I’ll go almost straight into this week’s Software Defined Talk (podcast here, watch here for the live stream).
Maximizing value, controlling cost with cloud FinOps - “Among current users, 56% report that spending on public cloud was significantly over budget (by 30% or more) or somewhat over (by 10%-30%) in 2022, compared with 45% of respondents saying the same in 2021. Multiple factors cause organizations to overshoot their budgets for public cloud services (see Figure 2). The need to scale up resources to address unexpected demand emerges as the chief culprit for cloud budget overruns (cited by 29% of respondents, up from 22% in 2021). Other factors include overcommitting to resources (16%), lack of governance/usage guardrails (14%) and lack of pricing transparency from the cloud providers (10%)."
Do You Shop Online? So Do Your B2B Buyers! - “75% of B2B buyers prefer a rep-free experience, and 68% made a recent significant purchase using digital commerce”
2023-05-30 day note
I recorded a podcast today on security in cloud native. Security can seem like an incomprehensible complexity from the outside, but when you ask an expert to break it down, it’s simple. Sure, lengthy and tedious and precise, but not impossible. I’ll post it in the Tanzu Talk podcast feed sometime this week. I spent a lot of time prep’ing for that podcast: mostly reading a PCI document. I’m not sure when this happened, but my confidence-to-ease in doing live conversations, presentations, and otherwise “public speaking” comes from over-preparing.
Some UK digital transformation retros
Just links this episode.
Some fantastic #gartnercoreFrom “Technical Insights: Battle of the APIs — Will REST be Toppled by GraphQL, gRPC or AsyncAPI?,” Gary Olliffe, GartnerRelative to your interestsThinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) - As with most things, the whole SBOM push is probably a lot simpler to solve than it seems. Also, a delightful “old man yells at secure software supply chain hype” vibe as only Jon could do well.
What I did this summer, the PowerPoint - You should probably cut the first five slides of your deck