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Source: IDC, The Evolution of Cloud Infrastructure: Multicloud to Hybrid; Shared to Dedicated, doc #DR2023_T1_DM, March 2023 Each year when we do the State of Kubernetes survey, we’re of course interested in “multi-cloud.” That’s one of the reasons to use a Kubernetes management suite stack, like VMware Tanzu. The term can mean many things. The most obvious one is “using multiple clouds.” The motivations here can be to use best of breed features, geographic/sovereign cloud needs, and doing the old “we could always go to your competitor if you raise prices too much” gambit.

This tech is so complex that you really should be using it Here is a tech marketing anti-pattern that I agree with. It makes me think of another one. Let’s call it “you don’t realize this yet, but what you want is very complex!” All of us in the tech world have done, and will keep doing, this kind of marketing, be it a presentation, a blog post, a commissioned survey, posts on Bluesky and LinkedIn, or whatever.

Last week I talked with my co-worker Fouad Hamdi about a mainframe modernization project he worked on last year. I mean, the team he was on of course, not him single handedly. He wrote a great over of the process and I was eager to ask him a few questions. The video included in this episode is an except about finding the complete end-to-end application, rather, process that you’re modernizing.

This is an excerpt from my upcoming blog series analyzing our 2023 State of Kubernetes survey. Multi-cloud for flexibility, sovereign cloud, and because it’s just there This year, our survey found several motivators for doing multi-cloud. Let’s look at some of them plus some that I hear about a lot that aren’t in the chart. Flexibility “Lock-in” is always a touchy subject. You’ve got two camps. On the one hand, why not go with just one cloud to get both the best of breed and also the benefits of a single-source, integrated stack.

This is the first of a few videos and blog posts I have on our annual Kubernetes survey, which you should check out if you’re into that kind of thing.

This is from our recent survey. There were 752 respondents, all working at companies of over 1,000 employees, with “about a third (34%) have between 100 and 1,000 developers, 8% have 1,000 to 2,500 developers, and 20% have more than 2,500 developers.” I’ve been writing up a series of blog posts and accompanying videos looking at the survey. Here’s the first video, going over the developer and overall benefits.

The FFS Social Media Rebound Twitter Sinks. I got an invite to Blue Sky (thanks Ashley!). Now I have Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, some Slack channels, a newsletter, and a mostly dead blog - other stuff probably (what even is a “Facebook Page”?). I haven’t bothered with those other ones that popped up after The Sink Incident. I checked out Artifact for awhile, but without ad blockers it was just all Internet trash.