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From the report “Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023: Platform Engineering,” Paul Delory and Oleksandr Matvitskyy, Gartner, Oct 2022. The authors don’t take a strong position here (?), but I think their vision of platform engineering sits above the infrastructure layer. See the diagram above, for example. The platform engineering group doesn’t mess with that stuff. This seems right to me. Everyone loves a Gartner prediction: “By 2026, 80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components and tools for application delivery.

The Dune books are almost annoyingly self-important; realistic cloud migration strategies; the year in reviews; and links! DuneI’m reading through the Dune books (the core six ones) and I’m struck by how incredibly self-important they are. That’s not the exact phrasing but they’re completely serious and humorless. Almost inhuman!  Still, I’ve finished the first too more quickly than I’ve read any books in the past 12 months. While the pompousness turns me off - and, ironically makes me laugh at how over the top it is - they’re page turners because I want to see what happens next, especially when it comes to world-building.

A little bit on lock-in, some app modernization links, and an online holiday party for you to chill out. The Land of Cockaigne, BruegelLock-inOne of the most frequent objections/benefits/discussion points in software is the idea of "lock-in." This usually means "if I pay someone for something, I'm using something only they have, and I'll be locked into it." With public cloud, it applies to cloud services as well. I'm never really bought into lock-in as a huge deal.

What does "multi-cloud" mean? There are multi-definitions. Har har. Also, securing cloud applications and custom software in state and local governments. Also: kubernetes is not for developers...? Approaching Rain, Southwest Texas, 1922 Julian OnderdonkThe many meanings of "multi-cloud." (Well, two at last.)I really like the recent O'Reilly cloud survey. There's a lot going on in there especially when it comes to seeing how people use cloud, concerns they have, and so forth.

Original contentDevOps Metrics for Technical, Business and Culture TransformationThis is the talk I gave at VMworld this year. It goes over three types of metrics to use in all your digital transformation, get better with software stuff. While I don't list very actionable (yeah! check out that work use!) metrics for culture, I think the novel thing in this talk is the suggestion that you track culture change with metrics. Also, I revisit one of my favorite case studies, the IRS.

Developers don't actually want to change the batteries. BruegelOriginal contentSoftware Defined Talk #328: Your MOM is a SaaS This week we discuss HashiCorp’s S1, AWS Earnings and highlights from Microsoft Ignite. Plus, Coté teaches us a new Dutch phrase. A Shift in Mindset it Critical The missing parts of scaling up DevOps are often involving compliance, security, and most importantly, leadership actually changing and getting more hands on themselves. Check out more in this guest column of mine.

Excuses to keep doing exactly the same thing, if not even less. From The Fight Between Carnival and Lent.Original contentSoftware Defined Talk Episode #326: Just Jump In — www.softwaredefinedtalk.com This week we recap Datadog’s announcements, discuss Sequoia’s investment pivot and hot takes on Facebook’s intent to rebrand. Plus, some thoughts on heated pools… Securing Apps in KubernetesI aspire to talk more about the products we have in Tanzu-land. Here's me talking about the Tanzu Build Service, trying to explain what it does - and why - in less than 2 minutes and 20 seconds:

Another take at writing up why app modernization is important for business, and the usual links to stuff and my recent podcasts, etc. Smuggling in ModernizationI'm working on a project I call the #legacytrap. Trying to explain to executives (CIOs and non-IT executives) how important it is to modernize your old stacks of IT, mostly stuff used to support all that in-house software that runs the business. I have a slide I use that summarizes the problem in surveys:

Lots of original content this week, and unstructured tips on moderating a panel. Since it’s been two weeks, a passel of links too. We fear changeThis is a the first new talk I’ve done in awhile. It came out alright - I could do a lot more commentary on the existing organization change models, and I cut some tactics for management to make up for time in the conference agenda. Anyhow, I’ll have to find a conference to give a 30 minute and then 50 minute version…and find that extra content.

Nothing profound this time. Garbage Chairs of AmsterdamFree DevOps conference, DevOps Loop, Oct 4thPromotional gifA conference I helped put together, DevOps Loop, is next week. I'm putting together my presentation "fear of change." So far, I'm playing around with the notion of going over fear of change in more literary sources. There's plenty to be said for that fear, and change, in the corporate world - I've written three books on the topic!