Platforms are helpful, from 2025 DORA Report. Getting software from idea to production quickly has always been important, but the increase in AI-driven application deploys is about to overwhelm even the best laid golden path to production. We can feel in our bones developers are already revving apps more frequently. The 2025 DORA Report found that 95% of developers use AI and over 80% say it has made them more productive.
Check out the live reacording of this week’s Software Defined Talk. Final episode posted tomorrow, on Friday if you prefer traditional podcast.
Histoires Prodigieuses, Forward Deployed Vibes, and Skyrgamur - Related to your interests, Wednesday
Also: Spring still number one, KubeCon AI workloads, the end of Doctor No, and a buyer’s market for employees.
Spring still king, from The State of Java 2025, JetBrains. Related to your interests 🤖 From Red Hat OpenShift to VMware Cloud Foundation 9: A Journey to a Unified Cloud Operating Model - A defense-industry case study describing a migration from OpenShift running on vSphere to VMware’s native Kubernetes stack (VKS + VCFA + VCF 9), framed around operational consolidation and TCO reduction.
Five Disneys, Conviction Collapse, and sk8erboi2006 - Related to your interests, Tuesday
Also: local models worth running, Susan Sontag on list-making, GraalVM as thriller novel, and the slow ROI of children.
The Prodigal Daughter (1903), John Collier. Via New Cartographies. Related to your interests Recommended local models - “I’ve experimented with the following models and have found useful applications (mostly around chat, MCP and coding) with all of them: gpt-oss-120b; Qwen3-Coder-30B; GLM-4.7-Flash; MiniMax-M2.5; Qwen3.5-35B-A3B” On Critical Thinking in a Multi-Model World - Getting the AI to be helpfully disagreeable, thus, engaging and truth-finding rather than satisfying.
Using HATEOAS for agentic AI - a demo
My co-worker Adib did a video showing how to use Spring HATEOAS to make existing REST APIs agent-friendly. Instead of wrapping your 700 APIs as MCP servers and dumping all those tool definitions into the context window, you build a an adapter layer that lets agents discover what they can do by following links in the spirit of the World Wide Web REST thinking from long ago: HATEOAS.
Progressive disclosure This method is geared around minimizing context window usage for especially large APIs.
VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) architectural diagram
At KubeCon EU, March 26th, 2026.
This cake is bananas
Hot modems, dinergoths, the platform bottleneck, and the SaaSpocalypse - Related to your interests, Monday
Also: sovereignty’s control plane, 81,000 people tell Anthropic what they want, Google sells its fiber, and oats for the sparrows, and cake
Related to your interests My pal Adib Saikali wrote up an MCP security guide covering how to think about securing MCP servers in the enterprise (no lead-generation required, just a straight-up PDF download). It gets into access tiers (open, group, and user-level servers), authentication with OAuth 2.1, identity propagation models (when to use service accounts vs.
Securing AI
More “how do we secure this AI stuff” talk with David Zendzian on today’s live stream. He’s recently gone Claude Crazy so I wanted to get his CISO-supremo talk on thinking through the risk management for AI in enterprises. Each time I tried to come up with a problem, he was good finding the fix. Plus, we talk about some of the things we’ve learned about using our little robot buddies.
If you’re wondering how cold fusion produces pollution, let alone a lot of it, don’t worry, this is explained in a chapter by one teenaged prodigy tennis player to another, wherein the latter is wearing a blindfold to improve his other senses but can’t find a bathroom, so he asks the other player for help, but instead, the other player explains cold fusion in exhaustive detail over such a long period of time that the blindfolded player is nearly peeing in his pants, and it all turns out to be a ploy by the explainer to pressure the blindfolded player (who is a Muslim and drug-free) to give away his urine so the other player and his friends can pass a drug test. Stuff like this happens a lot in IJ. Infinite Jest Extraction