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Good Management Is a Fad, Use Women's Razors, and AI Saves Three Hours a Week

3 factors is all you needIn this Tanzu Talk interview, Coté talks Brian Friedman about his extensive experience working with Pivotal, Tanzu, and Broadcom. They discuss the intricacies of modernizing enterprise applications, the relevance of .NET in the current tech landscape, and the role of platforms like Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. They also explore using AI, the challenges of application transformation, and the importance of leveraging the right tools and methodologies to drive successful tech modernization initiatives.
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3 factors is all you need - Notes on Modernizing Enterprise Apps

In this Tanzu Talk interview, Coté talks Brian Friedman about his extensive experience working with Pivotal, Tanzu, and Broadcom. They discuss the intricacies of modernizing enterprise applications, the relevance of .NET in the current tech landscape, and the role of platforms like Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. They also explore using AI, the challenges of application transformation, and the importance of leveraging the right tools and methodologies to drive successful tech modernization initiatives.
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Corporate culture can just be a tool to match the needs of the moment.

The conclusion here is clear: the industry will want different things from you as it evolves, and it will tell you that each of those shifts is because of some complex moral change, but it’s pretty much always about business realities changing. If you take any current morality tale as true, then you’re setting yourself up to be severely out of position when the industry shifts again in a few years, because “good leadership” is just a fad.
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I am considering putting corn on my shit. I like corn just fine. I’m from Texas after all. But over here in Europe they put corn on damn-near everything, even pizza. A poke bowl has corn too. Corn has gone too far.

Private Cloud AI Platform Engineering, at SREDay Amsterdam

I’m at SREDay Amsterdam today, hosted by ING at their lovely Cedar building. Here’s the slides I’m going to present later today: I’m not sure if they’re recording it. But, of course, if they are, it will be on my weblog. Update: Some photos of presenting, taken by the SREDay people. Fancy!