From my recent article on The New Stack:
The choice of where and how to start your AI journey is a business decision, not a technology one. By grounding your AI efforts in the operational muscle you’ve already built with Java and Spring, you minimize friction and risk. Everyone just keeps doing what they’re doing, but with a new tool. This established operational and development life is the hard-won experience, paid for in decades of maintenance and gut-wrenching production failures, that gives you the platform to continuously absorb new capabilities like Spring AI and MCP.
Related to your interests, Thursday
Harry Clarke’s Elixirs of Life 9 Terms That Helped Navigate a Confusing Year in Art - “It’s art that blends street art, Pop art, sneakerhead culture, merch-drop dynamics, and memes into a mix that is the opposite of reverential.” Nobody knows how large software products work - “It’s easier to write software than to explain it” A Year Of Vibes - Pondering on a year of coding full-blown AI style.
The Octopus Organization is a great collection of organization anti-patterns. This week, one of the co-authors, Jana Werner talks with Whitney and Coté about those patterns and her own experiences. They go over topics like reading habits, the role of business books, decision making, ownership, curiosity in organizations. practical steps to avoid common corporate anti-patterns, the importance of clear communication and leadership principles, and rubber pigs.
Check out the rest in our interview with Jana Werner. It was a fun discussion.
Recently, in America
Scroll to the end to see five giant lasagna pans.
While Finland and Sweden consistently rank at the top of the happiness league table, for example, both countries have also persistently experienced some of the highest suicide rates in the European Union, ranking in the top five EU countries according to one recent statistic.
Currently not available in Europe.
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam. Amstelveen edition.
Platform Plumbing, AI Ads That Work (But People Hate), and D&D Characters Drawn by Robots
Original ContentOn this week’s Tanzu Catsup, We spend an excruciating amount of time talking about how platform engineers add new services/middleware/whatever to internal developer platforms. It’s great if that’s relative to your interests. My next self-challenge is add a simple service to Cloud Foundry.
An Australian Documentary - Software Defined Talk this week: “This week, we discuss Oracle’s AI vibes, Chainguard’s EmeritOSS, and GitHub’s pricing U-turn. Plus, a robust robot vacuum debate.
I think this is could be my forever meme guy. From Nano Banana…after a lot of banana peeling by human.
“Mad Max, an Australian documentary.” Matt.