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Read MoreWhat is Backstage? What does Backstage do? What does Backstage not do? Why would you use Backstage?
Ben educates Coté on what Backstage is. Coté is always thinking that new tech does more than it actually does, and he eagerly de-scopes his inflated expectations with Ben's wiseness. This is the...
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Read MoreWhat is a Service Mesh? And Why Would You Want One?
The three of us are back to discuss what a service mesh is and why it exists as a stand-alone thing. The result we come to is that you want this kind of network control and management as its own...
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Read MoreLessons from 5 years of agile transformation at Jaguar Land Rover
What does a car manufacture need to do to speed up their software delivery cycle? Manufacturing is often finely tuned following lean and other principles, but the software development and delivery...
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Read MoreThe Business Doesn’t Care About Kubernetes as a Kost Center. They Care About This, with Bryan Ross.
Coté talks with Bryan Ross about fitting Kubernetes (and it's use) into the business strategy. Check out Bryan's YouTube channel for more Bryan.
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Read MoreA Developer Perspective on Developer Experience, also, COBOL, with Paul Kelly
"75% of IT and business executives say that their companies’ ability to compete is directly related to their ability to release quality software quickly" reads a recent Forrester Consulting...
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Read MoreManage Kubernetes Clusters Anywhere, From Anywhere with Tanzu Mission Control, with Corey Dinkens
In this episode, Coté talks with Corey Dinkens about Tanzu Mission Control. The most recent version can now run on-premises, meaning those who can't run it as a public SaaS now can run Tanzu...
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Read MorePlatform marketing, advocacy, DevEx, documentation, and Backstage
So you've built an app platform. And those pesky developers aren’t showing up to use. Or, worse, they grumble about it! Did you remember to tell anyone about it, to convince them to use it? You...
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Read MoreChanges in the RHEL Streams, and, what is Crossplane?
This week, Ben and Ed try to help Coté understand what the changes in RHEL open source development mean. We don't figure it out completely, but get close enough. Also, Ed tells us what Crossplane...
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Read MoreCloud Foundry Day 2023
Right after Cloud Foundry Day 2023, Nick and Coté do a quick re-cap of the day. Taking place in Germany, there were many people from the German community, and elsewhere of course. Nick goes over...
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Read MoreCloud Foundry: Community, Developer Experience, Kubernetes, and more, with Ram Iyengar
Cloud Foundry is one of the most mature, most proven platform as a service stacks. And it's open source! Ahead of CF Day on June 21st, 2023 (in person and live), Coté catches up with Ram Iyengar,...
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Read MoreWhat’s a ”Platform Maturity Model”?
In this episode, Cora and Coté talk with Abby Bangser about the platform maturity model draft that the platform working group at the CNCF has been working on. While the draft is a work in...
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Read MoreCloud Native Security & Compliance, with David Zendzian
We talk about getting PCI compliance into Kubernetes, and other security think in the cloud native world. Securing Tanzu Application Service and Tanzu Application Platform. David Zendzian talks...
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Read MoreSausages and Cycling - Coding with AI/LLMs, microservices vs. monoliths, kubernetes vs. application developers
This week, Coté and Ben talk about using AI for software development, and general text use. They check in on Kubernetes usability for application developers, and give their takes on the recent...
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Read MoreThe Smells of the Kubernetes Community
We discuss what we did at KubeCon, the recent VMware State of Kubernetes 2023 survey, and the smells of platform engineering maturity. Also, some tips on daily logging and to do list...
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Read MoreHow to change mainframe apps into microservices, modernizing mainframe applications with Fouad Hamdi
In this episode, Coté is joined by Fouad Hamdi, to discuss a project he worked on to modernize of a 30-year-old mainframe app. Fouad provides a comprehensive breakdown of how he and his team at...
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Read MoreCreating the business case for platform engineering, Kerry Schaffer
A lot goes into getting a platform up and running. Before you even get to that point, though, you’ll need to put together a business case and the plans for your platform. In this episode, Coté...
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Read MoreWhat’s in the Tanzu Application Service 4.0? With Nick Kuhn
With Backstage, more Windows support, support for MySQL 8.0, and numerous other improvements, the new release of the Tanzu Application Service is packed. In this episode, Nick Kuhn walks us...
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Read MoreThe 3 Types of Kubernetes, and, Better Developer Productivity Improves Everything
We should start distinguishing between on-premises kubernetes and public cloud kubernetes. Also, it looks like improving developer productivity improves everything. That’s what Ben and Coté...
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Read Moreorly? ops people actually talking with developers. Also: Spring talk.
In the DevOps, cloud, platform world we're told that operations people starting working closely with developers. This week @thecote been asked "does that really happen?" several times. We discuss...
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Read MoreDevSecOps in Practice with VMware Tanzu - A Discussion with the Authors
What is VMware Tanzu? I get asked this question a lot and, you know, I try to explain it. If you want a really good explanation, you should check out a new book on the topic, DevSecOps in Practice...
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