3 Reasons to Speed up Your Software Release Cycle

Start here: https://cote.io/springbill/ Also, see @dashaun's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6iE6hMU9q4

Fresh from working on developer platforms at Uber, Serdar Badem tells us his experience working on improving developer productivity. He's working at Tanzu now and so he also discusses the work we're d

Most people struggle to get developers to use that platform that your platform engineering group built. Developers, of course, always like to build their own platforms (🙄), but many platform engineeri

...and how do you convince your company to let you update Java and the Spring Framework. Here's a free tool that can help: https://cote.io/SpringHealth

The phrase "value stream" is used so often in software development that it's easy to forget exactly what it means. "Waste" is another word like that. In this episode, @thecote talks with Steve Pereira

Everyone is doing agile, but are they really doing it? Here's four ways to check on how well you're doing agile. Check out Paul Kelley's extended write up, plus some common anti-patterns: https://tan

In this episode Coté talks with Laura Tacho, the CTO of DX on several topics, starting with tech debt. Laura shares her viewpoint on how the concept and use of 'tech debt' changes based on perspective

Hear about Greenplum's recent advancements, including AI capabilities with PG vector extension and Postgres ML, and discuss handling billions of vectors and real-time data analytics, highlighting Gree

You always hear that making a series of small changes is better than BIG BANG change. How does this really play out though? Doesn't that seem a little...naive when it comes to large organizations doin

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 most

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 layer

What does a car manufacturer 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 pr

"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 report. If

In this episode, @thecote 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 Missi

Remember when fintech startups were going to take down banks and insurance companies? That didn't seem to happen. Financial organizations didn't just sit still, they studied and adapted to these "disr

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 know:

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 is.

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), @thecote catches up with Ram Iyengar,

76% of respondents in our State of Kubernetes 2023 survey say they use multiple clouds - they're multi-cloud. @thecote looks at the driving forces behind multi-cloud adoption, most notably the desire