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For many (most?) cases, SQL is probably the most efficient way to use data in AI applications. Check out the full discussion on why and other AI data access thinking in this talk I had with Ivan Novick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yjM...

Luck, belly fat, & a typical existentialist Fun and strange finds from the World Wide Web

Luck, belly fat, & a typical existentialist // Fun and strange finds from the World Wide Web // Just links in today's episode:
newsletter.cote.io/p/luck-belly...

When you want to build your own platform with Kubernetes. blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...

How 'bout that 0.75% tip option on the payment terminal?

"The central critical question about _Rear Window_ is: what makes it so compelling? For the first part of the film, nothing happens." www.commonreader.co.uk/p/why-is-rea...

"Executives credit increased AI use over the past year for bringing an estimated 44% bump in revenue, according to the report. Nearly 3 in 5 respondents said their organization experienced business growth thanks to software innovation over the last year." www.ciodive.com/news/enterpr...

Things were going so well over at the newsletter... newsletter.cote.io

"Security is the leading driver of workload repatriation from public cloud. 49% cite data privacy and security as the top barrier to GenAI adoption. Organizations are now deploying AI workloads in private clouds nearly as often as public clouds (55% vs. 56%)" blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...

"more than 70 percent of government IT leaders are considering repatriating workloads from public cloud to private cloud and nearly 50 percent say they have already begun that repatriation process." news.broadcom.com/cloud/2025-s...

The AI Replaces Services Myth During college, my class was instructed to study Schopenhauer in political philosophy.

If your software saves your customers money, then you're not getting all of the former TAM, you're often getting much less. // Also, people want simple pricing that matches how the software helps them, or at least as simple to understand as pizza pricing. aimode.substack.com/p/the-ai-rep...

The Satya of Satya’s Layoff Memo “The tournament of today – a set-to between labor and monopoly. To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a memo is not just a memo. That’s why we have to read between …

Reading between the lines/translating corporate-speak.
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This type of stuff is great fun, though, probably scary to many people. www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

US clouds crush European competition on their home turf : Local providers squeezed out despite market growth, leaving sovereignty hopes in question

“[EU] companies accounted for nearly a third (29 percent) of cloud infrastructure revenues in 2017, but by 2022 their share had dropped to just 15 percent and has held fairly steady ever since” www.theregister.com/2025/07/28/e...

Inter font family Inter is a typeface family

Crisp and clean.
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It's about 30 days until SpringOne. If you work on enterprises apps, there's a good chance you work with Spring. At SpringOne, you can learn and catch-up on the latest in Spring, including Spring AI. Register for it and come get your brain filled up with good stuff. www.vmware.com/explore/us/s...

Using t-shirts to drive internal developer platform use Also, fun & strange finds from the World Wide Web.

Using t-shirts to drive internal developer platform use // And: as real of a cyborg you'll find. // Also, fun & strange finds from the World Wide Web. // newsletter.cote.io/p/using-t-sh...

It's good at well know facts, things that are mainstream or so niche that there is only one answer seangoedecke.com/learning-fro...

Do conversations end when people want them to? N = 1172

Do conversations end when people want them to? www.experimental-history.com/p/do-convers...

Kubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy By simplifying Kubernetes’ inherent complexity, platform engineering eases the DevOps workload and, in turn, developers’ cognitive burden.

Turns out computer are always difficult. thenewstack.io/kubernetes-c...

Looks like lots of datacenter buildout. www.forrester.com/blogs/where-...

Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me At least 80% of the code I’ve ever written could have been written by AI, probably at higher quality. I’ve been “in tech” for twenty seven years and spent seven of those as …

Less time coding means more time designing and product managing. seroter.com/2025/07/17/c...

AI industry's size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues : Huge models are error-prone and expensive

Doing enterprises AI isn't free in terms of time, money, opportunity cost, and risk. You need target things that have a pay off, an ROI. I hope that this will mean doing more, not cutting costs. That is growth, not firing people. www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/a...

'teams building constrained, domain-specific tools that use AI for the hard parts while maintaining human control or strict boundaries over critical decisions. less "autonomous everything"… more "extremely capable assistants with clear boundaries."' utkarshkanwat.com/writing/bett...

After all these years of Kubernetes build out, it feels like people have forgotten about PaaS and the place it fits.

Who usually owns private PaaS? App developers don't make sense, right? Infrastructure people often say it is not their responsibility. But, it seems like PaaS is infrastructure. Sure, you can say it's a new team - platform engineering - but where is that team, where does the budget come from?

My friend @cote.io's three part series concludes with a word about the value of community and dev platforms!

YouTube video by NDC Conferences Platform Engineering for Private Cloud - Michael Coté - NDC Oslo 2025

Here's my latest platform engineering for private cloud overview, including a look at how much private cloud there actually is out there: youtu.be/GLinMu9hC4E?...

Man, I really needed a hair cut.

You can’t spell Clippy without CLI This week, we discuss the return of command line tools, Kubernetes embracing VMs, and the steady march of Windows. Plus, thoughts on TSA, boots, and the “old country."

This week, @brandonwhichard.com, @cote.io and @mattray.dev discuss the return of command line tools, Kubernetes embracing VMs, and the steady march of Windows. Plus, thoughts on TSA, boots, and the “old country."

https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/528

Thombstone with "RIP Applet" written on it.

RIP Java Applets. You made Java popular and helped it grow to what it is today.

JEP 504: Remove the Applet API has been proposed to target (openjdk.org/jeps/504), so there will be no more applets with the next JDK (JDK 26).

Internal Developer Platform Marketing, part 01 Running a PaaS in your organization? It's a good idea to market, especially in large organizations. // Also, strange and fun finds from the World Wide Web

My newsletter episode for today: newsletter.cote.io/p/internal-d...