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Studying how large organizations get better at software, working at @VMwareTanzu, views are my own. Texas Forever.

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“Hunger beats tenure.” // A million ops engineers just grabbed their chest and yelped out "This is the big one, Elizabeth! I'm coming to join you!" https://t.co/gfyrTCPaEl

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Here's the talk I'll be giving at DevOpsDays Istanbul this morning #devopsdaysist2026 https://t.co/DYfkjZMYf9 #devopsdaysist2026

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"Your platform has to maintain what it creates." https://t.co/yN7tAmhXaX

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How the TrueSource team responded to that PHP freakout this week: https://t.co/o26HfbIEiw

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This week, @bwhichard and @cote discuss sovereign cloud, Postgres conference takeaways, CoreWeave's debt, and why AI is a single-player game. Plus, whether home automation is worth it.

https://t.co/Oz9eDdSH9o

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"By 2029, 80% of new applications will be intentionally disposable—used for less than one year." https://t.co/gMJcJ7YZzY

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Scaling up in fifty states at once is faster than scaling up in 27 countries. https://t.co/ceRBREsPy5

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We’re now shipping a full on agentic platform. Enterprise grade, proven, private cloud platform stack out there for running apps, serving up AI, and providing all that isolated VM and deny by default stuff you want for your enterprise AI apps...or any app https://t.co/IvUmnR9L0S

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His diagnosis: fifteen years of shifting left killed the enterprise architect. @wiggitywhitney talk with @dendrobates on what replaces one, and why nobody is ready for agents. And other happy tales!

https://t.co/S8hobRfuh4

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Wow. Who knew Magic was such a money maker! https://t.co/GhfVFaitZH

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From the cloud lock-in desk: "In total, the investigation found that less than one percent of customers move cloud providers yearly." https://t.co/CgqyTqrI5Z

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"Data indicates that between 59 and 75 percent of people never read past the headline, so it's particularly important that journalists try to, you know, avoid lying in the headline." https://t.co/AZmazjM4Zg

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"Process is documented culture" https://t.co/BvmxIoYbyO

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Once you figure out what you're good at, and take the advice to focus on just that, all those (corporate) things that "do not matter" become friction. https://t.co/4LZeK11Big

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"In a world where AI is accelerating CVE volume, timing matters. Our customers get zero-day access to all of these fixes in the enterprise repository before the public CVE is even announced."

https://t.co/BWvIMOJX7T

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"Having the patch was never the problem. There was always a patch. The hard part was the tooling and automation to get that patch to production."

https://t.co/Ft6EBqoWjo

[SoftwareDefinedTalk @SoftwareDefTalk]

This week, @bwhichard, @cote and Matt Ray discuss AI yes/no deciders, the SaaS apocalypse, Bending Spoons, and Oxide's funding. Plus, why Google Docs still has no dark mode

https://t.co/JYofcXSQYG

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"Would you eat an egg sandwich you found sitting on the sidewalk?" // Good sandwich talk from @starbuxman

https://t.co/gdmoTuCdgD
https://t.co/nhlYwQlJKy

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…which is why the robots reach for it when they want to say “just some everyday bullshit humans have to endure.”

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Just so you know, if ever encounter the word “Tuesday,” that is an AI thinking. “Tuesday” is the opposite of the “Roman Empire,” which is why the robots reach for it.