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 management.

The Smells of the Kubernetes Community

A collection of podcasts from VMware Tanzu, covering IT modernization and digital transformation from every angle. We cover the week’s news, talk with guests, and have the occasional oddball thing. Topics range from engineers in the weeds of cloud, developers, to executives pushing change within their organizations.

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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 doing to help improve developer productivity.

Developer Platforms and Productivity, with Serdar Badem

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, Coté talks with Steve Pereira about value stream mappings, what waste is, exactly, and why it's so difficult to do what seems like an obviously good idea, like value stream mapping.
- Steve in LinkedIn.- Steve's book.- Flow community.- Awesome waste/countermeasure handout, including definitions of waste.

What is ”waste” in software development? With Steve Pereira

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, and the need for better quantification of these concepts for businesses. They also discuss developer productivity metrics and three types of meetings.

Re-thinking tech debt, developer productivity, & better meetings, with Laura Tacho

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 doing the BIG and MISSION CRITICAL work? 

In this episode, Coté talks with Betty Junod on this topic. She draws from many sources like her first hand experience as an executive and working with the DevOps and cloud native community. They also discuss making culture changes in organizations and how recent work to figure out how to determine ”business value.”

Keep it small to make big changes, with Betty Junod

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.

The Smells of the Kubernetes Community

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