Fudge Sunday by Jay Cuthrell

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Zero Tickets to Paradise

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Music: Eddie Money - Two Tickets to Paradise (1977)

This week we take a look at the goal of attaining a near zero ticket developer experience with AIOps.

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#201
May 29, 2023
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Do You Need The Service Catalog?

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Music: Tubeway Army - Do You Need The Service? (1979)

This week we take a look at service catalog frameworks, the internal developer platform (IDP), and developer experience (DevX).

Getting Informed

#200
May 21, 2023
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It's Not Easy Being GreenDevSecFinOps

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Music: Kermit the Frog - It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green (1970)

This week we take a look at Green IT and green coding adoption cycles for Platform Engineering past, present, and future of GreenDevSecFinOps.

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#199
May 14, 2023
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One IDP piece at a time

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Music: Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time (1976)

This week we take a look at recent Internal Developer Platform (IDP) coverage, taxonomy, and industry trends.

Getting Informed

#198
May 7, 2023
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R U DevX Experienced?

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Music: Devo - Are U X-perienced? (1984)

This week we take a look at recent Developer Experience (DevX) coverage and articles that caught my attention.

Getting Informed

#197
April 30, 2023
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Press Rewind

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Music: Del the Funky Homosapien - Press Rewind (2000)

This week we take at recent updates in software supply chain security that may provide an ability to press rewind.

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#196
April 24, 2023
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What's Golden Path?

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Music: Jurassic 5 - What’s Golden (2002)

This week we take a look at the definition of a golden path in the rising coverage related to topics of platform engineering and developer experience.

Getting Informed

#195
April 16, 2023
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Take the Bot DataDome

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Music: Supertramp - Take the Long Way Home (1979)

This week we take a look at recent funding for DataDome, related bot management solutions, and the road ahead.

Getting Informed

#194
April 10, 2023
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Saved by env0

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Music: The Fixx - Saved by Zero (1983)

This week we take a look at platform engineering related venture capital (VC) funding you might have missed.

Getting Informed

#193
April 3, 2023
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Quaterly Roundup Edition

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Music: James Elmore - Quarter Past Nine (1954)

This week is a quarterly roundup of links to DevEx/DevX VC funding and M&A related news you might have missed.

Getting Informed

#192
March 26, 2023
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The Promised Landing Zones

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Music: Bruce Springsteen - The Promised Land (1978)

This week we take a look at the growing adoption of Landing Zones.

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#191
March 20, 2023
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Google Service (Dream) Weaver

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Music: Gary Wright - Dream Weaver (1975)

This week we take a look at Google Service Weaver and the next generation of distributed applications.

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#190
March 12, 2023
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Buf.build Your REST

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Music: Earth, Wind & Fire - Build Your Nest (1973)

This week we take a look at the history of protocol buffers as well as the rise of buf cli and Buf Technologies.

Getting Informed

#189
March 6, 2023
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IDP Wasn't Built in a Day

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Music: Morcheeba - Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day (2000)

This week we look at similarities in platform engineering, data operations (DataOps), and revenue operations (RevOps) teams.

Getting Informed

#188
February 26, 2023
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Map of the Platformatique

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Music: Muse - “Map of the Problematique” (2007)

This week we take a look at platform engineering services, internal developer platforms, and Wardley maps making the rounds.

Getting Informed

#187
February 20, 2023
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k8s Operator, Could You Help Me Place SysCall?

This week we look at Custom Seccomp Profiles (CSP) and Security Profiles Operator (SPO), and future WebAssembly (Wasm) Operators.

Music: Jim Croce - “Operator” (1972)

Note: This edition of the newsletter is exploring some of the newest features from Buttondown for oEmbed. Love it? Hate it? If you prefer footnotes and hyperlinks over rich media inclusions or image click through inclusions, your feedback would be appreciated.

Getting Informed

#186
February 13, 2023
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Smooth k8s Operator

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Source: chat.openai.com

Music: Sade - Smooth Operator (1984)

This week we take a look at growing interest in Kubernetes (k8s) Operators.

#185
February 5, 2023
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IDP Clearly Now

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Source: “developers using an internal developer platform” on stockimg.ai

Music: Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now (1972)

This week we take a look at the past, present, and future of the Internal Developer Platform (IDP).

#184
January 30, 2023
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Deploy Everything You Touch

Music: Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch ()

This week we take a look at

Getting Informed

First, I aimed ChatGPT at myself this week for a past issue of the newsletter on toolchains.

#183
January 23, 2023
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Cost Cause

Music: Beck - Lost Cause (2022) Yes, I gave into ChatGPT temptation.

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They see you come and they see you go 🎶

They know your secrets and you know theirs 🎶

#182
January 16, 2023
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Happy When It Toolchains

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Music: The Jesus And Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains (1987)

This week we take a look at toolchains in platform engineering.

Getting Informed

#181
January 8, 2023
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Such Tweet Nothing

Music: Calvin Harris - Sweet Nothing ft. Florence Welch (2012)

Getting Informed

This week we take a look at IndyWeb origins, ActivityPub, Fediverse, and other options outside of the Tweet place.

Emptied out by a single word 🎶

#180
January 1, 2023
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How Soon is Next Year?

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Music: The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (1985)

Getting Informed

This week is a look ahead to 2023 with predictions on the path to 2030. To frame my look ahead, consider my look ahead from 761 days ago 1 where I considered the future of the cloud in 2030.

#179
December 26, 2022
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Zettelkasten End of Year for 2022

This week we take a look at my Zettelkasten end of year favorites for 2022.

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First, if you are reading this update, I’d like to thank you for your patience as I explore new content formats. Also, this is a currently a free newsletter and I pay the fees1 that enable this newsletter to be delivered to your inbox — so, no worries if you want to click your unsubscribe link below. 🤓

Second, I have been approached by an advertiser. After gathering feedback from a few Fudge Sunday readers that use said advertiser with their own communities2, I may consider experimenting with a “Links From Our Sponsor” section next year. 🤔

#178
December 19, 2022
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Proxy Tear Us Apart

Music: INXS - Never Tear Us Apart (1988)

This week we look at the path from VPN1 to Beyondcorp-esque alternatives

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#177
December 11, 2022
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Fediverse Moving over the Face of the Waters

This is an early edition of Fudge Sunday where we we take a look at moving a newsletter from Substack to Buttondown and from Twitter to Mastodon.

Music: Moby - “God Moving over the Face of the Waters” (1995)

Getting Informed

Record scratch Freeze frame

#176
December 3, 2022
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Don't Worry 'Bout SRE

Music: Frank Sinatra - “Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me” (1966)

Getting Informed

This week our topic comes from Substack Chat. 🤔🙏🤓

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#175
November 28, 2022
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I Want To Thank You

Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous (1998)

Getting Informed

Writing this newsletter has involved several reboots. Some of my readers remember the fits and starts. Others joined in reading later and wondered how I manage to crank out a new post each week.

#174
November 20, 2022
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Twit Can Happen

Yes - “It Can Happen” (1983)

Getting Informed

This week take a look at the recent challenges for Twitter, content drift, link rot, and archivist considerations.

#173
November 13, 2022
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A Matter of Zero Trust

Billy Joel - “A Matter of Trust” (1986)

Getting Informed

This week we take a look at Zero Trust, Zero Trust Model, Zero Trust Security Model, Zero Trust Reference Architecture, Zero Trust Network Access, and Zero Trust Network Architecture. So, if this seems like an elongated list now, you should have zero — ahem — trust the list will be the last of the variants.

#172
November 6, 2022
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Cadillac WebAssembly Line

Albert King - “Cadillac Assembly Line” (1980)

Getting Informed

This week we take a look at WebAssembly (Wasm)1 and the implications of ubiquitous2 stack-based virtual machines. For example, even from a low end Linux or even Apple laptop running MacOS you can open Safari browser and run a late 1990s classic game like Diablo3 🤯.

#171
October 31, 2022
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Underneath The CNCF Tech Radar

Underworld - Underneath The Radar (1988)

Getting Informed

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) was formed in 2015 by 22 supporting member companies.1 At launch, the mission statement was “to create and drive the adoption of a new computing paradigm that is optimized for modern distributed systems environments“. 2

#170
October 23, 2022
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Please Please OTel Me Now

Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know? (1982)

Getting Informed

If you are new to OpenTelemetry — or “Otel” for short — that’s understandable. You might have come across application performance management companies, tools, techniques, or even projects like OpenTracing1 or OpenCensus2 that predate Otel.

#169
October 17, 2022
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Platform Engineering Blues

Pavement - Platform Blues (1999)

Getting Informed

If you need a refresher on Platform Engineering, read this post from last month:

#168
October 9, 2022
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Precision Time Protocol That You Love

Tom Waits - "Time" (1985)

Getting Informed

This week we take a look at Network Time Protocol (NTP), Precision Time Protocol (PTP), Time Appliance Project (TAP), and Time as a Service (TaaS). We’re going to stay in the realm of time much larger than the ~11.8 inch distance that light can travel in a ns (aka a Grace Hopper “nanosecond”) but we will stay within the realm of the ~984 foot distance that light can travel in a µs (aka a Grace Hopper “microsecond”).

#167
October 2, 2022
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Build a Cloud Platform Foundation

Spandau Ballet - Foundation (1983)

Getting Informed

This post will cover topics that matter to developers and organizations that seek to attract developers. Those topics will range from legacy terminology such as DevOps, newer terminology like “platform engineering” or developer experience (DevX/DevEx), and the importance of a cloud platform foundation that provides landing zones that are aligned the goals of a developer community.

#166
September 25, 2022
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Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic

Getting Informed

A few months ago, I decided to buy YouTube Premium and I have been mashing that Subscribe button ever since. This week I am sharing some of what I found worthy of an hour or two of attention each week.

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#165
September 19, 2022
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SoC It To Me

Getting Informed

Let’s imagine for a moment that SoC1 is expressed as a SoC2 that acts as a functional SoC3 and possibly as a virtual SoC4 at hyperscale. But first, some definitions are in order because acronyms can be confusing without proper context.

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#164
September 11, 2022
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Artemis, Radiation Hardening, and IPFS

Getting Informed

As I was thinking about the topic for this newsletter post, NASA’s Artemis 1 launch got pushed back a bit. So, that provides more opportunity to focus on radiation hardening and IPFS.

#163
September 4, 2022
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You Get A Line and I'll Get A Poll Result

The Crawdad Song - Foggy Mountain Boys (1962)

Getting Informed

#162
August 29, 2022
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A Cold Shot and Chaser

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Cold Shot (1984)


#161
August 22, 2022
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Feeling So Really Simple Syndication

Moby - 'Feeling So Real' (1995)

Before we get into the origin, status, and future of RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or Atom it’s time for a quick work update. Oddly enough, there is a connection.

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#160
August 15, 2022
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Union of the Cloud

Duran Duran - Union Of The Snake (1983)

Getting Informed

This week we take another look at multicloud (or multi-cloud if you prefer) but this time across three dimensions: Paths, Patterns, and Problems. So, as you might expect, there will be links to the past and present with a positive outlook on the future.

#159
August 7, 2022
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When We Was Chip Fab Focused

George Harrison - When We Was Fab (1987)


We’ll get to the whim based infrastructure in a moment…

#158
July 31, 2022
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Get It All While You Can

Tesla - Ez Come Ez Go (1986)


This week I wanted to thank readers for all the feedback and sharing. Being able to maintain my publishing streak for over a year has been incredibly rewarding.

#157
July 25, 2022
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Busy Child

The Crystal Method - Busy Child (1997)

Getting Informed

Long time blog readers might recall my blog post from 2014 near the meme peak of STEM where I argued the need for ESTEEM is STEM plus Ethics plus Empathy. Then a few years later, my blog was appended in 2017 with a National Public Radio interview of an industry leader involved in low code no code platforms.1

#156
July 17, 2022
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Ready To Grow

Republica - Ready to Go (1997)


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#155
July 10, 2022
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SuperCloudbusting

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting (1985) and may the samples live on for years to come.1


Getting Informed

#154
July 3, 2022
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Fudge Sunday Test 4

Photo by Sebastian Pociecha on Unsplash

Things to work on….

  • how to describe links vs footnotes

  • tune up the desibilizing

  • work on background noise

  • consider third-party processing, descript, etc.

#153
July 3, 2022
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Make IIoT Easy On Yourself

Dionne Warwick - “Make It Easy On Yourself” (1973)


Getting Informed

#152
June 26, 2022
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