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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.

Survey results: How many words should Fudge Sunday issues aim for each week?

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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).

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Source: chat.openai.com

Music: Sade - Smooth Operator (1984)

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

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).

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.

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

They see you come and they see you go 🎶

They know your secrets and you know theirs 🎶

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

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

Getting Informed

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 🎶

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.

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

Sidebar

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. 🤔

Music: INXS - Never Tear Us Apart (1988)

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

Sidebar

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

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

Getting Informed

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

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Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous (1998)

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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.

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.

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.

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 🤯.

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

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.

Pavement - Platform Blues (1999)

Getting Informed

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

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”).

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Crawdad Song - Foggy Mountain Boys (1962)

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

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.

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.

George Harrison - When We Was Fab (1987)

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

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.

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

Republica - Ready to Go (1997)

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

Getting Informed

Things to work on….

• how to describe links vs footnotes

• tune up the desibilizing

• work on background noise

• consider third-party processing, descript, etc.

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

Getting Informed