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3 weeks ago | 
thenewstack.io | Michael Cote |Michael Coté
To make good agentic AI apps, developers need to get good at what they’re terrible at: documentation. That’s because Agentic AI apps use a lot of tools, and to understand when and why to use those tools, the AIs need good documentation. I’ve been coding Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to help me play solo Dungeons & Dragons with Claude, as I covered in my previous article on this topic. Playing D&D with just the AI robots is fun and delightful.
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1 month ago | 
thenewstack.io | Michael Cote |Michael Coté
I’ve been playing a lot of Dungeons & Dragons again for the first time in 30 years. Not with humans, but with AIs, and I’ve mostly used ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Surprisingly, playing D&D with the AIs turned out to be the perfect way to understand what agentic AI actually is and how it might work in real-world enterprise software. Enterprise systems are complex. So is D&D.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
thenewstack.io | Michael Cote |Michael Coté |Camille Crowell-Lee
Evolving From Pre-AI to Agentic AI Apps: A 4-Step Model sponsor-vmware,sponsored-post-contributed, Featured image by Ilya Lukichev on Shutterstock. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’re in an “AI or die!” era right now. Every organization seems desperate to figure out how AI fits into their business strategy.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
tanzu.vmware.com | Michael Cote |Michael Coté |Michael Coté works
This blog is based on "Navigating Market Storms by Leveraging VMware Tanzu and VMware Cloud Foundation at Scale," a panel with Schwab at Explore 2024. Charles Schwab manages 35.6 million brokerage accounts and executes 5.49 million trades on an average trading day. The company manages $9.41 trillion in client assets. As you'd expect, they're a highly regulated company spanning several businesses including banking and personal investing.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
tanzu.vmware.com | Michael Cote |Michael Coté |Michael Coté works
"Platform Engineering in the Wild with Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry," Jürgen Sußner (DATEV eG) and Nick Kuhn (Tanzu), August 2024. This is what makes platform engineering new and interesting: "If I consider them [developers] as customers, I have to ask them, what should I do better? How can I do better?
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
tanzu.vmware.com | Michael Cote |Michael Coté |Rita Manachi
Written by Michael Coté and Rita ManachiA version of this article appears in The New Stack. Securing cloud native environments can be overwhelming, especially if you're building your own stack from the hot-pot bar of the CNCF landscape. You'll fit each of those projects together, making sure you find and follow all the security to do's. Then you customize them to behave however you need - after all, that's why you built a custom stack, right?
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Michael Cote |Michael Coté |Rita Manachi
Securing cloud native environments can be overwhelming in any situation. But that’s especially true if you’re building your own stack from the big buffet line of the CNCF’s Cloud Native Landscape. First, you need to fit all your chosen projects together, making sure you find and follow all the security to-do’s. Next you have to customize them to behave however you need — after all, that’s why you built a custom stack, right?
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
tanzu.vmware.com | Michael Cote |Michael Coté |Michael Coté works
For the past five years, we’ve been asking people how they use cloud native platforms in our State of Kubernetes surveys, now renamed the State of Cloud Native Platforms. This allows us to get a sense of how well these platforms deliver on their promises. The promise of platforms is to improve how your organization builds and runs its own software: getting faster releases, higher quality with more security, and freeing up developers' time to focus on the actual apps instead of the infrastructure.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
vmblog.com | Michael Cote |Michael Coté |David Marshall
By Michael Coté, developer advocate
VMware Tanzu
I'm still not entirely convinced that we've
landed on a definition of "platform engineer." A few years ago, I
felt like I turned a corner and all but ran into a big smoothie made of SRE,
kubernetes, centralized developer tool groups, and Internal Developer Portals
(IDP). We're still tuning the
ingredients as we drink the smoothie. Thankfully, for us crotchety DevOps
people, DevOps is still a must-have for the smoothie.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
oreilly.com | Michael Cote |Michael Coté
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN: 0790145433008 Read it now on the O’Reilly learning platform with a 10-day free trial. O’Reilly members get unlimited access to books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers. Advancing in a large organization requires more than just being good at your job. Many of these skills and practices are not obvious and seldom taught.
