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VMware Tanzu Platform
Company blog · content.pivotal.io/blogprogrammingsystems
VMware Tanzu Platform is the company blog at content.pivotal.io, writing about programming and systems. Since 2017, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Understanding the risk profile of your technical debt”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Pivotal's content as background on Cloud Foundry, cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, Istio and Knative. The posts and ebooks cover platform-as-a-service and cloud-native app topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Get the private cloud PaaS for the agentic era. Modernize apps, build and govern agents to safely deliver critical software faster.
Most-linked posts?
- Understanding the risk profile of your technical debt2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-23
- Should that be a microservice? Factors to keep in mind2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-25
- What Is a Unit Test? (The Answer Might Surprise You)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-19
- /ebooks/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-25
What Hacker News says?
I agree, but it's fun and sometimes enlightening to let the debate be framed this way Compare[1] Chapter 1: > “Nobody has ever built cloud-native apps without a platform. They either build one themselves or they use Cloud Foundry.” [1]: https://content.pivotal.io/ebooks/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-na...
Comment linking /ebooks/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform
on “Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes”Submitted Should that be a microservice? Factors to keep in mind as a story · 213 points
HN discussion> They have their own sauce. I personally called it the Pivotal Process What Pivotal does is fairly vanilla Extreme Programming. Indeed, the vanillaness of it is something of a selling point. In the London office, we would start projects by giving client PMs and programmers a copy of Extreme Programming Explained and telling them that was what we were going to do. It's easier to coax them into following a process if…
Comment linking /blog/what-we-did-on-our-summer-internship-at-pivotal-discovery-and-framing
on “Hard deadlines are not user-first”Submitted The art of interrupting software engineers as a story · 183 points
HN discussionThere seems to be also other companies involved: IBM: https://developer.ibm.com/dwblog/2017/istio/ Redhat: https://blog.openshift.com/red-hat-istio-launch/ Pivotal: https://content.pivotal.io/blog/pivotal-and-istio-advancing-...
Comment linking /blog/pivotal-and-istio-advancing-the-ecosystem-for-microservices-in-the-enterprise
on “Google and IBM announce Istio – easily secure and manage microservices”Submitted Evidence points to OOP being bullshit (2013) as a story · 38 points
HN discussionThere seems to be also other companies involved: Redhat: https://blog.openshift.com/red-hat-istio-launch/ Pivotal: https://content.pivotal.io/blog/pivotal-and-istio-advancing-...
Comment linking /blog/pivotal-and-istio-advancing-the-ecosystem-for-microservices-in-the-enterprise
on “Google and IBM announce Istio – easily secure and manage microservices”Submitted Cloud Native Buildpacks – Cloud Foundry’s next-gen build interface hits beta as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI've been around Knative for a few months on behalf of Pivotal (our blogpost here[0] and TheNewStack here[1]). Other leading contributors are IBM, SAP and Red Hat. Subject to my biases, what would people like to know? [0] https://content.pivotal.io/blog/knative-powerful-building-bl... [1] https://thenewstack.io/knative-enables-portable-serverless-p...
Comment linking /blog/knative-powerful-building-blocks-for-a-portable-function-platform
on “Knative – Kubernetes-based platform to manage modern serverless workloads”Submitted Pivotal open sources kpack: A K8s-native Docker image build service as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCheck out these resources: - https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/concepts/architecture/ - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920042501.do - https://content.pivotal.io/ebooks/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-na...
Comment linking /ebooks/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform
on “Pivotal Software S-1”Submitted K14s (Kubernetes Tools): Simple and Composable Tools for Application Deployment as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's interesting how much the filing seems to revolve around PCF. I played with PCF a few years ago and was really unimpressed. More recently I've been consulting with firms using PCF and the devops guys there seem to really like it and Bosh, so it may have gotten better at least. That said, I just can't understand why you'd ever pick PCF over Kubernetes. Sure, I get one deploys application code, and the other deplo…
Comment linking /announcements/introducing-pivotal-container-service-pks-the-simple-way-to-bring-kubernetes-to-enterprise-customers
on “Pivotal Software S-1”Submitted Pivotal: Comprehensive Support for OpenJDK, Spring, and Apache Tomcat as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy advice is to go directly to a PaaS. I work for Pivotal R&D in and around Cloud Foundry, so that's my personal horse. But I'd rather that you used any PaaS -- Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Rancher -- than roll your own. Building a platform is hard . It's really really hard. Kubernetes commoditises some of the hard bits. The community around it will progressively commoditise other aspects in time. But PaaSes already ex…
Comment linking /blog/you-deserve-a-continuously-integrated-platform-here-s-why-it-matters
on “Is K8s Too Complicated? ”Submitted Building Spring Microservices with Cloud Foundry's New Container Networking Stack as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI found this post only after I wrote that, ha: https://content.pivotal.io/blog/were-looking-forward-to-welc...
Comment linking /blog/were-looking-forward-to-welcoming-heptio-to-the-family-this-is-why-our-customers-will-be-the-big-winners
on “VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes”Submitted A Tech Comparison of API Gateways: Apigee Edge, Spring Cloud Gateway, and Ocelot as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBeyond the 12 factor app: (1) One codebase, one application (2) API first (3) Dependency management (4) Design, build, release, and run (5) Configuration, credentials, and code (6) Logs (7) Disposability (8) Backing services (9) Environment parity (10) Administrative processes (11) Port binding (12) Stateless processes (13) Concurrency (14) Telemetry (15) Authentication and authorization More info: https://content.p…
Comment linking /blog/beyond-the-twelve-factor-app
on “Twelve-factor app development on Google Cloud”Submitted Pivotal and VMware–Transforming How More of the World Builds Software as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot O.P., but 1 type of "ideological crap" is probably in reference to how certain startups enforce and indoctrinate certain "practices" that they staunchly believe are core to their organization. Some even wear these practices like a badge of honor on their job listings. Example: Pivotal Labs is known for it's insistence on "Pair Programming" and touts it as an "extremely beneficial" practice. Source: Pair Programm…
Comment linking /blog/pair-programming-considered-extremely-beneficial
on “Ask HN: How do I find meaningful work?”Submitted Tame Jupyter notebooks from data scientists for production systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA first note, this is not like-for-like. Dokku, Flynn and Deis fit the PaaS spot more meaningfully. Kubernetes and Swarm are sometimes called "Container as a Service" -- you still need a bunch of work to select, install and configure features that PaaS users take for granted. Missing from the list: Cloud Foundry. And OpenShift! Give Red Hat some respect here for making Kubernetes into a platform. And DCOS, which I t…
Comment linking /blog/250k-containers-in-production-a-real-test-for-the-real-world
on “PAAS Comparison – Dokku vs. Flynn vs. Deis vs. Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm”Submitted Real-Time Object-Detection with Spring Cloud Stream and TensorFlow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, Pivotal model (disclosure, I worked at Pivotal/CloudFoundry for a bit) just uses sticky notes and they do this in an 'inception'. https://content.pivotal.io/blog/inception-knowing-what-to-bu... Sticky notes are something more dynamic and hand writing things out makes you think more about things than just filling out boxes on a screen. It also allow you to iterate quickly and just toss the ideas you don't like i…
Comment linking /blog/inception-knowing-what-to-build-and-where-you-should-start
on “Show HN: Featmap – a user story mapping tool built with Go, React and TypeScript”Submitted How to manage technical debt like financial debt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLike most of the others mentioned in your list, Cloud Foundry is designed to operate in disconnected environments. I worked on buildpacks in 2014, part of my job was to ensure that it worked in disconnected environments. These days every single version of Pivotal Application Service and all of our other software products are tested together in public and private cloud configurations. For every single release[0]. We…
Comment linking /blog/you-deserve-a-continuously-integrated-platform-here-s-why-it-matters
on “Gardener: Manage Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers”Submitted Understanding the risk profile of your technical debt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWell, Cloud Foundry is deployed by BOSH. So you can, if you wish, use RackHD to deploy it to naked hardware (instead of OpenStack, GCP, AWS, Azure and I forget what else). Your apps will still be containerised, distributed and wired up the same way. There's always a point at which it makes engineering sense to flip the switch to doing it yourself. But that frontier is never static. We (plus our peers in the Cloud Fo…
Comment linking /white-papers/the-upside-down-economics-of-building-your-own-platform
on “Running 1000 containers in Docker Swarm”Submitted “Our existing application uses Ruby 1.8 and Rails 2.3” as a story · 2 points
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