Improved Storage Latency for Polygon Nodes on AWS through Agnostic Engineering

Improved Storage Latency for Polygon Nodes on AWS through Agnostic Engineering

In a guest post co-written by Arnaud Briche, the founder of Agnostic, the company’s mission is to democratize access to well-structured blockchain data. Agnostic aims to provide a fast, easy-to-use, and reliable method for querying the large volumes of data generated by smart contract blockchains. Initially using basic service providers for performance reasons, Agnostic later … Read more

Want to Escape VMware? Exit with Platform Engineering

Want to Escape VMware? Exit with Platform Engineering

Last year, Forrester predicted that 20% of VMware customers would ditch the ecosystem. With Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware, it looks like that is coming true — fast. Thousands of VMware customers have suddenly been hit by a wave of changes. Dozens of products are being dropped, permanent licences being abandoned and expected costs … Read more

Lessons from the field: Why you need a platform engineering practice (…and how to build it)

Lessons from the field: Why you need a platform engineering practice (…and how to build it)

Platform engineering is a sociotechnical discipline that has gained tremendous attention in the last year in response to the need for organizations to accelerate cloud native app development and management. Platform engineering focuses on the internal application of development and the creation of so-called ‘Golden Pathways’ in engineering and development, saving time and creating more … Read more

NVIDIA and VMware Unlock Generative AI for Enterprises – Digital Engineering

NVIDIA and VMware Unlock Generative AI for Enterprises  – Digital Engineering

VMware, Inc. and NVIDIA have announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to ready thousands of enterprises that run on VMware’s cloud infrastructure for the era of generative artificial intelligence. VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA will enable enterprises to customize models and run generative AI applications, including intelligent chatbots, assistants, search and summarization. The platform will be … Read more

VMware Expands Tanzu into a Full Platform Engineering Environment

VMware Expands Tanzu into a Full Platform Engineering Environment

Enterprise software provider VMware is expanding its Kubernetes platform to include an internal development portal and a runtime for applications to span multiple clouds. The company unveiled these enhancements Tuesday at its annual user conference, VMware Explore, being held this week in Las Vegas. “We have expanded the definition of Tanzu Application Platform to include … Read more