# Cote's Talks

> Conference talks given by Coté (Michael Coté) on platform engineering, AI, DevOps, cloud-native, and the ongoing comedy of enterprise software. Each entry links to a talk page with slides, recording, and (where available) an inline transcript with citations.

## Talks

### 2026

- [7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform](https://talks.cote.io/wearedevelopers2026/): 2026-07-09, WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 - Europe (Berlin)
- [VCF + Tanzu Platform = The Private Cloud Enterprises Actually Needs](https://talks.cote.io/tanzu-on-vcf/): 2026-06-25, Global VMUG 2026
- [7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform](https://talks.cote.io/platformcon2026/): 2026-06-22, PlatformCon 2026 (virtual)
- [How to Survive and Thrive in a BigCo](https://talks.cote.io/how-to-survive-and-thrive-in-a-bigco-jspring-2026/): 2026-06-04, J-Spring 2026 (Utrecht)
- [The "AI as a Service" Playbook](https://talks.cote.io/ai-as-a-service-playbook-vmug-ams-2026/): 2026-03-18, VMUG NL
- [State of Spring, 2026](https://talks.cote.io/state-of-spring-2026/): 2026-02-18, Spring Tour
- [7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform](https://talks.cote.io/7-ways-to-fail-at-building-a-platform/): 2026-02-02, CfgMgmtCamp

### 2025

- [Private Cloud AI Platform Engineering](https://talks.cote.io/private-cloud-ai-platform-engineering-sre-day-ams-2025-q4/): 2025-11-07, SREDay Amsterdam
- [What the goblins can teach us about enterprise AI](https://talks.cote.io/goblins-enterprise-ai-rest-of-us-2025/): 2025-10-15, AI for the Rest of Us
- [Three Cloud Foundry Stories](https://talks.cote.io/cfdayeu2025/): 2025-10-07, Cloud Foundry Day Europe
- [Platform Engineering for Private Cloud, with AI seasoning](https://talks.cote.io/civonavigatelondon2025/): 2025-09-30, Civo Navigate London
- [Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!](https://talks.cote.io/ai-platform-engineering-sreday-london/): 2025-09-19, SREDay London
- [Platform Engineering and AI - Two Buzzwords Finally Meet!](https://talks.cote.io/ai-platform-engineering-uk-vmug-2025/): 2025-09-18, UK VMUG
- [What the goblins can teach us about enterprise AI](https://talks.cote.io/what-the-goblins-can-teach-us-about-enterprise-ai/): 2025-07-04
- [Platform Engineering for Private Cloud](https://talks.cote.io/platform-engineering-for-private-cloud-sreday-cologne-2025/): 2025-06-11, SREDay Cologne
- [Platform Engineering for Private Cloud](https://talks.cote.io/platform-engineering-for-private-cloud-ndc-oslo-2025/): 2025-05-21, NDC Oslo
- [Enterprise Software: Goblin Mode](https://talks.cote.io/enterprise-software-goblin-mode-tanzu-ai-workshop/): 2025-05-11, Tanzu AI Workshop
- [Platform Engineering for Private Cloud](https://talks.cote.io/platform-engineering-for-private-cloud-platformcon-2025/): 2025-05-10, PlatformCon
- [2025 to 2030: A marketing strategy for Cloud Foundry](https://talks.cote.io/2025-to-2030-a-marketing-strategy-for-cloud-foundry/): 2025-05-07, Cloud Foundry Day North America
- [Platform Engineering for Private Cloud](https://talks.cote.io/platform-engineering-for-private-cloud-fdfecfe3-956e-4a4c-b6ae-9164cbd432a3/): 2025-03-25
- [What the goblins can teach us about AI - Lessons learned from two years of playing D&D with GenAI](https://talks.cote.io/ai-goblins-monki-gras/): 2025-03-25, Monki Gras
- [Platform Engineering for Private Cloud](https://talks.cote.io/private-platform-vmwugnl/): 2025-03-12, VMUG NL
- [The confusing case of cloud app domicilicity](https://talks.cote.io/confusing-cloud/): 2025-02-04, cfgmgmtcamp

### 2024

- [We Fear Change](https://talks.cote.io/we-fear-change-sredayams2024/): 2024-11-21, SREDay Amsterdam
- [Escaping the Legacy Trap](https://talks.cote.io/escaping-the-legacy-trap-gotechworld/): 2024-11-12, GoTech World
- [Enterprise AI for platform engineers](https://talks.cote.io/enterprise-ai-for-platform-engineers/): 2024-11-04, VMware Explore EU
- [What is Tanzu? Why is Tanzu?](https://talks.cote.io/deliver-cloud-native-apps-faster-with-tanzu-platform/): 2024-11-04, VMware Explore EU
- [Developer Productivity is Waste](https://talks.cote.io/sredaylondon2024/): 2024-09-19, SREDay London 2024
- [Low Growth DevOps](https://talks.cote.io/low-growth-devops/): 2024-09-05, DevOpsDays Antwerp
- [Developer Productivity is Waste](https://talks.cote.io/devx-waste-ams/): 2024-06-20, DevOpsDays Amsterdam
- [Developer Productivity (is?) Waste - Preparing for the next wave of DevX mania.](https://talks.cote.io/devx-waste-oslo/): 2024-06-12, NDC Oslo
- [The Legacy Trap](https://talks.cote.io/the-legacy-trap/): 2024-06-04, DATEV Software Craft Community
- [Surviving the Platform Journey](https://talks.cote.io/surviving-the-platform-journey/): 2024-03-26
- [We Fear Change, for DevOpsDays LA 2024](https://talks.cote.io/we-fear-change-for-devopsdays-la-2024/): 2024-03-13, DevOpsDays LA
- [When the developer is the customer - what to ask for](https://talks.cote.io/when-the-developer-is-the-customer-what-to-ask-for/): 2024-02-26
- [Modernizing app, platforms, & culture - Maybe it's not as hard as it seems](https://talks.cote.io/culture2024/): 2024-02-19
- [Fear Change](https://talks.cote.io/fearchange/): 2024-02-06, cfgmgmtcamp

### 2023

- [We built it, and no one came](https://talks.cote.io/we-built-it-and-no-one-came-vmware-explore-eu-2023/): 2023-11-07, VMware Explore EU 2023 (Barcelona)
- [Day Two Digital Transformation: We Fear Change](https://talks.cote.io/day-two-digital-transformation-we-fear-change/): 2023-10-24
- [The People Side of Building the Path to Production](https://talks.cote.io/the-people-side-of-building-the-path-to-production/): 2023-10-17
- [Lessons Learned from 7 Years of Running Developer Platforms](https://talks.cote.io/platform/): 2023-10-17, SpringOn Tour
- [Getting to Daily Builds: Improving Software Delivery Speed and Quality](https://talks.cote.io/getting-to-daily-builds-improving-software-delivery-speed-and-quality/): 2023-10-10
- [Marketing Your Internal Developer Platform](https://talks.cote.io/marketing-your-internal-developer-platform/): 2023-10-03, Enterprise DevOps TechCon
- [The Cloud Native Stack - How to get started, the current state and where the industry is heading](https://talks.cote.io/the-cloud-native-stack-how-to-get-started-the-current-state-and-where-the-industry-is-heading/): 2023-10-03, Enterprise DevOps TechCon
- [Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms](https://talks.cote.io/lessons-learned-from-7-years-of-running-developer-platforms/): 2023-10-02
- [7 Lessons from 7 Years of Running Platforms](https://talks.cote.io/7-lessons-platforms-infobip-shift-2023/): 2023-09-17, Infobip Shift
- [Better Living by Changing Less - IncrativeOps](https://talks.cote.io/better-living-by-changing-less-incrativeops/): 2023-09-08, DevOpsDays Des Moines
- [Better Living by Changing Less - IncrativeOps](https://talks.cote.io/incrativeops-stackconf-berlin-2023/): 2023-09-08, Stackconf, Berlin
- [7 Lessons from 7 Years of Running Platforms](https://talks.cote.io/7-lessons-platforms-oreilly-superstream-2023/): 2023-09-06, O'Reilly Infrastructure and Ops Superstream
- [The Legacy Trap - Executive survival guide to application modernization](https://talks.cote.io/the-legacy-trap-executive-survival-guide-to-application-modernization/): 2023-08-29
- [How the Cloud Foundry Community Can Help Platform Engineering](https://talks.cote.io/how-the-cloud-foundry-community-can-help-platform-engineering/): 2023-06-21, Cloud Foundry Day EU

### 2022

- [Lessons Learned from Running Developers Platforms & Communities](https://talks.cote.io/lessons-platforms-communities-buildstuff-2022/): 2022-11-11, Build Stuff Conf
- [The Eternal Recurrence of DevOps](https://talks.cote.io/the-eternal-recurrence-of-devops/): 2022-08-24, DevOpsDays Dallas 2022
- [How To Survive & Thrive In a Big Company](https://talks.cote.io/how-to-survive-and-thrive-in-a-big-company/): 2022-06-28, DevOpsDays Amsterdam
- [Is DevSecOps a real thing?](https://talks.cote.io/devsecops-real-thing-idc-nordic-2022/): 2022-05-31, IDC Nordic Conference
- [Kubernetes is Not for Developers...?](https://talks.cote.io/kubernetes-not-for-developers-java-day-istanbul-2022/): 2022-05-28, Java Day Istanbul
- [The Enterprise DevOps Whimper - surviving the trough of disillusionment](https://talks.cote.io/the-enterprise-devops-whimper-surviving-the-trough-of-disillusionment/): 2022-05-05
- [OMGDEVSECOPSBBQ](https://talks.cote.io/omgdevsecopsbbq/): 2022-04-27, Spring One Tour Chicago

### 2021

- [Beyond DevOps Metrics](https://talks.cote.io/beyond-devops-metrics-uk-vmug-2021/): 2021-11-25, UK VMUG, London
- [Kubernetes is not for developers…?](https://talks.cote.io/kubernetes-not-for-developers-devoops-2021/): 2021-11-11, DevOops
- [DevOps Metrics for Technical, Business and Culture Transformation](https://talks.cote.io/devops-metrics-vmworld-2021/): 2021-10-06, VMworld 2021
- [We Fear Change](https://talks.cote.io/we-fear-change/): 2021-10-04, DevOps Loop
- [Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Innovation](https://talks.cote.io/creating-and-sustaining-a-culture-of-innovation/): 2021-09-15
- [Beyond DevOps metrics - technical, business, and culture metrics for the software defined business](https://talks.cote.io/beyond-devops-metrics-devopsdays-zurich-2021/): 2021-09-07, DevOpsDays Zurich 2021
- [Platform Operations & Platform as a Product](https://talks.cote.io/platform-ops-as-product-vmug-belgium-2021/): 2021-06-11, VMUG Belgium

### 2019

- [Monolithic transformation cloud native london 2019](https://talks.cote.io/monolithic-transformation-cloud-native-london-2019/): 2019-09-27, Cloud Native London
- [Monolithic Transformation](https://talks.cote.io/monolithic-transformation-agile-scotland-2019/): 2019-09-15, Agile Scotland
- [Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means](https://talks.cote.io/creating-a-devops-culture-continuous-lifecycle-london-2019/): 2019-05-15, Continuous Lifecycle London
- [Platform as a Product, DevOps evolving](https://talks.cote.io/platform-as-a-product-cd-amsterdam-2019/): 2019-05-07, Continuous Delivery Amsterdam
- [Better software is better than worse software, Istanbul](https://talks.cote.io/better-software-spring-tour-istanbul-2019/): 2019-05-07, Spring Tour Istanbul
- [The meatware, it stinks DevOps, product thinking, & cloud native](https://talks.cote.io/meatware-cape-town-devops-2019/): 2019-04-11, Cape Town DevOps Meetup
- [Platform as a Product](https://talks.cote.io/platform-as-a-product/): 2019-03-12, Warsaw JUG
- [Putting the Dev back into DevOps, or, creating better software](https://talks.cote.io/putting-the-dev-back-into-devops-or-creating-better-software/): 2019-03-08, Incontro DevOps

### 2018

- [Secrets of Success for Digital Transformation](https://talks.cote.io/secrets-of-success-for-digital-transformation/): 2018-11-20, Dell Technologies Forum
- [Who put digital transformation in my DevOps?](https://talks.cote.io/who-put-digital-transformation-in-my-devops/): 2018-11-19
- [Rethinking enterprise architecture for DevOps, agile, & cloud native organizations](https://talks.cote.io/rethinking-enterprise-architecture-for-devops-agile-and-cloud-native-organizations/): 2018-11-14, Devoxx Antwerp
- [Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means](https://talks.cote.io/creating-a-devops-culture-whatever-that-means/): 2018-11-12, Singapore Spring User's Group Meeting
- [Beyond the nonsense of digital transformation](https://talks.cote.io/beyond-the-nonsense-of-digital-transformation/): 2018-10-17
- [Beyond the nonsense of digital transformation](https://talks.cote.io/beyond-the-nonsense-of-digital-transformation-number-dellemccsp/): 2018-10-09, #DellEMCCSP
- [Metrics, beyond 'it depends'](https://talks.cote.io/metrics-beyond-it-depends/): 2018-09-22, SpringOne Platform 2018
- [World Champions of Digital Transformation](https://talks.cote.io/world-champions-of-digital-transformation/): 2018-06-26
- [Kubernetes for the konfused](https://talks.cote.io/kubernetes-for-the-konfused/): 2018-06-01, VoxxedDays Singapore
- [Not a DevOps talk](https://talks.cote.io/not-a-devops-talk/): 2018-05-29
- [Enterprise Transformation Use Cases](https://talks.cote.io/enterprise-transformation-use-cases/): 2018-04-11
- [Rethinking Enterprise Architecture](https://talks.cote.io/rethinking-enterprise-architecture/): 2018-02-23, DevOpsDays Charlotte

### 2017

- [Ignite Karaoke at SpringOne Platform 2017](https://talks.cote.io/ignite-karaoke-springone-platform-2017/): 2017-12-05, SpringOne Platform
- [Not actually a DevOps Talk, or, beyond 'survival is not mandatory'](https://talks.cote.io/not-actually-a-devops-talk-or-beyond-survival-is-not-mandatory/): 2017-10-04, DevOpsDays Auckland, 2017
- [What I do - Ignite Karaoke](https://talks.cote.io/devopsdays-kansas-city-ignite-karaoke-2017/): 2017-09-22, DevOpsDays Kansas City
- [Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy](https://talks.cote.io/crafting-cloud-native-austin-devops-meetup-2017/): 2017-06-07, Austin DevOps Meetup
- [Crafting Your Cloud-Native Strategy](https://talks.cote.io/crafting-your-cloud-native-strategy-dc-cloud-native-meetup-2017/): 2017-06-07, DC Cloud-Native MeetUp
- [Surviving & Thriving in a Big Company](https://talks.cote.io/surviving-thriving-in-a-big-company-2017/): 2017-05-02, DevOpsDays Austin

### 2016

- [Pivotal & the big, noisy, dirty machines](https://talks.cote.io/pivotal-the-big-noisy-dirty-machines-2016/): 2016-10-21
- [Executing Your Cloud Strategy: Managing your organization's Digital transformation](https://talks.cote.io/executing-your-cloud-strategy-dellemcworld-2016/): 2016-10-18, Dell EMC World
- [DevOps for Normals  - DevOpsDaysDFW 2016](https://talks.cote.io/devops-for-normals-devopsdaysdfw-2016/): 2016-09-16, DevOpsDays DFW
- [DevOps for Normals](https://talks.cote.io/devops-for-normals-devopsdays-austin-2016/): 2016-04-27, DevOpsDays Austin
- [Docker industry research roundup,  circa. 2015](https://talks.cote.io/docker-industry-research-roundup-austin-docker-meetup-2016/): 2016-01-07, Austin Docker Meetup

### 2015

- [Cloud Native Promises in the Land of Continuously Delivered Microservices](https://talks.cote.io/cloud-native-promises-gartner-aadi-2015/): 2015-12-03, Gartner AADI
- [DevOpsDays Detroit 2015](https://talks.cote.io/devopsdays-detroit-2015/): 2015-11-10, DevOpsDays Detroit
- [Night of the Living Donkeys](https://talks.cote.io/night-of-the-living-donkeys-devopsdays-charlotte-2015/): 2015-10-30, DevOpsDays Charlotte
- [The Coming Donkey Apocalypse, or Day of the Donkey: What happens when DevOps goes mainstream?](https://talks.cote.io/the-coming-donkey-apocalypse-or-day-of-the-donkey-what-happens-when-devops-goes-mainstream/): 2015-08-26, DevOpsDays Chicago
- [Beyond the accidental platform, or, success is no accident](https://talks.cote.io/beyond-the-accidental-platform-or-success-is-no-accident/): 2015-08-25, Chicago Cloud Foundry Meetup
- [Becoming a Software Defined Business](https://talks.cote.io/becoming-a-software-defined-business-vmware-madrid-2015/): 2015-05-26, VMware Business Forum, Madrid
- [The Coming Donkey Apocalypse - What happens when DevOps goes mainstream?](https://talks.cote.io/the-coming-donkey-apocalypse-what-happens-when-devops-goes-mainstream/): 2015-05-04, DevOpsDays Austin
- [DevOps & Cloud for CorpDev Types](https://talks.cote.io/devops-cloud-for-corpdev-types-2015/): 2015-05-01
- [[insert keynote here]](https://talks.cote.io/insert-keynote-here-2015/): 2015-05-01
- [Briefing IT Analysts, tips for vendors](https://talks.cote.io/briefing-it-analysts-tips-for-vendors-2015/): 2015-04-23
- [PaaS market perspective](https://talks.cote.io/paas-market-perspective-2015/): 2015-03-13
- ["Failing fast" for the uptight](https://talks.cote.io/failing-fast-for-the-uptight-geekfest-sxsw-2015/): 2015-03-13, Geekfest 2015, SXSW (Austin)
- [Orienting yourself to  continuous delivery & microservices](https://talks.cote.io/orienting-cd-microservices-pivotal-cloud-roadshow-2015/): 2015-03-02, Pivotal Cloud Roadshow
- [CI/CD from a donkey perspective](https://talks.cote.io/cicd-donkey-heavybit-wheelhouse-2015/): 2015-02-17, HeavyBit Wheelhouse
- [Cloud State of the Union, 2015 - or, "what's up with cloud? 5 years later"](https://talks.cote.io/cloud-state-of-the-union-acug-2015/): 2015-01-20, Austin Cloud User's Group

### 2014

- [DevOps, from a storage perspective](https://talks.cote.io/devops-from-a-storage-perspective-2014/): 2014-12-03
- [Selling to Hoodie and the Sticker-Festooned - Building a Developer Relations Program to Win Over Developers as Paying Customers](https://talks.cote.io/selling-to-hoodie-hosting-cloud-summit-2014/): 2014-10-01, Hosting + Cloud Transformation Summit
- [Work Smarter Not Harder: Processes and tools for better IT operations (or, "DevOps, it's a thing")](https://talks.cote.io/work-smarter-not-harder-modern-infrastructure-seminar-2014/): 2014-06-01, Modern Infrastructure Seminar
- [What Does "Enterprise Grade" Mean, Really?](https://talks.cote.io/enterprise-grade-uptime-institute-symposium-2014/): 2014-05-19, Uptime Institute Symposium 2014
- [OpenStack Summit 2014 - When is this DevOps Unicorn Going to Sprout Wings and Fly?](https://talks.cote.io/devops-unicorn-openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/): 2014-05-09, OpenStack Summit Atlanta
- [When is this DevOps Unicorn Going to Sprout Wings and Fly? - DevOps Days Austin, May 2014](https://talks.cote.io/devops-unicorn-devopsdays-austin-2014/): 2014-05-05, DevOpsDays Austin
- [What cloud trends mean for you - an analyst's view](https://talks.cote.io/cloud-trends-redhat-summit-2014/): 2014-04-15, Red Hat Summit
- [The Cloud^H^H^H^H^HDevOps Milieu, circa March 2014](https://talks.cote.io/cloud-devops-milieu-ansible-meetup-austin-2014/): 2014-03-06, Ansible Meetup Austin
- [Dealing with industry analysts, for startups](https://talks.cote.io/dealing-with-industry-analysts-startups-heavybit-2014/): 2014-01-21, HeavyBit

### 2012

- [General Session at 11th Cloud Expo](https://talks.cote.io/cloud-expo-silicon-valley-2012/): 2012-12-15, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
- [Re-integration: Don't fear "closed" systems](https://talks.cote.io/re-integration-devopsdays-mountain-view-2012/): 2012-06-29, DevOpsDays Mountain View
- [How a BigCo actually got some innovation done - The Longer Story of Crowbar](https://talks.cote.io/bigco-innovation-crowbar-devopsdays-austin-2012/): 2012-04-02, DevOpsDays Austin

### 2011

- [Automating People Back into IT](https://talks.cote.io/automating-people-back-into-it-knowledge11/): 2011-05-23, ServiceNow Knowledge11 (San Diego)
- [Innovations in Requirements Management for Better Feedback and Better Software](https://talks.cote.io/innovations-in-requirements-management-2011/): 2011-02-24

### 2010

- [What’s the point of dev/ops?](https://talks.cote.io/whats-the-point-of-devops-devoxx-antwerp-2010/): 2010-11-23, Devoxx Antwerp
- [Pragmatic Cloud Computing, or, Dealing with Morlocks, or, Agile Infrastructure](https://talks.cote.io/pragmatic-cloud-computing-devoxx-antwerp-2010/): 2010-11-19, Devoxx Antwerp
- [Dealing with Analysts, 2010 Update](https://talks.cote.io/dealing-with-analysts-2010-update/): 2010-08-25
- [What's up with "cloud"?](https://talks.cote.io/whats-up-with-cloud-acug-2010/): 2010-08-24, Austin Cloud User's Group
- [The Pragmatic Cloud - for developers](https://talks.cote.io/the-pragmatic-cloud-for-developers-ete-2010/): 2010-04-09, Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference
- [Consumer Tech to Enterprise Tech](https://talks.cote.io/consumer-tech-to-enterprise-tech-phillyete-2010/): 2010-04-08, Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (Philly ETE)
- [Agile Infrastructure - or, The Silver Bullet du jour, or, Mutual Hatred Between Development and Operations](https://talks.cote.io/agile-infrastructure-silver-bullet-2010/): 2010-02-02

### 2009

- [Java One 2009 Trip Report](https://talks.cote.io/javaone-2009-trip-report/): 2009-06-30, AJUG (Atlanta Java Users Group)
- [Beyond "Using" Open Source](https://talks.cote.io/beyond-using-open-source-foss-seoul-2009/): 2009-04-29, Free Open Source Software License Insight Conference, Seoul
- [Cloud Computing and Linux](https://talks.cote.io/cloud-computing-and-linux-collab-summit-2009/): 2009-04-09, Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

### 2008

- [Dealing With Analysts - According to One Analyst](https://talks.cote.io/dealing-with-analysts-according-to-one-analyst/): 2008-07-15

### 2007

- [Developer Marketing: Do's and Don't's](https://talks.cote.io/developer-marketing-dos-and-donts/): 2007-09-21