SAP acquiring a high-growth startup. Curious what multiple they paid given the recent stock dip. Guessing this will drive cost cuts elsewhere

Kubernetes Still Feels Weird? What i wish i knew sooner aws.plainenglish.io/kubernetes-s...

yay spent 2 days trying to work out why Fiori Elements TreeTable was working fine for one entity and not another @odata.bind an OData V4 annotation used to update a relationship between two existing entities was being stripped out in CAP FE Wizard now using "odataVersion": "4.01" not "4.0"

SAP once needed a dot in every Gartner Magic Quadrant. It was how you signalled competitive breadth. If AI is reducing the influence of analyst firms, that pressure fades too. Fewer companies following Gartner means fewer reasons to chase every square. Expect products to get cannibalized.

The less someone knows about a problem, the more they trust GenAI to solve it. Confidence peaks where understanding is thinnest. GenAI made us forget about imposter syndrome. Dunning Kruger didn’t get the memo.

A few callous layoffs in the news lately When HR fumbles the fallout you have to ask who they actually serve Because in that moment it was not the people

I find myself sharing this talk a lot. Too many freelancers and contractors start on a handshake or a lopsided contract, then wonder why they’re chasing the last invoice. Don’t start till it’s sorted. “F*ck You, Pay Me” - Mike Monteiro youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U?...

The people who used to occasionally drop gold on LinkedIn are gone. Not because they had nothing to say but because the algorithm rewards everything else. Play the game or leave. Build an audience to feed the algorithm, or watch it evaporate. Truffle hunting.

Look what I found at the pub round the corner from my house

Great discussion on the gap & need for tech apprenticeship in the AI era "We're going from a learning culture to a shipping culture .. one that forgets how to learn" "I only know that this is wrong because I have done it" why shared wisdom and tribal knowledge matter 👍👍 a preceptorship programme

Vale Chuck

Stop Confusing API Gateway, Load Balancer and Reverse Proxy youtu.be/DVR0zvDYJgY?... this just popped into my play list If you come from on-prem, F5 and SAP Web Dispatcher covered a lot of this, including WAF, in one box. Cloud native just unbundled it. The L4 vs L7 section is worth it alone.

port1355.dev Looks like a nice reverse proxy node alternative to Nginx or Caddy

I miss tech twitter. SAP conferences just wrapped all over the world and all LinkedIn has to show for it is selfies. Have conferences turned into Pokemon Go? Gotta catch 'em all

www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/s... 5 years into RISE with SAP only 39% of ECC customers have started migrating to S4HANA Pundits suggest focus has already shifted to selling AI innovation to those who moved DSAG data this week shows 75% of orgs aren't driving AI initiatives through SAP workloads

AI makes code cheap to produce, but it also creates false confidence. The scarce thing is still the tribal knowledge of why the system works the way it does and who you can rely on to fix it when it does not or explain it to regulators. System comprehension is still the real work.

once.com Interesting move by @37signals with ONCE - an opinionated Docker platform to self-host their apps or any containerized web app. Seems like ONCE started as a way to monetize FOSS, now a way to keep their products relevant?

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been in conversations where “SAP Cloud ALM can do that” is the answer to why something else doesn’t. Feels like the new “that’s a consulting question”, a throwaway, go-away answer. It’s not that CALM doesn’t do it. It’s that no one in the room knows how.

Why the World Still Runs on SAP www.a16z.news/p/why-the-wo... Last month AI kills SaaS. This month the world still runs on SAP. SAP isn't sticky because the code is hard to replace. It's sticky because the organisation rebuilt itself around it. Turns out the bottleneck was never coding.

Balancing AI tensions: Moving from AI adoption to effective SDLC use dora.dev/insights/bal... Productivity moved away from writing code and into reviewing, fixing, testing, and stabilising. Individuals feel faster at the keyboard, but they aren't delivering more software for the same effort.

SAP CEO Christian Klein on AI, Global Volatility, and the Future of SAP Professionals www.buzzsprout.com/2307117/epis...

Just tested mlo on my Flint 3 router

This is such a good listen, @scott.hanselman.com is clearly jazzed about AI assisted development tools, but he leads the conversation with there is a big difference between "clone Minecraft" where the 50 page spec is available online & the work needed to explain building a new Minecraft from scratch

Innovation is a culture problem, not a technology adoption problem. Agile tried to teach us this 20 years ago: innovation requires safety to experiment and learn. We ignored it. SAP Leonardo came and went. We ignored that too. Now AI is here and we're running the exact same playbook.

Unknown recruiter called. Hot lead off LinkedIn (not my area). Large consultancy, desperate to hire ASAP, open to contract or perm. For shits and giggles I asked for both numbers. Perm paid more once you include super + leave. Wonder which door actually swings harder when the work dries up?

A really good listen. Balancing the urge to tinker with the responsibility of guiding others and knowing when to persuade vs. defer to business priorities. "Everybody remembers the first half of the jack of all trades idiom, but everybody forgets the back half is 'and master of none.'"

So true

OH: giving a developer Terraform is like giving a puppy for Christmas. Week 1 - walks, cleanup, chaos. Week 2 - someone else's problem.

The Modernization Imperative: Shifting left is for suckers. Shift down instead cloud.google.com/blog/product...

OH - the fastest way to go backwards is to stand still

Like it or lump it, non‑technical staff will write code. Ironically, the more code they write, the tighter the safeguards become. “Don’t import this transport until someone has watched the e2e test video confirming the PM’s feature they wrote during standup didn’t break anything.”

Really like the idea of tools like getunblocked.com. Using MCP to surface context from code, docs and conversations (Slack/Teams) to help developers onboard and move faster But it also highlights a bigger issue - a lot of real tribal knowledge and practices were never documented or drifted long ago

"We’re all singing the same dumb song on the worst karaoke machine ever made."

Good read - The environment used to create growth by accident. - AI removes that natural friction, and many organizations respond by optimizing for output instead of developing seniority. - True seniority now depends on judgment, system thinking, and navigating ambiguity, not coding volume

OH: MS Agent 365 onboards agents like their workers - roles, permissions etc. Like contractors, but who aren't forced to use Citrix.

I have fond memories of SAP Leonardo. Did some cool projects. Looking back it was executive briefings, design thinking workshops and polished POCs that rarely went anywhere Same story with RPA and low-code etc McKinsey says 80+% of AI initiatives still don’t get past POC What have we learned?

Made me lol youtube.com/shorts/abnbF...

Made me lol

Early 2000s. Working late, empty office. Random phone rings. A recruiter fishing. Creating a market where they weren't invited. Fast forward to today. Now I'm hearing stories of recruiters passing 💰 to trusted people to generate leads from the inside. The call is coming from inside the building.

Cost Is a Distributed Systems Bug dzone.com/articles/cos... Despite the 30+ em dashes - this is an interesting read Treat spend like any other failure signal and design so mistakes cannot drain the budget.

Shopify's Secret to Handling Billions in Sales hackernoon.com/shopifys-sec...

POST - Why You Can’t Hire Your Way Out of a Fire You Can’t See secondphase.com.au/why-you-cant...

We mourn our craft nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/w...

OH: We spent 6 months running exhaustive research projects on how to use AI in our company. At the end we had a definitive AI policy. And then forced people to make decisions based on where AI was 6 months ago.

AI agents and bad productivity metrics www.infoworld.com/article/4135... The hard part is checking the code, not writing it. You need real specs, real tests and real observability. Golden paths and solid platform work keep teams sane. Judge results, not commit counts.

"Time is a flat circle". Just finished my third rewatch of True Detective S1 and it just keeps getting better.

This week's @overcommitted.dev guest Sean has fast become a fav blogger. I'm astounded how someone with 10 years working on hard problems in big tech can sum up what took me 20 years so eloquently. "legible" vs. "illegible" work, and your writing should be contrarian. youtu.be/6P5bh8sLxyg?...

codeopinion.com/read-replica... Over engineering? To understand trade-offs, use first principles - why does the pattern exist? Outbox sends state changes reliably to other parts of your system. CQRS is separate code for reads and writes. Event sourcing uses domain events as an alternative to CRUD.