Weekend RoundUp: Is VMware Losing Its Hold?

Gartner predicts 35% of workloads could vanish by 2028. Guess who’s waiting to scoop them up.

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Divine Odazie
September 12, 2025

Hey there,

Happy Friday🥳!

While you count down the hours, here’s a mix of fresh reads and upcoming events to keep you inspired, entertained, and in the loop.

Let’s get into it.

📰Top Picks:

Finally, a Dashboard QA Can Love
Azure Test Plans has a new Test Run Hub with real-time visibility, built-in analytics, and easy filtering. Track progress, spot failures before they slip, and link runs straight to work items. Read more.

Is VMware’s Grip Slipping?
Gartner predicts 35% of VMware workloads will be gone by 2028, with hyperscalers nudging customers toward “proper cloud.” Broadcom’s licensing shake-ups aren’t helping. The smart play, analysts say, is selective re-platforming, not a painful full migration. Read more.

What If Your Platform Is Just a Product in Disguise?
Internal platforms succeed or fail for the same reason as products: users. Colin Humphreys shows why platform engineers need to adopt a product mindset, from building a Minimum Viable Platform to constantly selling and evolving it. Read more.

Can Your IDE See What’s Really Happening?
Honeycomb’s new Hosted MCP pipes traces, logs, and metrics straight into GitHub Copilot and other AI tools. No more flipping between dashboards. Observability is now in your IDE, ready to debug in real time. Read more.

Will Oracle’s $455B AI Bet Pay Off?
Oracle says it has a $455 billion backlog from AI cloud deals. However, many of its new “who’s who” customers are cash-burning startups that may not survive to pay up. Investors may be cheering too soon. Read more.

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🗓️ Upcoming Events

Mark your calendars!

  • AWS Community Day: AI Edition (September 17, 2025, Bay Area): The Bay Area community comes together to explore how AWS powers AI with sessions, demos, and peer learning from builders at the forefront of cloud and machine learning. Register here.

  • KyvernoCon Virtual Event 2025: This event will expand access to policy-as-code conversations with a mix of thought leadership, hands-on sessions, and success stories. Register here.

  • DevOpsdays Dallas (September 17 - 18, 2025): Tech community gathers for two days of talks, lightning sessions, and open spaces on DevOps, cloud, automation, and culture, bringing together practitioners to share experiences and best practices. Register here.

  • Swiss Cloud Native Day (September 18, 2025, Bern, Switzerland): Get ready for a full day of talks, case studies, and community exchange on Kubernetes, cloud-native tech, and the future of software in the heart of Switzerland. Register here.

  • Site Reliability, DevOps and Cloud (September 18-19, 2025 London): This event brings SREs, DevOps engineers, and cloud practitioners together to share strategies, tools, and real-world lessons for building resilient, scalable systems. Register here.

  • AWS Community Day 2025, Aotearoa (September 18, 2025, Tākina, Wellington): A one-day, community-led AWS conference where local builders and practitioners share technical talks, hands-on workshops, and real-world use cases. Register here.

  • KCD Sofia (September 18, 2025, Sofia Event Center): The Bulgarian cloud-native community comes together for a day of Kubernetes and cloud-native talks, workshops, and peer learning. Register here.

  • EmberFest Brussels (September 18-19, 2025, KVS Brussels): Europe’s premier Ember.js & Glimmer community days conference of technical talks, workshops, hallway convos, and networking with the European Ember community. Get your tickets here.

  • CascadiaJS 2025 (September 18-19, 2025, Seattle, WA): A web+AI developer conference in the Pacific Northwest built by and for devs, featuring 40+ tech talks, hallway networking, and opportunities to learn, connect, and have fun. Get your ticket here.

  • API Platform Conference (September 18-19, 2025, Lille & Online): The community gathers for two days of talks and workshops on API Platform, web APIs, and the modern PHP/JavaScript ecosystem. Register here.

  • IndiaFOSS 2025 (September 20-21, 2025, Bengaluru): India’s flagship Free & Open Source Software festival with devrooms, workshops, demos, and open-space sessions hosted by FOSS United. Get your tickets here.

Transitioning from VMWare to KubeVirt

🎧 Your Friday listen: Kevin Jackson, Director of Product Management at Trilio, discusses the considerations of migrating from VMWare to other platforms

open.spotify.com/episode/7bPVhmb2twfGTVbVt0iQZ5?si=6da48cccacf94ad3

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Have a restful weekend!

Divine Odazie
Founder of EverythingDevOps