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This blog is based on "Navigating Market Storms by Leveraging VMware Tanzu and VMware Cloud Foundation at Scale," a panel with Schwab at Explore 2024. Charles Schwab manages 35.6 million brokerage accounts and executes 5.49 million trades on an average trading day. The company manages $9.41 trillion in client assets. As you'd expect, they're a highly regulated company spanning several businesses including banking and personal investing.

"Platform Engineering in the Wild with Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry," Jürgen Sußner (DATEV eG) and Nick Kuhn (Tanzu), August 2024. This is what makes platform engineering new and interesting: "If I consider them [developers] as customers, I have to ask them, what should I do better? How can I do better?

For the past five years, we’ve been asking people how they use cloud native platforms in our State of Kubernetes surveys, now renamed the State of Cloud Native Platforms. This allows us to get a sense of how well these platforms deliver on their promises. The promise of platforms is to improve how your organization builds and runs its own software: getting faster releases, higher quality with more security, and freeing up developers' time to focus on the actual apps instead of the infrastructure.