Despite the 4,000 miles between Barcelona, Spain and Chicago, Illinois, announcements made in one location had an impact in the other location on Tuesday.

While KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA was taking place in Chicago this week, Barcelona hosted attendees participating in the annual fall VMware Explore gathering at the same time. VMware Inc. announced enhancements for its Cloud Foundation hyperconverged infrastructure and advances in the Tanzu application development and modernization platform.

VMware’s Dan Baskette (pictured), director of developer relations for VMware Tanzu, appeared on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, in Chicago to discuss the latest news from Barcelona and how Tanzu is designed to simplify the developer experience.

“I really don’t believe that developers should have to know that much about what they’re deploying on,” Baskette said. “They should know how to write their code, commit their code and move on. We built this platform so the developers can just code.”

Baskette spoke with theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Rob Strechay at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, during an exclusive broadcast. They discussed VMware’s announcements and the importance of making the developer experience easier. (* Disclosure below.)

Updates for Spring AI

VMware’s announcements in Barcelona this week included updates to its Spring development framework. Spring AI is a project designed to streamline the integration of AI capabilities into the development workflow.

“Normally when we think of AI programming, it’s a lot of Python,” Baskette said. “Python has tools that allow you to write once and then run on different models. Spring AI brings that idea to the Spring world. Java Spring developers can write to the Spring API and then deploy different models on the backend and not have to rewrite their code.”

VMware also announced general availability of Tanzu Mission Control, a centralized hub for multicloud and multicluster Kubernetes management.

“All of this data can come in, Kubernetes management comes into that as well,” Baskette said. “[Users] have this central point where they can create Kubernetes clusters, create spaces that have costing information available immediately.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA:

(* Disclosure: VMware Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither VMware nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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