Year: 2023
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MariaDB walks tightrope between commerce and open source – “It recorded a 26 percent year-over-year increase in revenue to reach $13.5 million, although it was still making a net loss of $11.9 million, partly owing to the cost of going public.”
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AI Act: a step closer to the first rules on Artificial Intelligence – “AI systems with an unacceptable level of risk to people’s safety would be strictly prohibited, including systems that deploy subliminal or purposefully manipulative techniques, exploit people’s vulnerabilities or are used for social scoring (classifying people based on their social behaviour, socio-economic status,…
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“cut off like sausages”: “the wasteland of images that surround us”
App Stories I’m working on a new idea for a project – a series of interview and case studies about applications inside, you know, large organizations – my ongoing interest. These are my favorite types of stories: why an application was needed, how people came up with what to do, how they wrote the app,…
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Eyecandy – Visual Technique Library – Different, fun camera techniques.
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Stop worrying about cloud-lock-in, and outages, Gartner – Perhaps there’s enough good in choosing a single vendor (per app and group of apps, at least) that, like, you should.
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A Formula For Pitching CIOs – Pretty good for any pitch.
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Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved – “Above $2-5M/year annual spend is where bringing a vendor in-house tends to come up. And this is because it is around this number where the cost of hiring a whole team to do what a vendor is doing can theoretically make sense.”
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TP–7 – teenage engineering – This is the weirdest looking recording gear I’ve ever seen. It’s so expensive that, like an expensive bottle of wine, I have to assume it’s good. Shipping without mics for such a price seems…weird?
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from tasty broth to jiggly chicken slime in the fridge
That’s a chart from our recent State of Kubernetes survey that I’ll probably use a lot this year. Here’s my commentary on it from a blog post this week: In our surveys, I’ve been using the software release cycle question to represent developer benefits. For the most part, the faster developers can release software, the…
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IBM Watson missed the AI revolution, but Watsonx could become the heartbeat of the Generative Enterprise – Overview of the three parts of Watsonx, and discussion of what the deal is with it. I joined the waitlist.
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Gartner Says Layoffs May Ultimately Harm Shareholder Returns – After firing people to lower costs, the remaining staff have to do more work, either demanding more pay of getting demoralized and seeking another job. Also, if you want to grow revenue, you’ll need more staff, so you’ll hire contractors, and eventually want to hire back…
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Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring –
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Monoliths vs micro-services, here we go again –
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Apple Makes More Fintech Moves With High-Yield Savings Account From Goldman Sachs – Very detailed overview of “Bank of Apple.”
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VMware strives to become the multi-cloud leader – Overview of VMware’s current strategy, etc. from the VMware analyst day.
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Introducing Kubecost Cloud: Now in Open Beta! – – FinOps!
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