Year: 2023
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IBM looks to turn nearly 8,000 jobs over to artificial intelligence, CEO says – ’“I could easily see 30% of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period,” Krishna told Bloomberg News, referring to “back-office” positions such as in human resources.’”
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Bish at the Bank: Live in Baltimore by Walter Bishop Jr.
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KubeCon Europe 2023 highlights Kubernetes explosion and need for instant platform engineering, CNCF – “10,000 attendees, 58% of whom were new to the conference, with another 2,000 people on the waitlist” And: “Surveys show that Kubernetes complexity, security, and a skills gap are the top challenges organizations face in adopting Kubernetes… Managing configuration complexity at…
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Jeffrey Bernard put it when I went to interview him: “As if there was something romantic and glamorous about hard work . . . if there was something romantic about it, the Duke of Westminster would be digging his own fucking garden, wouldn’t he?” How to Be Idle: A Loafer’s Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson 📚
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Setting the Record Straight on Cloud Computing ROI – Ability to add new features(quickly), access to new tech, scaling and performance, toil reduction to focus on things valuable to the business or competitive advantage, better security. Of course reducing costs (or “efficiency” if you’re forced to feel the “do more with the same/less” vibe) is…
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Why Are You Doing This? (Wrong Answers Only) – Some of these are mostly (only?) for companies focused on profitless-growth and raising their valuation (startups and recently IPO’ed tech companies). If you’re at a company focused on cashflow and more long term share price, many of them are what you should be doing. In the…
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Use Forrester’s insights to calm depositors and prevent a bank run – Europeans are trusting their banks a lot more than Americans: ‘Among US online consumers, 40% agreed with the statement, “Recent problems with banks have made me more concerned that my bank will not be there for me when I need it.” French online…
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The Definition Of “More From Less” In B2B Content Strategy And Operations – The best tip here to focus a lot on recycling what you have already. I agree: there’s always a lot of assets and not near enough promotion and reuse/remixing of them. // “When asked about their perception of the content that they…
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What Computers Do At Banks, deployment frequencies, some platform engineering, microservices nothing burger(?)
What Computers Do At Banks Here’s two diagrams from a 2021 BCG report on banking that show, basically, everything that IT does for the business part of retail banking. First, the “value streams,” or lines of business and products: Second, what the typical IT stacks look like to support these value streams: Pretty good stuff!…
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How To Be Resilient: 5 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard –
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Will Platform Engineering Get Loved To Death? –
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The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky : The Mystery of Everyday Life –
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Build A Platform Engineering Team To Support Your Organization’s Prize Talent –
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Scaling Beyond the Pilot in Public Sector Organizations –
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CD Foundation Releases Fourth State of Continuous Delivery Report, 2023 – In these surveys (based on big SlashData surveys), Since 2020, the reporting on the deployment frequency breakout has held steady: ~35% more than a month, ~32% a week to a month, ~22% hourly to weekly, ~10% multiple times a day. These are a lot…
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Enterprise interest in sovereign cloud on the rise, survey – “In a poll of 1,000 enterprise leaders from 10 countries, including Australia, France, Germany, India, and the UK and US, 69% of respondents cited potential exposure to extra-territorial laws when using cloud as being a top concern.”
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FinOps! Five Cost Management Tips for IT Leaders, IDC – Good chart of what people are doing to optimize cloud spend (only n= from Dec 2022, though). Also:”In a recent IDC poll of CIOs, 64% of respondents said they were spending more on the Cloud than they budgeted. Over 50% of CEOs are concerned about…
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I’m giving a talk about platform engineering lessons learned at Devoxx UK this week, May 10th to 12th in London. If you want to register, you can use the code SEEMESPEAK23 to get 25% off.
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Spring Cloud Gateway: The Swiss Army Knife of Cloud Development – Hooking up your applications and the services they depend on, microservices or whatever.
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