Year: 2023
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Necronomicon all’italiana – Fantastic stuff.
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Cloud-native approaches are now default software development practices – Highlights from a recent 451 survey. “Many organizations using cloud native expect their adoption of these technologies and architectures to become more ubiquitous over time. Among companies using cloud-native resources, approximately 60% say more than half of their applications are currently architected using cloud native, rising…
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The next generation of developer productivity – O’Reilly – As ever nowadays, developer productivity is the top problem. Also, full CI/CD (or just good pipeline automation) is still hovering around 50% as it has been for a decade or more: “Over half of the respondents (51%) said that their organizations are using self-service deployment pipelines…
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Days Notes, August, 2023
I’ve been off the publishing grid for awhile, even off the consuming the Internet grid. This is a mix of partial vacation, taking care of some family things, an obsession with D&D, and the first break in my workaholic nature for…20…even 30 years? It is time for a few new habits, rather than swirling around…
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80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office – Hmm. It seems really hard to tell what the effects of remote working and in-person working are. People just have to make shut up.
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Bike maker VanMoof also files for bankruptcy in Germany – I had no idea that this luxury bike company was in such bad shape. Their bikes sure seem awesome, but are hella expensive compared to the €80 beaters you can get that, you know, do the job just fine.
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As HashiCorp adopts the BSL, an era of open-source software might be ending – Is it too soon to say that open source businesses no longer work? (Unless you’re a bit public cloud or you do open core?)
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Checking In On ChatGPT – Text-centric AI best used for text-centric toil: “The most common uses cited in the survey were for creating first drafts of text, personalizing marketing materials, identifying trends or communicating with customers with chatbots. AI isn’t quite doing iRobot stuff yet, but taking the sting out of some of the more…
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PDFs vs. web pages: what’s better for users? – Bad things are bad, and using a thing for something it’s bad at (or when a better way exists) is also bad. PDFs are great, just not when it should be a webpage, or something else instead.
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Helen Garner on happiness: ‘It’s taken me 80 years to figure out it’s not a tranquil, sunlit realm’ – Project versus product for happiness. Also, living life by waste book/commonplace book – something I certainly can appreciate. (Bit it a ringer it being Helen Garner, but don’t let that stop you.)
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What they don’t tell you about conference MC script writing
A quick one today, no time to compile the links and stuff Writing good MC scripts for the keynote sessions I’ve been writing the MC script for our upcoming SpringOne conference. I was supposed to go be one of the MCs but had to cancel. It would have been awesome to know both sides of…
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Half-harpy
I’ve had an unhealthy1 obsession with getting my kids to play D&D recently – they asked to! So, I haven’t had my usual liminal time to get a newsletter out. To that end, my son wanted to make a harpy character. While there are home-brew (is that the right lingo? I stopped playing D&D in…
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We try the Marks and Spencer Roast Beef and Onion Crisps, or Chips as us Americans would say.
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Money spent on containerized workloads is growing fast, but overall spend is still small compared to traditional infrastructure
PSA: I recommend that you use your personal email address to subscribe to this newsletter. We’re approaching and in layoff and job change season. Starting now to the end of the CY/FY, bonuses are paid out, promotions have been denied or gained, etc. If you’re subscribed with your work email, consider switching to a personal…
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What the New Relic Sale Means for SaaS – Time to go start Wily 3.0!
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Why haven’t internet creators become superstars? – “Internet stardom bestows no glamor.”
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Shadow IT guidance – Advice from the UK government: “Though clearly not desirable, the existence of shadow IT presents your organisation with learning opportunities. If employees are having to resort to insecure workarounds in order to ‘get the job done’, then this suggests that existing policies need refining so that staff aren’t compelled to make…
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Experts expect Sumo Logic match post-New Relic acquisition – I would not recommend “fusing” together any two software portfolios that are more than two – maybe three – years old. // “Further, multiple industry analysts predicted that New Relic and Sumo Logic will be fused under their new owners to create a broader set of…
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