Year: 2023
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What connected-car services are consumers willing to pay for? – There’s some fun stated-preferences versus revealed preferences in there.
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Lines of Code – When there’s no perfect and easy measure, you have to (“end up”?) use the ones you have that are good enough.
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The problem with t-shirt schwag at tech conferences
Ever wonder why there’s not more t-shirts at tech conferences? Marketing people hate getting t-shirts for booths at conferences. In last week’s Tanzu Talk about platform marketing I went over why: # Er is een fout opgetreden. JavaScript kan niet worden uitgevoerd. Tech conference attendees love t-shirts. They’re also good for brand- and idenity-marketing: if…
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A4 Issue 1 July 2022 – Notes from the Drawing Board – This kind of thing is fantastic.
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Throw someone a pep rally – Two thumbs up!
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202306 – apenwarr – ’If you take a single pull request (PR) that adds a new feature, and launch it without tests or documentation, you will definitely get the benefits of that PR sooner. Every PR you try to write after that, before adding the tests and docs (ie. repaying the debt) will be slower…
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IT spending soars, generative AI investments barely leave a mark – These forecasts have been confusing in recent years. They’re always increasing, and yet the trends are always cost savings: ‘“Digital business transformations are beginning to morph,” said Lovelock. “IT projects are shifting from a focus on external-facing deliverables such as revenue and customer experience,…
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No one has an “appetite for risk” – “I think there is a better way to express what we aim to express when we say ‘risk appetite.’ What we are talking about is the organization’s failure tolerance. How often is it okay for the organization to experience security failures? How big can the failures be…
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If you’re so smart, why are we all still so dumb?
We’re back from a three day weekend in London for our anniversary. I tried very hard to eliminate all “productivity,” so I have very little to say today. I did want to ADVERTISE for a thing I have tomorrow. So I’ve gathered up some waste book for you today. Snow-Covered Field with a Harrow (after…
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personal organization – “Here’s my one piece of advice about personal organization: (calendars, tasks, planning, tracking): Think hard about your needs, pick a system, and then do not under any circumstances change it until at least one full year has passed.”
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What the Government Email Account Hack Says About the Future of Cybersecurity – Always be securing all the things.
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IncrementalOps
Beware of High Expectations in Enterprise Tech Here are three charts. First, while everyone is freaking out about AI, it’s had little impact thus far: Shared by Mark Hinkle. Second, since 2020, usage of cloud seems to have leveled off at a 50/50 split between on-premises and public cloud: Source: IDC, The Evolution of Cloud…
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The mystery of how many developers there are in the world: is it 100 million, or more like 16 million?
Finding an estimate of how many developers there are in the world is difficult. Oh, there’s plenty of people making estimates, but those estimates vary so much that the estimates are suspicious. For example: Microsoft/GitHub recently said they now have 100 million developers using GitHub. “We estimate that, as of Q1 2023, there are 35.6…
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Security Team Culture Matters – Being in security should be a happy job. // “Security and risk teams are more motivated and purpose-driven than others. As a 25-year cybersecurity veteran, this totally checks out for me. “Almost everyone I know in [IT security] is mission- and purpose-driven. They took on this job to protect others!”
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Deploying the Swift Method to Modernize a Singapore Government Legacy System – Good description of what it feels like to be stuck in the legacy trap: “The [Singapore] government agency in this case study faced a similar issue with a legacy system that supported critical business processes, integrated with other business-critical applications, and was developed…
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“Shift Left (and leave)” versus “Shift Left (and stay)”
Only 22% of software developers say they have a clear understanding of what they need to do to comply with security policy, to make sure the applications they’re writing for their organization, are good in a security sense. Now, it’d be easy to say the developers are just dopes and they don’t know what they’re…
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In the face of volatility, CFOs—and their organizations—adapt – Belt-tightening watch. Lots of micromanagement and management by finance metrics ahead: “In the year ahead, CFOs plan to increase their focus on operational value drivers, management of KPIs, cash management, and capital structure. Other priorities have decreased in importance since Q3 2022.”
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IBM takes on AWS, Google, and Microsoft with Watsonx – If it works, it lets enterprises build up huge, custom trained models, and it has enough governance controls, it’d be a big deal for IBM. They key things learned from ChatGPT is that it has to be super easy, frictionless to get started with. That’s…
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Beware the Digital Whiteboard – The assertion: writing with whiteboarding/Sticky notes is not good, and can lead to leaky abstractions. Seem more like a “right tool for the job” thing, plus the usual garbage in, garbage out, regardless of the tool used to process the garbage.
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Summarizing Articles with ChatGPT Works Again
Our final talk in our software stuff for financial organizations is coming up tomorrow. Above is a little anecdote that Darran made to me as we were working on it. If you’re into security, compliance, that kind of thing, check out the third part of our series: “How Cloud Native Improves & Ensures Security, Governance,…
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