Your AI workloads still need a service mesh - You always need a load-balancer/proxy/gateway, more generally, “middleware."
Posts in "links"
Don’t hide behind AI to trim your belly fat. Start redesigning your workforce - “What we are seeing is not just automation-led efficiency, it is a structural shakeout triggered by board pressures to cut costs, eliminate underperforming middle layers, and move away from legacy talent strategies. The corporate world has also experienced high-wage fatigue, where many staff have had significant wage growth, especially since the inflationary pandemic years, and it’s simply very expensive to maintain staff on these high salaries and other benefits."
Modern Applications on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 - When you want to build your own platform with Kubernetes.
Why is Rear Window so tense? - “The central critical question about Rear Window is: what makes it so compelling? For the first part of the film, nothing happens."
How to increase your surface area for luck - “One distinguishing feature I’ve noticed among people who are unusually successful is that they just try a lot of stuff – socially, intellectually, professionally. It’s the rate of experimentation, the number of shots on goal, that provides the magic, not the percentage of successes, which might be very low at first."
Moral Deskilling: why you spend more time on admin than your actual job - I think what this is saying is: when you build a system of work where the people doing the actual work (“workers”) do not have quality control over their work, you mistrust them. Therefore you need more managers to oversee them. The workers then stop caring about doing “good work,” because it is l, by design, no longer their responsibility. Also, it adds a lot of extra paperwork to audit them:
Why is Rear Window so tense? - “The central critical question about Rear Window is: what makes it so compelling? For the first part of the film, nothing happens."
C-suite leaders attribute revenue, software development boosts to AI - “Executives credit increased AI use over the past year for bringing an estimated 44% bump in revenue, according to the report. Nearly 3 in 5 respondents said their organization experienced business growth thanks to software innovation over the last year."