Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty - Great picture too.

Kubernetes Isn’t Enough for a Production-Ready Platform - Yeah. You should buy your platform instead of build it.

AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is ‘dumbest idea’ - ‘Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has suggested firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”'

Accelerating Enterprise Application Upgrades Through Legacy Dependency Migration: Spring Application Advisor 1.4 - Upgrading software is sort of a boring topic. But, when we talk about this with customers, they get more excited than talking about AI. I shit you not. Just upgrading your ancient Java versions (as in this product release) is a huge problem. And, if you want to do all that fancy new AI stuff, you need the newer versions of your framework and stack. Our recent survey gives off this vibe too: organizations that spend more time on “modernization” have more success with AI projects.

The Cost Reality Check: Eliminating Public Cloud Waste Through Strategic Planning - “49% of organizations estimate that over 25% of their public cloud spend is wasted. 31% believe the waste exceeds 50%. That’s a level of inefficiency that few leaders can tolerate."

What is the most profitable thing you have done with ChatGPT? - A lot of it is making sense of confusing regulations and contracts. And plumbing. It gives “the little guy” more power in fields that are a mess of rules and lore, like law.

a word to my students - Copy and paste from AI only hurts the student. The rest of is should just worry about our own, ongoing shit-storms. // However, outside of education, when the point is to communicate and get shit done, I say go crazy with “chatbots.” They are probably better, more effective business writers than most.

The European Cloud Dilemma: Innovation Versus Digital Sovereignty - Tough call.

The Hidden Cost of AI Pilots that Never Scale - “Scale” - that is, doing a lot of it across many different parts of your business - is where most enterprise software businesses cases succeed.

New survey reveals key differentiator for successful AI adoption: IT modernization - “With 71% of organizations actively deploying artificial intelligence (AI) at scale, the companies experiencing the most dramatic success share a common characteristic: They’ve made the most significant investments in IT modernization and are undertaking multiple AI projects simultaneously.”