The 90s Obsession With Transparent Technology - Clearly a good read.
Gartner Says Four Trends are Shaping the Future of Cloud, Data Center and Edge Infrastructure - Some predictions about how organizations will do public cloud stuff, if you’re into Gartner predictions. Here is one on migrating apps to public cloud: ‘The focus of refactoring cloud infrastructure should be on optimizing costs by eliminating redundant, overbuilt or unused cloud infrastructure; building business resilience rather than service-level redundancy; using cloud infrastructure as a way to mitigate supply chain disruptions; and modernizing infrastructure. According to Gartner, 65% of application workloads will be optimal or ready for cloud delivery by 2027, up from 45% in 2022.’ // I don’t have access to the PDF, so I’m assuming this means that ~50% of workloads are not “read for cloud delivery” right now in 2023. Meaning…they run on traditional, on-premises VMs, bare metal, or mainframes. // As I did just there, I mostly use these predictions to get an estimate of the current state of things. Who know how things will be in 2027, but the analysis put into the more contemporary estimate is more usable.
MariaDB walks tightrope between commerce and open source - “It recorded a 26 percent year-over-year increase in revenue to reach $13.5 million, although it was still making a net loss of $11.9 million, partly owing to the cost of going public."
AI Act: a step closer to the first rules on Artificial Intelligence - “AI systems with an unacceptable level of risk to people’s safety would be strictly prohibited, including systems that deploy subliminal or purposefully manipulative techniques, exploit people’s vulnerabilities or are used for social scoring (classifying people based on their social behaviour, socio-economic status, personal characteristics).” Also summarizing copyrighted material, it seems.
Eyecandy - Visual Technique Library - Different, fun camera techniques.
Stop worrying about cloud-lock-in, and outages, Gartner - Perhaps there’s enough good in choosing a single vendor (per app and group of apps, at least) that, like, you should.
A Formula For Pitching CIOs - Pretty good for any pitch.
Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved - “Above $2-5M/year annual spend is where bringing a vendor in-house tends to come up. And this is because it is around this number where the cost of hiring a whole team to do what a vendor is doing can theoretically make sense."
TP–7 - teenage engineering - This is the weirdest looking recording gear I’ve ever seen. It’s so expensive that, like an expensive bottle of wine, I have to assume it’s good. Shipping without mics for such a price seems…weird?
Twitter doesn’t drive many substuck views - “At the start of the year, Twitter on average drove less than 3% of all views across Substack. Today, it accounts for less than 2%.” For my newsletter, Twitter is fine, it’s third place in views (2,923 since Dec 8th, 2022) after the actual newsletters (32,551), and the always mysterious “Direct” source (8,007). Twitter has also driven 31 new subscriptions, I currently have 593 subscribers.