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Book Review: Automation & tech ethics, book review

I reviewed two books on automation and digital transforming this month: The Wealth of Humans and Silicon Collar. These two books go well together because the first describes how automation is lowering the need for labor, leading, likely, to less jobs, while the second provides a compendium of examples of such software-driven labor change. Vinnie’s book has the optimism of a technologist, while Avent’s is much more fraught. Both accurately describe how IT is optimizing and replacing “analog” labor and businesses, leaving the core problem of devaluing human labor, perhaps to the point of eliminating millions of jobs, permanently.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out

The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has awhole slew of updates across the board. My selective highlights: Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready (still with OpenStack, VMware, and AWS support). Will run 250,000 containers concurrently; in addition to scaling based on CPU usage, you can now auto-scale on HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput. Updates to Spring Cloud, Zipkin, and Spring Boot Actuators for diagnostic stuff.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out

The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has awhole slew of updates across the board. My selective highlights: Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready (still with OpenStack, VMware, and AWS support). Will run 250,000 containers concurrently; in addition to scaling based on CPU usage, you can now auto-scale on HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput. Updates to Spring Cloud, Zipkin, and Spring Boot Actuators for diagnostic stuff.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out

The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has awhole slew of updates across the board. My selective highlights: Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready (still with OpenStack, VMware, and AWS support). Will run 250,000 containers concurrently; in addition to scaling based on CPU usage, you can now auto-scale on HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput. Updates to Spring Cloud, Zipkin, and Spring Boot Actuators for diagnostic stuff.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out

The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has awhole slew of updates across the board. My selective highlights: Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready (still with OpenStack, VMware, and AWS support). Will run 250,000 containers concurrently; in addition to scaling based on CPU usage, you can now auto-scale on HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput. Updates to Spring Cloud, Zipkin, and Spring Boot Actuators for diagnostic stuff.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out

The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has awhole slew of updates across the board. My selective highlights: Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready (still with OpenStack, VMware, and AWS support). Will run 250,000 containers concurrently; in addition to scaling based on CPU usage, you can now auto-scale on HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput. Updates to Spring Cloud, Zipkin, and Spring Boot Actuators for diagnostic stuff.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out

The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has awhole slew of updates across the board. My selective highlights: Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready (still with OpenStack, VMware, and AWS support). Will run 250,000 containers concurrently; in addition to scaling based on CPU usage, you can now auto-scale on HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput. Updates to Spring Cloud, Zipkin, and Spring Boot Actuators for diagnostic stuff.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 out

The new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (“PCF” as folks like to say) is out. It has awhole slew of updates across the board. My selective highlights: Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready (still with OpenStack, VMware, and AWS support). Will run 250,000 containers concurrently; in addition to scaling based on CPU usage, you can now auto-scale on HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput. Updates to Spring Cloud, Zipkin, and Spring Boot Actuators for diagnostic stuff.

Puppet and containers

When we're talking with customers about the value that Puppet brings to them, invariably we talk about the future, and the future in their mind in some ways includes containers. There's a lot experimentation going on. There's a lot of Docker work being done and container work being done, Kubernetes work being done on their laptops. The conversations we have with them is how does Puppet help you bring it into production, into mission-critical production?

Puppet and containers

When we're talking with customers about the value that Puppet brings to them, invariably we talk about the future, and the future in their mind in some ways includes containers. There's a lot experimentation going on. There's a lot of Docker work being done and container work being done, Kubernetes work being done on their laptops. The conversations we have with them is how does Puppet help you bring it into production, into mission-critical production?