Category: BigCo
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How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
Via geralt on Pixabay When an executives says layoffs were driven by AI, what exactly is the AI doing that removes the need for those humans? Here’s some dog-walk speculation. Decks, Meetings, etc. All the prep work around The Meeting. Things like: the agenda, slides, the pre-read, notes during the meeting, and followup tracking. There’s…
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Got your deck ready?
Image by geralt on Pixabay. The mystery is why everyone is using presentation software for communication that is not a presentation. Predicable, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this post since first reading it. The mystery of this is that everyone complains about slides-driven work cultures, but the revealed preference is that people…
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The end of the meat-mouse
The agency in agentic AI feels a lot more like giving the users – the humans – agency they didn’t have. That’s what’s making it useful for me, from sorting out dumb-shit home-networking incompatibilities, figuring out taxes, and otherwise sorting my shit out. When you unleash something like Claude code on all the messy and…
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Everyone knows their problems, so jump to the solution
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan. In most enterprise tech marketing copy, it’s an anti-pattern to do the whole “you must first invent the universe” thing. Buyers and curious people already know that there’s market headwinds, things change faster than ever, new technologies,…
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🗂 Link: ‘Rijksoverheid al 4 jaar in de clinch met Oracle’
According to the confidential memo, Oracle’s routine tactic is to threaten based on incompliance and to maximize potential licensing issues. After that, software licenses and the looming costs of such licenses can be negotiated from such a beaten problem. The result can then be a relatively better than expected amount for the shocked customer, but…
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🗂 Link: IBM i Clouds Proliferating At Rapid Clip – IT Jungle
“We partnered with Google because Google wanted to partner with us and Amazon didn’t want to partner with us,” IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will said during a panel discussion at the inaugural POWERUp conference in San Antonio, Texas, in June 2018. “So hey Google is going to succeed with Power. Now I have Amazon…
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🗂 Link: USAA uses Google Cloud machine learning to estimate vehicle repair costs – SiliconANGLE
While Docker may be able to secure additional capital, it’s yet another company that finds itself in an ominous position after raising mounds of cash during the heady days earlier this decade. When Bearden joined in May, he became the fourth CEO and the third since 2017, replacing Steve Singh, a former senior executive at…
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🗂 Link: What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud
The answer is that Anthos is not really a technology, but more of a brand, a wrapper around Google’s cloud crown jewels, Kubernetes (K8s). And: In a nutshell, Anthos is the GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) deployed on-premises in a certified configuration (via hardware suppliers such as Dell and HPE), with an agent installed that maintains…
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🗂 Link: Kubernetes’ next step could be to try orchestrating everything else
Could every element of an enterprise data center’s infrastructure — not just those newfangled containers, but virtual machines, “big data” platforms, and machine learning frameworks — all eventually become orchestrated by Kubernetes, a product originally born out of Google’s need to make order out of chaos? Source: Kubernetes’ next step could be to try orchestrating…
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🗂 Link: How low-code platforms are transforming software development
The total market for low-code development platforms will hit $21.2 billion by 2022, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 40 percent, according to Forrester. The researcher also said that 23 percent of global developers reported using low-code platforms in 2018, with another 22 percent planning to do so in 2019. Source: How low-code…
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“Reasons were in short supply.”
And, sure, people always disappear into new people, and no one can stop the way new versions of people overtake the old versions of people, but something about the new Linda was so menacing that it made me suspicious of what she’d done with the old Linda. This book can hard to read through –…
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CI/CD acquisitions
Oracle acquired Werker – April 2017 GE Digital acquired Solano Labs – Oct 2017 Cloudbees acquired Codeship – Feb 2018 Idera acquired Travels CI – Jan 2019 Jfrog acquired Shippable – Feb 2019 From my co-worker, Nima.
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🗂 The Gig Economy is Actually Pretty Tiny – Nextgov
> According to the data, in May 2017, just 1 percent of workers were “gig economy workers whose tasks were electronically mediated,” or sourced through technology platforms like Uber, Upwork or TaskRabbit. > Moreover, in the workforce as a whole, 89.9 percent of people had a standard work arrangement as their main job, slightly up…
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PayPal’s IT catalog in 2014
> The new structure would include nine hundred applications, thirty thousand end-user devices, twenty-five thousand e-mail accounts, nineteen hundred vendor contracts, three new data centers, one of the largest enterprise data warehouses in the world, and the addition of five thousand new servers, with the recreation, cloning, or moving of another nine thousand across sixty…
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🗂 Pie-charts and proactive app introductions
> Send in a mole: “Find one really smart engineering type in your IT organization and put them on a skunk works project with one engineer,” Martin-Flickinger advises. “You need to identify an IT person who looks and smells like a product engineer; it needs to be someone the engineering people like.” If you do…
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🗂 bol.com CIO interview
> The strength of our IT department is that IT is fully integrated in our organization. About 400 IT people or engineers work at bol.com, and they are organized as much as possible in about 70 small, multidisciplinary and self-managing teams. We see that that works best. These teams build features for our customers or…
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🗂 Kubernetes Culture Change
> Thus we’ve seen a bunch of Kubernetes services spring up, run by the same people who brought you all the other Infrastructures-as-a-Service. Google (from whence Kubernetes emerged originally) has Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon has Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Microsoft has Azure Container Service (AKS), VMware has VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE), you…
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🗂 “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.”
> my company is based in Oakland. This is like being based in San Francisco, but with fewer microclimates. Rolling up to work in a company hoodie, jeans, a t-shirt from your last company, and a pair of Tevas is A-OK. But the further east you go, the more formal everyone’s business wear gets. Jeans…
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🗂 Achieving Multi-Cloud Flexibility
Matt Baker’s concise history and path to the “multi-cloud” thought-technology: > “The definition and the usage of the term cloud has been hotly debated for the past decade, changing significantly over the years from access to computing resources over the internet to now reflecting an operating model designed to help IT. One that is agile…
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🗂 Multiple personality enterprise data
> There is also the cost of different people thinking about data differently because they are working with different platforms and not really speaking the same language as each other. I hear about this all the time from customers. They’ll have two people from their own organisation pitch up in a meeting with two different…
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