Category: tech
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When the AI policy board is slowing everything down youtube.com/shorts/Xq…
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Private Cloud
Somewhere between 40% and 60% of apps run on private cloud, you just never hear about it.
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Enterprise AI is a feature, not an app
An enterprise AI strategy probably means adding AI to your existing apps and workflows, not just standing up a stand-alone AI app. We experience generative AI as chatbots in the consumer space – and they’re great! – but this doesn’t seem like the best approach for business applications. Think about search. We don’t even notice…
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Managing Tech Debt
Much like financial debt, technical debt is helpful when managed responsibly, but like real debt, tech debt can also stop growth and innovation in its tracks. My colleague Bryan Ross has a piece out on tech debt with five ways to address is. Here’s a summary of it. Think of technical debt as the accumulation…
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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: Deutsche Bank to set up innovation division to drive digital transformation
The bank will create agile teams where “product owners in business and infrastructure divisions will lead teams of technologists, using agile principles, to continuously work on products and ensure progress meets their expectations”. It will also increase the proportion of software engineers in the workforce and better support and motivate them, as well as “reduce…
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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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Toyota is working to have 70% of new cars connected globally by 2020, with almost all of those in the U.S. and Japan. Automakers are already using the cloud to generate revenue through telematics insurance and car-sharing services. Toyota also has talked about using data to alert dealers when cars need servicing, provide information about…
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Better than reality
The problem with binge-watching is the same problem with wanting it to be a holiday all the time. The more we consider a show serious, the more it feels permissible to drown oneself in episode after episode of it, to use it as an excuse to stay home sick from the world. It is logical…
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Monolithic Transformation, the webinar
I’ve got a newly recorded webinar, covering my Monolithic Transformation book: The cliché we all recite is that technology isn’t the problem, culture is. Put another way: if the hardware and software are fine and fresh, it must be the meatware that smells. Come hear several de-funking recipes from the world’s largest companies whose meat…
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Americans smile a lot
Just as it is easy to misinterpret the reason for an icebreaker activity, it’s easy to mistake certain social customs of Americans that might suggest strong personal connections where none are intended. For example, Americans are more likely than those from many cultures to smile at strangers and to engage in personal discussions with people…
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Speak at SpringOne Platform 2019
Want to come to Austin & talk about DevOps, Java, THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS & cloud hoopla? Apply to speak at SpringOne Platform this year, Oct 7th to 10th. I help pick talks for 3 tracks, so you can torment me! This is the last week to CFP! SUBMIT!
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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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What do developers need/want to hear?
How to use containers, even managing them. Being more autonomous – developers love freedom. Keeping up to date on skills (see containers). Dealing with or hiding from stupid business culture in their org. Getting permission to try new things. Testing code, automation to avoid legacy traps. More scalable architecture for distributed apps, new types of…
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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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