Tag: AI
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Link: The Smart, the Stupid, and the Catastrophically Scary
“Part of me likes being a programmer—because we’re the last job. I can see a future—if we don’t manage to blow ourselves up first—in the robot paradise where people are either robot engineers or programmers, or I guess do marketing. Or maybe bake pies, or smell things? Those are essentially the hardest things for a…
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Link: Chick-fil-A: Milking the most out of thousands of kubernetes clusteres
Kubernetes in-store, and such. Original source: Chick-fil-A: Milking the most out of thousands of kubernetes clusteres
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Link: The association of lifetime alcohol use with mortality and cancer risk in older adults: A cohort study
“In comparison to lifetime light alcohol drinkers (1–3 drinks per week), lifetime never or infrequent drinkers (<1 drink/week), as well as heavy (2–<3 drinks/day) and very heavy drinkers (3+ drinks/day) had increased overall mortality and combined risk of cancer or death.” Original source: The association of lifetime alcohol use with mortality and cancer risk in…
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Link: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available – More Regions and New Features
“The GA release of AKS includes a set of new features available in all regions like the Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC), Azure Active Directory-based identity, and the ability to deploy clusters into pre-existing custom virtual networks.” Original source: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available – More Regions and New Features
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Link: The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
“In practice and actual fact, what really matters for older Kubernetes version support is the continued availability and exercising of its end-to-end testing pipeline. If the machinery to quickly update an old release continues to exist, and exist in a state of good (non-flakey) repair, cutting a patch release is just a matter of someone…
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Link: Splunk acquires VictorOps to take it – and you – into site reliability engineering
“Adding these tools to Splunk’s roster, Mann said, means it can now monitor apps, provide an environment in which to fix them and allow the deeper investigations that figure out root cause of problems and allow re-designs of infrastructure and code to stop them recurring.” Original source: Splunk acquires VictorOps to take it – and…
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Link: Marriott CEO on Tech Giants: ‘We Are in an Absolute War for Who Owns the Customer’
All the tech-driven competition in hotels: “We have seen more and more business shift to our direct channels. We’ve seen loyalty continue to drive a higher share of the business that is coming into our hotels. And we think we’re competing or we compete against these platforms quite well.” Original source: Marriott CEO on Tech…
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Link: Enterprises taking path of greatest resistance to cloud, survey shows
Still a lot of stuff on-premises, and people want to move it to public cloud: ‘More than 80 percent of respondents have more than 100 applications under their purview, and a solid majority have a good deal still managed on-premises. The survey finds 74 percent stating at least half of these applications are on-premises. Another…
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Link: The Cost of Developers
That’s a lot of money. “on the other side of the spectrum, purely enterprise-focused companies like IBM or Oracle would be tempted to wring every possible bit of profit out of the company…. What Microsoft wants is much fuzzier: it wants to be developers’ friend, in large part because it has no other option.” Original…
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Link: The State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem
Overview of the (vendor) players. Also: “According to predictions from 451 Research, the market is set to grow from $762 million in 2016 to $2.7 billion by 2020.” “A Forrester study found that 66% of organizations who adopted containers experienced accelerated developers efficiency, while 75% of companies achieved a moderate to significant increase in application…
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Link: From Pink Milk to Smart Questions, How to Be a Rebel Leader
“We underestimate how flattering it is to be asked for advice. By asking questions, we give others the opportunity to share their personal experience and wisdom, thus stroking their ego. Curiosity is a way of being rebellious in the world. Rebels fight their fears and are willing to push past the discomfort of showing others…
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Link: Full Cycle Developers at Netflix
How Netflix thinks about standardized platforms and tools, plus their adaptation of DevOps and SRE. “Full cycle developers apply engineering discipline to all areas of the life cycle. They evaluate problems from a developer perspective and ask questions like “how can I automate what is needed to operate this system?” and “what self-service tool will…
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Link: Kubernetes and the Challenge of Adding Persistent Storage
Storage options in kubernetes land. Original source: Kubernetes and the Challenge of Adding Persistent Storage
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Link: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT?
Original source: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT?
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Link: Air Force looks to rapidly develop software with Project Kessel Run
More coverage of the USAF modernizing their approach to software. Here, what some of the apps are: “Kessel Run has been able to push five applications to the classified network, Kroger said…. The project is currently working on a number of things, including how the Air Force plans air tasking orders, a document which tasks…
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Link: Does Your Company Have an AI Strategy, Really?
“A global survey of more than 3,000 executives by the Boston Consulting Group and MIT’s Sloan Management Review found that 84 percent of respondents believe AI will enable them to obtain or sustain a competitive advantage, 83 percent feel AI is a strategic priority for their businesses today, and 75 percent are counting on AI…
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Link: Warren Buffett says cryptocurrency attracts charlatans, AI won’t change investing
“We were not ideally located to be high-tech wizards,” Munger said, adding “I have been to Google headquarters. It looks to me like a kindergarten.” “A very rich kindergarten.” Original source: Warren Buffett says cryptocurrency attracts charlatans, AI won’t change investing
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Link: Digital transformation in power generation and delivery
“Over the next decade, the electricity industry is predicted to unlock approximately $1.3 trillion in value through development and digitization of infrastructure, including platforms, devices, as well as cloud and advanced analytics.” With the “greatest opportunities are predicted at the retail (8.5% EBIT improvement) and generation (6.6%) levels.” Original source: Digital transformation in power generation…
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