Tag: APIs
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IBM Is Buying HashiCorp. What Comes Next? – Good analysis of the possible business strategy, the synergies to activate. // “Customers in specific industries, often highly regulated and conservative in outlook, have often chosen IBM and continue to do so. For them, the value of cloud is complementary at the margins, not a wholesale change…
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Do software companies actually have good margins? – ’In other words, software development costs are COGS. Not literally; not according to the accountants. But in practice, if you can only sell SaaS software—and retain customers—by promising a steady stream of new releases, how are the expenses associated with developing those releases functionally any different than…
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Amazon Isn’t Killing Just Walk Out But Rather “Pushing Hard” On It – Hmm, hopefully we’ll see some nuanced corrections in all them news outlets…
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‘This shit’s so expensive’: a note on generative models and software margins – “The fundamental problem with generative models is that they are 10x too expensive to work with the industry’s default business models and structure. Either these companies who are going all-in on ‘AI“‘need to fundamentally change everything about how they work – laying…
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Stop Chasing Unicorns – ‘When it comes to ways of working, what do the companies that beat you in deals do better product, design, and engineering-wise?” Silence. “Do they do better discovery and research, ship higher quality work, run more experiments, kill bad decisions faster, retain passionate team members, or have a more effective org…
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From Here to GitOps and Back Again – GitOps as a feature of CI/CD.
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“Boosting Developer Platform Teams with Product Thinking,” Samantha Coffman, KubeCon EU, March 2024. A lot of good commentary and advice on product managing the platform, some techniques, mindsets, etc. Chief among them: focus on the value/problem you’re solving first, then how you solve it second…also trying to quantify what the problem is so you can…
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Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs! – Abby Bangser, Syntasso & Whitney Lee, VMware – How can you start to take a design/UX-driven approach to building your platform (you know, your pile of Kubernetes stuff to pull it all together for app developers)? Whitney Lee & Abby Bangser have a good mind-model to…
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What is a Kubernetes “distro,” and why are there so many of them?
Here’s the second little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talked about security concerns with Kubernetes. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to my work. Torsten says that last he counted, there were over 140…
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Focusing on just outcomes leads to whacky tech decisions
Confusing outcomes with capabilities I don’t have this sorted out well, but the baby keeps crawling on me to remind me to chill the fuck out about being a professional thought leader and be more of a professional dad. (That’s right, I’m blaming my three year old for the shoddiness of the below!) In the…
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Why they’re smearing Lina Khan – Outcomes based regulation: “There is no measure so small that the corporate world won’t have a conniption over it. Take click to cancel, the FTC’s perfectly reasonable proposal that if you sign up for a recurring payment subscription with a single click, you should be able to cancel it…
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Waiting for the close of open – how long can the 2000s spirit of open source and open APIs last?
Midjourney: Medieval serfs defending a castle from demons in the style of Hieronymus Bosch, from venusinfurs. The changing nature of “open” In our tech world, the idea of “open” has changed a lot in the past few years. Instead of it meaning “open to everyone,” the classic notion of “open source,” now it more means…
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No one has an “appetite for risk” – “I think there is a better way to express what we aim to express when we say ‘risk appetite.’ What we are talking about is the organization’s failure tolerance. How often is it okay for the organization to experience security failures? How big can the failures be…
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Porter’s Five Forces and the social web – There’s something interesting to do here in applying Porter to contemporary tech.
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Do You Shop Online? So Do Your B2B Buyers! – “75% of B2B buyers prefer a rep-free experience, and 68% made a recent significant purchase using digital commerce”
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Qlik acquires Talend to solidify data governance and quality –
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The secret of selling your product to enterprises – Sales is hard and expensive because of all the time and activities it takes, only the multi-quarter timeline, etc.
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A Formula For Pitching CIOs – Pretty good for any pitch.
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Apple Makes More Fintech Moves With High-Yield Savings Account From Goldman Sachs – Very detailed overview of “Bank of Apple.”
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