Tag: BigData
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Relative to your interests, Friday
A Perfect Match for Big Data: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service and Tanzu Greenplum MCP Auth made easier in Spring – doing auth in MCP has always been a shit-show. The AI Free Lunch is Over – Links to several analyst surveys on enterprise AI. Enterprise Architecture Has Never Been Stronger – Soon, we’ll all be…
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I’m no epidemiologist, but all of this seems like the biggest positive health impact since vaccines. In the America, all my life The System and The Culture have been telling us we’re overweight and that is causes problems. No doubt, a lot of healthcare spend is in response to that. Well. This seems like a…
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🤖 Old infrastructure considered not optimal, Forrester study
Legacy systems are creating measurable revenue drag, with 63% of surveyed companies citing efficiency losses. Early adopters of cloud-native infrastructure report 40% faster deployment cycles. Commissioned by Broadcom, based on June 2025 survey. 🔗 🤖 Forrester: Modernize or Fall Behind – Rethinking IT Infrastructure (October 2025) Citation: “Modernize Or Fall Behind: Rethinking IT Infrastructure For…
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AI women skew young
“Despite there being no systematic age differences between women and men in the workforce according to the US Census, we found that women are represented as younger than men across occupations and social roles in nearly 1.4 million images and videos from Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, Flickr and YouTube, as well as in nine language models…
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Slop might save us from social media
If true, this is probably great. Obvs people engaging with each other – with strangers – on social media is too risky for society: “People aren’t connecting or conversing on social media like they used to; they’re just wading through slop, that is, low-effort, low-quality content produced at scale, often with AI, for engagement.” (Via…
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Re: Still a lot of private cloud, numbers of cloud repatriation (higher than I thought)
The Clouds You know, I’ve never really looked at the Flexera State of Cloud surveys. I think they’re accepted as legit, and they have many years of data to make those multi-year charts I like. Here’s a quick one my favorite question, “where are the apps?”: Sources: Flexera State of Cloud Report, 2018, 2019, 2020,…
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What CIOs should know as DORA regulations kick in – All the great -ility’s. // “The business continuity standards laid out in the EU’s DORA require banks, insurers, securities exchanges, trading venues and other financial services providers to maintain backup systems for swift incident recovery. The EU expects impacted parties to be able to restore…
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GenAI or Die – Big time pro AI for ERP here, with notes of “what’s ERP done for me lately.”
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The Blue-State Wealth Exodus Continues – State income tax flight: “The IRS last week published its annual data on the migration of taxpayers and adjusted gross income (AGI) between states. California ranked, again, as the biggest income loser ($23.8 billion) in 2022, followed by New York ($14.2 billion), Illinois ($9.8 billion), New Jersey ($5.3 billion)…
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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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What Computers Do At Banks, deployment frequencies, some platform engineering, microservices nothing burger(?)
What Computers Do At Banks Here’s two diagrams from a 2021 BCG report on banking that show, basically, everything that IT does for the business part of retail banking. First, the “value streams,” or lines of business and products: Second, what the typical IT stacks look like to support these value streams: Pretty good stuff!…
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The “Be Nice” product and marketing strategy for open source enterprise stuff
Early on in the life of a new open source project, some vendors will tell you it’s too complex and unreliable, and wrap their fixes on top of it, often hiding the project. They’re not wrong (early in, most OSS projects are literally not even 1.0 projects yet!), but it’s rhetorically risky strategy. With the…
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Structure and Control
Do you really like winging it, or do you like more structure? And, of course, the emptying of the waste book and links relevant to your interests. Suggested epigraph: “I don’t care that much.” Suggested theme song: Why Choose by Shopping First, this Platform Engineering Follow-up Thinking I think what I missed in my thinking…
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🗂 Link: Restaurant Birdcall, looking to add 10 locations in two years, raises $9M for tech
“The goal is to continue building the engineering team to focus on building technology that allows restaurants to operate at a higher efficiency,” he said. … Most of the technology focuses on back-of-house operations, though Newlin declined to share details about that technology. On the front end, customers place orders using kiosks or its mobile…
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🗂 Link: Goldman Sachs brings on co-CIO, CTO
The strategy has four parts, according to the presentation. The investment bank wants to: Offer a digital client experience Increase automation Build scalable infrastructure Make room for innovation To do so, Goldman Sachs is using 45% of its $4 billion engineering budget in 2019 on investment. The other 55% will be used to run the…
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🗂 Link: The Rise of Amazon
the losses Amazon experienced in its first *21 quarters as a public company*. Over that time, cumulative net income was -$2.86 billion. Source: The Rise of Amazon
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🗂 Link: Spending on Customer Experience Technologies Will Reach $641 Billion in 2022, According to New IDC Spending Guide
Worldwide spending on customer experience (CX) technologies will total $508 billion in 2019, an increase of 7.9% over 2018, according to the inaugural Worldwide Semiannual Customer Experience Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC). As companies focus on meeting the expectations of customers and providing a differentiated customer experience, IDC expects CX spending to achieve…
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Link: Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding bad internal technology)
In terms of the best integration architecture, what seems to me the only long-term solution is something like the unified log architecture that Jay Kreps wrote about back in 2013. All incoming writes need to go into a centralized log, such as Kafka, and then from there the various databases can pull what they need,…
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🗂 Digital Transformation, IT, and the Rest of the Company – The New Stack
thenewstack.io/digital-t…
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🗂 Cloud Comfort Level is Growing, Survey Finds
> Cloud Foundry Foundation reported that more than 50 percent of companies it surveyed are developing at least 60 percent of their applications on cloud platform. That total is up sharply—13 percent—from the group’s last survey released in March. Demographics: > ClearPath Strategies conducted this wave of quantitative research as part of the Global Perception…
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