Tag: imported
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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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🗂 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: Bloomberg
](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-13/vw-in-8-billion-software-revamp-as-tech-shift-expands). Source: Bloomberg
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🗂 Link: VMware CEO: IBM Paid Too Much for Red Hat
“We’re going to own the Kubernetes stack,” Gelsinger said at the Deutsche Bank Conference. “We’re not going to be relying on third-party code. It’s all going to be an integrated solution stack to execute on that Kubernetes.” … “Do we assess the competitive environment? Well, of course, we do,” Gelsinger said. “So, IBM spent $34…
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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: Waity K8-y no more Pivotal: We’ll unhook Application Service from VMware
“The urgency was more around understanding the long term vision than an immediate need,” said Andrews. “We’re still very early. Everybody is talking about K8s all the time, but if you look at who is actually using it in production, the list is much shorter. Our technology stack works incredibly well, we have customers with…
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🗂 Link: The superpower to change one thing about Kubernetes
“It’s optimized for cloud native applications – those that follow the patterns that are in my book for example. That represents only a subset of the applications that our enterprise customers need to address. Our 2020 strategy is to broaden the definition of our platform. To be more than just Cloud Foundry, but to broaden…
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🗂 Link: Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends
“This allows an insurance broker to close and bind a product in real-time,” which also lowers the cost of onboarding new members, Fowler says. Source: Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends
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🗂 Link: Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, ‘cos K8s is really hard!
Daimler’s Thomas Müller, platform architect, spoke this morning at the summit about his company’s migration from IBM WebSphere to Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and illustrated another point, that the typical enterprise has more to worry about than K8s support. His company began its transition from WebSphere in 2015 and it took until March 2019 to…
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🗂 Link: Experimenting with the UK’s first till-free grocery store
Take-up was as we had expected – at peak times better than we’d expected – and it’s clear that not all our customers are ready for a totally till-free store. Some customers preferred to pay with cash and card, which sometimes meant they were queuing to use the helpdesk, particularly at peak times of day.…
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🗂 Link: VMware Modernizes Its Approach to Kubernetes, Increasing Its Appeal to Developers and DevOps
36% of developers cited “resource allocation and management” as their chief impediment to productivity, while 34% cited the “lack of automated collaboration between software developers and IT operations.” Source: VMware Modernizes Its Approach to Kubernetes, Increasing Its Appeal to Developers and DevOps
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🗂 Link: Seeing Around Corners — a book review
A competitive arena, as opposed to an industry, is used as a primary lens through which to understand the world and therefore what the effects of a potential inflection point might be. Think of an arena as a definition of the setting where customer need connects with company solution to create value. An arena can…
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🗂 Link: Why Fast Food Is the Ticking Time Bomb of Job Automation
Source: Why Fast Food Is the Ticking Time Bomb of Job Automation
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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: The Myth of Making It
I don’t want to add patriarchy to this whole thing, but why not. It’s the part that genders success so that Dunst complains about recognition, while men complain about money. It makes sense if you think about what guys are traditionally supposed to be: powerful breadwinners. Source: The Myth of Making It
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🗂 Link: One Toolchain to Manage All the Development: A CI/CD-Vendor Obsession
A 2019 Forrester study sponsored by GitLab quantified found that more than three-quarters of organizations use at least two software delivery toolchains, with the average organization having six or more tools per toolchain. Based on a survey of 252 IT professionals with responsibility over toolchain management, the study also reported that ensuring security (45%) and…
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🗂 Link: On-premise IT-voorziening komt nog steeds het meest voor in Nederland
more than three-quarters of Dutch companies have an on-premise IT facility Source: On-premise IT-voorziening komt nog steeds het meest voor in Nederland
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🗂 Link: VMware emulates 1990s Microsoft, builds a horizontally integrated IT portfolio
Source: VMware emulates 1990s Microsoft, builds a horizontally integrated IT portfolio
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🗂 Link: Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in
Source: Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in
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🗂 Link: Digital banks on track to treble customers in next year but profits remain elusive
.As they mature, digital startups are now turning their attention from customer acquisition to becoming profitable. With no branch networks and legacy IT systems, digital challengers have a substantially lower cost-to-serve than incumbents of £20-£50 per account compared to £170. Meanwhile, deposit balances for challengers have increased from £70 to £350 per customer. However, this…
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