How platform engineering is different than DevOps, plus, narwhal teeth and spider digestion, with Viktor FarcicSoftware Defined Interviews #89
This is a good one, Viktor is great, almost an iconoclast on DevOps and platform engineering:
In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, about platform engineering, the evolution of DevOps, project managing a content creation engine of one, and the virtues of imperfection. Also, the strategic avoidance of asking for directions, or, really, talking with people in general.
Hybrid cloud solutions drive enterprise IT innovation - “At VMware by Broadcom, the strategy is very simple. We are a private cloud company…"
Note from the Editor-in-Chief - TechTarget acquires the executive focused news/advertorial outfit CIOstuff.
Why I Let AI Grade My Writing (Just Like My AP English Teacher) - “In business, we don’t often receive the relentless coaching of a great teacher, but with AI, the red pen is just a mouse click away."
I want brands - The power of brand in a sea of cheap shit.
Platform Engineering: The Pioneers Who Built It - Thought-leaders of platform engineering.
The State Of Business Buying: Companies Still Struggle To Meet Buyer Expectations - “Buyers are increasingly dissatisfied. Eighty-seven percent of buyers express dissatisfaction with the provider they choose at the end of a “successful” purchasing process. Price is the reason cited most often — but there are others that are perhaps more instructive. Buyers are not satisfied with the technology, domain, and industry expertise that providers demonstrate, nor their ease and flexibility during the process. The disconnect is worse with Gen Z and Millennial buyers, who express dissatisfaction 91% of the time."
Tech Brats Turning 30 - “It’s easy to find yourself wondering about the conditions that made that meeting of minds possible and about all the things you could accomplish in your own life if every distraction were removed and you could sit at a desk undisturbed for long enough. Then I realize that what I am imagining is having a wife or mother that swaddles you like a baby."
How Toyota is revolutionizing manufacturing with AI | Google Cloud Blog - All your hybrid/multi-cloud stuff like bursting and on-premises access, mixed in with AI uses, including training models. Some notes on introducing agile practices and CI/CD for the AI apps and uses. A Google Cloud customer, too.
AI in organizations: Some tactics - Many great, practical ideas about how to use AI daily. And none of that shitty clickbait crap.