Travel Spending On Track To Return To Pre-Pandemic Levels By End Of 2024 - ”Global travel spending is roaring back and will fully recover to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2024, surpassing $2 trillion.”
"weird varieties of beastman" & tips on platform engineering
Just fun finds and links today.
Wastebook“FWD: RE: radioactive fungus email from grandma” Here.
“I don’t know about you, but I think a campaign setting ruled by evil angels and their witch-wives, populated by giants (perhaps not 3,500 metres tall) who eat one another and human beings, and who have sex with animals to produce many weird varieties of beastman, is one that somebody could do a lot with.” Here.
5 Lessons For Building a Platform as a Product - They’re doing a good job trying to evolve the Pivotal Cloud Foundry philosophy of platforms. // “I talked to a CTO at one of the world’s top banks, who explained that he loved what Cloud Foundry could do but wondered what would work for the other 99% of workloads he had responsibility for."
AI or bust? Only one part of US tech economy growing - “Assuming the bubble does not burst, S&P forecasts global AI spending to grow by more than 20 percent through 2028, when it is estimated to account for 14 percent of total global IT spending, up from 6 percent in 2023."
How We Migrated onto K8s in Less Than 12 months - Always hide the yaml: “Having users define services directly in YAML can be confusing. Instead, we worked to define a golden path for users and allow customization for special cases. By being explicit about what users can and should customize—and otherwise enforcing consistency by default—you’ll save users time and energy while also simplifying maintenance and future changes."
How to go-to-market: Measuring Marketing Value - “The key areas that your marketing team can drive impact for the business are in Awareness, Engagement, and Pipeline."
Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks? Job seekers, trolls - ‘“At present,” Kaspersky concludes, “this threat is largely theoretical due to the limited capabilities of existing LLM systems."'
Platform Engineering ROI - three examples of how to do a platform engineering ROI
Creating ROI models for platform engineering is difficult. Here’s three examples of approaches I’ve come across recently.
You’re trying to convince your organization to put an app platform in place (probably either buying one or building one on-top of Kubernetes), to shift your ops team to platform engineering (just after HR finally changed titles from “Systems Analyst II” to “DevOps Engineer”!), or, if you’re like me, sell people a platform.
Selling shoes on the internet, the risks of waterfall enterprise AI
Just links and wastebook today.
Relative to your interestsSpring Boot 3.3 Boosts Performance, Security, and Observability - All these years later, Spring is still in wide use and still evolving.
‘You are a helpful mail assistant,’ and other Apple Intelligence instructions - Not that many, but interesting.
Gartner Predicts 30% of Generative AI Projects Will Be Abandoned After Proof of Concept By End of 2025 - ”At least 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025, due to poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs or unclear business value, according to Gartner, Inc.
Spring Boot 3.3 Boosts Performance, Security, and Observability - All these years later, Spring is still in wide use and still evolving.