FinOps! Five Cost Management Tips for IT Leaders, IDC - Good chart of what people are doing to optimize cloud spend (only n= from Dec 2022, though). Also:“In a recent IDC poll of CIOs, 64% of respondents said they were spending more on the Cloud than they budgeted. Over 50% of CEOs are concerned about Cloud Spend.” And: “companies that regularly employ cost benchmarking typically find 5-10% efficiency opportunities. However, companies that have never performed cost benchmarking can see up to 30% opportunities for cost efficiency."
I’m giving a talk about platform engineering lessons learned at Devoxx UK this week, May 10th to 12th in London. If you want to register, you can use the code SEEMESPEAK23 to get 25% off.
Spring Cloud Gateway: The Swiss Army Knife of Cloud Development - Hooking up your applications and the services they depend on, microservices or whatever.
The Cloudcast: How AI will Impact Cloud-native - This is incredibly comprehensive.
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam.
1970s grocery store, wide angle. Midjourney.
Another bank bites the dust. Three recommendations to wring opportunity out of this so-called crisis. - “Continue investment in critical modernization initiatives. Digitize your commercial banking offerings Create actual offerings for small and medium enterprise clients, inclusive of start-ups and scale-ups."
Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? - “Today, we find ourselves in a situation in which technology has become conflated with capitalism, which has in turn become conflated with the very notion of progress. If you try to criticize capitalism, you are accused of opposing both technology and progress. But what does progress even mean, if it doesn’t include better lives for people who work?"