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There's yet to be any real evidence that Uber's business model will ever do anything other than burn investors' money to make traffic worse. Source: Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion

“Symantec will be left with its consumer product portfolio, which includes the Norton antivirus software and LifeLock identity protection brand.” And lots more details, including recent Broadcom acquisitions and pressures. Source: Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7B

“Symantec will be left with its consumer product portfolio, which includes the Norton antivirus software and LifeLock identity protection brand.” And lots more details, including recent Broadcom acquisitions and pressures. Source: Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7B

This massive growth in scale has required an evolution in practices and organization to achieve success. Most of what technologists are aware of in this regard is labeled “DevOps,” but there is more nuance to it than that. The way infrastructure capacity is allocated becomes decoupled from specific hardware, so the infrastructure team has to adapt new tools. The way databases and message busses, among other things, are operated and made available to applications has become more “self-service”, and thus those teams have to see themselves as service providers rather than as infrastructure teams.

This massive growth in scale has required an evolution in practices and organization to achieve success. Most of what technologists are aware of in this regard is labeled “DevOps,” but there is more nuance to it than that. The way infrastructure capacity is allocated becomes decoupled from specific hardware, so the infrastructure team has to adapt new tools. The way databases and message busses, among other things, are operated and made available to applications has become more “self-service”, and thus those teams have to see themselves as service providers rather than as infrastructure teams.

The critical failing of user interviews is that you're asking people to either remember past use or speculate on future use of a system. Both types of responses are extraordinarily weak and often misleading. Source: Interviewing Users

The critical failing of user interviews is that you're asking people to either remember past use or speculate on future use of a system. Both types of responses are extraordinarily weak and often misleading. Source: Interviewing Users

“It’s 2019 so apparently everyone has a service mesh. Istio has been the most hyped – it has solid corporate backing from IBM, Google, Pivotal and SAP. These companies now need to do a better job of nailing use cases.” HashiConf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2019/08/07/hashiconf-eu-2019-the-service-mesh-push/ via Instapaper Source: Hashiconf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery

“It’s 2019 so apparently everyone has a service mesh. Istio has been the most hyped – it has solid corporate backing from IBM, Google, Pivotal and SAP. These companies now need to do a better job of nailing use cases.” HashiConf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2019/08/07/hashiconf-eu-2019-the-service-mesh-push/ via Instapaper Source: Hashiconf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery

If people from other countries already visit your site and make purchases, you might think it isn’t necessary to adjust your payment methods for them. But you’d be wrong. For each international customer that makes a purchase, there could be others who abandon checkout because they aren’t comfortable with any of the options available. Source: Alternative Payment Methods Enable International Purchases