Link: Oracle Releases GraalVM Enterprise

Oracle claims that the addition of these and other algorithms typically provide an additional 20% application performance improvement, while simultaneously reducing the memory footprint. Source: Oracle Releases GraalVM Enterprise

Link: Oracle Releases GraalVM Enterprise

Oracle claims that the addition of these and other algorithms typically provide an additional 20% application performance improvement, while simultaneously reducing the memory footprint. Source: Oracle Releases GraalVM Enterprise

Link: On policy and delivery

The benefits of ditching the paper driving licence have been clear for a decade, but because of a fear of change, fear of failure and, yes, fear of digital, it hasn’t happened. We’ve forgotten the art of the possible. Source: On policy and delivery

Link: On policy and delivery

The benefits of ditching the paper driving licence have been clear for a decade, but because of a fear of change, fear of failure and, yes, fear of digital, it hasn’t happened. We’ve forgotten the art of the possible. Source: On policy and delivery

Link: Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift

The OpenShift-Azure deal extends collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat that includes the addition of Microsoft SQL server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The deal signaled Microsoft’s embrace of OpenShift application container management. The expanded partnership also gives OpenShift users access to public cloud services such as Azure Cosmos and SQL databases along with cloud-based machine learning models aimed at development of cloud-native enterprise applications. OpenShift on Azure would “simplify container management on Kubernetes and help customers innovate on their cloud journeys,” added Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and AI Group.

Link: Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift

The OpenShift-Azure deal extends collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat that includes the addition of Microsoft SQL server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The deal signaled Microsoft’s embrace of OpenShift application container management. The expanded partnership also gives OpenShift users access to public cloud services such as Azure Cosmos and SQL databases along with cloud-based machine learning models aimed at development of cloud-native enterprise applications. OpenShift on Azure would “simplify container management on Kubernetes and help customers innovate on their cloud journeys,” added Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and AI Group.

Link: Comic Relief switched from multi-cloud to serverless with AWS and saw a 93% cost reduction

As a team, going serverless has given us a lot more velocity, we can rapidly release, we can test the same infrastructure we’re deploying in production, in a pull request environment, in a staging environment, we can rapidly retest ideas- and every developer can do that because we’re using Lambda to load test, so the power it gives you as a developer and engineering team is pretty amazing. Source: Comic Relief switched from multi-cloud to serverless with AWS and saw a 93% cost reduction

Link: Comic Relief switched from multi-cloud to serverless with AWS and saw a 93% cost reduction

As a team, going serverless has given us a lot more velocity, we can rapidly release, we can test the same infrastructure we’re deploying in production, in a pull request environment, in a staging environment, we can rapidly retest ideas- and every developer can do that because we’re using Lambda to load test, so the power it gives you as a developer and engineering team is pretty amazing. Source: Comic Relief switched from multi-cloud to serverless with AWS and saw a 93% cost reduction

Fix your boring, but immediate problems first

When GDS started in 2011, mobile apps were that day’s special on the fad menu. Ministers all wanted their own. Top officials thought they sounded like a great idea. Delighted suppliers queued up to offer their services to government. We’ll talk about apps in more detail later. For now, all you need to know is that GDS blocked 99% of requests for them. Government wasn’t ready for apps, because the people asking for them didn’t really know what they were for.