Why we’ve decided to decommission GOV.UK PaaS (Platform as a Service) – Government Digital Service - “It has enjoyed uptime of 99.95%, and suffered only one major incident in its 7 years. All this while tenants deployed services more than 122 times a day, made up of 3,200 applications.” // It worked well, but people didn’t want to use it. Instead: Kubernetes. It’d be cool to hear how the next three years went.
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. - “We have been fed a steady diet of bullshit for the last several years.” // He’s not a fan.
AI Reviews Aren't Very Good
Making AI Reviews More UsefulFrom Robert Brook, posted July, 2025.Reading all the ChatGPT 5 coverage confirms my feeling that no one knows how to review these models yet. It’s either those incomprehensible charts (and also, who cares how good they are at math? More: who understand what those tests even mean?) or people just saying “I really like it.”
It’s a classic IT/business alignment problem. Until you define the “business outcome” you want and how you can improve it, you’re vibe-ROI’ing.
Columbus, Ohio’s Revival: a Model for the Rust Belt - Update from IRL. Now, back to cyberspace.
At-Scale Management and Multi-Foundation Views with Tanzu Hub - If you’re running a platform - or platforms - inside a large organization, Tanzu’s got something for you.
Remembering Dominic Pannell: Dom’s Framework for Influencer Ecosystem Mapping - Managing the people who influence enterprise It buying.
Why AI Isn’t The Silver Bullet For Customer Service — Yet - A typical digital transformation problem: you change just one tool, but not everything else, especially how people work and the (now) old systems you integrate with.
Heroku brings app development to the AI era - One day I hope people stop focusing on build containers, and start focusing on to build apps.