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Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix
Richi Jennings | | Apple, facebook, in-app purchase, initrd, iOS, Lennart Poettering, linux, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Metaverse, secure boot, systemd, The Long View, Your time is limited—so don’t waste it living someone else’s lifeIn this week’s The Long View: Meta’s latest results are very bad, Apple wants its cut of Facebook ads, and Lennart Poettering proposes improving Secure Boot for Linux ...
SaaS Data Backup and the API Bottleneck
The need to protect SaaS data has never been greater. A recent global survey from Odaseva found that 51% of ransomware attacks are targeting SaaS data, and they are more likely to ...
Choosing the Right API Solution
There are more choices than ever when it comes to APIs–and that’s a good thing. But it also means you’ll need a strategic plan for choosing the right API solution. Two questions ...
Kill the Password: Google on Board | 4-Day Week Proves Worthy
Richi Jennings | | 4-Day Work Week, FIDO, google, I am not bound to please thee with my answer, Passkeys, The Long View, WebAuthnIn this week’s The Long View: Passkeys is getting another big-tech supporter, and the four-day workweek train picks up speed ...
‘The OG App’ Devs’ Facebook Ban | WFH Vs. NYC Real Estate | Calif. Pay Law is GO
Richi Jennings | | API, California, facebook, Gavin Newsom, Hybrid Work environment, Instagram, Meta, Meta Platforms, Recruiting, Remote work, reverse engineering, The Long View, The OG App, WFHIn this week’s The Long View: A third party Instagram app causes ructions, remote work causes office slump, and more on Cali’s salary transparency law ...
Wipro Fires 2-Job Staff | Python Bug from 2007 | Lite Layoffs
Richi Jennings | | Alphabet, careers, CVE-2007-4559, facebook, google, I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue, layoffs, Meta Platforms, Python, Software Supply Chain Security, tarfile, The Long View, WiproIn this week’s The Long View: Wipro fires 300 for moonlighting at competitors, Python has a nasty 15-year-old bug, and companies are finding new ways to lay people off without calling it ...
How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch
Richi Jennings | | agile, ARM, BDUF, California, Eugene Zarashaw, facebook, Long live the King, Meta, Move fast and break things, NASA, Recruiting, RISC-V, Steven Elia, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Facebook engineers admit they’ve no idea what Meta stores (or where), California requires job ads quote salaries, and RISC-V will power future NASA spacecraft ...
Stable Diffusion Goes Public — and the Internet Freaks Out
Richi Jennings | | AI machine learning, AI models, AI/ML, AIOps, DALL-E, Deepfake, latent diffusion, machine learning, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, The Long View, What fools these mortals beThis week: A Stable Diffusion special. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ll have seen something about the new open source machine learning model for creating images ...
GitLab Research Shows Security Concerns in DevOps Teams
The threat of breaches is top-of-mind for many DevOps teams, and while security continues to shift left it appears to be a driving force for many decision-makers when it comes to choosing ...
3 Ways API Analytics Can Help Application Owners
Software development is fraught with risk that can run projects aground like a ship against a rocky beach. Whether it is misunderstood requirements, rapidly evolving marketplaces or old-fashioned bugs and schedule slippage, ...
3 New WFH and Hybrid Work Trends That YOU Need to Grok
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, facebook, freestyle friday, Hybrid Work environment, Many a true word hath been spoken in jest, Meta, relocation, Remote work, The Long View, Tulsa, WFHIn this week’s The Long View, a remote/hybrid work special: Bribes to relocate you, Fridays are forgotten, and big tech firms stop building offices ...
Connections Matter: Gaining Visibility Into APIs
Digital transformation is at the center of modern enterprise. Yet, as cloud initiatives take shape and the complexity of connecting systems and applications multiplies, the need to tie everything together and automate ...
