CloudOps
Survey Credits Engineering Teams With Keeping Lid on Cloud Costs
A CloudZero survey credits engineering teams with keeping cloud costs under control, but there's still some room for improvement. A survey of 1,000 U.S. engineering and finance professionals working in organizations with ...
Tools for Sustainability in Cloud Computing
You’re probably sold on the environmental benefits of moving to the cloud. These tools can help you get there faster by measuring your applications’ carbon emissions ...
Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Web Services, AWS, Marcin Kolny, microservice, microservice architecture, microservices, microservices architecture, microservices pros and cons, microservices vs. monoliths, monolith, monolithic, monolithic applications, monolithic apps, monolithic method, Monoliths, monoliths pros and cons, monoliths vs. microservices, scalable microservices architecture, scaling microservices, serverless, serverless architecture, serverless computing, serverless computing framework, serverless technology, The Long View, Werner VogelsIn this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability ...
Meta Mayhem: Hybrid Work FAIL ¦ Yet More Layoffs
Richi Jennings | | Hybrid Work environment, layoffs, managing remote workers, Meta, Meta Platforms, Metaverse, redundancy, Remote work, Remote Worker, remote workers, remote workforce, remote working, RTO, tech layoffs, The Long View, WFH, work from home, working at home, working from home, Workplace from FacebookIn this week’s #TheLongView: Meta’s enforced hybrid work plan is failing badly, and Meta makes more layoffs ...
FCC: Net Neutrality is a ‘Thing’ Again ¦ Meta Shutters Big UK Site
Richi Jennings | | facebook, FCC, Hybrid Work environment, Jessica Rosenworcel, Meta, Meta Platforms, net neutrality, Remote work, The Long View, WFH, work from home, working from homeIn this week’s #TheLongView: Network neutrality is back on the FCC’s agenda, and unused London office gets Zucked ...
npm is Scam-Spam Cesspool ¦ Google in Microsoft Antitrust Thrust
Richi Jennings | | Amit Zavery, azure, code repo, code repositories, code repository, GOOG, GOOGL, google, Google Cloud, IaaS, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, MSFT, NPM, npm registry, open source, public repository, Repos, repositories, repository, Repository Security, SEO, Software Supply Chain, software supply chain attacks, Software Supply Chain Security, Software Supply Chains, softwaresupplychain, source code repository, spam, supply chain, supply chain attacks, supply chain security, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: The npm registry suffers spam infestation, and Microsoft makes Google sad ...
Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, AWS, Bloom Energy, CO2 emissions, data center, data centers, datacenter, gpl, Green data center, LGPL, open source licensing, The Long View, voice.aiIn this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas ...
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
Richi Jennings | | azure, BGP, DNS, gitops, it-as-code, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, MSFT, Office 365, outage, The Long ViewAll of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed ...
EU Data Privacy: Try Again | SkyPilot: Choose Cheapest Cloud | WFH: Better Meetings
Richi Jennings | | cloud cost management, data privacy, Data Privacy Framework, Europe, GDPR, If you want the rainbow—you gotta put up with the rain, Max Schrems, Multi-cloud, privacy, Remote work, SkyPilot, The Long View, WFHIn this week’s The Long View: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework reemerges, Berkeley brings cloud selection box, and proof that remote work is good work ...
Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Apple, AWS, azure, Department of Defense, DoD, google, Google Cloud Platform, Hybrid Work environment, IaaS, JEDI, JWCC, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, Oracle Cloud Platform, Remote work, Remote Worker, remote workers, remote workforce, remote working, The Long View, WFH, work from home, working at home, working from homeIn this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option ...
AWS re:Invent — Top 4 Things We Learned This Week
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon Web Services, ARM, AWS, AWS Lambda, FaaS, Graviton3E, hiring, HPC, java, SnapStart, The Long View, The unexamined life is not worth livingIn this week’s The Long View: SnapStart Turbocharges Lambda, Graviton3E ARM HPC SoC, AWS continues hiring, and AWS’s Origin Story ...
DevOps, Drought and Climate | Meta❤️PTP
Richi Jennings | | climate change, cloud database, consistency, Green data center, green tech, Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced, Meta, Meta Platforms, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Data centers cause climate change, and Meta is rolling out Precision Time Protocol ...
