Leadership Suite
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
Richi Jennings | | disaster recovery, downtime, IaaS, Kakao, Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans, on-premises, PaaS, Pangyo, SaaS, SK C&C, South Korea, The Long View, uptimeIn this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing ...
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 ...
Despite Democratization, IT Department More Central Than Ever
George V. Hulme | | cloud platforms, democratization of IT, low-code applications, Low-Code/No-Code, ManageEngineThere’s been talk of the decentralization of IT within organizations for years, and events of recent years have certainly accelerated this trend. Yet, IT has never been more important to the success ...
What Developers Need for Software Security Success
Given today’s evolving threat landscape, organizations and businesses in every sector now have a critical need to produce secure software. Criminal gangs, professional attackers and hostile nation-states are employing advanced tactics designed ...
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 ...
Why You Need to Empower Your Developers
In recent years, the demand for software developers worldwide has increased. However, in 2020, when the pandemic hit, many CIOs pulled back considerably on their IT spending. This trend has quickly reversed ...
DevOps Dozen² Awards 2022 Nominations Now Open
The DevOps Dozen² Awards are back for their eighth year and nominations are open. These awards highlight, recognize and honor the outstanding and inspiring leaders who have made significant contributions to the ...
Heat Cooks Twitter DC | AI Will Kill All Humans | Patreon Layoffs, CSAM Claim
Richi Jennings | | ai, business continuity, CSAM, disaster recovery, Glassdoor, layoffs, Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows, Patreon, redundancy, Sacramento, Starlink, The Long View, twitterIn this week’s The Long View: Twitter is in a “non-redundant state” thanks to a hot summer, AI is likely to eliminate us, and Patreon fires 80 staff amid nasty allegations ...
Force Me Back to the Office? Apple ‘Hasn’t Learned Anything’
Richi Jennings | | 4-Day Work Week, Apple, freestyle friday, Great Resignation, Hybrid Work environment, Remote work, The Long View, The tempter or the tempted—who sins most?, WFHIn this week’s The Long View: New ways of working. Whether it’s remote work, enforced hybrid working or a four-day working week, let’s triage the trends and futz with the future ...
Leverage Empirical Data to Avoid DevOps Burnout
Burnout is possible in any industry. But it seems to be especially rampant in tech, a space bursting at the seams with inflated expectations and ever-accelerating trends. Nearly 60% of tech workers ...
Recession! DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7
Richi Jennings | | 802.11be, Alphabet, Apple, ARM, data centers, facebook, google, Green data center, hiring, Intel, Meta Platforms, microsoft, Netflix, Oracle, recession, RISC-V, Salesforce, Tesla, The Long View, There’s no point in questioning authority if you aren’t going to listen to the answers, twitter, Wi-Fi 7In this week’s The Long View: Engineer jobs are being cut, cloud infrastructure is using too much energy, and Intel’s 802.11be silicon is alive ...
VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI/ML, autonomous vehicles, careers, CI/CD, continuous deployment, driverless cars, fiber, google, Herbert Diess, LaMDA, ml, Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, The Long View, VolkswagenIn this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient ...
