Grafana Labs Makes Observability More Accessible
The updates promise to make it easier to invoke the capabilities of a Grafana Cloud platform based on open source software.
Best of 2023: ‘Scrum == Cancer’ ¦ Plus: Linux 6.5 Ships
In this week’s #TheLongView: Scrum sucks, sources say; and here comes the Linux 6.5 kernel.
Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
In 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.
Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer.
Meta Mayhem: Hybrid Work FAIL ¦ Yet More Layoffs
In this week’s #TheLongView: Meta’s enforced hybrid work plan is failing badly, and Meta makes more layoffs.
Raspberry Pi 5: Faster, Better, Stronger — Spendier
In an extra #TheLongView: Everyone’s favorite single-board ARM computer, the Raspberry Pi, has a new generation coming soon.
FCC: Net Neutrality is a ‘Thing’ Again ¦ Meta Shutters Big UK Site
In this week’s #TheLongView: Network neutrality is back on the FCC’s agenda, and unused London office gets Zucked.
Oracle Bill is 5x Client’s Budget ¦ Toyota Out of Space
In this week’s The Long View: Birmingham looks like the Detroit of the UK—is it Oracle’s fault? Plus: Was Toyota’s factory failure caused by running out of disk space?
IBM LLM AI: COBOL to Java ASAP ¦ ARM IPO is GO!
In this week’s #TheLongView: Translating legacy COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and Arm will go public (again) next month.
2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink
In this week’s #TheLongView: Can the Linux desktop installed base break the mythical 10% barrier? Google has been refactoring ChromeOS, and GNOME is working on new window manager ideas.
92% of Devs Use AI, Survey Says ¦ Intel One Mono Font
In this week’s #TheLongView: GitHub touts unbelievable AI stats, and Intel’s beautiful open source typeface.
Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH
In this week’s #TheLongView: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work.
Why Monitoring-as-Code Will be a Must for DevOps Teams
Over the last decade, we’ve seen an increasing number of operations teams and development teams using an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) process for provisioning cloud-based infrastructure. In that model, IaC tools like CDK, Pulumi or Terraform are employed to allow developers to code, deploy and manage cloud-based infrastructure. The advent of cloud services and IaC tools has […]
Linux Tweak Brings Big Speedup ¦ DCs in SPAAACE (Redux) ¦ Atlassian Fires 500
In this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs.