CloudOps
Cloud-First, Cloud-Smart to Cloud-Minimalism – A Strategic Shift
We do not know if cloud minimalism is the answer to cloud complexity, but it provides pathways to onboard and explore cloud computing ...
AIOps Success Requires Synthetic Internet Telemetry Data
The data used to train AI models needs to reflect the production environments where applications are deployed ...
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 ...
Hybrid Cloud in 2024: Trends and Predictions
Hybrid cloud environments are becoming increasingly pivotal for DevOps teams, and the trend looks to continue in 2024 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Google De-Recruits 100s of Recruiters ¦ ARM Valued at $45½B in IPO
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google fires hundreds of recruiters, and ARM gets a sky-high valuation ...
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 ...
80% of Bosses ‘Regret’ Stopping WFH ¦ PSA: Disable STS!
In this week’s #TheLongView: Rethinking return-to-office mandates and a ridiculous, ancient Windows bug ...
Google’s Shiny New AI Dev Environment — the ‘Experimental’ Project IDX
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google’s full-stack, browser based development environment in the cloud. Project IDX is not just a Copilot clone, but aims to help you “get an app from zero to ...
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 ...