CloudOps
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 ...
Google De-Recruits 100s of Recruiters ¦ ARM Valued at $45½B in IPO
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI assistant, ARM, artificial intelligence, bad recruiting, Code Assistant, DevOps hiring, google, hiring, hiring process, IPO, lay-offs, layoffs, LLM, LLMs, recruiters, Recruiting, recruitment, SoftBank, tech layoffs, tech recruiting, technical recruiting, The Long ViewIn 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!
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI assistant, ARM, artificial intelligence, COBOL, Code Assistant, CodeNet, DevOps and mainframes, Devops for legacy, DevOps for mainframe, DevOps on mainframe, ibm, IPO, java, Java EE, legacy, legacy applications, legacy apps, legacy code, legacy environment, legacy IT, legacy mainframe applications, legacy modernization, Legacy Software, legacy system, legacy systems, LLM, LLMs, mainframe, mainframe computers, mainframe developer, mainframe developers, mainframe development, mainframe modernization, SoftBank, The Long ViewIn 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!
Richi Jennings | | Hybrid Work environment, managing remote workers, microsoft, Remote work, Remote Worker, remote workers, remote workforce, remote working, Secure Time Seeding, STS, The Long View, WFH, Windows Server, work from home, working at home, working from homeIn 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
Richi Jennings | | agile environments, ai, AI assistant, AI ChatBots, AI integrations, artificial intelligence, Cloud development environment, copilot, development environment, full stack, GitHub Copilot, google, PaLM, Project IDX, The Long ViewIn 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
Richi Jennings | | Chrome, Chrome OS, cloud desktop, GNOME, google, Lacros, linux, The Long View, user acceptance testing, user experience, user interface, window managementIn 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 ...
Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms
Richi Jennings | | ai, CentOS, commercial open source, Ethics in Open Source Development, Fedora, free software, generative AI, gpl, ibm, large language model, legal, legal issues, LGPL, license, licensing, linux, LLM, LLMs, open source, open source code, open source community, open source development, open source ecosystem, open source licensing, Oracle, red hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux, rhel, software licensing, SUSE, The Long View, training modelsIn this week’s #TheLongView: SUSE announces a Red Hat Enterprise Linux fork after Oracle said a similar thing, and Sarah Silverman says OpenAI and Meta have stolen her words ...
Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?
Richi Jennings | | ActivityPub, Cinder, Elon Musk, fediverse, Instagram, JIT, Mark Zuckerberg, Mastodon, Meta, Meta Platforms, Python, The Long View, ThreadsIn this week’s #TheLongView: Meta launches its much-leaked Threads microblogging app. A spinoff from Instagram, it’s already reached 30 million signups at the time of writing. How is Meta’s DevOps team making ...
Google Calls Microsoft Azure Anti-Competitive ¦ Gen-Z Can’t Email
Richi Jennings | | Alphabet, azure, Azure cloud, Azure DevOps, competition, competitive pressure, email, FTC, Gen-Z, google, Google Cloud, license, licensing, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure cloud, Microsoft Azure DevOps, software licensing, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: Google complains to the FTC about Microsoft market abuses, and new graduates don’t know how to “office.” ...
Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH
Richi Jennings | | facebook, Hybrid Work environment, IaaS, managing remote workers, Meta, Meta Platforms, Metaverse, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure cloud, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Remote work, RISC-V, RISE, teams, The Long View, WFH, work from home, working from home, Workplace from FacebookIn this week’s #TheLongView: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work ...
Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon Web Services, AWS, careers, DevOps careers, layoffs, linux, Linux 6.3, tech layoffs, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble ...
Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center
Richi Jennings | | Android, ARM, data center, data privacy, devsecops, GDPR, Google Play Data safety section, Green data center, IaaS, privacy, RISC-V, The Long View, x86 platformIn this week’s #TheLongView: Google forces apps to make deleting users’ data easier, and the RISC-V drumbeat grows louder ...
