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 production.”
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.
AI ‘is Getting Worse’ ¦ AI ‘Will Lose India Jobs’ (Probably Isn’t ¦ Probably Won’t)
In this week’s #TheLongView, a conundrum: On the one hand, researchers say ChatGPT is losing the plot; and on the other, outsourced coding jobs in India will be replaced by AI.
Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms
In 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?
In 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 it scale?
Why Your Data Lake Strategy is Broken for Observability
Someone once said, “Life is better at the lake.” That may be true in the physical world, but when it comes to using data lakes for observability, that’s not typically the case. Just about every organization in every industry has a digital presence, whether it’s a website, an app or another digital service. This makes […]
IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
In this week’s #TheLongView: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source. Well—not really, but …
How to Avoid Risk When Using Multiple Low-Code Platforms
Organizations are still increasing their use of low-code/no-code (LCNC). But this adoption isn’t always consolidated around one tool—frequently, multiple low-code/no-code platforms are used under the same roof. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2024, 75% of large enterprises will be using at least four low-code development tools for both IT application development and citizen development […]
Google Calls Microsoft Azure Anti-Competitive ¦ Gen-Z Can’t Email
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google complains to the FTC about Microsoft market abuses, and new graduates don’t know how to “office.”
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.
The Tragedy of the Data Commons: Balancing Innovation With Risk
Clean drinking water and fisheries are classic examples of the “tragedy of the commons,” the problem in economics and ecology where an individual is incentivized to consume as much of a shared resource as possible at the expense of the larger society. With fisheries, for example, a logical fisherman would like to make as many […]
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.
The Future of Continuous Testing in CI/CD
If you ever wonder why continuous testing is so important, think about the following: In the past, software testing was typically done after the code was written and sent to the QA department for independent testing. When bugs were discovered, the code was returned to the developers for correction. While this testing method worked, it […]
US DoJ Makes PyPI Give Up User Data ¦ Tape Storage: Not Dead
In this week’s #TheLongView: PyPI complies with a “string of subpoenas,” and LTO continues to grow, despite predictions of its demise.
FIDO/WebAuthn Passkeys is Inevitable: Get on the Train ¦ IBM CEO Hates WFH
In this week’s #TheLongView: The Passkeys authentication standard gets a huge boost, and Arvind Krishna wants workers back in the office.
Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
In this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble.
The Rise of NetDevOps and CI/CD Pipeline Solutions
Over time, as organizations, networks and technologies have changed, the way enterprises think about managing networks has shifted as well. Enterprises are continuing to evolve their networking strategies, specifically with regard to how they expand their efforts to adopt infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices. Looking ahead, the industry will continue to see the proliferation of solutions that […]
Can ChatGPT Fix Bugs? ‘Wolverine’ Dev Says YES
In this week’s #TheLongView: Instead of AI aids for programming, what about for debugging? The pseudonymous “BioBootloader” says he’s persuaded GPT-4 to make his code self heal.
Predicting, Preventing and Resolving Incidents With AIOps
IT operations teams, site reliability engineers (SREs) and service providers are on a mission to scale across geographies, expand their digital services and create new experiences for customers. Amid this drive, their backend IT systems are getting more complex. This hinders visibility into applications and makes monitoring and troubleshooting cumbersome. With heightened competition in the […]
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 […]
How the ‘Great Rebalance’ Accelerates Low-Code/No-Code Adoption
If you were just reading headlines, you would think that careers in tech were limited—especially developers and DevOps professionals. The media and job sites have highlighted layoffs weekly since the beginning of the year, with over 120,000 employees eliminated from 400+ companies (including Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and others). With this much shedding of technical […]
Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google forces apps to make deleting users’ data easier, and the RISC-V drumbeat grows louder.
Declarative Compliance With Policy-as-Code and GitOps
In recent times, the quest for greater agility, faster releases, enhanced scalability, security and performance brought forth the advent of several automation tools, technologies and frameworks. Software development has evolved considerably over the years to mitigate these challenges. Monoliths have been split into microservices for improved scalability, maintenance and faster releases. Since DevOps is adept […]