Editorial Calendar

Observability: The Central Watchtower Your All-Seeing IT Needs

Kevin Kline | November 28, 2023 | database, DataOps, devops, IT services, observability, telemetry

Database specialists and IT teams need a clear view of database performance telemetry if they want to maintain the health, stability and scalability of their services ...

How to Alleviate Your Observability Challenges

Chris Cooney | October 31, 2023 | data pipeline, DataOps, devops, kubernetes, mttr, observability, pipeline performance, Telemetry data

Observability is becoming a keystone of contemporary DevOps practices. Even departments that weren’t traditionally a part of DevOps are seeing the benefits of being brought under the auspices of observability teams. In ...

A dolphin dances above the surface of the sea, with the caption, “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter

Richi Jennings | October 11, 2023 | ARM, ARM processors, Exascale, microsoft, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows, NVIDIA, Python, scripting, supercomputer, The Long View, VBScript, visual studio, Visual Studio Code, VS Code, windows

In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer ...

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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

Richi Jennings | September 29, 2023 | ARM, ARM processors, Eben Upton, IoT, Raspberry Pi, The Long View

In an extra #TheLongView: Everyone’s favorite single-board ARM computer, the Raspberry Pi, has a new generation coming soon ...

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FCC: Net Neutrality is a ‘Thing’ Again ¦ Meta Shutters Big UK Site

Richi Jennings | September 27, 2023 | facebook, FCC, Hybrid Work environment, Jessica Rosenworcel, Meta, Meta Platforms, net neutrality, Remote work, The Long View, WFH, work from home, working from home

In this week’s #TheLongView: Network neutrality is back on the FCC’s agenda, and unused London office gets Zucked ...

Why Data Silos Are Killing Your Developer Productivity

Chris Cooney | September 25, 2023 | data, data silos, devops, observability

Data silos are draining developers’ productivity. Here's how to break away from these silos with better observability ...

There’s No Value in Observability Bloat. Let’s Focus on the Essentials

Tomer Levy | September 22, 2023 | AI monitoring, data, DataOps, devops, microservices, observability

Most companies only need the essential ingredients to satisfy their observability strategy, which means costs will be much more modest ...

Why Enterprises Should Embrace Data-Driven Software Management

Alex Circei | September 15, 2023 | data-driven, devops, dora metrics, Management

A third era of software development management is emerging: It’s not waterfall or agile, it’s data-driven ...

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Google De-Recruits 100s of Recruiters ¦ ARM Valued at $45½B in IPO

Richi Jennings | September 14, 2023 | 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 View

In this week’s #TheLongView: Google fires hundreds of recruiters, and ARM gets a sky-high valuation ...

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Oracle Bill is 5x Client’s Budget ¦ Toyota Out of Space

Richi Jennings | September 7, 2023 | Birmingham City Council, database, database storage, England, ERP, failover, Government, Oracle, Oracle Fusion, redundancy, SAP, storage, The Long View, Toyota, UK

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? ...