SaaS
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 ...
Oracle Bill is 5x Client’s Budget ¦ Toyota Out of Space
Richi Jennings | | Birmingham City Council, database, database storage, England, ERP, failover, Government, Oracle, Oracle Fusion, redundancy, SAP, storage, The Long View, Toyota, UKIn 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? ...
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 ...
AI ‘is Getting Worse’ ¦ AI ‘Will Lose India Jobs’ (Probably Isn’t ¦ Probably Won’t)
Richi Jennings | | ai, artificial intellegence, ChatGPT, generative AI, India, large language model, LLM, LLMs, machine learning, microsoft, ml, OpenAI, outsourcing, Stability AI, Stable Diffusion, The Long View, training modelsIn 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
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 ...
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 Tweak Brings Big Speedup ¦ DCs in SPAAACE (Redux) ¦ Atlassian Fires 500
Richi Jennings | | Atlassian, data center, disaster recovery, edge computing, hyperthreading, layoffs, linux, Lonestar Data Holdings, moon, performance, The Long View, ThreadIn this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs ...
Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, AWS, Bloom Energy, CO2 emissions, data center, data centers, datacenter, gpl, Green data center, LGPL, open source licensing, The Long View, voice.aiIn this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas ...
OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot ¦ Netflix Blocks Password Sharing
Richi Jennings | | ChatGPT, Codex, github, GitHub Copilot, gitops, microsoft, Netflix, open source, OpenAI, password policies, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts ...
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
Richi Jennings | | azure, BGP, DNS, gitops, it-as-code, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, MSFT, Office 365, outage, The Long ViewAll of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed ...
