IaaS

Self-Hosting is Dead. Hybrid is the Way to Go

A hybrid cloud is the future of cloud-native solutions for complex enterprise applications and data. Here's why.

2 months ago

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.

10 months ago

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.

1 year ago

npm is Scam-Spam Cesspool ¦ Google in Microsoft Antitrust Thrust

In this week’s #TheLongView: The npm registry suffers spam infestation, and Microsoft makes Google sad.

1 year ago

Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility

In this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy,…

1 year ago

Know What You Want and Need

Over the years, what we purchase from vendors has changed significantly. It used to be that IT would define a…

1 year ago

Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud

In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of…

1 year ago

Cloud: Why Must We Be Confusing?

When I was a kid learning to play Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the concept of level was never confusing—though the…

1 year ago

AWS Outage and App Resiliency: Did a Roomba Replace the Canary?

Canaries were once sent into coal mines as an early warning sign against danger—for me, it was my Roomba failing…

2 years ago

AWS Outage Exposes Weaknesses of DevOps Resilience

The December 7, 2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage severely disrupted services from a wide range of businesses for more…

2 years ago