SRE
Why Up to 70% of SRE Initiatives Stall Before They Scale — and How to Break the Plateau
Akash Thakur | | automation, cloud-native reliability, Cultural Change, DevOps transformation, error budgets, incident management, KPIs, leadership alignment, legacy bottlenecks, modernization barriers, observability, Operational Excellence, reliability engineering, site reliability engineering, SLOs, SRE, SRE adoption challenges, SRE maturity model, SRE plateau, SRE training, toil reductionMany SRE initiatives stall because organizations adopt the title without the principles. True SRE success requires leadership vision, cultural change, shared KPIs and continuous maturity measurement—not tools alone ...
From Cloud to Cognitive Infrastructure: How AI is Redefining the Next Frontier of SRE
Akash Thakur | | AI in DevOps, AI infrastructure, AI reliability, AI workloads, AI-driven SRE, cloud observability, cloud-native infrastructure, devops, GPU clusters, GPU utilization, hybrid AI systems, hybrid cloud, hybrid computing, intelligent operations, multi-cloud operations, site reliability engineering, SRE evolutionAs organizations embrace artificial intelligence (AI) workloads alongside traditional cloud systems, site reliability engineering (SRE) must evolve to manage an entirely new class of infrastructure — intelligent, hybrid and graphics processing unit ...
Ciroos.AI Preps AI SRE Agents Trained to Automate Incident Management
Ciroos.AI this week emerged from stealth to provide early access to a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that have been trained to augment site reliability engineers (SREs). Fresh off raising $21 ...
Unlocking Accountability: How Real-Time App Monitoring Empowers Engineering Teams
Real-time app monitoring is about fundamentally shifting your mindset toward a culture of accountability and continuous improvement ...
Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Web Services, AWS, Marcin Kolny, microservice, microservice architecture, microservices, microservices architecture, microservices pros and cons, microservices vs. monoliths, monolith, monolithic, monolithic applications, monolithic apps, monolithic method, Monoliths, monoliths pros and cons, monoliths vs. microservices, scalable microservices architecture, scaling microservices, serverless, serverless architecture, serverless computing, serverless computing framework, serverless technology, The Long View, Werner VogelsIn this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability ...
Three Strategies for Reducing MTTD and MTTR as Outage Costs Spiral
In a business environment where most interactions with customers, suppliers and business partners are conducted digitally, downtime has become a problem and an existential threat ...
Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
Richi Jennings | | 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, windowsIn this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer ...
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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
