In this week’s The Long View: SnapStart Turbocharges Lambda, Graviton3E ARM HPC SoC, AWS continues hiring, and AWS’s Origin Story.
3 New WFH and Hybrid Work Trends That YOU Need to Grok
In this week’s The Long View, a remote/hybrid work special: Bribes to relocate you, Fridays are forgotten, and big tech firms stop building offices.
Apple Allows 50% Fee Rise | @ElonMusk Fans: 70% Fake | Microsoft Salaries up by 100%?
In this week’s The Long View: Apple lets devs increase subscriptions “without consent,” Twitter has more than 19% spam accounts, and we dig into the claim that Microsoft is about to double salaries.
Analyzing SRE Job Postings
You can find plenty of high-level definitions out on the internet about what site reliability engineering means and what site reliability engineers do. But if you want to understand what it’s actually like to work as a site reliability engineer, there is perhaps no better source than job descriptions. SRE job ads explain what real […]
AWS re:Invent Roundup: Private 5G | Graviton3 ARM Chips | DevOps Guru++
In this week’s The Long View: Three things that caught my eye from Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference. Private 5G, Graviton3 chips, and something called DevOps Guru for RDS (yes, really).
What Amazon’s New CEO Means for IT’s Future
Amazon is placing its bets on the future of cloud. The announcement that CEO Jeff Bezos will be stepping down and passing the torch to Amazon Web Services (AWS) leader Andy Jassy at the start of Q3 2021 signals a major shift in the future of technology – and not only for organizations specializing in […]
New AWS Services Optimize App Development Process
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is always busy introducing new services, enhancing existing ones and, quite often, driving trends. However, the cloud services provider has upped its game even more in recent months. In the first half of 2020, AWS announced an astonishing number of developments that enable technology interoperability, simplifying legacy feature removal, creating greater […]
Does the Empire Strike Back When We Learn What Happens to the $10 Billion JEDI Contract?
Microsoft scored a huge victory by sweeping in and taking the $10 billion dollar, multi-year JEDI contract for military IT services from AWS (owned and operated by amazon.com, its parent company). The backstory on this is that James “Mad Dog” Mattis, then Secretary of Defense, met with Jeff Bezos who tweeted about it on August […]
UK technology firm Cloudhouse sees three-fold revenue growth and expansion into the US
Appoints Nick Coleman as CTO, and outlines its strategic growth plans London, UK – October 16, 2018 – Cloudhouse Technologies has seen over 300 per cent growth over the last 12 months, and expanded its business into the US – thanks, in part, to strategic partnerships with Microsoft and Amazon. As it looks to continue its growth […]
Complementary Technologies: Amazon RDS and PostgreSQL
For enterprises in search of a relational database service that will effectively and consistently meet their requirements, Amazon RDS is probably worth a hard look. By making cloud-based relational databases straightforward to set up, operate and scale, Amazon RDS liberates businesses from the time-sink of internal database administration duties—in turn allowing for a clearer focus […]