A hybrid cloud is the future of cloud-native solutions for complex enterprise applications and data. Here’s why.
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.
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.
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.
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, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option.
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 need, go out and find a bit of software to solve it, install and configure the software and, in most cases, spend the majority of time on the project getting it to work correctly in […]
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 public cloud is skyrocketing.
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 authors should have seen that it very well could be. For those unfamiliar, D&D has many uses of the word level—character level, caster level, spell level, dungeon level and, increasingly, as time went on, monster […]
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 to automatically search out dog hair and clean the floor under my sons’ dining room chairs. Cloud-enabled apps also were acting “weird”. Some were down, while others were just slow—although, in my view, slow may […]
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 than five hours and highlighted just how reliant businesses have become on internet-delivered services. The outage mostly impacted web services in the eastern U.S., yet the implications are universal: It’s a reminder that many businesses […]