While enterprises rush to transform their business digitally, most are taking tactical steps rather than building a comprehensive digital core that can be improved over time. Very few are taking a thorough view of their entire technology portfolio and looking for ways to create a cohesive core—their digital core—to provide them the strength and stability […]
Tech Pros: Plan for Failure to Breed Success
Veteran tech pros will tell you: Failure does not always mean failing at something; it often means failing to do something. Failure can be unpredictable and accidental, but usually, a lack of preparedness causes the most significant incidents. Data centers go down, huge bursts of bot activity generate too many requests for a network to […]
Digital Transformation Vital for Business Survival
Businesses are in a fight for their survival, and they know it. Their direct competitors, large and small, are digitizing their businesses. And those businesses that effectively digitize first have much to gain competitively. However, as we’ve reported in “Digital Transformation: Coming from Behind” and other stories, many organizations are experiencing significant challenges when it […]
Technology: Isolation in the Age of Automation
Dependence on technology makes us more independent overall, but it also makes us more isolated. So, what happens if things come to the point where we depend on machines more than we depend on other human beings? Earlier this month I attended a presentation about machine learning on mobile phones at Google IO 2019. Right […]
Digital Transformation Technology and Process: More Similar Than You Think
Right around this time of the year, the gym starts to get a little less crowded. Throughout January, it’s packed to the gills with folks freshly motivated by their New Year’s resolutions to get in shape. But by mid-February, the commitment seems to have all but dissipated. Why is it so hard to just commit? […]
Full-Time Employment in the Age of Automation
Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a short essay, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” in which he predicted that in a hundred years the 15-hour work week will be commonplace. Keynes made this assertion based on two factors: first, the increase in capital due to extraordinary yields from the compound interest that […]
Reducing Poverty in the Age of Automation
In 1966, more than half of the people in the world lived in extreme poverty. I don’t mean public housing, food stamps, subsidized school lunch, free health clinic poverty. I mean the type of poverty in which there’s no electricity, no running water, no toilets and open sewers, and most children never see a doctor […]
4 Questions to Ask a Web Developer During an Interview
Web development is a fragile process. You need talented web developers to make truly beautiful sites with seamless user experiences and fast loading speeds. Without experienced web developers, creating a website that has both form and function is exceedingly difficult. Web developers have a great deal of responsibility. They understand design and they understand how […]
Roadblocks to Successful DevOps Often Human, Not Technical
Usually, when people talk about DevOps, they focus on the technical aspects. However, in my experience we need to highlight what lies behind technology: the people. To effectively implement DevOps, we have to understand that many obstacles are not technical, but human. In working with various organizations in their DevOps journeys, I have seen six […]
DevOps Chat: The Impact of Automation on DevOps and Society, with Bob Reselman
Those of you who have been reading staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud for a few years are familiar with the RoelBob cartoons, which have a prominent spot on the home page. RoelBob’s creator, Bob Reselman, is also a technologist and creator of other forms of media. Lately, he’s been writing a series of articles about the impact of automation […]