In this week’s The Long View: IPv6 gets stabbed in the back, Fintech firms’ valuations are falling, and the latest browser war seems to be over—Firefox lost.
GitLab Joins Unicorn Club With $100m Raise
GitLab has become the latest member of the Unicorn club after announcing a $100m round of funding led by ICONIQ Capital. This latest round, a series D brings the total capital raise for GitLab to $145m over 3 years. According to the company it also raised their market valuation to over the magical $1B mark. […]
Time-Sharing to Unicorns: The DevOps Problem Facing Enterprise IT
How did we in Enterprise IT get to this point? There’s a lot of talking and writing about the value of adopting DevOps but very little analyzing the problem domain we’re trying to correct. There are some schools that will say we can move forward without looking back, but I believe a key element of […]
The web-scale avalanche
Old-school businesses may not like it, but they’re competing with Google, Facebook, Amazon and other Internet powerhouses because those players have grown from day one with an eye on rapid, scalable, cloud-based and continuous IT operations. Companies have been running application delivery aligned to an aging model based on low frequency release cycles. For […]