What is GraphQL and why should you care? The future of APIs
“We’re going GraphQL, we’re replacing everything with GraphQL” Sid Sijbrandij, GitLab founder and CEO GraphQL is an open source technology created by Facebook that is getting a fair bit of attention of late. It is set to make a major impact on how APIs are designed. As is so often the case with these […]
Don’t confuse chatbots with artificial intelligence
I have been taking a look at the various chatbot platforms – and something struck me about how we’ve got away from some of the original beauty of chat as UI. The problem is the focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning, as if every bot had to pass a Turing Test. But they really […]
On Critical Infrastructure, Maintenance, the NHS, Politics and Cthulhu
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, […]
Google’s potential for upside
I attended Google NEXT London last week, and I have already written a couple of related posts, but I wanted to note something else that, while it is kind of obvious, is also kind of amazing. I have been skeptical of Google’s decision to bring G Suite and Google Cloud Platform into one business. Cloud […]
A good day at the office for Amazon Web Services, partner commitments deepen
One of the things that historically defined our coverage of AWS Cloud is that Amazon never really needed to ping us, never mind send us a press release. When a new AWS service release came out we’d see developers parsing the news and immediately kicking the tyres, often excited about the possibilities being opened to […]
On multi-cloud tradeoffs and the paradox of openness
In any technology adoption decision organisations are faced with a balancing act between openness and convenience. Open standards and open source, while in theory driving commoditization and lower cost, also create associated management overheads. Choice comes at a cost. Managing heterogeneous networks is generally more complicated, and therefore resource intensive, than managing homogenous ones, which […]
Data Transformation is the New Digital Transformation
It’s a truism today that we all need to become data-driven businesses – data is the new natural resource – and so on. But nobody seems to know what that means. Tim O’Reilly was talking about the trend, Data is the new Intel Inside, as long ago as 2005. RedMonk attached itself fairly early – […]
Mea Culpa, I am Not A Hat
I used to read The Little Prince, Antonie de Saint-Exupery’s masterpiece book, to my oldest daughter (my youngest preferred Goodnight Moon) at night before she went to sleep. I read it in Spanish, English, and French (poorly). It’s a great book that discusses the way different people perceive the universe and what’s good and bad […]
Breaking the glass – a way forward for Google Cloud
Google had no shortage of significant feature function announcements at Cloud Next 2017 in San Francisco last week but is still looking for a clean narrative to sum up why it should be a preferred enterprise cloud provider. The truth though is that cloud is far from “done” in terms of enterprise spend and adoption. […]
S3, Cloudflare, Gitlab and You: It’s the Third Time You Lose Your Customers >Forever
It’s been a rough stretch in the cloud. S3 / AWS was down for the better part of an entire day, taking a huge chunk of the Internet with it. This shouldn’t happen, folks. Cloudflare, which runs a significant part of the internet’s traffic, leaked passwords and other PII. Gitlab deleted and lost source code. These are terrible. Horrible. […]
