A Look at the Tintri S-1
Every now and then I take a dive into an S-1 to see what clears the current, ever-changing bar for going public. After a somewhat rocky IPO process, Tintri went public June 30 after cutting the IPO offering price and has traded flat thus far since then. Let’s read an excerpt from this Business Insider […]
Why Serverless, Inc is crushing it right now
Serverless apps are auto-scaling, pay-per-execution, and event-driven. I wrote a post recently looking at the the growth of interest in serverless frameworks, with a specific question in mind about OpenWhisk. But as the chart above (which was actually at the bottom of that post) shows, interest in the Serverless framework, as least as far as […]
More from TrailheaDX 2017
The technical news from Trailhead DX fell into three categories – Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), AI/Ml and Event-driven computing. In this post, I will take a quick look at the CI/CD story story. Salesforce DX is now in open beta. It’s a major upgrade to the way Salesforce code can be developed. The approach borrows […]
How GitLab abandoned the Unix Philosophy
(i) Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features. (ii) Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don’t clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. […]
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 […]
