The hype around serverless computing has died down, and now we can evaluate it more clearly.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Enterprises are finally discovering that serverless computing is not a universal remedy. A mix of serverless and traditional architectures is almost always a better approach.

Posted on Wednesday 19 Feb 2025. 1,844 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.

Writing at the intersection of technology, democracy, and society by Ben Werdmuller

A Practical Guide to Unlocking the Competitive Potential of AI

A few years before USB took over the world of peripherals, another upstart standard aimed to do the same thing. And I’m not talking about FireWire.

Hybrid non-statistical and statistical AI implementations of STMs are adept at generating real-world simulations and synthetic data.

Understanding the technology, business, policies, and people of Apis.

How hard can it be to write a simple four-function calculator program? After all, computers are good at math, and making a calculator isn’t exactly blazing a new trail, right? But [Chad Nause…

Actor, released by The Whitewater Group, Inc. and later Genesis Development Systems, is an object oriented programming language and environment similar to Smalltalk. It is a completely Windows-native environment, and was among the early applications written for Windows. Actor 2 ran under Microsoft Windows 2, and Actor 1.0 runs under Windows 1.

Posted on Tuesday 11 Feb 2025. 2,995 words, 24 links. By Matt Webb.

Design, deploy, and grow feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.

You just haven't noticed yet, says journalist Matt Muir

We’ve spent more than two generations and trillions of dollars building the internet. It is, arguably, humanity’s most ambitious technological

The message hidden inside DeepSeek's R1

No.343 — Archigram keeps the dream alive ⊗ The META Trending Trends ⊗ AI to revolutionise fundamental physics ⊗ Inventing the Renaissance

wingolog: article: baffled by generational garbage collection

Digital technology and algorithmic recommendations have, as the story goes, segmented society into a million little data-driven designations, where we all watch and listen to different content – a radical individualization that has shattered any shared consensus about culture or politics, about reality. Even the classroom, particularly thanks to "personalized education,

BuzzFeed, the ultimate social media team player, decides that it needs a social media platform of its own. In the process, it gave us a crazy new buzzword.

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

As databases scale, data distribution and consistency become harder to manage.

The object store, once a somewhat niche technology, is now becoming a fundamental building block of the modern cloud.