Technology Commentary

The once-thriving site used to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.

Robert Tinney was in great demand to do covers for companies other than Byte. Here are the ones I have.

I was fed up with the poor opportunities for abstraction in configuration formats. The many configuration languages that exist already were not invented here, so I wrote my own, at first just for fun. But then it became useful.

The Apple Vision Pro is a disappointment for productivity, in part because of choices made to deliver a remarkable entertainment experience. Plus, the future of AR/VR for Apple and Meta.

There's a limit to how much technology can improve.

Legacy monolithic structures, with their rigid scalability, have often caused businesses like Blockbuster to be left behind. Now, businesses can provision resources on-demand, and reduce overheads associated with data center management.

“There is no real picture, full stop.”

Thinking about the second-order impact of the Vision Pro and other news.

What the **** does that mean?

A diagram I created years ago. I though it’s worth sharing.

Sustainability efforts and high-density AI-based applications are sparking new and revamped approaches to data center cooling.

Enterprises typically have three options: Set up a secondary data center, go with an external DR service provider, or leverage the public cloud for recovery.

Microsoft retrieved the Northern Isles underwater datacenter from the seafloor off Scotland's Orkney Islands. Project Natick is proving the concept of underwater datacenters is feasible as well as logistically, environmentally and economically practical.

David Sparks, in the Mac Power Users episode Don’t Hear What We Aren’t Saying : “The holy trinity of productivity: you need a good calenda...

Load balancing gRPC requests on Kubernetes can be challenging. In this blog we tried to deep dive into the inner-workings of each part…

In 2024 developers' professional lives will not be as impacted by new tools and frameworks as by - mental health.

Digital twin technology creates a virtual copy of a physical object, person, or process to simulate real-world behavior and performance.

A language for humans and computers

In today's computing ecosystem, I would very much be considered a cloud-native engineer. My first job in the industry saw me deploying cloud hosted platforms on Rackspace and AWS infrastructure, and I have been specializing in AWS ever since. To me, highly available cloud deployments are the basics, the norm,

Slides and notes for the Being Glue talk.

The one about generative AI

How often have you heard "Code to an interface"? I'm sure, at least a few times, and I know it can be hard to understand at first. I've been there, so let's see what it means.

The video site isn’t just a platform. It’s infrastructure.

Less a place of words written by people, more one of words generated by bots.