Technology Commentary

The tools that enable context driven decisions.

Building on our yearly reports on how our customers are using containers, we are pleased to share our latest research into the use of containers and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and Amazon ECS.

Adopting a self-service approach for access to cloud resources and Kubernetes clusters can significantly accelerate the cloud adoption journey.

Book notes on "Code that fits in your head" by Mark Seemann

It is not my intention with NULL BITMAP to dwell forever on somewhat obscure, unintuitive SQL-isms, but...with that said, I know a lot of you out there are...

Adopting existing tools that work, applying them to the business problems at hand, and quickly iterating in the business domain rather than endlessly swirling in the vortex of technobabble is woefully underrated. I’ve worked at two kinds of companies before: One that only cares about measurable business outcomes, accruing technical debt and blaming engineers when no one wants to work with their codebase, ultimately hurting the product. Another that has staff engineers spending all day on linter configurations and writing seldom-read RFCs while juniors want to ditch Celery for Kafka because the latter is hip.

A glitchy, low-fi medium that turned curation into creation

Symmetric technology democratizes speech. The web, despite all the good it's done is fundamentally assymetric. We need a model that is permissionless and one-to-one.

This from Twitter in 2020. A story about human connection. I've played guitar and sang for 50 years. I rarely play for anyone else. I'm haunted by the feeling that I need to be better before exposing myself to others. (Deep roots to this--story for another day.)

Implementing observability with OpenTelemetry isn't only about the technology. Learn best practices for a successful rollout.

Developments in Networks, Biology, Robotics, and More

Have you ever heard of "framework fatigue"? This term is meant to describe the creep of hundreds of third-party frameworks into development projects. Ten years ago, there wasn't a whole lot of choice out there for Java, my current language of choice, so the average number of third-party libraries included

This article will show you how to make the most of AWS capabilities in the easiest way possible without having to install any software.

Indulge in the ultimate feast of insights with our Foodie's Guide to Data Warehouse vs Data Lake.

The costs of measuring the wrong thing or the right things in the wrong way vastly outweigh the costs of collecting and processing the data.

(Note, there's some important administrative stuff after the newsletter.) I think a lot about the nature of expertise. While I write about all sorts of...

Posted on Monday 6 Nov 2023. 1,324 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.

Hi All! Welcome to Own Your Web! 🎉 First of all, I’d like to thank you again for signing up! 🤗 When I shared the link to the newsletter last weekend, I did...

Microsoft's Radius is an innovative new open source application platform for cloud native development, but does it harbor elements to lock users in?

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Wield the Gateway API as your trusted shield in the battle to secure your Kubernetes kingdom.

From operational issues to the lack of focus on streamlining DevOps, several factors add up to the already existing pile of DevOps backlog.

Web development continues to be the top use case for Wasm, cited by 71% of respondents in the third annual "State of WebAssembly" report.

This is the story of the best piece of professional advice I ever got, and how it affected my career. I think it’s good advice, and I’ve n...