Technology Commentary

After 30 years, the open source community must reach a consensus and take action to ensure the security and sustainability of this ecosystem.

Intel was committed to remaining a major chip manufacturer, but needs to push back against the gaining strength of rivals such as AMD, Arm and Nvidia as well as the growing number of smaller companies making chips optimized for such specific workloads as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.

The supply chain is holding back the server business, and not just in the way you are thinking about it. Yes, there is a limited supply of manufacturing

…. A partnership between Robin.io, Blue Arcus and KloudSpot will combine the technologies needed to enable end-to-end 4G and 5G services and provide a platform to accelerate deployment of 5G and edge applications. The consortium will bring together capabilities such as location-aware, AI-led video analytics, surveillance, data analysis, hyper automation, network slicing, cloud-native application lifecycle […]

Yes, and I’ll tell you why.

I don’t even know where to start. First I was skeptical. Then I was hopeful. I was warned. I let my MacBook Pro update anyway. And now I…

I wrote this for P&G’s Signal360 publication, but I thought I’d toss it up here as well. I know I’ve been very, very absent from writing for – well, for the entire pande…

Multi-cloud-native is the path every enterprise needs to follow if they want to transform themselves to compete.

“Metaverse’ is the buzzword of the moment, yet it doesn’t really exist as more than a label on a whiteboard, and many of the ideas it tries to combine might not happen, or not like that. This might be the new ‘information highway.’ But however it works, some kind of break-out of new devices, new exp

Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context. “You just need to charge more!” says the company […]

Many developers ask the wrong questions when evaluating technology options

Do APIs ever expand? Or do they only ever contract, until they might as well no longer exist? We see this again and again, nearly continuously: Twitter's API getting shittier and less useful every day; Twitter executing all third-party apps; Google killing RSS and XMPP; Facebook crippling cross-posting to or from anywhere else; and now Youtube has started turning off video embedding ...

Recently I took a fresh at look at the Go programming language after having last taken a look at it before version 1.0 was released back in 2009. What I've found in just a few days is shocking in a really really good way.

Why Web 3 matters 🧵

The SmartNIC revolution is going to be a slow-burn one, with Gartner predicting there will only be $1.6 billion of sales in 2026, up from $50 million in 2020. Wells Fargo analyst Aaron Rakers passed on a Gartner report summary to subscribers, saying: “Gartner forecasts that shipments of SmartNICs (also known as DPUs and IPUs) […]

This Week in Programming brings together the latest development news in cloud native computing.

The game changing container company is a shell of its former self. What happened to one of the hottest enterprise technology businesses of the cloud era?

This spectrum of emojis is a map of the Web’s main occupants (the middle three) and outliers (the two on the flanks). It provides a way of examining who is involved, where regulation fits, an…

R0ml Lefkowitz’s The Image of Postgres evokes the Smalltalk experience: reach deeply into a running system, make small changes, see immediate results. There isn’t yet a fullblown IDE fo…

Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess.

I frequently miss messages from folks who try to use Google’s tools. Sometimes the messaging feature hidden in the sidebar of some of my Google apps comes to life and I suddenly get last year…

It's Labor Day in the US. We're busy partaking in traditional celebrations, which depending on who you ask, is either enjoying one of the last nice long weekends before winter, or throwing bricks at Pinkertons. So we dig back into the archives, for a classic story about databases. Original --Remy “Database portability” is one of the key things that modern data access frameworks try and ensure for your application. If you’re using an RDBMS, the same data access layer can hopefully work across any RDBMS. Of course, since every RDBMS has its own slightly different idiom of SQL, and since you might depend on stored procedures, triggers, or views, you’re often tied to a specific database vendor, and sometimes a version. And really, for your enterprise applications, how often do you really change out your underlying database layer?

Why Memorex, Silicon Valley’s first true startup, evolved into something of a ghost kitchen of computing.

Startup co-founded by former Applied Micro X-Gene execs emerges from stealth