Leadership Suite
Data Centers IN SPAAACE | Discord GDPR Fine | AWS Fires Dead Wood
Richi Jennings | | Amazon Web Services, AWS, career, careers, CNIL, DIscord, Europe, GDPR, privacy, The Long View, To write about life first you must live itIn this week’s The Long View: The EU wants to put servers in orbit, a GDPR penalty for Discord, and Amazon has the hatchet out ...
Rust Momentum Intensifies | Elon Says No WFH
Richi Jennings | | Elon Musk, Hybrid Work environment, Remote work, Rust, Rust programming, The Long View, The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do—and then do it, twitter, vulnerabilities, WFHIn this week’s The Long View: People won’t shut up about Rustlang, and Musk mandates Twitter teams return to the office ...
OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2022-3602, CVE-2022-3786, Elon Musk, If life were predictable it would cease to be life—and be without flavor, layoffs, OpenSSL, RCE, redundancy, security vulnerabilities, The Long View, twitterIn this week’s The Long View: The OpenSSL project has egg on its face, and half of Twitter’s staff are for the chop tomorrow ...
Solving the Culture Conundrum in Software Engineering
The one crucial ingredient underpinning our transition to a digital-first economy, more than any other, is software. That’s why software engineering has become one of the world’s most in-demand professions. In the ...
For Engineers, Meetings Waste Time and Money
Meetings can be the lifeblood of any organization, allowing coworkers to check in with one another, exchange ideas and solve problems. But, for engineers moving up the career ladder, the mounting number ...
Break Open the Black Box of Software Development
Cameron Van Orman | | Business, development, flow, leadership, software, technology, value stream managementIf you asked an airline executive what their biggest expense was just a few decades ago, they would’ve easily answered, “Jet fuel.” These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find an executive in ...
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
Richi Jennings | | disaster recovery, downtime, IaaS, Kakao, Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans, on-premises, PaaS, Pangyo, SaaS, SK C&C, South Korea, The Long View, uptimeIn this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing ...
Kill the Password: Google on Board | 4-Day Week Proves Worthy
Richi Jennings | | 4-Day Work Week, FIDO, google, I am not bound to please thee with my answer, Passkeys, The Long View, WebAuthnIn this week’s The Long View: Passkeys is getting another big-tech supporter, and the four-day workweek train picks up speed ...
Despite Democratization, IT Department More Central Than Ever
George V. Hulme | | cloud platforms, democratization of IT, low-code applications, Low-Code/No-Code, ManageEngineThere’s been talk of the decentralization of IT within organizations for years, and events of recent years have certainly accelerated this trend. Yet, IT has never been more important to the success ...
What Developers Need for Software Security Success
Given today’s evolving threat landscape, organizations and businesses in every sector now have a critical need to produce secure software. Criminal gangs, professional attackers and hostile nation-states are employing advanced tactics designed ...
Wipro Fires 2-Job Staff | Python Bug from 2007 | Lite Layoffs
Richi Jennings | | Alphabet, careers, CVE-2007-4559, facebook, google, I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue, layoffs, Meta Platforms, Python, Software Supply Chain Security, tarfile, The Long View, WiproIn this week’s The Long View: Wipro fires 300 for moonlighting at competitors, Python has a nasty 15-year-old bug, and companies are finding new ways to lay people off without calling it ...
Why You Need to Empower Your Developers
In recent years, the demand for software developers worldwide has increased. However, in 2020, when the pandemic hit, many CIOs pulled back considerably on their IT spending. This trend has quickly reversed ...
