Google makes VM Immortal – but how useful?
Google let you migrate machines between data-centres while they still run While it’s a nice feature, and something that VMWare has been able to do for a while – But I can’t help feeling it’s an...
View ArticleGood Luck Microsoft
Microsoft have appointed Satya Nadella as their new CEO. He’s an internal hire, but from the services bit which includes Azure. Although everybody is playing catch up to Amazon Web Services, Azure has...
View ArticleArticles like this are why people think the cloud is oversold
The cloud can solve many problems, and is rightly seen as one of the easiest ways to launch web services. But it isn’t magical, and articles like this are why people think the cloud is being oversold:...
View ArticleTwo Apps Better Than One?
When Sky launched Sky Store, which lets you rent films, it felt unnecessary alongside their existing subscription services: Sky Go (for Sky TV subscribers) and Now TV (for everyone else). It seemed...
View ArticleCloud, the cost and value of everything
Last night I gave a lightning talk at the newly tweaked #metabeertalks, these guys are great friends of mine, and their topic was “is realtime Fashion or Fad?”. Modern hosting approaches, aka “the...
View ArticleSecurity is hard, but the easy bits aren’t
Another week, another story about security. Actually multiple stories about security. And what’s upsetting with these ones are the fact that the fixes for them are already available. I don’t cut-code...
View ArticleFalsehoods Smart-Device people believe about Home Networks
We all remember the excellent Falsehoods people believe about names don’t we? Having lived with a few smart devices sharing my network for a while, I thought we need a similar one about smart devices...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Silence
Marco Arment, formerly of Tumblr, Instapaper, and The Magazine, has released his podcast app Overcast. It’s generally very nice, and already seems to annoy me less than Apple’s own app. As well as the...
View ArticlePerfect is indeed the enemy of good
I re-connected with someone on linked-in the other week. (Yes, I actually use it like that). And he sent a lovely, long detailed reply. One that I was delighted to read. One that I want to reply to....
View ArticleBlogging about your Cloud Tech is only interesting when it’s Novel
So a while back I bitched about Why The Cloud Is Oversold, talking more generally about the supposed other-wordly experience that having Sensibly Flexible Virtualised IT is… well I’ve a new pet-hate:...
View ArticleRe-use more than code?
I’ve been working on a project recently, and when it started, we were “just going to use the components from <another project>”. You’ve written many lines before, so why wouldn’t you re-use them?...
View ArticleRecipe for success
There’s plenty left to do, but as I approach the end of my current main assignment as a Technical Architect, I’m starting to think what my future engagements should have. This is my starter for ten...
View ArticleData collection at the job fair
Last weekend I went to a tech recruitment event, and I was little shocked at how badly some employers did data-collection. When enquiring about potential employers, people have a vague expectation of...
View ArticleAWS Launches MediaConnect and almost gives us multicast
A few weeks back I was at the brilliant DPP Leaders Summit, it was under the Chatham House Rule.1 There were some great speakers, and I particularly loved the exec who, to paraphrase, “If it doesn’t...
View ArticleMy workload is too special for Serverless
A few years back it was “My workload would cost more in the cloud”, which while I’m sure is true for some workloads, it was a small and falling amount. It fell even more when you actually costed in...
View ArticleThe One Boring Reason Why People Use the AWS Service
One of my clients recently started using a relatively new AWS CI/CD Service, and I just stumbled on a defensive/marketing type post from one of the traditional providers. And it made me realise how...
View ArticleOn THAT Excel Issue
There have been many comments posted in the last week about “excelgate” or whatever we want to call a life-threating data exchange problem. This post is not about absolving the government of blame for...
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Prescriptive Software Practices: Code Re-use Edition
Today I saw this tweet, that I initially violently agreed with, before realising the answer is really more “it depends”. Seriously, code duplication should be adored and taught as the number one...
View ArticleWe can nudge better than with streaks…
So yesterday I had my phone swiped by someone who was on a bicycle, this was thankfully one of the few times I’ve experience crime in my life, and was non-violent, and the phone has been remote wiped....
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Can we stop with the (inappropriate) gatekeeping?
In particular this example Chloe (a Senior Developer Advocate for Microsoft who does some cool stuff with code, while putting up with being a woman in tech on twitter) posted this: Hire folks with non...
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