Enterprise Digital Transformation

GitLab Adds AI Chat Interface to Increase DevOps Productivity

Mike Vizard | April 19, 2024 | automation, build cycle, Code Generation, GenAI, gitlab, GitLab Duo Pro AI

GitLab Duo Chat is a natural language interface which helps generate code, create tests and access code summarizations ...

CDF Survey Surfaces DevOps Progress and Challenges

Mike Vizard | April 16, 2024 | CI/CD, Continuous Delivery Foundation, issue tracking, source control management

Most developers are using some form of DevOps practices, reports the CDF survey. Adopting STANDARD DevOps practices? Not so much ...

Best of 2023: ‘Scrum == Cancer’ ¦ Plus: Linux 6.5 Ships

Richi Jennings | December 29, 2023 | agile, linux, Linux 6.5, Santiago Valdarrama, scrum, The Long View

In this week’s #TheLongView: Scrum sucks, sources say; and here comes the Linux 6.5 kernel ...

A dolphin dances above the surface of the sea, with the caption, “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter

Richi Jennings | October 11, 2023 | ARM, ARM processors, Exascale, microsoft, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows, NVIDIA, Python, scripting, supercomputer, The Long View, VBScript, visual studio, Visual Studio Code, VS Code, windows

In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer ...

Raspberry Pi 5: Faster, Better, Stronger — Spendier

Richi Jennings | September 29, 2023 | ARM, ARM processors, Eben Upton, IoT, Raspberry Pi, The Long View

In an extra #TheLongView: Everyone’s favorite single-board ARM computer, the Raspberry Pi, has a new generation coming soon ...

A long view of London and the snaking River Thames, with Tower Bridge in the foreground

FCC: Net Neutrality is a ‘Thing’ Again ¦ Meta Shutters Big UK Site

Richi Jennings | September 27, 2023 | facebook, FCC, Hybrid Work environment, Jessica Rosenworcel, Meta, Meta Platforms, net neutrality, Remote work, The Long View, WFH, work from home, working from home

In this week’s #TheLongView: Network neutrality is back on the FCC’s agenda, and unused London office gets Zucked ...

Woman with her back to you sniffs her left armpit, with a thick forest in the background

Oracle Bill is 5x Client’s Budget ¦ Toyota Out of Space

Richi Jennings | September 7, 2023 | Birmingham City Council, database, database storage, England, ERP, failover, Government, Oracle, Oracle Fusion, redundancy, SAP, storage, The Long View, Toyota, UK

In this week’s The Long View: Birmingham looks like the Detroit of the UK—is it Oracle’s fault? Plus: Was Toyota’s factory failure caused by running out of disk space? ...

IBM LLM AI: COBOL to Java ASAP ¦ ARM IPO is GO!

In this week’s #TheLongView: Translating legacy COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and Arm will go public (again) next month ...

80% of Bosses ‘Regret’ Stopping WFH ¦ PSA: Disable STS!

Richi Jennings | August 17, 2023 | Hybrid Work environment, managing remote workers, microsoft, Remote work, Remote Worker, remote workers, remote workforce, remote working, Secure Time Seeding, STS, The Long View, WFH, Windows Server, work from home, working at home, working from home

In this week’s #TheLongView: Rethinking return-to-office mandates and a ridiculous, ancient Windows bug ...

Google’s Shiny New AI Dev Environment — the ‘Experimental’ Project IDX

Richi Jennings | August 10, 2023 | agile environments, ai, AI assistant, AI ChatBots, AI integrations, artificial intelligence, Cloud development environment, copilot, development environment, full stack, GitHub Copilot, google, PaLM, Project IDX, The Long View

In this week’s #TheLongView: Google’s full-stack, browser based development environment in the cloud. Project IDX is not just a Copilot clone, but aims to help you “get an app from zero to ...

2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink

Richi Jennings | August 3, 2023 | Chrome, Chrome OS, cloud desktop, GNOME, google, Lacros, linux, The Long View, user acceptance testing, user experience, user interface, window management

In this week’s #TheLongView: Can the Linux desktop installed base break the mythical 10% barrier? Google has been refactoring ChromeOS, and GNOME is working on new window manager ideas ...