Tag: Amazon
Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
In this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability ...
Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick
In this week’s #TheLongView: A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with Google Maps, and a big-tech consortium tries to fool AI regulators ...
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles and How to use Them
Amazon Web Services relies on the AWS IAM service to govern who is authenticated and authorized to use AWS resources. It plays a hugely significant role in AWS security–and so do its ...
Open Source Communities Need More Than Funding From Big Tech
In recent years, major players like Microsoft, Amazon and Google have increased their involvement in open source projects, providing both financial and technical support. More consistent contributions from big tech—whether in the ...
Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
In this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble ...
Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier
In this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas ...
8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs
In this week’s #TheLongView: New ideas bring low-power ML inference, and more big-tech jobs are going ...
AWS Saves Ukraine’s Data | WPF ‘is not Dead’ (yet) | Devs Quit for Cash
In this week’s The Long View: Amazon S3 is keeping Ukraine’s data safe, we ask if Windows Presentation Foundation is dead, and developers tell us why they switch jobs ...
Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility
In this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option ...
AWS re:Invent — Top 4 Things We Learned This Week
In this week’s The Long View: SnapStart Turbocharges Lambda, Graviton3E ARM HPC SoC, AWS continues hiring, and AWS’s Origin Story ...
3 New WFH and Hybrid Work Trends That YOU Need to Grok
In this week’s The Long View, a remote/hybrid work special: Bribes to relocate you, Fridays are forgotten, and big tech firms stop building offices ...
Apple Allows 50% Fee Rise | @ElonMusk Fans: 70% Fake | Microsoft Salaries up by 100%?
In this week’s The Long View: Apple lets devs increase subscriptions “without consent,” Twitter has more than 19% spam accounts, and we dig into the claim that Microsoft is about to double ...