My takeaways from Voice Summit 2021 Is Voice the interface of the future, in the real world and the Metaverse? If you attended Voice Summit 2021 earlier this month you would certainly believe so. Synthetic Voice simulation, Voice cloning, and Voice-based Natural Language Processing and Analysis have progressed to a level of maturity where we…
Research study: The State of Software Delivery Management
Software Delivery Management and Value Stream Management – these two terms have been getting a lot of traction and attention of late as organizations enhance their focus on understanding where they are (or are not) getting the ‘value’ from the software they are delivering. Where do they need to invest in order to ensure that they…
Distributed System Complexity: Part 1 – Engineering Abstraction
Cognitive overload is a brute fact of modern life. It is not going to disappear. In almost every facet of our work life, and in more and more of our domestic life, the jobs we need to do and the activity spaces we have in which to perform those jobs are ecologies saturated with overload….
Multi-Cloud Snake Oil
tl;dr Most multi-cloud management solutions are pure snake oil. Buyer beware. And you most likely don’t even need Multi-cloud. Let’s take the scenario of an online Flower vendor. They sell bouquets and arrangements of Flowers via e-commerce and deliver them across the country. They have two big events year which account for around 92% of…
You don’t need SRE. What you need is SRE.
Ever since Google published the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) book in 2016, the SRE movement has changed how organizations look at reliability, and incident response and management. Not unlike DevOps, working on adopting SRE is resulting in an organizational cultural shift. A shift which is changing how organizations are organized, on how information flows within an organization that would allow for…
