Leadership Suite
Force Me Back to the Office? Apple ‘Hasn’t Learned Anything’
Richi Jennings | | 4-Day Work Week, Apple, freestyle friday, Great Resignation, Hybrid Work environment, Remote work, The Long View, The tempter or the tempted—who sins most?, WFHIn this week’s The Long View: New ways of working. Whether it’s remote work, enforced hybrid working or a four-day working week, let’s triage the trends and futz with the future ...
Leverage Empirical Data to Avoid DevOps Burnout
Burnout is possible in any industry. But it seems to be especially rampant in tech, a space bursting at the seams with inflated expectations and ever-accelerating trends. Nearly 60% of tech workers ...
Recession! DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7
Richi Jennings | | 802.11be, Alphabet, Apple, ARM, data centers, facebook, google, Green data center, hiring, Intel, Meta Platforms, microsoft, Netflix, Oracle, recession, RISC-V, Salesforce, Tesla, The Long View, There’s no point in questioning authority if you aren’t going to listen to the answers, twitter, Wi-Fi 7In this week’s The Long View: Engineer jobs are being cut, cloud infrastructure is using too much energy, and Intel’s 802.11be silicon is alive ...
VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI/ML, autonomous vehicles, careers, CI/CD, continuous deployment, driverless cars, fiber, google, Herbert Diess, LaMDA, ml, Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, The Long View, VolkswagenIn this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient ...
3 New WFH and Hybrid Work Trends That YOU Need to Grok
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, facebook, freestyle friday, Hybrid Work environment, Many a true word hath been spoken in jest, Meta, relocation, Remote work, The Long View, Tulsa, WFHIn 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 ...
Survey Warns of Looming Software Testing Crisis
A survey of CEOs and IT professionals involved in application testing finds a significant gap in terms of how acceptable it is to release software that has not been properly tested. The ...
Eradicating Developer Burnout With a Flexible Workforce
Burnout can affect people no matter what their job role, but software developers are particularly vulnerable. Too often, businesses chase profits by chronically relying on heavy workloads delivered by employees in short ...
DevOps Is Not a Role — It’s a Culture
The full-stack developer is becoming increasingly rare these days. Due to the accelerating complexity of modern software development, programmers often specialize in specific languages, frameworks or levels of the software stack, such ...
Dev Job Phisher Steals $540M | Patch OpenSSL NOW | Systemd Dev Joins Microsoft
Richi Jennings | | Be great in act as you have been in thought, Lennart Poettering, LinkedIn, microsoft, open source, OpenSSL, phishing, recruitment, systemd, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Spear-phishing causes $540 million loss, a high severity bug in OpenSSL might be “worse than Heartbleed,” and Lennart Poettering is now working for Microsoft ...
Rust in Linux 5.20 | Deepfake Hiring Fraud | IBM WFH ‘New Normal’
Richi Jennings | | ageism, careers, cloud and mainframe, Deepfake, Great Resignation, ibm, If we are true to ourselves we can not be false to anyone, linux, remote working, Rust, The Long View, working from homeIn this week’s The Long View: Linus says next release will support Rust, FBI warns scammers are getting hired in deepfake interviews, and 80% of IBM staff stay at home ...
Four Steps to Avoiding a Cloud Cost Incident
Asim Razzaq | | cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud cost, cloud cost management, cloud spend, cloud waste, Cost Anomaly, Cost Anomaly Detection, devops, FinOps, taggingThe recent Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report found that organizations waste 32% of their cloud spend, up from 3o% last year. This can be due to cloud cost incidents triggered ...
TechStrong Con: Downturn Brings Additional Sense of DevOps Urgency
Regardless of whether the overall economy is experiencing a correction or is on the cusp of a recession, organizations are going to prioritize some projects over others as resources become more constrained ...
