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“You cannot neglect your infrastructure. Just like the world around you changes, so must it to keep up with your growing business. You ignore this at your peril.” I’m going to take a break from the Saxy Inc. series to provide my $0.02USD on the debacle of the previous week: the meltdown of Southwest Airlines. Especially since I was one …
For a little bit of background, I’ve been attending KubeCon off and on for a while. I attended last year in LA. It was quite the let-down for several reasons, but most important was the surging Delta variant that prompted a new batch of fears resulting in sponsors and attendees cancelling out. This resulted in a very small conference given …
I was talking with my client the other day as they were looking to replace their web gateway from the early 2000s with an enterprise version of an open-source alternative. This client had a long-standing relationship with BigCo, but wasn’t really happy with them. My client’s previous attempt to escape for a smaller vendor with a much better offering and …
Coming of age as a programmer around the .com boom of the late 90s and early 2000s, there was one blogger that had a big influence on the developer me, and that was Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software. One of his posts went viral and became the cornerstone of what true software development was supposed to be like, called …
I’m going to share part of a conversation I had while attending KubeCon last fall. We sapped stories on our experiences with esoteric hardware, but there were two that came to mind. The first looked at a regional bank that happened to have a VAX based system running their daily transactions. There was an issue that required rebooting the system …
Digital Transformation is a hot topic. Prior to the world changing due to the pandemic, it was integrating AI and machine learning assist with automating the risk calculations during policy underwriting or fraud detection when claims are filed. During the pandemic, the focus changed to the user experience for the agents, underwriters, adjusters, and even the customers facilitating remote work …
I stumbled upon an article in the IEEE Spectrum this month that highlights the massive elephant that exists in the room of most organizations that have been around for a while. In fact, Spectrum dedicated their September 2020 print issue to this concern. And concern it is. From a business perspective, they were sold a complete turnkey system that they …
