What open source gets wrong with Mastodon
The open source alternative to Twitter is forgetting the customer experience in its rush to make a political statement about decentralisation.
Stories by Matt Asay
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Microsoft-ing your way through a recession
To survive and even thrive through this downturn, Microsoft offers some lessons. Yes, I’m talking about “embrace and extend,” among other things.
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Some rain in the clouds for top 3 vendors
The cloud is starting to leak some rain. But with recession at the gates and cloud growth slowing, the big three cloud vendors still find ways to succeed.
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Why cloud has a people problem
Cloud skills are complicated and in high demand. Smart enterprises need a practical approach to the staffing shortage, and smart employees need multi-cloud skills.
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Google Cloud kicks up 'openness’ a notch
Creating an open cloud ecosystem has moved Google Cloud into a position of power. But the vendor's ambitious goals may be difficult to deliver.
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Why Mozilla is looking for a scapegoat
Mozilla recently released a 60-page report calling on regulators to take action to give consumers a “meaningful opportunity to try alternative browsers.”
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Which cloud is for you?
Despite all their commonalities, the big three cloud providers have some important personality differences that should factor into your choices.
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When openness doesn’t matter
We can argue about the choices tech companies should or shouldn’t make, but at the end of the day, we keep buying what they’re selling.
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If the Heroku platform is so special, why is it dying?
Once the darling of application deployment, Heroku has been starved of investment and doesn't offer as many alternative deployment options.
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The cloud is coming for customer mainframes
Moving off dead-end mainframes to the more nimble cloud is a slow process but one worth pursuing for businesses, one workload at a time.
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How observability tools help with legacy software
Legacy software isn't just dusty code on mainframes. It's the stuff you wrote a few months or years ago. Observability tools help find and fix problems.
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Security is hard and won’t get much easier
Security is one of the few things that will survive the budget axe but it’s increasingly clear that we can’t simply spend our way to a secure future.
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Is open source leadership helping Google?
Google’s huge commitment to open source projects shows in GitHub contributor counts, while AWS’s strategy has been making open source easy for customers to use. Who’s winning?
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The cloud ate my database
Legacy database vendors are being swallowed by the developer-friendly combo of cloud and open source offered by new players.
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The reality of cloud spending
The big cloud providers may be seeing their growth slow, and enterprise budgets may be squeezed, but CIOs are still committed to spending on cloud computing.
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