Microsoft in 2024: The year custom silicon transforms Azure

Why exit the cloud? 37signals explains

If you haven’t yet, I urge you to read “The Big Cloud Exit FAQ” by David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals. What struck me was his candor about why the company moved off the cloud and his responses to the criticism and questions about this decision.This hit home,...
Microsoft in 2024: The year custom silicon transforms Azure

Open source needs to catch up in 2024

Open source pioneer Bruce Perens gets one thing right and most things wrong in a recent interview on the future of open source. He’s absolutely correct that “our [open source] licenses aren’t working anymore,” even if he’s wrong as to why. (He says “businesses have...
Microsoft in 2024: The year custom silicon transforms Azure

You should be worried about cloud squatting

Most security issues in the cloud can be traced back to someone doing something stupid. Sorry to be that blunt, but I don’t see ingenious hackers out there. I do see misconfigured cloud resources, such as storage and databases, that lead to vulnerabilities that could...