Amazon’s quiet open source revolution

Amazon’s quiet open source revolution

Something has changed at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with regard to its formerly fraught relationship with open source. Though it was always incorrect to lambast AWS for “strip-mining” open source, as Daisuke Wakabayashi did in The New York Times, there was just enough...
Amazon’s quiet open source revolution

7 steps to take before developing digital twins

You may have formed an impression of digital twins based on The Matrix movies or The Sims video game series. But advances in cloud infrastructure, edge computing, IoT, distributed data management platforms, and machine learning capabilities have transformed digital...
Amazon’s quiet open source revolution

Linux Foundation launches TLA+ language foundation

TLA+ (Temporal Logic of Actions), a programming language for modeling programs and systems, particularly concurrent and distributed ones, is moving from Microsoft’s jurisdiction to the Linux Foundation and getting its own, separate foundation to promote it.The TLA+...
Amazon’s quiet open source revolution

Repatriating cloud apps and data? Think it through

My January post on cloud repatriation seems to have struck some nerves. Indeed, I found the reactions a bit polarized when they should not have been. Cloud repatriation is about making unemotional decisions as to where to locate applications and data—a cost-benefit...