Was data mesh just a fad?

When tech giants like Netflix and Intuit adopted the data mesh architecture, it looked like the next big thing. A few short years later, disillusionment has set in, with companies turning their backs on data mesh and industry experts writing it off as a fad or...

Boring governance is the path to real AI adoption

Three big cloud vendors announced earnings recently, with each accelerating their growth thanks to AI. Nvidia, for its part, became the first company to top $5 trillion in market cap, also thanks to AI. While there’s almost certainly some “irrational exuberance” baked...

Will JavaFX return to Java?

Just as a proposal to return JavaFX to the Java Development Kit has drawn interest in the OpenJDK community, Oracle too says it wants to make the Java-based rich client application more approachable within the JDK. JavaFX was removed from the JDK with Java 11 more...

Beyond an outage: Actions and resources

It’s become cliché to say that the cloud is the backbone of digital transformation, but cloud outages like the recent AWS incident make enterprise dependence on the cloud painfully clear. Last week’s AWS outage impacted thousands of businesses worldwide, from SaaS...