Last week, during a conversation with a CTO friend in Berlin, he casually mentioned his AI assistant had just negotiated a 30% discount on their cloud infrastructure bill. Not him, his AI agent. It analyzed usage patterns, benchmarked pricing across providers, drafted the negotiation email, handled three rounds of back-and-forth,…
We’ve all seen it. Maybe it was a university colleague whose textbook looked more yellow than white, nearly every paragraph aggressively highlighted. Or perhaps it was the person in the quarterly briefing, furiously typing notes, attempting to transcribe an 80-slide deck word for word. For a long time, I…
During a family trip in San Francisco, I experienced a paradigm shift not in the cloud, but on the asphalt. It was a visceral lesson that the future often arrives not with a grand announcement, but with a quiet, electric hum as it pulls up to the curb. The day…
Enjoyed listening to a recent podcast with Antje Heimsoeth (advisor to many DAX executives) talking about the current events. Had, could, would – this does not help us in the crisis. We can only live forward, not backward. Straighten up and move on.” What helps now is to build a realistic…
TL;DR: Google Cloud has the most attractive pricing for Managed Kubernetes (based on March 2020 price lists). Most organisations that consider modernising their infrastructure and app stack, are moving to a Kubernetes setup. There are various very competitive offers for a managed cloud service. So – which one offers best…
With increasing share of remote work, question of the right VPN protocol comes up more frequently. The “new” kind on the block is Wireguard. Benchmark values speak a clear language. Compared to OpenVPN, there is a factor 4 improvement in terms of bandwidth. Now we talk! Yes… but, says Michael…
Intriguing to see how Soviets have imagined life in outer space. Topics popular in the 1960s and 1980s are now relevant again—ecology, alternative energy, reasonable consumption, overpopulation, and waste recycling. Back then it was regarded as futurology, but for us it’s already the reality. Source: https://www.atlasobscura.…
Searching for a good argument that we might *not* be living in a Simulation? Neil deGrasse Tyson have finally found one. Love it!…