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!…
Enjoyed reading a story from Google Site Reliability Engineering about the way they trace problems. At Google scale, million-to-one chances happen all the time All incidents should be novel.…
Data centers are the backbone of the digital world, they are responsible for 1% of world’s electricity use. Good news though – all hyperscalers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) have worked hard to make them as efficient as possible. As recent a research paper found out, between 2010 and 2019 the computational…
