Read to Forget: The Art of Selective Information Consumption
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…
Robo taxis are coming
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…
Transform crisis into energy
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…
Managed Kubernetes pricing benchmark
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…
Why Not WireGuard
With increasing share of remote work, question of the right VPN protocol comes up more frequently. The “new” kind on the block is Wireguard. Source: https://www.ckn.io/blog/2017/11/14/wireguard-vpn-typical-setup/ Benchmark values speak a…
Life on the moon
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.…
Is everything a simulation?
Searching for a good argument that we might *not* be living in a Simulation? Neil deGrasse Tyson have finally found one. Love it!
Reliability at scale
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.
Cloud +600%, energy +6%
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…
Forget gamification
Rahul Vohra (founder of Superhuman, my favourite email app) spoke about how he designed an enterprise application based on 7 primary game design principles to make it fun, rewarding and…