Stephen O’Donnell on Massively Scaled Datacenters and Edge Service Layers for Innovation

What are the human and management factors that go into building great platform engineering? And what are the efforts of control having too much control or too much flexibility, not enough collaboratio...

1 Apr 202356min

We check in on data gravity to see how generative AI and conversations about metadata and thinking on data lakes impacts data gravity thinking in general. Data gravity is a concept that has been pro...

24 Mars 202357min

Is hardware going to be innovative and change? Brian Cantrell brings up oxide computing and some of their design motivation. Today we discuss our skepticism about some of his points, as well as the ...

18 Mars 202356min

How does AI chat and generative AI have the potential to disrupt everything we know about social media? Today we talk Twitter versus mastodon. We spend most of our time talking about the power, infl...

11 Mars 202357min

What is generative AI and what are people now just generically calling ChatGPT? We put these things in a technical frame, meaning can we use generative AI to improve our programming, testing or auto...

3 Mars 202352min

Is platform engineering effective at hiding complexity from developers? Today we tear apart what platform engineering is doing, how it came about and what it's trying to be. We discuss what companie...

3 Mars 202352min

How can the intersection of generative AI machine learning and artificial intelligence be applied to environments using digital twins? Today we discuss digital twins and artificial intelligence. How...

25 Feb 20231h 3min

Platform engineering is quite buzzy and has a lot of hype at the moment. Today we dug behind the hype to acknowledge how the term is being used and misused. We cover why this is a topic of interest,...

18 Feb 202355min