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Apple doing it right, IMO

Trust with customers is important (Obvs). It’s been interesting watching some backlash from the technically minded early adopters on recent things. Word gets out. It’s that old adage/myth from the 70s that a bad experience will be told to at least 9-10 others (now multiplied by how

Jun 11, 2024 3 min read

Charged for empty buckets

One for Cloudy people. I didn’t know that a failed and unauthorised (PUT) request to your private AWS S3 bucket, from anyone or anywhere, would be charged to you by AWS. How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explodeImagine you create an empty, private AWS S3

Apr 30, 2024 1 min read

How BlueSky was built

Quite an interesting and comprehensive overview of how ‘Bluesky’ was built. Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS,

Apr 24, 2024 1 min read

Cloud computing and spend

An interesting McKinsey read on the state of cloud computing in Europe. Quite surprised that it’s come out in the majority as IT led rather than business driven. The state of cloud computing in Europe: Increasing adoption, low returns, huge potentialA five-pronged strategy to overcome challenges to capturing cloud

Apr 8, 2024 1 min read

O365 infringes data protection rules

Back in 2021 the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) opened two investigations. One into the use of Cloud Services (Amazon and Microsoft), and the other into the use of MS Office 365 by the European Commission. Basically it’s to ensure that EU institutions are complying in relation to data

Mar 11, 2024 1 min read

Egress Fees

Fascinating. AWS are removing* data egress fees. Only Microsoft left now. This is absolutely a result of the EU Data Act (I think). But it’s effective globally rather than just the EU. Too hard to just carve out a region? AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers

Mar 5, 2024 1 min read

Cloud lock-in

Good. Long overdue. It’ll be interesting to see what the CMA find. Looking at three elements: Egress costs; Savings Plans; Technical barriers to switch. Microsoft and Amazon face UK regulator investigation over cloud servicesAmazon and Microsoft are both being investigated in the UK.The Verge Very aware of egress

Oct 5, 2023 1 min read

Actually leaving customers behind

I don’t have any in depth knowledge of SAP. Experience in CRM more than ERP - so the ‘fun’ of linking things together. But this was an interesting article to read. SAP CEO Klein telling a German User Group (those On-prem annoyed about not getting new innovations) that they

Sep 25, 2023 1 min read

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