The Wall Street Journal estimates that the value of “Technical Debt” in the US currently stands at around $1.52T. Technical debt is the future cost of fixing issues later that could have been fixed or avoided earlier by choosing a comprehensive solution instead of an easy or cheap but limited solution. Like how unpaid monetary […]
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The situation with MariaDB MariaDB, now MariaDB PLC, has faced challenges since its 2022 IPO. Within a year, financial setbacks caused a 30-fold drop in the valuation of the MariaDB Server support company. A few weeks ago, a lender to the company provided notice that MariaDB PLC has defaulted and as a result may sweep
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One of the most important benefits of public cloud computing is its ability to scale without the need for major upfront investments. Cloud scaling is not limited to just growing one computing environment. It also enables adding regional computing centers worldwide with no financial outlay. For example, Microsoft Azure currently has over 60 announced cloud
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Sometimes, answers received from Generative AI programs such as ChatGPT may appear authoritatively correct when, in fact, they are wrong. Why is that? Hallucinations are logical mistakes in Generative AI answers that contain made up but plausible facts without basis in the underlying data, or answers that would be correct in different contexts or for
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There is an interesting quote from Gartner’s press release: “While GenAI will change everything, it won’t impact IT spending significantly, similar to IoT, blockchain and other big trends we have experienced”. Does this mean there will not be much spending on Generative AI in 2024? Correct! According to Gartner, there will be more planning than
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The county government had already deployed an Endpoint Detection and Response tool (EDR), and the attack was largely prevented and was fully contained. But how many other local government entities are unable to react and prevent attacks, and may be forced to pay off the attackers? The news report mentions at least 72 reported in
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