Avoiding ‘Success Disasters’: Ticketmaster vs. Taylor Swift
The online ticket retailer's Eras Tour debacle offers some lessons for making your systems resilient enough to handle huge spikes in customer demand.
Blogs
2023
Why WebAssembly Is a Good Fit for Extensible Control Planes
In software architecture, there's a constant push-pull between highly opinionated systems and more flexible options. Wasm might help resolve that conflict.
Cloud Native Users Struggle to Achieve Benefits, Report Says
Of those organisations that have “gone cloud native,” 95% said that challenges are keeping them from seeing the full benefits, in a new survey by Foundry for UST.
Meet the Team on a Mission to Replace Kubernetes
Kubernetes was designed by Google to operate huge Google properties, and many of us don’t need that sort of scale.
Here’s One Golden Path to Build an MVP Enterprise IDP
With open source reference architecture implementations recently released by Humanitec, enterprise platform teams can quickly create an internal developer platform.
Why WebAssembly Will Disrupt the Operating System
Wasm affords software developers a rare opportunity to rethink the entire way operating systems work.
Meeting the Operational Challenges of Training LLMs
To train a large language model, you must overcome three big challenges: data, hardware and legal. It helps to be a large organization, too.
Top 5 Large Language Models and How to Use Them Effectively
LLMs hold the key to generative AI, but some are more suited than others to specific tasks. Here's a guide to the five most powerful and how to use them.
Security First! Strategies for Building Safer Software
The enterprise needs to execute an intentional cultural shift, which makes security part of everyone’s job. But what does that mean in practice?
These Companies Keep Running Thousands of Failed Experiments, and You Should Too
Firms like Amazon, Google, Intuit and Netflix run thousands of experiments every year. But how are they able to do this? And why do they?
