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Why the SaaSpocalypse is over blown
Predictions state AI will replace SaaS platforms with custom software. This resembles the open source movement. Building custom tools creates costs for security, maintenance, and integration. Established providers offer compliance and scalability. Focus on your core business. Use AI to enhance your tools instead of replacing them. Always stay practical.
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How it works: Internet Radio
Lifting a lid on all the pieces that need to work, in real time, to make Internet radio (and everything else) work. You might be amazed at what happens to something we take for granted.
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2023 in review
Today is the 31st of December 2023, not a single cloud in the sky, the weather is unseasonable warm, and parts of the world have already started their 2024. As I am finding myself usually doing, here is my annual review. Health No major items here to report. I have visibly put on weight and pissed for not looking after myself better. My Peloton usage has dropped a “little” - 2022 I clocked…
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The Art of the KISS
Writing software that is simple, clean and easy is hard. KISS is easy to say but difficult to put into practice.
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Failure is an Option
Trial and error is the only way we learn. Taking chances (not risks) is how we evolve our knowledge and the output to which we are relied upon.
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Technical Debt – A visual guide
Unpicking the mystery of what technical debt is and how it can be provide learning and inform the future.
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2022 in review
Now that we have started 2023, one can take a look at the year that was 2022. Personally it was a great year (no deaths/cancer in the family so that is new), with a number of stand out moments. The biggest one is that I married, Kelley, the lady of my dreams in the summer. We wedded in our own home, with the ceremony in the front, and the big…
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Compassionomics ~ book review
How a little compassion can transform a whole industry and lift the lives of millions in the process.
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People are leaking their RDS database backups
Researchers discovered incompetence when handling AWS RDS database backups, exposing them on the public network for anyone to take
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What makes a great product manager by James Hamilton
What makes a great product by AWS guru James Hamilton
the legend that is, Alan Williamson.
For over 20 years, I’ve shared my thoughts whenever the muse strikes. It’s unpredictable, honest, unedited, and occasionally witty. I’m living the best years of my life, working harder than ever, and enjoying every second.
Alan Williamson 