HashiCorp’s recent move to bring Terraform under a more restricted-use license may not be the last from companies seeking greater control of the markets their products generate.

Featured on The New Stack: The streaming service provider made waves when its engineers reported they had refactored their QoS monitor for a monolithic architecture. Microservices experts evaluating the details discovered they actually did just the opposite.

In this November 2022 post for The New Stack, sponsored by Neo4j, Scott examines the age-old problem of outmoded systems — whether they be technological, sociological, or psychological — that are sustained long past their expiration date.

A tremendous amount of database science is devoted to the fine art of “normalization” – making your data easier for their databases to digest. Time to ask yourself: Who does normalization actually serve?

The competition between nations for leadership in communications, has morphed into outright combat. If it's not a campaign the US can win, do we start drawing down the mission? Or can the hope of a second wave compel us to double down?

Wait, wasn’t 5G supposed to be about greater bandwidth, faster service, and more options for consumer streaming? While we’re waiting for one revolution to start, perhaps another one can be jump-started downtown.

The fate of nations may depend upon the contributions of brave patients willing to risk their lives for treatments and vaccines. The technology that supports them, like almost everything else, has been ravaged by the pandemic.

World leaders are being blamed either for ignoring the data belying the significance of the novel coronavirus, or paying too much attention to it. Perhaps it would help if neural networks made that data more relevant.

It has often sounded utopic, like the ousting of a totalitarian regime by an egalitarian republic. Microservices, as has often been stated, enables not only scalability but flexibility in the way applications are managed. But have we been unrealistic about all this?

Where a post-war college researcher witnesses the birth of IT job silos two decades before the jobs themselves would be invented, and triggers a revolution whose objectives are literally all over the map.

It’s the beginning of a software-defined security model for microservices. At least, it’s the beginning of the first attempt, and the start of a very long argument over what an online identity truly is, and who or what it’s supposed to protect.

From September 2016, this three-part series (prefaced by an op-ed piece) for the Web marketing publication CMSWire has aged very, very little. In fact, the questions these articles pose are even more valid today, with the coming changes to Google Analytics and the long-delayed encroachment of large-language-model (LLM) AI into the field of organic search. I’ve seen the questions raised by Dynatrace, AppDynamics (now part of Cisco), and others in this series, characterized at the time by the phrase “all of a sudden,” raised again in just the past few weeks and treated with an equally sudden state of shock.