In late august, Elias Khnaser (re) ran a webinar for Pluralsight about the differences between AWS and Microsoft Azure. How cloud providers are now ranked were among the various pieces of information he gave during an hour. These 2 slides about the cloud landscape changed in less than 4 years. […]
In his blog, Paul Romer mentions a book ‘Why information grows’ and take some time to review how differently the physicist and the economist may think about that resource called information and its storage. In his demonstration, codified information (i.e. information that can be stored using hardware devices) does not […]
Building architectures in IT often refers to the traditional architecture for their concepts, and indeed IT architecture has often the same issues as its sister discipline: Some architects have never built or even repaired houses; in IT, you have architects who were never developers on existing projects, just new technology […]
During the recent violent taxi drivers’ protests in Paris, a journalist for the french newspaper Liberation outlined some interesting facts about the Uber company’s business model: As with many world-wide companies, they try to reduce their tax rate to the minimum by using accounting “creativity” The model is built from […]
Sometimes you find gems into documentation that is not directly related to what you expect to find there. The SQL Server 2008 Compliance guide is quite old by now but is still filled with lots of good stuff, including a simple definition of the difference of the following three terms: […]
Microsoft has recently launch its new service called Curah for you, IT pro, to “share your knowledge”. Somewhere between delicious, a wiki, a share onenote workbook, it is an attempt ) by Microsoft to make you create the documentation like the social technet was intended for but with limited success […]
A couple of weeks ago, there was an interesting post on Capitaine Train’s blog justifying why they do customer support only using e-mail, and were not providing any phone number to reach them. Basically, the ideas behind this are: train tickets are complex beasts full of various labels you must […]
“Cloud” is the big marketing word today. If you work or have worked for a company whose size is more than a couple of dozens of employees you surely know that the non technical reasons will be a big part of the decision when it comes to choose a product […]
How can you interest an audience which was both technical and non-technical? for more than 1 hour? Without repeating yourself Non-native English, in particular French-native, speakers are very unfortunate when it comes to know what you should do to spread your ideas faced to a given audience. For example, in […]
