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Updated: July 1, 2023. Readers, first of all, please accept my apologies for sharing a report whose results are not what they seemed to be.  Rudolf van der Berg emailed earlier this morning to shar…

Our latest set of glossary entries, on the nature of American culture, looks well beyond the stars and stripes. American culture is way too nuanced for that.

ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?

Who is behind this lobby group calling for a stock market of network resources?

AI can support monitoring and observability by analyzing logs and metrics to predict potential system failures or performance degradation.

The release of large language models has caught organizations off guard, and now many are playing catchup. Developers should be part of that.

A prominent author's decision to pull her novel from publication after being "review bombed" highlights Goodreads's power and raises questions about its owner: Amazon.

A look at three common issues that make your OpenAPI spec fall short and possible solutions for them.

News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly.

Why are SLOs so important for site reliability engineering practitioners? What are some good SLO practices?

The through line between the telegraph and the computer is more direct than you might realize. Its influence can be seen in common technologies, like the modem.

Salt Security had deployed OpenTelemetry, but found it insufficient. So the company engineers evaluated Helios, which visualizes distributed tracing for fast troubleshooting.

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash An interesting Twitter thread offers a sobering counter-narrative to the hype around “AI” applications. It is sobering because the media headlines are …

Posted on Thursday 8 Jul 2021. 577 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.

Posted on Wednesday 28 Jun 2023. 926 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

SEO: The amount of data collected and made available to the average DevOps team is incredible. But it's not all being used.

The current mania over recent advances in artificial intelligence will eventually end in disillusionment, mature regret—and new monsters

Bruce Sterling is a cyberpunk fiction and nonfiction pioneer who wrote such classics as Schismatrix, The Difference Engine, The Hacker Crackdown, and was a frequent contributor to Wired, Mondo 2000…

You might boot laptops straight into a cloud OS in the future

Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone... unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t...

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Protecting the interest of our customers and ensuring the stability of the service have been key principles for IVPN since starting our operations more than ten years ago. To keep delivering on these promises, we have made the decision to gradually phase out the port forwarding feature from the IVPN Pro plan.