10-Nov-2023 Content of Interest

Software

My Company Died—Learn From My Mistakes (Kate Lee) Regulated industries are full of surprises!

Cybersecurity Vulnerability Discovered in EEG Medical Device NeuroWorks Natus
Microsoft’s Multi-Tenbillion Dollar Bet On Healthcare (Pranavsingh Dhunnoo) "... Microsoft appears to be currently concentrating on cloud computing, AI, and the more efficient integration of healthcare data."

Current thoughts on social media (Martin Fowler)
Wait, is cloud bad? (Forrest Brazeal) What about "undifferentiated heavy lifting"?

Help Everyone Do Better Security (Mathew Duggan) Here's proof why security makes my head explode!
DevOps to platform engineering: how we got here? (Jessie) Seems that DevOps (2000's) and Platform Engineering (2020's) are pretty similar.
Flexibility Through Immutability (Ricardo J. Mendez) Other languages like C# and Java can benefit from immutable data.

In the defence of Object-Relational Mappers "Trying to use ORMs for everything isn’t the issue with the tools; that’s a design and organisational issue."
Introduction: a closer look at Kubernetes and Nomad (Jessie) "Each tool has been developed with distinct design philosophies and caters to different use cases."
Some miscellaneous git facts Most of us use (or understand) only a small percentage of Git functionality.
Shift down to the platform, not left to the dev (Jessie) Looks like 'Shift Up' is the only direction left.
Open questions for AI engineering tl;dr, but a noble goal indeed: "What can we be building to bring that ability to automate these tedious tasks with computers to as many people as possible?"

5 Stocks Wall Street Believes Will Stage a Remarkable Recovery in 2024 | investing.com Fingers crossed!
Medtech can cope with GLP-1s but ‘fear and doubt’ suppressing stocks: analysts (Nick Paul Taylor) Hmm.. "...the analysts concluded that GLP-1 drugs are very likely to disrupt medtech markets, particularly obstructive sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease."
Amazon In Healthcare: Disruption, Data Nightmares And Digital Health Dreams (Andrea Koncz) "The amalgamation of services and the convergence of data streams within Amazon’s ecosystem presents a double-edged sword."