Deconstructs the cloud by tracing the journey from physical server racks and networking up through layers of virtualization, containerization, and orchestration. It explains how management and control planes work together to translate user requests into running applications, ultimately delivering seamless managed services that hide this underlying complexity. Read more

Decision-makers often confuse quantifiable risk, where outcomes can be assigned probabilities, with true uncertainty, where unpredictable ‘unknown unknowns’ dominate. While AI excels at analyzing and managing risk, it fundamentally cannot grasp the intangible and genuinely uncertain aspects of business. Therefore, human judgment and adaptability remain indispensable for navigating the truly novel and making strategic decisions beyond algorithmic logic. Read more

Did you ever wonder how this seemingly simple cup of coffee ended in front of you? Would it taste any better if you’d know the efforts made by 25 million people to bring it to your table? Read more

Many data science projects do not go into production, why is that? There is no doubt in my mind that data science is an efficient tool with impressive performances. However, a successful data project is also about effectiveness: doing the right things as Russell Ackoff would write in “A systemic view of transformational leadership”. Read more

Developers and many technical jobs write code for a living. Can you help a developer with Artificial intelligence ? Spending a fair amount of time, conceiving and writing code, I keep falling on the same time-consuming task : debugging and correct typo-like mistakes. Even after close to a decade of code writing, I still keep having these silly tiny mistakes that keep on slowing me down in the development process every once in a while. Read more