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Today’s AWS outage has me thinking more about redundancy for our public cloud-based offerings. Is it enough to set up failover infrastructure with the same host in a different region? Should we be considering using a different cloud provider in a different region for our replication and disaster recovery environments?
I have no doubt that other product and development managers are asking themselves the same questions today. Definitely lots to think about.
Seriously one of the dumbest things this administration has done, and that’s saying something.
Trump administration to paint US border wall black to deter crossings | AP News
I am so excited to see what my team is able to do with these new models in Azure. I am especially excited to see how the model router functionality benefits our solutions and ultimately our clients in both experience and in cost savings.
GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry: The future of AI apps and agents starts here | Microsoft Azure Blog
I have been putting iPadOS 26 through its paces, and there are some really nice advancements that will make the iPad even more powerful than it already is today.
Any Mac (or Windows) user will appreciate the new menus at the top of the screen for the active app, and the ability to have multiple apps visible at once makes multi-tasking more useful. The ability to easily resize apps is also a great addition. I also like how iOS apps automatically open as windows instead of awkwardly filling the screen with a ton of empty space.
That reminds me, Apple, please enhance the Sports app for iPad. It makes no sense that it is an iOS-only app at this point.
If you have a non-essential, relatively recent iPad, give the iPadOS 26 Beta a try. I think you’ll like it!
Let’s all remember that Andreesen is the product of a state-funded public university (University of Illinois), and his wealth is the byproduct of his work at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the same university.
The U of I is a diverse and welcoming community and has been as long as I can remember. Andreesen has clearly been corrupted by his wealth and has forgotten from where he came.
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says colleges will ‘pay the price’ for DEI – The Washington Post
Okay, this is a really good one for all of my fellow financial technology super geeks!
We’re at a very interesting pivot point in the technology business where the teams pushing to deliver Gen AI capabilities to clients are not comfortable with using the same technology to create their own content.
What that tells me from a product perspective is what we have known for a while: evidence packages and transparency are critical for the adoption of Gen AI in critical business use cases.
Apple is adding some great interoperability features in iOS and iPadOS 26 that will make traveling with multiple devices much more user friendly and will make it possible to stream content easily with devices besides those that already support AirPlay.
Even though this seems super technical, end-users are going to love these features!
iOS 26 Adding Two New Wi-Fi Features, Allows AirDrop and AirPlay Alternatives – MacRumors
The Apple world had a bit of a freak out this week over rumors that Apple was changing their operating system naming conventions to match the release year (or more accurately, the retirement year). Honestly, the software industry moved to this type of naming convention years ago so I really don’t see why this is a huge shock to anyone.
What I really don’t understand is why Apple is over-complicating everything based on the rumors. The idea of using the retirement year in the name makes no sense for software.
We know Apple releases major versions of their operating systems one time per year and then releases minor versions and patches sporadically until the next major release. In my view, it would be much more user-friendly to use {major release year}.{minor release}.{patch}. So, the version to be released later this year would be 2025.0.0. This is assuming Apple wants to keep assuming major releases can only happen once per year. If they really wanted to make things easy on end users and developers, Apple would scrap this idea all together and use a {year}.{month}.{patch} naming convention. Users would have no question whether or not they were on a later release.
The same goes for hardware. I think we can all agree that it is absolutely ridiculous that we need to go to a website to figure out which year our Apple devices were released. I think a {year}.{month} naming convention would make a lot of sense here.
I know this all sounds silly, but these small changes in the way we interact with technology make a big difference in the long run.
The video and audio sync between Marquee and WSCR on MLB.TV is exceptional tonight. Always great to be able to watch the game while listening to Pat and Ron and hearing the ball hit the catcher’s glove in perfect harmony.