• Is ‘learning to code’ bad advice for students in 2026?

    For a decade, “Learn to Code” was the ultimate career cheat code. From bootcamps to high school curriculums, the message was clear: Master Python or JavaScript, or get left behind. But as we navigate 2026, the tides have turned. The arrival of sophisticated AI agents hasn’t just tweaked the industry; it has inverted the value…

  • Leaning Into Big Signals Is Worth It

    Meet Matt Hall and John Watkinson, the co‑founders of Larva Labs and the original creators of CryptoPunks, one of the first major NFT art collections on Ethereum. Who Matt and John are They are Canadian software developers and artists who met studying computer science in the 1990s and have collaborated ever since.​ Together they created Larva Labs,…

  • So What’s New In k8s (Kubernetes) Land?

    Kubernetes 1.35: Moving from Static to Fluid Infrastructure The CNCF has officially announced Kubernetes 1.35, a landmark release that introduces zero-downtime resource scaling for production workloads. By making in-place pod resource adjustments generally available (GA), platform teams can now update CPU and memory on running pods without restarts or service disruption. This marks a fundamental…

  • Thoma Bravo Closes Acquisition of PROS Holdings, Inc. – What now?

    When acquisition announcements hit the wire, there’s always an initial wave of cork-popping optimism—talk of “exciting opportunities,” “strategic synergies,” and “accelerated growth.” Town halls buzz with carefully crafted messages about transformation and unprecedented potential. Leadership teams speak in aspirational terms about taking the company to new heights. But once the press releases fade and integration…

  • The Big Coupang Breach and the Cost of Misplaced Trust

    When Coupang’s CEO Park Dae-jun resigned following a massive data breach, the news hit differently than the usual executive departure. His exit wasn’t a golden parachute or strategic pivot—it was accountability made visible. The numbers tell a relentless story: roughly 600 million breach attempts occur daily, with threat actors launching attacks approximately every three seconds.…

  • AWS re:Invent 2025, the Future of Big Enterprise Automation

    December 1-4, 2025 | Las Vegas, Nevada AWS re:Invent 2025 just wrapped up in Las Vegas, and if there’s one thing that’s crystal clear, it’s this: Amazon Web Services is going all-in on autonomous AI and next-generation infrastructure. Over four days of keynotes, announcements, and demos, AWS unveiled a vision where AI assistants evolve into…

  • We Wrestle With Big Emotions When A Vendor Says Sorry

    The past quarter has exposed critical vulnerabilities in our digital infrastructure through five major outages across essential internet providers. Between October and early December 2025, these failures disrupted services for millions globally, revealing dangerous concentration risk in our interconnected ecosystem. This isn’t coincidence, it’s a pattern demanding immediate strategic response. Core infrastructure fragility represents material…

  • McKinsey’s 2025 AI Report: Big Perspective

    McKinsey’s 2025 AI Report confirms what we’re seeing in the market: enterprise AI has bifurcated. A small elite, roughly 6% of companies, are capturing transformative value (5%+ EBIT impact), while the remaining 94% are trapped in pilot (pre-production) purgatory. The gap isn’t closing. It’s widening. The numbers tell the story. While 88% of companies use…

  • Project Prometheus: Jeff Bezos’ $6.2B Big Bet on Physical-World AI

    In a move that marks his return to operational leadership, Jeff Bezos has emerged as co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a stealth AI startup that secured $6.2 billion in funding before its public unveiling. But this isn’t another large language model play. Instead, Prometheus represents a fundamental bet on a different paradigm: AI that learns from…

  • Important Model Context Protocol (MCP) Innovations, November 2025

    Recent Platform Integration & Enterprise Readiness Updates Enterprise & Production Readiness Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP MCP Server (Public Preview) – Evolved from 13 static tools to a dynamic framework that adapts to business needs, enabling agents to interact with data and perform functions through the application interface without custom code or APIs. Analytics server preview…