December 31, 2024
Although the definitions of Open Source are related to specific software characteristics (i.e., the license), the reality is much more complex.
Open-source is way more related to a social contract that the software’s creator and its users morally sign than the definition might lead you to believe.
This social contract’s key aspect concerns the software’s current license and the licenses of future versions.
This is because although users of open-source software usually do not pay to use it, they incur high costs to do so.
Examples of those costs are training costs and potential costs to replace a certain technology should it become unavailable in the future.
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November 30, 2024
I often talk with people about Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in public cloud contexts, and I discover that their idea of what those SLAs are is often distorted.
I believe SLAs need to be approached with a healthy dose of skepticism.
In reality, they often provide little meaningful recourse when things go awry.
There are two big issues, in my opinion, with the SLA provided by many companies, including the hyperscalers:
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May 23, 2022
We have seen a massive increase in the “real world” dependency on digital services in the last few years.
This process will probably continue in the future, and we are not ready for it.
In the same few years, we have seen a lot of cases where digital services went offline or got hacked.
In a society that relies more and more on digital services, we can not afford such services not to be available or secure.
Although security is essential, I want to focus on availability for now.
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