Archive

2024

• Fudge Factor: Edge to Core to Cloud

  September 8, 2024

  Edition 6 of my new newsletter on our increasingly connected world

• Fudge Factor: Practical IIoT

  September 1, 2024

  Edition 5 of my new newsletter on our increasingly connected world

• Fudge Factor: Telemetry Challenges

  August 25, 2024

  Edition 4 of my new newsletter on our increasingly connected world

• Fudge Factor: Calibration and Validation

  August 18, 2024

  Edition 3 of my new newsletter on our increasingly connected world

• Fudge Factor Format

  August 11, 2024

  Edition #2 of my new newsletter and what to expect

• Fudge Factor

  August 4, 2024

  First edition of my new newsletter on our increasingly connected world

• Increasingly Connected

  July 28, 2024

  A look at my next newsletter on our increasingly connected world

• Finding My Niche

  July 21, 2024

  A look at newsletter specialization ideation with JupyterLab

• SXSW 2025: Senior Moments

  July 14, 2024

  A look at my SXSW 2025 PanelPicker submission

• Run Fly Visualize

  July 7, 2024

  Part 2: A look at silo spreadsheet sprawl and advisable Qlik ecosystem alternatives

• Sprawl Walk Run

  June 30, 2024

  Part 1: A look at silo spreadsheet sprawl and advisable Qlik ecosystem alternatives

• Summary Solstice

  June 23, 2024

  A fork in the road for summaries approaches

• Hot Fudge Daily Digest

  June 16, 2024

  A weekly digest of Hot Fudge Daily

• Project Liberty & DSNP

  June 9, 2024

  A look at Project Liberty and Decentralized Social Networking Protocol

• GenAI June

  June 2, 2024

  A look at GenAI, hot takes, and a punditry index

• Miscellaneous May

  May 26, 2024

  A.I. chips, B.Y.O.A.I., and V.O.W.E.L.

• Mind Mapping and A.I.

  May 19, 2024

  A look at what's on my mind as a map with A.I.

• Back in Circulation

  May 12, 2024

  A look at what's next in post-pandemic travel and apps potpourri

• Fractional Futures

  May 5, 2024

  A look at what's next in executive roles of the future

• Events and Efficiency

  April 28, 2024

  A look at what's next in events and efficiency in runtimes

• Plants, Polyphony, Packets, and Progress

  April 21, 2024

  A look at plants and progressively converging technologies

• Hanging Out My Shingle

  April 14, 2024

  One door closes, JSC, Startup Week, my shingle, and what's next

• Arguably Illusory

  April 7, 2024

  A look at times when A.I. hype might outpace reality

• Reading, Wishing, and Watching

  March 31, 2024

  My thoughts on recent reading, wish lists, and viewing habits

• MACH Alliance March

  March 22, 2024

  A look back at the MACH Alliance and the future ahead

• SXSW 2024 Days 4-9

  March 17, 2024

  My end of day notes from SXSW 2024 Days 4-9

• SXSW 2024 Days 1-3

  March 10, 2024

  My end of day notes from SXSW 2024 Days 1-3

• Notes Before SXSW 2024

  March 7, 2024

  My real-time notes before SXSW 2024

• 5 Years of Probing

  February 25, 2024

  A look at RIPE Atlas probes

• 11ty Footnotes

  February 18, 2024

  A look at enhancing 11ty for newsletter footnotes

• 11ty RSS Activepieces

  February 11, 2024

  A look at enhancing 11ty POSSE with RSS 2.0, Open Graph, and Activepieces

• 11ty iFramely Bookmarks

  February 4, 2024

  A look at bookmarks as a reading list presented using 11ty and iFramely

• Security on the Agenda

  January 28, 2024

  A look at the past, present, and future of security on conference agendas

• Buttondown with 11ty on Netlify with GitHub

  January 21, 2024

  A look at how Fudge Sunday 🤔💡🤯🤓 newsletter gets made each week

• Interoperability and Convergence Ahead

  January 14, 2024

  A look at Polars, Cerebras, VAST, Weka, FHE, and much more.

• Tip of the Apache Iceberg

  January 7, 2024

  A look at the past, present, and future of Apache Iceberg and related projects

2023

• Zettelkasten End of Year for 2023

  December 31, 2023

  A look back at what I learned this year in this newsletter

• Networks, Security, and an Easier EV

  December 24, 2023

  A look at the past, present, and future of eBPF and an easier EV experience

• Pipes Before Pipelines

  December 17, 2023

  A look at a recent love letter to Yahoo Pipes, the rise of iPaaS, DataOps, and a lowcode nocode update

• Why Is The Network Slow?

  December 10, 2023

  A look at low latency networks as defined in the early 2020s

• Read The Fabulous Manual

  December 3, 2023

  A look at the past, present, and future of DocOps as well as Docs as Code

• Plugins, Patterns, and Potpourri

  November 26, 2023

  A little bit of everything this week from plugins to pattern recognition to surveillance intelligence

• Thanks Again in 2023

  November 19, 2023

  A quick thank you note and links that caught my eye this week

• Reflections on the Rise of Modern Science

  November 12, 2023

  A look back at looking back 1993 to 2023

• A Spotlight on A.I. on Devices

  November 5, 2023

  A look at A.I. running on devices nearest the data

• Large Language Marmalade

  October 29, 2023

  A look at LLM, LLMOps, HARO, and SRE

• LinkedIn, Lists, Looking Back, and Life

  October 22, 2023

  A look at listicles, a series of tubes, and more

• Nuance, Repatriation, and iPaaS

  October 15, 2023

  A look at the speech to text, edge core cloud directions, and open source iPaaS

• The End of the Inflated Expectations

  October 8, 2023

  A look at the hype cycle for A.I. and what's next

• Uh Zoom ZPR

  October 1, 2023

  A look at Zero-Trust Packet Routing (ZPR)

• Designed Sealed Delivered

  September 24, 2023

  A look at the past, present, and future of homomorphic encryption

• Clean My Bookmarks

  September 17, 2023

  A look at rise, fall, and rebirth of bookmarking services

• A.I. For You

  September 10, 2023

  A look at the proliferation of M.L. and A.I. across the Enterprise knowledge worker stack

• Out of Sequence Update

  September 6, 2023

  Not Sunday. Yet here we go.

• Little Green Tags

  September 3, 2023

  A look at the past, present, and future of FinOps strategies for A.I. workloads

• Are You Gonna Go Parquet

  August 28, 2023

  A look at the past, present, and future of Apache Parquet.

• Who Said The AI ML Was Fair?

  August 21, 2023

• Cyber Ground

  August 13, 2023

• South by Southwest Bound and Down

  August 7, 2023

• Jumping Someone Else's Trained Model

  July 31, 2023

• AI Feel You

  July 23, 2023

  A look at recent updates to A.I., platform engineering, and DevX

• Shock the Chaos Monkey

  July 17, 2023

• Can't Buy Me Lead Time

  July 9, 2023

• Fuzz Jam June

  July 2, 2023

• Generative AI Thru This

  June 26, 2023

• There's A Lot of Opportunities

  June 18, 2023

• GitOps Down On It

  June 11, 2023

• GitOps Goes the World

  June 5, 2023

• Zero Tickets to Paradise

  May 29, 2023

• Do You Need The Service Catalog?

  May 21, 2023

• It's Not Easy Being GreenDevSecFinOps

  May 14, 2023

• One IDP piece at a time

  May 7, 2023

• R U DevX Experienced?

  April 30, 2023

  a look at recent Developer Experience (DevX) coverage and articles that caught my attention

• Press Rewind

  April 24, 2023

• What's Golden Path?

  April 16, 2023

• Take the Bot DataDome

  April 10, 2023

• Saved by env0

  April 3, 2023

• Quaterly Roundup Edition

  March 26, 2023

• The Promised Landing Zones

  March 20, 2023

  A look and landing zones at AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI

• Google Service (Dream) Weaver

  March 12, 2023

• Buf.build Your REST

  March 6, 2023

  A a look at the history of protocol buffers as well as the rise of buf

• IDP Wasn't Built in a Day

  February 26, 2023

• Map of the Platformatique

  February 20, 2023

  A look at platform engineering services, internal developer platforms, and Wardley maps making the rounds.

• k8s Operator, Could You Help Me Place SysCall?

  February 13, 2023

• Smooth k8s Operator

  February 5, 2023

• IDP Clearly Now

  January 30, 2023

• Deploy Everything You Touch

  January 23, 2023

• Cost Cause

  January 16, 2023

• Happy When It Toolchains

  January 8, 2023

• Such Tweet Nothing

  January 1, 2023

  A look at IndieWeb origins and ActivityPub within the fediverse

2022

• How Soon is Next Year?

  December 26, 2022

• Zettelkasten End of Year for 2022

  December 19, 2022

• Proxy Tear Us Apart

  December 11, 2022

  A look at the path from VPN to Beyondcorp-esque alternatives

• Fediverse Moving over the Face of the Waters

  December 3, 2022

• Don't Worry 'Bout SRE

  November 28, 2022

• I Want To Thank You

  November 20, 2022

  A recap and a thank you

• Twit Can Happen

  November 13, 2022

• A Matter of Zero Trust

  November 6, 2022

  A look at Zero Trust, Zero Trust Model, Zero Trust Security Model, Zero Trust Reference Architecture

• Cadillac WebAssembly Line

  October 31, 2022

• Underneath The CNCF Tech Radar

  October 23, 2022

  A look at emerging cloud native topics

• Please Please OTel Me Now

  October 17, 2022

• Platform Engineering Blues

  October 9, 2022

• Precision Time Protocol That You Love

  October 2, 2022

• Build a Cloud Platform Foundation

  September 25, 2022

  A look at cloud platform foundations and landing zones

• Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic

  September 19, 2022

• SoC It To Me

  September 11, 2022

• Artemis, Radiation Hardening, and IPFS

  September 4, 2022

• You Get A Line and I'll Get A Poll Result

  August 29, 2022

  On polling and projections

• A Cold Shot and Chaser

  August 22, 2022

  Looking back at prior coverage and predictions

• Feeling So Really Simple Syndication

  August 15, 2022

• Union of the Cloud

  August 7, 2022

  Another look at multicloud

• When We Was Chip Fab Focused

  July 31, 2022

• Get It All While You Can

  July 25, 2022

• Busy Child

  July 17, 2022

• Ready To Grow

  July 10, 2022

• SuperCloudbusting

  July 3, 2022

  A look at SuperCloud and MultiCloud

• Fudge Sunday Test 4

  July 3, 2022

• Make IIoT Easy On Yourself

  June 26, 2022

  A look at industrial internet of things

• Fudge Sunday Test 3

  June 26, 2022

• Me and My POSSE

  June 19, 2022

• Reading Fudge Sunday Test 2

  June 19, 2022

• Around the Bend

  June 12, 2022

• Reading Fudge Sunday Test 1

  June 12, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - Moving Out

  June 5, 2022

  A look at moving to new platforms

• Fudge Sunday - Ramble On

  May 29, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - Follow the Lyrical Leadership Listicles

  May 23, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - Singularity and Super Massive Black Holes

  May 16, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - Twitter Travel Algorithmic Oddities

  May 8, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - Just Can't Get Enough

  May 1, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - FinOps Erase and Rewind

  April 24, 2022

  A look at FinOps and Swedish rock band lyrics

• Fudge Sunday - Come Together

  April 17, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - The Turning

  April 10, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - Summertime Pastness

  April 3, 2022

  A short summer reading list from 1978-2020 to consider our future

• Fudge Sunday - Needle in a Fullstack

  March 27, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - Once in a Pipeline

  March 20, 2022

  A look at FinOps via Fuller, Franklin, Talking Heads, and Cunningham

• Fudge Sunday - Everything Counts in Ops Amounts

  March 14, 2022

  A look at portmanteaus of Development and Operations (DevOps) making inroads toward operationalizing Finance, Data Management, Machine Learning, Communications, and more

• Fudge Sunday - Max Headroom, OSINT, and Today's Tom Sawyer

  March 7, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - M&M's, Moose, and Management Meditations

  February 27, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - The Last Decacorn

  February 20, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - Peek A Boo

  February 14, 2022

  A look at at meta newsletter reading on TypeScript, Prototyping, Consumerized Enterprise, Edge Computing, and the Uncanny Valley

• Fudge Sunday - 99 6G Balloons

  February 7, 2022

  Here comes 6G

• Fudge Sunday - Cut Me Some Slack

  January 31, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - Hype Or Loop?

  January 24, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - Fiber To The Homologous

  January 17, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - Belatedly Beckoning Bespoke Beacons

  January 10, 2022

• Fudge Sunday - Turn Up the (Software Defined) Radio

  January 3, 2022

• Looking For Looking For

  January 3, 2022

2021

• Fudge Sunday - Cheap as Chips in 2022

  December 27, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Zettelkasten End of Year Favorites

  December 20, 2021

• Find your ROD and REEL

  December 15, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Multicloud, XaaS, and Service Mesh

  December 13, 2021

  A look at Multicloud Data Services and everything evolving to be a service with an increasing emphasis on observability

• Fudge Sunday - Our Low Code No Code Past, Present, and Future

  December 6, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Oh What A Tangled Web3 We Weave

  November 29, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - SaaS Trendspotting

  November 22, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Three recommendations walk into a bar...

  November 14, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Twitter, Matter, and Data-Driven Journalism

  November 8, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Cloud in Public: Impact Mapping

  November 1, 2021

  A look at public things for a public cloud

• Fudge Sunday - Cloud in Public: Mean Time To RCA

  October 25, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Cloud in Public: DevCommsOps

  October 18, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Cloud in Public: Engineering SLO

  October 11, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Cloud in Public: Status Dashboards

  October 3, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Razor Thin Margins of Error Bars

  September 26, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - MultiCloudWashing Detergent

  September 20, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Betting Odds and Ends Justify the Means of Production

  September 13, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Data Portability

  September 6, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Possible, Permissible, Sustainable, Repeatable, Advisable

  August 30, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Dig Your Own SQL

  August 23, 2021

  A look at data analytics tooling trends

• Fudge Sunday - What's a Server?

  August 15, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Gaming, Healthcare, and Convergence

  August 8, 2021

  A look at the state of convergence in ICT

• Fudge Sunday - I Don't Know Where I'll Be Tomorrow

  August 1, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Get High On a New Thing

  July 25, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - All Along the Watchtower

  July 18, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - And All Points In Between

  July 11, 2021

  part 2 of a 5 part series

• Fudge Sunday - And the way that gravity pulls on everyone

  July 4, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - Reflecting and Projecting

  June 27, 2021

• Fudge Sunday - What I've been reading lately

  June 20, 2021

• Multicloud Summer Reading

  June 15, 2021

  A look at multicloud

• Fudge Sunday - When a Clubhouse asks if Enterprise selling can be remote

  June 11, 2021

• Multicloud March

  April 10, 2021

2020

• Cloud Data Services Ahead

  December 31, 2020

  A look at the the past, present, and future of data analytics

• Social Telecom 2030

  November 25, 2020

  A projection in 2020 for what the next 10 years will bring

• My Tenth Year at Dell Technologies

  October 8, 2020

• Thinking Remotely

  September 27, 2020

  Thoughts on remote work

• Emerging Hype

  August 25, 2020

• Own Your Content

  August 23, 2020

2019

• My Ninth Year at Dell Technologies

  October 18, 2019

• Fudge Sunday - Private Podcasting and Max Headroom

  May 27, 2019

• Private Podcasting and Max Headroom

  May 27, 2019

  A look at podcasts, tropes, and visions of the future

• Fudge Sunday - Thinking Outside the Cardboard Box

  May 20, 2019

• Thinking Outside the Cardboard Box

  May 20, 2019

• Fudge Sunday - Internet of Things (Have Changed)

  May 13, 2019

• Internet of Things Have Changed

  May 13, 2019

• Fudge Sunday - Las Vegas Edition

  May 6, 2019

• Las Vegas Lawsuits and Lyft

  May 6, 2019

• Fudge Sunday - Vacation Edition

  April 29, 2019

• Fudge Sunday - Tomorrow You Probably Saw This Already

  April 21, 2019

• Tomorrow You Probably Saw This Already

  April 21, 2019

• Fudge Sunday - Reflections on a Dot-Com Legacy

  April 15, 2019

• Reflections on a Dot-Com Legacy

  April 15, 2019

• Fudge Sunday - Roll Your Own

  April 8, 2019

  A possible result of importing and exporting

• Roll Your Own

  April 8, 2019

  A look at platform dependency

• Fudge Sunday - Life at 34,000 Feet

  April 1, 2019

• Life at 34000 Feet

  April 1, 2019

• A Decade of GitHub

  March 25, 2019

  A look at 10 years of GitHub stars from 2009 to 2019

• Fudge Sunday - Road Warrior Redux

  March 18, 2019

• Road Warrior Redux

  March 18, 2019

• Fudge Sunday - Mic Check 1, 2, 3

  March 11, 2019

• Mic Check 123

  March 11, 2019

• Fudge Sunday - Quantum Leap Years

  March 4, 2019

• Quantum Leap Years

  March 4, 2019

• Fudge Sunday - What Happens in Augmented Reality Stays in Augmented Reality

  February 25, 2019

• Augmented Reality

  February 25, 2019

• Fudge Sunday - Issue #1

  February 17, 2019

• Dance and Technology

  February 17, 2019

• Google Nonplussed

  February 2, 2019

2018

• 20 Years of Blogging

  December 12, 2018

  A look back at 20 years of blogging from 1998 to 2018

• My Eighth Year at Dell

  October 8, 2018

2017

• My Seventh Year at Dell EMC

  October 18, 2017

• A New Map

  July 8, 2017

  Of Tommy Boy and Simon Wardley

• On Twitter

  June 24, 2017

• Converged Thoughts Twelve

  January 9, 2017

• Converged Thoughts Eleven

  January 8, 2017

• Converged Thoughts Ten

  January 7, 2017

• Converged Thoughts Nine

  January 6, 2017

• Converged Thoughts Eight

  January 5, 2017

• Converged Thoughts Seven

  January 4, 2017

• Converged Thoughts Six

  January 3, 2017

• Converged Thoughts Five

  January 2, 2017

• Converged Thoughts Four

  January 1, 2017

2016

• Converged Thoughts Three

  December 31, 2016

• Converged Thoughts Two

  December 30, 2016

• Converged Thoughts One

  December 29, 2016

• Notifications Zero

  December 26, 2016

• Software is a Villain

  December 21, 2016

• My Sixth Year at VCE and My Sixth Week at Dell EMC

  October 22, 2016

• Have Your AI Call My AI

  October 12, 2016

2015

• The Perfect Team

  October 23, 2015

• My Fifth Year at VCE

  October 17, 2015

  Thoughts on my 5th year at VCE

2014

• My Fourth Year at VCE

  October 18, 2014

• ESTEEM is STEM plus Ethics plus Empathy

  January 20, 2014

  STEM + Ethics + Empathy = ESTEEM

• The 5 Ps of Workloads

  January 17, 2014

2013

• Be My Advisor

  November 8, 2013

• My Third Year at VCE

  September 7, 2013

• Van Halen ISO 9000

  January 13, 2013

2012

• Burl Ives Workloads

  December 7, 2012

• My Second Year at VCE

  October 15, 2012

• Insert Comment

  July 28, 2012

• Tech Journalism

  April 23, 2012

2011

• My First Year at VCE

  October 18, 2011

• On Metrics

  July 23, 2011

2010

• Private Clouds Ahead

  October 18, 2010

  Here comes Acadia

• Memo to the Cloud

  July 1, 2010

• Security Elements Everywhere

  June 3, 2010

• Airwaves vs Airlines

  February 5, 2010

  On face to face meetings and technology

• The Waiting

  January 21, 2010

  Thoughts on analyst thoughts on YouTube

• Social Telecom

  January 8, 2010

2009

• Back to my consulting roots

  January 31, 2009

2008

• Balkanize, Rinse, Repeat ad infinitum

  December 21, 2008

• The Taco Thesis

  March 19, 2008

  Thoughts on SxSW 2008

2007

• Under the guise of simplicity

  January 20, 2007

2005

• Consolidation

  April 4, 2005

• Internet Access

  March 19, 2005

• Cat Diapers

  February 12, 2005

2004

• Who am I kidding

  February 17, 2004

2002

• And for my next trick

  July 8, 2002

  A dotcom tale

2001

• Here It Comes

  September 14, 2001

  a post 9/11 update

2000

• Tel Aviv Traceroute

  April 29, 2000

  Packets of the past

1998

• The Fudge FAQ

  December 12, 1998