Notes on data, AI, IT
and security
No marketing fog. The way I think about real problems with founders and managers.
Industrial Internet: when manufacturing starts speaking like a platform
Not about the buzzword - about telemetry, failure predictability and process integration, and what actually changes when industrial equipment starts transmitting data.
Passwords, managers, SSO: what actually reduces risk
Why access management without convenience does not scale - and how to find the balance between security and what people will actually use.
Trusting the cloud: questions you should ask your provider
Where your data actually lives, who can see it, and what you can actually verify - before these questions become urgent.
word2vec and the new semantics of search: why text collections will soon think in proximity
Vector word representations open a new level of search, matching, and recommendations. What this means for companies that hold large text collections.
Critical infrastructure security as a leadership agenda, not an admin task
Protection of critical infrastructure is moving to the risk management level. Why this decision can no longer be delegated to system administrators.
The critical data map: which datasets actually hold an operating company together
Management does not need all data - it needs a list of the information pillars of the business. How to find those pillars and what to do with them.
From logs to metrics and back: building observability without noise
Not all events are equally useful. How to design system observability so it produces signal rather than just another stream of garbage.
DevOps before DevOps: why release speed is becoming an infrastructure topic
Manual releases are already starting to lose to machine delivery discipline. Why deployment speed is not a startup privilege but a competitive factor.
An editorial note for 2013: what to watch so you are not discussing technology in a vacuum
How to connect AI, data, IT, security, and automation through the logic of the enterprise - and why that matters more than following each trend separately.
Which 2012 predictions already look naive, and which are dangerously underestimated
An honest look at where the market overestimates interfaces and underestimates processes. A meta-post on technology forecasting.
A forecast: as data warehouses move to the cloud, the integrator's entire project economics change
Less heavy implementation, more iteration on data and metrics. What this means for companies buying IT projects.
A forecast: if interfaces become conversational, familiar IT services will disappear from the surface
When knowledge, search, and processes are connected in advance, the systems that win will not be the ones with the best UI - they will be the ones with internal coherence.