Interesting post by James Berthoty on Lacework & the feature paradox pulse.latio.tech/p/platforms-ve…

Vendors just focused on ticking off boxes for the analyst eval rather than solving a set of actual customer problems are building for the wrong persona in the medium & long term.

Its eight months since I wrote a note (medium.com/@fintanr/the-h…) on the HashiCorp BSL license change. With the @ibm rumours guess its time to put pen to paper again.

At the time I wrote 'It is still too early to see how the move to BSL licenses will play out'. Not anymore.

I so, so want boring, detail orientated, policy focused, government from politicians who want to think about decades from now, not days.

Analysts: for this market everything must be a complete platform

Also Analysts: please segment this tiny fraction of the platform and discuss it as a discrete entity to match my taxonomy / upcoming reporting on a slice of the market.

This 👇

Do not tie your identity as a professional to a particular language, technology or framework. You will outlast all those things many times over.

Salisbury Crags this evening

Can't beat an automated browser restart to fuck up the final task (45 minutes into a status report) of your evening.

Pay for play consolidation as a service.

Elsewhere your CIO and their reports are not finalising their spending decisions based on twitter commentary and self referential press articles.

Day 16 of 30 for 100 push ups a day in April to raise funs for Cancer Research UK done.

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