Why enterprises are still bad at multicloud

In 2026, most enterprises I talk to are multicloud, not because they set out with a crisp strategy but because reality pushed them there. Mergers and acquisitions bring in workloads on different platforms. Product teams pick the cloud that best matches a short-term delivery deadline. Add leadership mandates to “avoid lock-in,” and suddenly you have…

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The revenge of SQL: How a 50-year-old language reinvents itself

Prototyping is my favorite part of programming. I like building new stuff and getting things working. It’s no surprise, then, that I am a big fan of MongoDB and NoSQL in general. Don’t get me wrong: I’ve always appreciated SQL for what it is. The intoxicating smoothness of using MongoDB in JavaScript just swept me…

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OpenAI developing GitHub rival as AI coding platform race intensifies

OpenAI is reportedly developing a code hosting platform that could compete with Microsoft’s GitHub, a move that would put the AI company in direct competition with one of its most important partners. The idea was explored after engineers experienced service disruptions that made GitHub temporarily unavailable in recent months, according to a report from The…

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Real World Lessons On Reliable Data Movement At Global Scale

Moving large-scale data across platforms, clouds, and global regions is no longer a special project for a few highly technical teams. It has become a routine operational requirement for modern enterprises. Companies now run analytics in one environment, store long-term archives in another, and build applications that must pull data from multiple locations with accuracy…

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Cloud architects earn the highest salaries

I’ve watched cloud careers rise and fall with each new wave of tools, from the early “lift-and-shift everything” days to today’s platform engineering, AI-ready data estates, and security-by-default mandates. Through all of it, the role that stays stubbornly in demand is the cloud architect because the hardest part of cloud has never been spinning up…

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