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Observer Monitor: SolarWinds views observability on multicloud

Today’s observability movement pits newbies fresh out of a few consulting gigs against established performance players with the “burden” of…

4 min readMar 31, 2024

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Observer Monitor: SolarWinds views observability on multicloud

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Jack Vaughan

John Sinclair, Blues Poet, at 82

THIS IS SOMETHING A BIT DIFFERENT FOR ME [NOT TECHIE]. IN NON-TECHNICAL POETRY DAYS I GOT TO KNOW JOHN SINCLAIR..ON HIS PASSING, I PAY…

7 min readApr 5, 2024

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John Sinclair, Blues Poet, at 82

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Jack Vaughan

Evolving technology paradigms create rising complexity

Media colleague Dan Muse, editor-in-chief for SDxCentral.com, recently covered Gartner’s report on muted CIO spending plans. Emerging from…

3 min readFeb 12, 2024

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Source: DataDog

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Jack Vaughan

PASCAL language originator Nicholas Wirth, 89

Nicholas Wirth, whose 1970 creation of the PASCAL programming language dramatically influenced the development of modern software…

4 min readJan 12, 2024

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PASCAL language originator Nicholas Wirth, 89

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Jack Vaughan

Who took my soapbox?

As 2023 came to its end, a New York Times suit affirmed a general impression that Generative AI and ChatGPT would find some friction on the…

2 min readJan 6, 2024

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Who took my soapbox?

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Jack Vaughan

Is AWS a diminishing AI laggard — or is it right about on time?

AWS is lagging and racing to catch up in Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). Or so an industry meme holds. When the COVID…

4 min readDec 10, 2023

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Is AWS a diminishing AI laggard — or is it right about on time?

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Jack Vaughan

Andrew Ng on AI use cases — Echoes of Hadoop

LLMs and Generative AI are the next steps forward for machine learning, the not-so-little engine that saved AI from the horror of…

5 min readOct 24, 2023

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Andrew Ng on AI use cases — Echoes of Hadoop

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Jack Vaughan

Large models cooling

Molecular Sampler — The week just passed brought news of a combined MIT/IBM team suggesting a less compute-intensive route to AI-driven…

5 min readJul 16, 2023

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Jack Vaughan

Noted Passing: Henry Petroski, technology historian who studied failures in engineering

Henry Petroski’s early focus was on the ideas and experience of civil engineering, but surely he became influential to all types of…

5 min readJul 4, 2023

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Noted Passing: Henry Petroski, technology historian who studied failures in engineering

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Jack Vaughan

The Metcalfeian Explosion

Taking a little time to review some writing from earlier this year… One especially memorable for me. For it was a welcome opportunity to…

4 min readJun 28, 2023

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Jack Vaughan

Jack Vaughan

As a computer trade press reporter, online Internet editor and tech writer for over 20 years, Vaughan has covered big data, software development, neurals, more.

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