# Prt.Sc

> Articles about technology, science and communication, from a former TNW editor, blogger and videocaster


## Posts

- [it's the cloud economy stupid](https://prt.sc/its-the-cloud-economy-stupid/): In two recent news: In 2009, Zynga was a marquee customer for Amazon.com ‘cloud-computing services. Two years later, it spent $100 million to build its own data centers...
- [how microsoft changed](https://prt.sc/how-microsoft-changed/): The NY Times has a brilliant article about Microsoft which is probably the best resume for their future and current strategy. We’ve seen Microsoft acting weird under Ballmer command...
- [digital in local government](https://prt.sc/digital-in-local-government/): When they say they started doing some digital projects: When digital consultants arrive: Local Gov agile expectations: Agile delivery: Images from http://www.ridingvintage.com/
- [Shadow IT and CMO power](https://prt.sc/shadow-it-and-cmo-power/): CIO.com has a quite interesting article on how the Shadow IT favours the Chief Marketing Officer and their agenda, rather than the regular IT Manager or CIO. Shadow...
- [future idea; world first bitcoin (physical) bank](https://prt.sc/future-idea-world-first-bitcoin-physical-bank/): 1) Use this as a bitcoin wallet; 2) fill a datacenter with them; 3) sell it as the world first bitcoin bank 4) profit It comes with built-in...
- [#truestory](https://prt.sc/truestory/)
- [ARM as the new Spectrum](https://prt.sc/arm-as-the-new-spectrum/): Back in the 80’s, we had this (actually, I had one of these made in Portugal): This was a Timex 2048, which was a “clone” of ZX Spectrum....
- [comics is the thing that keeps you young](https://prt.sc/comics-is-the-thing-that-keeps-you-young/): Just found out this new documentary about cartoons and comics, called Stripped, released this year. As you might figure out by now, I’m a huge fan of comics...
- [storage over privacy](https://prt.sc/storage-over-privacy/): Storage was that beautiful thing that used to be just yours, to put whatever you want into it and have it for yourself. It was like a no sharing...
- [new year resolutions](https://prt.sc/new-year-resolutions/): My new year resolutions as a long tail diagram.  
- [dress code for those who don't care about it](https://prt.sc/dress-code-for-those-who-dont-care-about-it/): This guy landed a spacecraft on an asteroid. This guy landed a probe in Mars. Now these, are consultants. Any kind of them. And they are happy as...
- [Cisco predicts that the cloud is going to be the future](https://prt.sc/cisco-predicts-that-the-cloud-is-going-to-be-the-future/): Old habits die hard, they say. Network is one of them. Network in the datacenter is not actually a modern habit. It’s rather vanishing because more people are...
- [IE for all](https://prt.sc/ie-for-all/): Finally Microsoft launched an Internet Explorer for developers and designers to test their own websites. It’s free and it’s not a virtual machine but rather an Azure (free)...
- [apple smartest move ever](https://prt.sc/apple-smartest-move-ever/): Is actually the Apple SIM, that they launched today. Pretty clever move. Have a SIM that could connect to a bunch of mobile carriers, being sold as ‘agnostic’...
- [google supply management made easy](https://prt.sc/google-supply-management-made-easy/): Sometimes I get asked if companies should have more than one technology supplier (to have discounts) or a bunch of them (to have choice). It’s indeed a matter...
- [when a dumb pipe controls your data access](https://prt.sc/when-a-dumb-pipe-controls-your-data-access/): A few years ago, Telcos ruled the world. They controlled our calls, messages, games, apps, payments, address book, location and even music. Those services were all provided by...
- [quick review of yesterday apple announcements](https://prt.sc/quick-review-of-yesterday-apple-announcements/)
- [mutts nails it](https://prt.sc/mutts-nails-it/): really love how much Mutts is perfectly synced with my life  
- [you're the product](https://prt.sc/youre-the-product/): This is a graph that Jawbone released from yesterday earthquake in Napa, Northern California.  Pretty cool, when you have access to data of thousands of users and you can...
- [throwback thursday - the pager](https://prt.sc/throwback-thursday-the-pager/): 20 years ago I had this pager. My mom used to “call” me on that. It had a good alarm and news service. Now we use twitter.
- [everyone thinks they're special](https://prt.sc/everyone-thinks-theyre-special/): When you work for the public sector, there’s this need to create your own walled garden and make yourself the guardian keeper of something. It might be some...
- [knowing your fears](https://prt.sc/knowing-your-fears/): There’s a lot of talk today around startups and how nice it is to build something for people to use or consume. Some do it for themselves (which...
- [data is like water](https://prt.sc/data-is-like-water/): – Clean data is like clean water. It’s expensive, scarce and we should save it for hard times. – If data is like water, then it doesn’t matter...
- [the genius behind Apple products](https://prt.sc/the-genius-behind-apple-products/): Jony Ive is known as the genius behind latest Apple products, such as the iphone, iMac, Macbook, iPod and even the new iOS. So I thought that this...
- [half way](https://prt.sc/half-way/): Today when I opened google I saw something different… Oh, yeah, it’s me. One more year and half way of expected life. But then someone shared with me...
- [is Apple the new Microsoft ?](https://prt.sc/apple-is-the-new-microsoft/): “Apple is the new Microsoft“, some say. Almost every hipster and Apple fanboy will tell that’s not true and will fearlessly say it’s the opposite. Because Apple will never loose...
- [Amazon Zocalo - hands on](https://prt.sc/amazon-zocalo-hands-on/): Amazon has given me the privilege to test their new service Zocalo, which is like a nice dropbox alike frontend for S3.  My first initial feeling is that the...
- [the strange case of Foocall](https://prt.sc/the-strange-case-of-foocall/): FooCall is one of those strange cases of an application with lots of potential, yet unleashed. For those who never used it, Foocall is an application that allows...
- [captains log; mostly doing this](https://prt.sc/captains-log-mostly-doing-this/): Lately I’ve been using Windows. No, this isn’t a OS war again, but just a personal thing. Windows 7 was really good. Now with 2012 and the 8 thingie,...
- [first world cloud problems; your code](https://prt.sc/first-world-cloud-problems-your-code/): Rackspace launched a new service, the “bare metal cloud” (more info here), because neighbours can be loud and you need some privacy and performance. Basically it’s Openstack on...
- [Fire - Amazon new shopping device](https://prt.sc/fire-amazon-new-shopping-device/): Everyone’s talking about the new phone from Amazon and its new 3D features. Which are rather cool, such as the device itself. But for me the most important...
- [opensource; the latest PR stunt from Tesla](https://prt.sc/opensource-the-latest-pr-stunt-from-tesla/): Disclaimer: I love Tesla cars! The Good: Tesla Motors yesterday did something that no one would ever expected. They opensourced their patent portfolio and give it to the...
- [why I ONLY share content on Linkedin](https://prt.sc/linkedin-content/): Linkedin has for some time now articles from known sources and famous people, but recently (last few months) has opened that to everyone on the network, to post longer articles...
- [when Wired goes bananas](https://prt.sc/when-wired-goes-bananas/): So, Wired came up with an article regarding the new iOS 8 notifications, which in their own words are going to be awe-what for it-some! The full article...
- [the evolution of cloud competition on the magic quadrant](https://prt.sc/the-evolution-of-cloud-competition-on-the-magic-quadrant/): A couple of weeks ago I’ve wrote about how Amazon is leaving its competition behind when it comes to cloud computing – “mirrors and snails in the cloud”....
- [API's are the new karma](https://prt.sc/apis-are-the-new-karma/): Today, Simon Wardley on twitter while in a talk regarding Amazon AWS innovation and competitors, said that there’s not that much innovation from Amazon competitors, just pointless differentiation, e.g....
- [heartbleed && wireless](https://prt.sc/heartbleed-wireless/): At yesterday Portuguese security meetup in Lisbon, a friend just talked about heartbleed and wireless, showing an exploit for it. Here’s the presentation, the code you can ask...
- [the IT world will be a container shipping industry](https://prt.sc/the-it-world-will-be-a-container-shipping-industry/): If we look at the current IT world we can see that people want to move their infrastructure, services and business into a more cloud environment, because running...
- [cloud is new the new opensource](https://prt.sc/cloud-is-new-the-new-opensource/): A few years ago, when people pitched opensource to government, it was all about the price, lower operational and infrastructural costs and to improve technology. Then the professional consultant...
- [mirrors and snails in the cloud](https://prt.sc/mirrors-and-snails-in-the-cloud/): Mike Kavis wrote a recent article about cloud computing and how for Amazon (AWS), objects in the rear mirror appear closer than they look. He pretty much describes...
- [the problem with projects that you don't have the full picture](https://prt.sc/the-problem-with-projects-that-you-dont-have-the-full-picture/)
- [Apple, updating what people don't need](https://prt.sc/apple-updating-what-people-dont-need/): Hipsters all around the world, rejoice. Apple has released an update to Mavericks. The 10.9.3 (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6228) Thing is, along all the updates (who’s using 4k right now ?!?), they...
- [BBR - Underlying Cloud Diversification](https://prt.sc/bbr-underlying-cloud-diversification/): This is brilliant!
- [why coffee shops are the worse place to work](https://prt.sc/why-coffee-shops-are-the-worse-place-to-work/): Chris Reed wrote on Linkedin that coffee shops are the best place to work, which I totally and utterly disagree with him. Let’s break down his views individually. 1) Coffee...
- [Javascript as top language @Github](https://prt.sc/javascript-as-top-language-github/): In 2005, Mário Valente gave a presentation in Lisbon about the future (and how Javascript) would succeed (on client and server side). Download Here In 2007, I wrote (on...
- [innovation; we need more carpenters not architects](https://prt.sc/innovation-we-need-more-carpenters-not-architects/): So, the other day I was reading an article about architects and carpenters regarding innovation, where the author (John Mitchell), described his experience when dealing with home renovation. Since...
- [AWS journey has just begun](https://prt.sc/aws-journey-has-just-begun/): On this year AWS Summit, Amazon just detailed the future for Amazon Web Services, which I previously talked here, saying that they’re going full enterprise. Yet the most...
- [the cloud is definitely going enterprise](https://prt.sc/the-cloud-is-definitely-going-enterprise/): At the AWS Summit, Todd Weatherby gave a quick lance about how Amazon is going to position itself in the future. Bottom line; it’s going full enterprise, towards people and...
- [growth by loyalty, not novelty](https://prt.sc/growth-by-loyalty-not-novelty/): Kyle Wild, Keen.io CEO, has a slideshare worth looking, where he explains his view on product growth. Source: http://www.slideshare.net/kylewild/kyle-wildtokyoproductistheultimategrowthhack I do agree with him, the growth comes with how...
- [how to change the cloud, again, in two acts](https://prt.sc/how-to-change-the-cloud-again-in-two-acts/): Amazon did it again. It changed the world of computing, more precisely cloud computing and deployment. First Act AWS Elastic Beanstalk; an easier way for you to quickly deploy...
- [a paper ad on the earth day](https://prt.sc/a-paper-ad-on-the-earth-day/): ““There are some ideas we want every company to copy” That’s the ad that Apple created for the Earth Day, taking a stab at Samsung regarding the recent...
- [your twitter username is not that important anymore](https://prt.sc/your-twitter-username-is-not-important-anymore/): That’s the new Twitter layout. It seems like Facebook, but the most important detail yet is that your (vanity) twitter handle is now not that important and just...
- [game of services, walled gardens and casterly rock](https://prt.sc/casterly-rocks/): Jason Perlow, ZDNet editor, wrote a good article describing the cloud wars and interoperability problem between services, calling it “Game of Services: Revenge of the cloud dragons“. I...
- [downtime and disaster recovery](https://prt.sc/downtime-and-disaster-recovery/): Recently, Forbes published an article about the Immortal Enterprise, the one that never stops and never gets disrupted.  To quickly sum it up: – Unplanned downtimes can kill...
- [easter eggs](https://prt.sc/easter-eggs/): I was raised as a Christian, went to church, did all those rituals with family… then I started reading about science and evolution and stopped believing. I do...
- [what to expect from this](https://prt.sc/what-to-expect-from-this/): Sarcasm, honesty and my point of view on information, technology, marketing and science (not in this particular order). That’s what you should expect here. Probably some politics in...
- [Back](https://prt.sc/hello-world/): It seems like ages ago, since when I stopped writing. Now it feels good to be home again.
- [NAT: Coaching is better than feedback](https://prt.sc/nat-coaching-is-better-than-feedback/): Every leader wants to get the best performance from their team. In companies, the importance of learning on the job and continuous employee development can’t be overstated. But...
- [NAT: OKR's in remote first companies](https://prt.sc/nat-okrs-in-remote-first-companies/): We are currently working remotely and a lot of companies are already positioning themselves as a remote first ones. So managers need to rethink the way they measure...
- [NAT: Priorities, the magic behind it](https://prt.sc/nat-priorities-the-magic-behind-it/): You can do dense documents, using the SMART goals, held weekly meetings, use a multitude of tools, but the magic metric in companies in my opinion are clear...
- [NAT: Soft Skills are very important](https://prt.sc/nat-soft-skills-are-very-important/): A lot of people talk about how tough it is to work with developers, especially if you come from a non-technical background. So on this video I’ll talk...
- [NAT: Influencers are just sales people](https://prt.sc/nat-influencers-are-just-sales-people/): Influencers are the new QVC people. If you look at it, what we are now seeing is a new rebranding of the old days of telesales. And now...
- [NAT: Everyone hates metrics](https://prt.sc/nat-everyone-hates-metrics/): Funny thing that a few years ago, I worked at a company that was using the mantra of “no ticket not task”, which lead me to write a...
- [NAT: Tech Laws (3/3) - Conway & Pareto Principle](https://prt.sc/nat-tech-laws-3-3-conway-pareto-principle/): There are few laws that contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products....
- [NAT: Tech Laws (2/3) - Gall & 2 Pizza Rule](https://prt.sc/nat-tech-laws-2-3-gall-2-pizza-rule/): There are few laws that contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products....
- [NAT: Tech Laws (1/3) - Moore & Metcalfe](https://prt.sc/nat-tech-laws-1-3-moore-metcalfe/): There are few laws that contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products....
- [NAT: Do you think you do agile?](https://prt.sc/nat-do-you-think-you-do-agile/): When you do Agile, are you aligned to the methodology or just the tools and frameworks? Are you still on Waterfall and what keeps you there? And now...
- [NAT: Software is eating itself](https://prt.sc/nat-software-is-eating-itself/): What does remote working, no-code/low-code and abstractions have in common? They are both driving the software industry obsolete. And now about this…
- [NAT: Dealing with burnout](https://prt.sc/nat-dealing-with-burnout/): When we state that the work we love with “not really working,” it propagates a belief that if we love it so much, we should do more of...
- [NAT: Innovation with Lateral Thinking](https://prt.sc/nat-innovation-with-lateral-thinking/): Lateral thinking involves a dialogue in which questions are asked to uncover more information in order to devise a solution. Which should be the base for all innovation....
- [NAT: Value Stream Mapping](https://prt.sc/nat-value-stream-mapping/): After waterfall, agile and devops, the concept for enterprise software delivery is value stream. So to understand value stream mapping, we need to first understand what a “value...
- [NAT: Mindmaps](https://prt.sc/nat-mindmaps/): Successful companies build MindMaps, not cool products. So, taking a problem to solution mapping, in a user’s brain is crucial. And now about this…
- [NAT: Experimental Mode](https://prt.sc/nat-experimental-mode/): On the previous episode, I talked about the need of a platform product manager, but conducting empirical market and user research of innovative solutions, often start with a...
- [NAT: Platform Product Managers](https://prt.sc/nat-platform-product-managers/): The other day I talked about product societies, but actually it’s better to build a platform rather than a product and you definitely need a platform product manager....
- [NAT: The Product Society](https://prt.sc/nat-the-product-society/): It’s been more than 3 months since covid lock down and few weeks after black lives matter. But bottom line, this has been a big bandwagon for companies...
- [NAT: Apple Health](https://prt.sc/apple-health/): Now About This, is a new series of videos I’ll be doing here on LinkedIn. This one is about how Apple is building an operating system for health....
- [600 episodes of TechCoffee](https://prt.sc/600-episodes-of-techcoffee/): It was in January of 2018 when I launched TechCoffee, as an experiment both for the Alexa Flash Briefings (daily news that you can pull up on Alexa)...
- [Touch Portal - the control deck that works](https://prt.sc/touch-portal-the-control-deck-that-works/): I’ve been doing lots of live streams recently (40+ at the moment) between Tech Talks London (TTL) and Prima Qualquer Tecla (PQT), so having automation to control OBS...
- [Fixing Skype resizing, NDI Plugin and OBS](https://prt.sc/fixing-skype-resizing-ndi-plugin-and-obs/): Few weeks ago I did a short post about my experience with OBS, Skype and NDI, called “Streaming for the masses“. Bottom line, if you want to stream...
- [Streaming for the masses (in lock down)](https://prt.sc/streaming-for-the-masses-in-lock-down/): [update: https://prt.sc/fixing-skype-resizing-ndi-plugin-and-obs/] With this virus lock down, people have started to do more videos and some went to the full extend of going live. Funny enough, I did...
- [went droning this weekend - #CaldasDaRainha #FozDoArelho](https://prt.sc/went-droning-this-weekend-caldasdarainha-fozdoarelho/): One of the things I really love when flying my drones is to get some aerial view of stuff I didn’t knew it was there. I’ve been here...
- [the weird case of WebSummit and Lisbon](https://prt.sc/the-weird-case-of-websummit-and-lisbon/): Recent news in Publico – one of the Portuguese largest newspapers – tells the story of how WebSummit is holding Lisbon Council (and City) to ransom. The most...
- [adaptive contrast on Surface tablets or laptops](https://prt.sc/adaptive-contrast-on-surface-tablets-or-laptops/): I’ve written more than once the little things Windows 10 and Surface laptops or tablets do to my inner peace. Those little annoyances that at the end of...
- [alexa, your next radio](https://prt.sc/alexa-your-next-radio/): I’ve been a big fan of Alexa and it’s platform, so much that I do a Flash Briefing skill called Tech Coffee for the past 227 episodes. Also,...
- [entrepreneurs in Portugal feel entitled](https://prt.sc/entrepreneurs-in-portugal-feel-entitled/): Portugal in a nutshell: basically the cosmetic move done by the socialist government has made some success. People feel more entitled to be entrepreneurs, but they still lack...
- [#Alexa - After finding your own voice, just remove the echo](https://prt.sc/alexa-after-finding-your-own-voice-just-remove-the-echo/): Doing TechCoffee as an Alexa Skill for the past 206 episodes it requires the audio to be close to studio quality. Unfortunately not many can afford their own...
- [ARM'ing for the future developers](https://prt.sc/arming-for-the-future-developers/): It’s no news that the ARM platform created by Qualcomm is quite amazing. Specially for phones, where Android operating system raised to the most used system in the...
- [alt.prt.sc - 10 years](https://prt.sc/alt-prt-sc-10-years/): !0 years ago, after putting together a list of more than 120 Portuguese bloggers in one place (prt.sc), I thought about how could video be the next big...
- [Windows 10 - Battery Health](https://prt.sc/windows-10-battery-health/): So, one of the things Windows 10 brings along is the new security dashboards and health checks. This are rather interesting and we should always look at them...
- [AWS is right now like Hotel California](https://prt.sc/aws-is-right-now-like-hotel-california/): "Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back to the place I was before 'Relax' said the night man,...
- [GDPR - the biggest mass unsubscription process ever](https://prt.sc/gdpr-the-mass-unsubscriptions-process-ever/): GDPR is almost here and we’re all getting those emails to confirm that we really want to still receive newsletters, alerts, notifications, news and updates.  If you don’t...
- [TechCoffee, your shot of tech](https://prt.sc/techcoffee-your-shot-of-tech/): TechCoffee is an Alexa Flash Briefing skill that give you a quick update (less than 2 minutes) of daily curated tech news. Like a morning shot of coffee,...
- [lost idea or revamp](https://prt.sc/lost-idea-or-revamp/): One decade ago I pitched an idea to multiple people in Portugal, mostly those that were already established doing TV and regular shows, to invest into a new...
- [2017 -> 2018](https://prt.sc/2017-2018/): This year has been quite busy professionally and I’ve split most of my free time with a new videocast with two friends at @TechTalksLondon where we’ve finished a...
- [droning around](https://prt.sc/droning-around/): On my first try shooting with the DJI Phantom, I got pretty much everything from strong winds to flying rats
- [vale Industry 4.0 - like it was in the 2.0](https://prt.sc/vale-industry-4-0-like-it-was-in-the-2-0/): I’ve been recently participating in some Industry 4.0 projects, mostly related to global wine companies, where they actually have the need and the will to transform themselves, look...
- [self-driving groceries](https://prt.sc/self-driving-groceries/): We’re close to a more common reality. Interesting to see that here in the UK.  It’s going to be interesting to see how cities will be managed to...
- [alexa never stops to amaze me](https://prt.sc/alexa-never-stops-to-amaze-me/): and now this:
- [disrupting the cloud industry, oh really?!](https://prt.sc/disrupting-the-cloud-industry-oh-really/): “Let’s be clear: our goal is to disrupt the cloud computing industry. In 2013 we built the C1 server, a BareMetal ARMv7 server designed for horizontally scalable workloads,...
- [two sides of the same coin](https://prt.sc/two-sides-of-the-same-coin/): Data Centre Construction To Top $74bn In Market Value The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 18 percent in 2017 to total $246.8 billion These...
- [do not feed the emails](https://prt.sc/do-not-feed-the-emails/): When you work for a multinational or a bigger company, emails are your tasks, tickets and work timeline. Everyone emails anyone for anything. Some might even CC a...
- [windows 10 little annoyance](https://prt.sc/windows-10-little-annoyance/): HyperThreading. That’s it. My little annoyance with Windows 10 and the Surface Pro 4. We all know that having HT is usually a good thing. Emulating multi-core on...
- [sucker speech engines, they call me master](https://prt.sc/sucker-speech-engines-they-call-me-master/): Alexa and Amazon Echo are really top notch. Not only the whole platform but also how it learns and interacts. Better than asking if it’s connected to the...
- [the fight for the low code](https://prt.sc/the-fight-for-the-low-code/): There are a “few” platforms for low code development software, where OutSystems (a portuguese company) rules the market. The main purpose of these platforms is to provide a common set of...
- [windows 10 creators - worth the update](https://prt.sc/windows-10-creators-worth-the-update/): fist look at the new windows creator: – it has some interesting features, all the necessary updates (security too) and it feels more (a lot more) nimble. battery...
- [stay safe, use USB condom](https://prt.sc/stay-safe-use-usb-condom/): Charging devices on an USB port is now the most common thing on earth. We all do it, multiple times a day. Some just use with the charger...
- [contacless payments, the missed opportunity for mobile providers](https://prt.sc/contacless-payments-the-missed-opportunity-for-mobile-providers/): In a recent discussion on LinkedIn over contactless payments, I’ve realized this is a missed opportunity for the mobile providers, when you think of it. If you live in...
- [this is indeed a mistery](https://prt.sc/this-is-indeed-a-mistery/): “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” ― Arthur Conan...
- [dropping magsafe on macbooks](https://prt.sc/apple-courage-dropping-magsafe/): Today was the announcement everyone was expecting. The new new macbook pros 2016. The brand new and improved chassis. The new CPU. The new graphic board. The new...
- [the you society](https://prt.sc/the-you-society/): 10 years ago Times chosen ‘you’ as the person of the year. ‘You’ as in the person behind the screen, the center of social media, where things should...
- [the power of small print #iphone](https://prt.sc/the-power-of-small-print-iphone/): There’s a new iPhone in town. It’s called the 7 and it doesn’t have a 3.5mm audio jack – which is good because I only use bluetooth headphones....
- [serverless](https://prt.sc/serverless/): Serverless architectures will be definitely the future. I’m sure of that. But they are a pain to manage. Companies are still doing the transition from physical -> virtual...
- [live photos on the iPhone; shhh! they're listening!](https://prt.sc/live-photos-on-the-iphone-shhh-theyre-listening/): So, live photos have been around for sometime now on the newer iPhones and latest iOS, but until recently we only had paid tools to create gifs out of those live...
- [It's the data, Sherlock!](https://prt.sc/data-sherlock/): About the Mexican data leak The data was stored in a publicly accessible MongoDB database, that required no password or authentication to be accessed. The database was hosted on...
- [when agencies don't communicate](https://prt.sc/when-agencies-dont-communicate/): Everyone knows the case of FBI vs Apple, which started with a weird request to Apple. But now the FBI dropped the case, since it doesn’t need Apple’s help...
- [software is not eating the world. hardware is.](https://prt.sc/hardware-is-eating-the-world/): Dropbox just quit Amazon Web Services and the most interesting thing (beside that) is that they’re doing their own hardware now and seeing that as a huge competitive...
- [Code of Practice - Equipment Interference](https://prt.sc/code-of-practice-equipment-interference/): So the UK has a draft for Equipment Interference that could soon become law.  (local cache) With this, instead of having the Government trying to hack systems and...
- [TNW; 6 years ago](https://prt.sc/tnw-6-years-ago/): One of my first interviews was with Charlie Kindel, 6 years ago, for The Next Web and it kinda reminded me that time does fly.
- [oscars, startups and quitting](https://prt.sc/oscars-startups-and-quitting/): Yesterday, Chris Rock delivered a great monologue about diversity, but there was something more to it, mostly when he thought about boycotting the whole thing… How come there’s only...
- [15 years of a State of Trance](https://prt.sc/15-years-of-a-state-of-trance/): So, I’ve been privileged of following Armin Van Buuren for the past 15 years. I still remember those first days at DI.FM where we could get his sets...
- [cyber celebrity](https://prt.sc/cyber-celebrity/): This is rather old now, but Kevin Spacey went to the Davos forum in November and was wired by WISeKey Security. Now, we’ve all seen celebrities doing more ‘tech’ stuff for money...
- [the corporate information](https://prt.sc/the-corporate-information/): One of things I’ve recently seen is that no one in the corporate world ever mastered the way they produce information and consume it. Let’s face it, we...
- [gartner might be wrong. machine learning is just picking up (again)](https://prt.sc/gartner-might-be-wrong-machine-learning-is-just-picking-up-again/): We all know about the Gartner HypeCycle 2015 and their predictions. One of those is around machine learning, which is down on the peak of inflated expectations, going to...
- [blunt 2016 predictions from microsoft](https://prt.sc/blunt-2016-predictions-from-microsoft/): It’s that time of the year again when companies and researchers are asked about their work and what they think it will happen next year. Microsoft has just...
- [money over privacy](https://prt.sc/money-over-privacy/): VTech was recently hacked and it was really bad for everyone, as Vice Motherboard reports: a hacker broke into the servers of VTech, a Hong Kong-based company that...
- [banking and the cloud (by Investec)](https://prt.sc/banking-and-the-cloud-by-investec/): Yesterday we had one of the largest AWS User Group meetups ever in the UK at Investec, and was quite epic to be honest. We had drones, flashing hoodies...
- [Jira, the favourite tool of bad managers](https://prt.sc/jira-the-favourite-tool-of-bad-managers/): Three days ago, Ben Hughes wrote on Medium that the use of Jira is quite often a symptom of a management problem. Which I completely agree! In my...
- [the credit card killed the banks](https://prt.sc/the-credit-card-killed-the-banks/): Where do we use credit cards to buy stuff ? Well, for me it’s pretty much everywhere: google play, apple store, paypal, online groceries, amazon, domains, hosting, cloud...
- [cloud white labeling](https://prt.sc/cloud-white-labeling/): We all heard that Microsoft is opening an UK datacenter in 2016. Which is quite good to overcome some ‘boring’ law gaps regarding data issues. Even if data...
- [key management at the bank of england](https://prt.sc/key-management-at-the-bank-of-england/): The Guardian has today a piece about the Bank of England and with some pictures illustrating how it works and what’s inside. What intrigued me was their key...
- [the power of data](https://prt.sc/the-power-of-data/): We already get Google usage reports regularly and they’re pretty much comprehensible and it’s interesting to see how we spend our time with GMail. But just now I...
- [cyber, cyber, cyber, security, cyber, cyber, cyber](https://prt.sc/cyber-cyber-cyber-security-cyber-cyber-cyber/): There’s a huge security market report by Cybersecurity Ventures out just now http://cybersecurityventures.com/cybersecurity-market-report/ (pdf) It’s ‘cyber’ all around, commercially sponsored (might have some bias), but never the less some interesting...
- [AWS; cloudy London](https://prt.sc/aws-cloudy-london/): The cat is out! Werner Vogels on its blog today wrote about the third AWS EU datacenter, right here in the UK. “”The AWS UK region will be...
- [dumb pipe, smart pipe](https://prt.sc/dumb-pipe-smart-pipe/): I’ve already talked about dump pipes, which is what common network providers are. They’ve lost services to startups, apps to the app stores and capabilities to technology; GPS...
- [first they fight you, then you both win](https://prt.sc/first-they-fight-you-then-you-both-win/): https://youtu.be/7XEujPG7Zjw That was an RedHat commercial back in 2005, when they were hitting Microsoft and closed source every month with their “Truth Happens” – legendary – campaign. 10...
- [Hackers: Marvin Minsky](https://prt.sc/hackers-marvin-minsky/): I found Marvin in the book already mentioned here, which I advise everyone to read: Hackers. One of the things I remember back then was about “the enthusiasm of...
- [cloud computing as renewable energy](https://prt.sc/cloud-computing-as-renewable-energy/): Yesterday on twitter, Larry Carvalho was talking about the next big AWS step; on-premise availability zones. That’s interesting, but if we think of it on a broader scale; why...
- [2015 hype cycle](https://prt.sc/2015-hype-cycle/): It’s that time of the year when Gartner launches their predictions and state of technology with the Hype Cycle.. Here’s some interesting notes: Hybrid Cloud Computing is half way...
- [paper, rock, security](https://prt.sc/paper-rock-security/): Sends email to IT with security details IT emails back with User/Password Changes password to a pass phrase Too long pass phrase Changes back to a random password...
- [you also need an opensource strategy](https://prt.sc/you-also-need-an-opensource-strategy/): Not all companies produce software and from those that do, not all make them available as opensource projects. Closed source and IP is still considered a form of...
- [europe weird wide world](https://prt.sc/europe-weird-wide-world/): From the same guys that brought you a mobile roaming free Europe, now they say that you should have a fast and slow lane to the internet. And...
- [oracle has a cloud](https://prt.sc/oracle-has-a-cloud/): Oracle had yesterday (Sunday, yes) its Oracle OpenWorld and Larry keynote was on late night here in London – for everyone’s standards… … and it felt like this:...
- [cloud versioning](https://prt.sc/cloud-versioning/): As you might’ve noticed by now, we don’t have the cloud versioning thing as we had in the silly web times (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…) or as we still...
- [about passwords](https://prt.sc/about-passwords/): XKCD nailed it quite well. “I don’t care about passwords, honestly” is more stronger than “p@s$vv0rDs” For the record, if you have a phrase like the one about...
- [when a CEO says its company was hacked](https://prt.sc/when-a-ceo-says-its-company-was-hacked/): It’s all over the news; TalkTalk was hacked. We’re talking about customers personal information and bank details. So, pretty much their core business – not core function, as it still...
- [the economy of cloud scale](https://prt.sc/the-economy-of-cloud-scale/): We all know by now that AWS is massive not just on cloud capabilities, but also infrastructure wise and with revenue + investment. The same with Google and Microsoft. With...
- [the opex vendor lock-in of fragmentation](https://prt.sc/the-opex-vendor-lock-in-of-fragmentation/): “No one got fired for buying IBM” – that was the status-quo of vendor lock-in two decades ago. It was so much entangled into the IT culture that people wouldn’t...
- [what happened to linux on desktop ?](https://prt.sc/what-happened-to-linux-on-desktop/): … this happened This quote came from Joyent presentation about Linux containers on illumos (opensolaris fork) and represents two things: 1) the people that loved linux on the desktop...
- [time sharing systems](https://prt.sc/time-sharing-systems/): So, I wasn’t around when Compatible Time-Sharing Systems (CTSS) were in place  – hard to believe, eh? 😛 – but my father was and he still has a box...
- [if you're not using the cloud, you're doing IT wrong](https://prt.sc/if-youre-not-using-the-cloud-youre-doing-it-wrong/): Big enterprise has their gold plated, enterprise grade hardware, and all of their enterprise software support and there are huge bills there. With cloud, this gets cleaned out,...
- [Tesla business plan for the next 5 years](https://prt.sc/tesla-business-plan-for-the-next-5-years/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=ktyMmzZ6WeM Tesla cars will reach 620 miles on a single charge within a year or two and be fully autonomous in three years. Simple and clear message.
- [#AzureCon 2015](https://prt.sc/azurecon-2015/): I’m not the biggest Microsoft fan in the world. Heck! I was never a Microsoft fanboy – neither Apple, btw. But I see that now, with Google and...
- [git out of da choppah!](https://prt.sc/git-out-of-da-choppah/): Recently I’ve found some interesting data on our github, under the punch cards graphs. It currently describes three projects and how we approach them. – Case 1 –...
- [what's up](https://prt.sc/whats-up/): It has been two months since my last post here. Which is really alarming, since I promised myself to right every month at least a post. Guess that...
- [going back in time - part I](https://prt.sc/going-back-in-time-part-i/): For future reference, I’m going to leave here two links for you to explore: http://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-lemmings/ http://www.vice.com/read/in-conversation-with-games-industry-legend-ian-livingstone-551 The first one tells the story of Lemmings – one of the...
- [Calvin and Hobbes - timeless piece of art](https://prt.sc/calvin-and-hobbes-timeless-piece-of-art/): Calvin and Hobbes was created for 10 years. It lives forever in me. In 2013 Bill draw this.  http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice/ Priceless!
- [my Sony Z3c little annoyances](https://prt.sc/my-sony-z3c-little-annoyances/): I have a Sony Z3 Compact from Three UK. The phone is one of the best phones I ever had and its form factor is superb, along with...
- [NAT: AI needs to be enterprise owned capability](https://prt.sc/nat-ai-needs-to-be-enterprise-owned-capability/): So, here is the question nobody is asking in the boardroom. Everyone is talking about AI budgets. Model costs. API spend. Pilot ROI. But the real question is simpler: after all that money, what do you actually own? It had a warning in the corner that I cannot stop thinking about: “Expertise leaks out while the enterprise only rents intelligence back.” That is not a technology problem. It is a capital structure problem. And most companies are living it. Here is the pattern. You bring in a team. They build an agent. They learn your domain, your exceptions, your taste. They...
- [From PoC to Production: Why Reliability is the New Frontier for AI Agents](https://prt.sc/from-poc-to-production-why-reliability-is-the-new-frontier-for-ai-agents/): Here’s a great chat I had with Marc Hardwick, were we discussed the evolution of the Hitachi Application Reliability Center (HARC) and how it is being adapted to meet the challenges of the current AI landscape, and a bunch of other interesting stuff 🙂 TLDR; The Evolution of HARC Bridging the “AI Slop” Key Components of HARC Agents Business Model and ROI We announced the official UK launch of HARC Agents on October 15th 2025 in London.
- [“Skills are all you need”… and here’s how to build them](https://prt.sc/skills-are-all-you-need-and-heres-how-to-build-them/): Enterprise AI is accumulating debt faster than most organisations realise. The debt is not in the models – it’s in the plumbing around them. Teams build agents, wire in tools, and ship capabilities that only one agent can call, with no policy enforcement, no telemetry, and no owner. When the model changes or the agent is retired, the tool disappears with it. Nothing was reusable because nothing was designed to be. Our CAAI whitepaper Skills are all you need addressed this directly. Our argument is simple: the right unit of execution in an enterprise agent ecosystem is going to the skill; a governed, callable...
- ["Skills Are All You Need"](https://prt.sc/skills-are-all-you-need/): Why the unit of scale for enterprise AI isn’t only the agent The pattern is familiar. A team builds an agent to automate triage. Another builds one to coordinate patches. A third builds one for incident reporting. Six months later, the organisation has a dozen agents, each carrying its own connectors to the same CMDB, its own approval logic, its own interpretation of what “policy compliant” means. The integration work has been done three times. The governance work has been done nowhere. This is the agentic scaling problem, and it arrives faster than most organisations expect. The instinct is to treat...
- [NAT: Defeating seat based SaaS revenue in the AI budget reallocation](https://prt.sc/nat-defeating-seat-based-saas-revenue-in-the-ai-budget-reallocation/): SaaS has always had its comfort blankets: seats, dashboards, admin consoles, and the sacred renewal motion. But something is changing! When AI can do the “clicky work”, summarise the backlog, raise the ticket, draft the runbook, and ship the workflow before your QBR deck finishes exporting, selling more logins isn’t a strategy anymore. Value is ! Budgets don’t vanish, they get reassigned and if you’re still charging for humans in a world optimising for fewer humans, you’re volunteering for contraction. If you can charge for outcomes in a world buying outcomes, you get to keep the margin and the multiple. (#JustSaying)...
- [In the media we trust (?)](https://prt.sc/in-the-media-we-trust/): I guess this is quite relevant for what’s about to come! Carl Bernstein wrote a ‘few’ years ago, that through the mid-1970s, the CIA built a large, systematic set of covert relationships with US journalists and major news organisations, using them for intelligence collection, operational support, and influence-related objectives. American journalists “secretly carried out assignments” for the CIA over roughly 25 years, ranging from informal cooperation to explicit tasking. Also, foreign correspondence naturally confers access and mobility. Journalists can travel, meet officials, and cultivate sources in government, academia, military and scientific circles in ways that may be difficult for declared officials....
- [Read Before Monday - End of Year - 2025](https://prt.sc/read-before-monday-end-of-year-2025/): 2025 in Review for #RBM Welcome to the end of the year review for Read Before Monday! This is the last edition before the two weeks that I won’t be posting. So, here’s our year in recap 🙂 If there’s one thing this year reinforced, it’s this: technology doesn’t fix systems. It exposes them. The ones that held up in 2025 weren’t the most advanced, they were the ones that remembered their constraints. Despite the pressure points, the year closed with something quietly reassuring: systems still respond to care, not hype, where constraints were understood, progress held and where people chose...
- [Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills](https://prt.sc/equipping-agents-for-the-real-world-with-agent-skills/): We often mistake the “Agent” in AI for style; with a persona, tone, conversational flow, as if that’s where all the magic happens. But real innovation lies underneath: in how these systems structure memory, reasoning, and invocation. So now we have Anthropic’s new Agent Skills, which gives us a concrete bridge between architecture and economics. We’re now making agents efficiently intelligent, so they reason only where ambiguity lies, recall only what’s relevant, and outsource the rest to robust procedural systems. The problem: context bottleneck Any model lives inside a context window. Everything it “knows” in a moment, from prompt, conversation, tool...
- [TimeSeries models for the future: why OpenTSLM changes the game](https://prt.sc/timeseries-models-for-the-future-why-opentslm-changes-the-game/): When I first wrote about timeseries models, my argument was straightforward: this domain was lagging. Natural language had its transformers. Vision had its foundation models. But timeseries – whether in finance, healthcare, or operations – was still scattered across task-specific architectures, data silos, and brittle pipelines. In those articles, I noted three systemic issues: LLMs don’t “get” time, data is scarce, and explainability isn’t optional. Now there’s new research from Stanford, ETH Zurich, and collaborators, turned into OpenTSLM and is the first serious attempt to answer those challenges. It introduces TimeSeries Language Models (TSLMs) that treat time-series as a native modality,...
- [MCP Security: the new perimeter](https://prt.sc/mcp-security-the-new-perimeter/): Application security has always followed a familiar arc. First it was the website. Then the API. Then the LLM API. Now comes something stranger and more pervasive; the Model Context Protocol. MCP is beyond being an endpoint, right now it’s being positioned as an operating fabric where agents roam, infer, and act with a degree of autonomy. So, this shift breaks the old security playbook. It’s no longer send input, get output. It’s interpret context, decide action, compose workflow. Basically, the “surface area” is no longer just code and data, it’s actually the reasoning steps in between. Sure, traditional APIs are...
- [AI-First; Mobile-First; Cloud-First](https://prt.sc/ai-first-mobile-first-cloud-first/): So, I keep seeing “AI-first” titles. Lovely. Sounds great! Looks even better… Now show me your SLOs, rollback plan and cost guardrails. If Finance can’t predict model spend to ±10% and Ops can’t roll an agent back in five minutes, it isn’t AI-first. It’s announcement-first. Don’t take me wrong and I probably might be…. but I don’t think AI-first is like old cloud-first or mobile-first. Cloud-first was a venue change. You moved compute, wrapped it in IaC, tightened IAM, tuned for cost and availability. Deterministic systems, mature patterns, predictable bills. Then came Mobile-first, and that was a channel shift. You re-composed...
- [eBook - Operationalising GenAI: From Pilots to Enterprise-Scale](https://prt.sc/operationalising-genai-from-pilots-to-enterprise-scale/): Generative AI has captured imaginations; but for enterprises, the real challenge is no longer experimentation. It’s execution at scale. The moment you move from pilot to production, issues of cost, reliability, security, and trust become unavoidable. Leaders are asking a single question: how do we run this responsibly at scale? So, models are no longer scarce; they’re abundant. The scarce resource is the ability to operate them reliably in live environments. That’s where scale collides with cost, drift, observability and bias. Without a foundation of governance and operational discipline, GenAI risks creating more uncertainty than value. Hitachi Digital Services eBook – Operationalizing GenAI and AI at...
- [UK’s AI assurance roadmap: we need to certify the solution, not just people or processes](https://prt.sc/uks-ai-assurance-roadmap-we-need-to-certify-the-solution-not-just-people-or-processes/): The UK’s new AI assurance roadmap is pointing the market toward something more useful than tool audits: independently assured solutions that combine software, operating model, controls, and evidence. That direction matches how we at Hitachi Digital Services built HARC for AI (operational assurance) and R2O2.ai (responsible, resilient, observable, optimal) at Hitachi Digital Services: instrumentation plus governance, designed to present verifiable proof rather than claims. GOV.UK Why “software + solution” is the certifiable unit Most risks don’t live inside a model binary; they emerge from the interaction of data, prompts, tools, humans, and change management. A certifiable unit therefore needs to look like this: That composite is...
- [NAT: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security](https://prt.sc/nat-model-context-protocol-mcp-security/): So, the future of application security isn’t just about protecting your website, your APIs, or even your cloud infrastructure. The new frontier is something far stranger – and far riskier. It’s called Model Context Protocol, or MCP. And they may be the most important, least understood security challenge we face as AI agents become part of everyday software. And now about this… Let’s start simple. Think of the history of apps like a family tree. We began with websites. Then came APIs. Then LLM APIs – those interfaces to big language models like ChatGPT or Claude. And now, MCP. Which was built...
- [MCP Dev Days Recap: Agentic AI is coming to Windows](https://prt.sc/mcp-dev-days-recap-agentic-ai-is-coming-to-windows/): So, Microsoft’s MCP Dev Days is live and has revealed one of the most significant OS-level shifts in recent years: the formal introduction of agents as native citizens in the Windows operating system. At the core of this transformation is the Model Control Protocol (MCP), a runtime interface that allows AI agents to securely interact with system-level services like the file system, settings, app actions, WSL, and windowing, all governed and observable by design. This isn’t just another developer API or ASP.NET/DLL … or even productivity overlay. Can be a foundational substrate that repositions the OS as an Agentic platform, enabling...
- [Turning autonomy into advantage: how Agentic AI is reshaping enterprise strategy](https://prt.sc/turning-autonomy-into-advantage-how-agentic-ai-is-reshaping-enterprise-strategy/): Agentic AI isn’t just “the next wave of AI”. It’s going to be the new backbone for how enterprise will work. Not theoretically. Not in a lab. But in daily operation; real work, real systems, and real outcomes. The Salesforce forecast of a 383% rise in adoption by 2027 is less a prediction and more a warning shot: either you integrate it into the guts of your business or get buried by those who do. At Hitachi Digital Services, we’ve stopped thinking of Agentic AI as a category. It’s the infrastructure now. We’ve wired it into everything; products, people, incentives, governance...
- [NAT: Agentic Engineering](https://prt.sc/nat-agentic-engineering/): Coding has always had heroes, rockstars, ninjas, and more recently the mythical 10x engineer. But something’s changed. When AI now drafts your PR, answers your linter, and scaffolds your microservice before your coffee even cools, brute-force speed isn’t special anymore. Decision-making is. Engineers aren’t being replaced; they’re being repositioned, augmented. And not by job title, but by behaviour. That’s the agentic engineer. And now about this… Agentic Engineer; lets talk about it! Three behaviours define them. None involve semicolons. First: they think like product people. Not in a PM cosplay kind of way, but in knowing how their commits map to...
- [NAT: Merging content](https://prt.sc/nat-merging-content/): Today’s PSA 🙂First, thank you for four brilliant years of “Now About This”. Together we have recorded 80 episodes of deep‑dive conversations, rants and some pet peeves of mine. For those that follow me on Linkedin, over the last year I also launched “This Week in GenAI” a Linkedin Live with some friends, no more than 30 minutes on every Friday. Yes, fully live, non-scripted, just us. It was 40 rapid‑fire sessions of news, analysis and debate. But, time is scarce and I need to merge these two streams, videos, whatever we call this conversation. So what are these changes– First, “Now About This” becomes the single flagship show; expect more frequent, tighter episodes that keep the long‑form curiosity...
- [From Code Editors to Autonomous Colleagues](https://prt.sc/from-code-editors-to-autonomous-colleagues/): How four rival IDEs are redefining software productivity, and what we can do about it. The silent shift in the engineering org It feels like wizardry, a fast becoming routine, agentic or “vibe coding”: a workflow in which AI collaborators do most of the mechanical coding whilst engineers steer by intent – meaning prompting. Andrej Karpathy popularised the term in Feb25, describing it as “a new kind of coding where you give in to the vibes and forget the code even exists”. But now it is predicted to achieve 10x productivity gains for teams that master it, it compresses software cycle time by 40–55 % in...
- [Autonomous IDE's or Vibe Coding](https://prt.sc/autonomous-ides-or-vibe-coding/): Agent‑driven or “vibe” coding has sprinted from hack‑day novelty to hard business value in record time. When AI takes on the grunt work of writing, compiling and refactoring, teams spend 40–55 per cent less time on each feature, without introducing more bugs. Well some…  So, no wonder investors have poured billions into this space: . No surprise, right? And now about this.. The tooling layer is heating up and autonomous IDEs are in! So, who are the players? Four names dominate the leaderboard. First comes VS Code, still living in its Electron shell but now boosting a cloud agent that can open a terminal,...
- [NAT: TimeSeries Models for the Future 2/2](https://prt.sc/nat-timeseries-models-for-the-future-2-2/): Now that we understand what Time Series Foundation Models are and how they work, let’s explore their real-world impact. TSFMs are transforming industries by enhancing forecasting accuracy, optimizing operations, and enabling data-driven decision-making like never before. This is the second part episode of …  Time Series Foundation Models 🙂 And now about this… Let’s pick it up form the first episode where I detailed some of its technical aspects of TSFM. To recap, TSFMs are built on advanced Transformer architectures, which offer a quantum leap over traditional time series methods by addressing complexity, scalability, and accessibility challenges, such as: Zero-Shot Inference: by...
- [NAT: TimeSeries Models for the Future 1/2](https://prt.sc/nat-timeseries-models-for-the-future-1-2/): I’ve been looking into TimeSeries Foundation Models for a while now and Time Series data is everywhere, from stock market trends to energy grid demand and predictive maintenance in rail, for example. Yet, traditional forecasting models have struggled to keep up with the complexity of modern operations. This is the first part episode of what I think it’s a game changing innovation, which leverages the power of Transformers to unlock the full potential of time dependent data. And now about this… In this first episode, I’ll introduce TSFMs (TimeSeries Foundation Models), break down for you their key technical components, and explore...
- [Application Managed Services - a strategic imperative](https://prt.sc/application-managed-services-a-strategic-imperative/): The roles of the CIOs and CTOs has fundamentally shifted. Gone are the days when IT was solely about maintaining infrastructure and “keeping the lights on”. In today’s tech world, leaders are expected to be strategic partners, driving innovation, enabling business agility, and contributing directly to the bottom line. In this new landscape, Application Managed Services (AMS) are no longer a simple cost cutting tactic; they’ve become a strategic imperative for organizations seeking to thrive in this changing world. Read the article here Whilst traditional in-house IT models are increasingly struggling to keep pace with the demands of modern business. Internal...
- [eBook: How to Lead the AI Revolution in Your Industry](https://prt.sc/ebook-how-to-lead-the-ai-revolution-in-your-industry/): GenAI, represents a revolutionary leap in artificial intelligence, empowering businesses to redefine their operations and unlock unprecedented value. Unlike the traditional AI, which primarily focuses on pattern recognition and predictions, GenAI possesses the remarkable ability to create entirely new content, solutions, and ideas. This new potential to reshape industries is immense; from revolutionising customer service with intelligent chatbots to streamlining software engineering with GenAI-driven code generation, the applications of GenAI are vast and continue to expand rapidly. Bellow there’s the eBook I co-author at Hitachi: https://hitachids.com/pdf/lead-ai-revolution-industry-genai-2/ Now, is the time for businesses to embrace GenAI and embark on a transformative journey...
- [NAT: Datacentre of the Future](https://prt.sc/nat-datacentre-of-the-future/): You know, it’s funny how things come full circle. We started with massive, expensive monoliths in the IT world. Then, along came cloud computing to disrupt the scene. Suddenly, it was all about decoupling, going serverless, and containerized everything, right? Cheaper, scalable, and hey, less management headache. Cloud was the solution. But here we are, back at the discussion table, running ROI calculations, debating CAPEX versus OPEX all over again. Why? Because software-defined datacenters now let us replicate cloud-like environments anywhere. And now about this… So,  for some businesses, bringing workloads back on-premises is looking pretty attractive again. Don’t get me...
- [NAT: The Anatomy of an AI Agent](https://prt.sc/nat-the-anatomy-of-an-ai-agent/): Soon we’ll all be in the Matrix, with agents doing our work. Hopefully, none of them will be like Agent Smith. Jokes aside, AI Agents are a growing focus in the GenAI ecosystem. Think of them as digital twins of employees, each designed to fulfil a specific role within an organization. Let’s break down the anatomy of AI Agents—and get into what makes them tick! And now about this… AI Agents are rapidly evolving from abstract concepts into practical tools, with organizations increasingly deploying them to automate and support human work. However, whilst AI agents are hyped as transformative technology, some experts—like...
- [About this](https://prt.sc/about-this/)
- [NAT: Generative AI Operations](https://prt.sc/nat-generative-ai-operations/): We’re currently in a world where everyone (you, me and enterprises) are adopting Generative AI to help solve many complex use cases with natural language instructions.  In plain English, we’re leveraging GenAI to help us do things – some of them stretching the envelope. So we’re dealing with LLM’s, RAG, DAtaOps, MLOps, DevOps, all the ops.. But what about the Generative AI Operations? Where we integrate, streamline, monitor and manage all the Generative AI work? And now about this… In essence, GenAIOps (or Generative AI Operations) is a specialized discipline within AI and software engineering that addresses the operational challenges of...
- [NAT: Datacentre as Critical Infrastructure](https://prt.sc/nat-datacentre-as-critical-infrastructure/): We know that a hospital, school, government buildings, roads, bridges, electricity, water, are the core components of a Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). If something goes wrong with any of that, there will be a lot of problems for everyone that uses or requires it. Without it we can’t do our normal lives. On modern days we’ve added internet and telephone signal as critical, but now, with everything that we do on the “cloud”, which is a computer in someone’s datacentre, we in the UK added the datacentres as part of our critical infrastructure. And now about this… So what is this...
- [NAT: Private Cloud Compute What?!](https://prt.sc/nat-private-cloud-compute-what/): So there was Public Cloud, Government Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, but Apple had to come up with something new, the Private Cloud Compute. Like we need to reinforce that whatever happens in the cloud is just happening in someone’s else computer – in this case in some datacentre around the world. Saying it’s private, is a cute little marketing term, as usual from Apple. And now about this… Apple recently launched for their new iOS and Apple Intelligence capability, a thing called PPC – Private Cloud Compute. Which, for them, is a mix of privacy, security and in cloud, just...
- [NAT: NVIDIA's Icarus feathers and wax](https://prt.sc/nat-nvidias-icarus-feathers-and-wax/): We all know Icarus, the story from Greek mythology… It’s the tells of a young man who flew too close to the sun with wings made of feathers and wax. Despite warnings, so proud that it led to his downfall, as the wax melted and he fell into the sea. Now, that’s what everyone’s expecting from Nvidia. It feels the meteorite  rises will soon melt and they will fall, or will they? And now about this… NVIDIA has consistently led the market in Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Originally essential for gaming, GPUs are now critical for GenAI and machine learning (ML) tasks,...
- [The Remote GenAI Worker](https://prt.sc/the-remote-genai-worker/): “Remote workers are now more susceptible to automation due to their tasks being digital” – I disagree. Whilst this might be true that Generative AI can assist in digital tasks, white-collar jobs, particularly those involving knowledge work, have historically been relatively insulated from automation due to the complexity and cognitive skills required. But might that be changing? At least that’s what HBR says. Here are some counterarguments Complexity and Cognitive Skills The Role of GenAI as a Tool Human Elements and Leadership Future Opportunity Overall, GenAI represents a significant advancement in technology, it’s like the third revolution of tech (right after...
- [NAT: Situational Awareness](https://prt.sc/nat-situational-awareness/): We all have that friend that is usually not aware of how awkward and cringe he or she is, right? Sometimes, they can’t read the room. Heck, I bet it happens to everyone, not to just that one friend… Like in technology, understanding or “reading the room” is crucial! First for error prevention and then for performance improvement. And now about this…. We now that human error is an inevitable part of organizational life, but errors can have severe consequences and must be minimized. In today’s rapidly evolving technology world, situational awareness is essential for preventing errors, enhancing performance, and ensuring...
- [NAT: Estimations are always wrong](https://prt.sc/nat-estimations-are-always-wrong/): Let’s admit it! Estimations aren’t for everyone, right? If you’re watching this, chances are that you’re doing SCRUM, which at certain point you struggled to estimate work, even when you thought you nailed all the points on that sprint. 6 out or 10 times, you end up underestimating complexity and facing scope creep. So what if I told you that abandoning estimations on agile software development, can significantly streamline processes and improve productivity. And now about this… In the traditional Agile methodology, especially Scrum, the process of estimating work often becomes complicated, fuzzy and detracts from actual development time. The complexity...
- [The Tech Burden of Knowledge](https://prt.sc/the-tech-burden-of-knowledge/): Interesting article by Maxwell Tabarrok, where he criticises the notion that accumulating knowledge inevitably makes it harder to find new ideas. The burden of Knowledge Theory suggests that as knowledge accumulates, it takes longer to learn enough to innovate, potentially slowing progress. Like him, I totally disagree! Here’s my view as a technologist: Emerging Technologies: Focus on technologies that simplify complex processes, rendering prior knowledge less relevant. For instance, cloud computing abstracts infrastructure management, simplifying deployment. GenAI: Provides accessible intelligence and automation, enabling everyone to build on complex systems without needing deep expertise. Breadth of Experience: Gaining experience across various roles...
- [GenAI in Test Driven Development](https://prt.sc/genai-in-test-driven-development/): Everyone’s moving fast today. In Software Development we want everything to be lean, agile, automated, configurable, scripted, resilient, scalable… cheap and fast. Now there’s this new thing called Generative AI that is making a lot of promises and being used like a kitchen sink. Funny story, it can really be a very interesting and useful one. I do believe that our traditional software development methodologies can and will be redefined by generative emerging technologies and one such use case is the shift towards integration of GenAI in our coding practices. I’m not talking about the failed and fake Devin, but rather...
- [WordStar - the best Word Processor](https://prt.sc/wordstar-the-best-word-processor/): You don’t need to believe in me, just look at the famous writers that still use it! Developed by MicroPro International, WordStar is often considered one of the first widely successful word processors and I even got a certificate of completion for it. Back then we would to all the text editing with keyboard shortcuts, which for those only using mouse now, gives everyone a very fast experience. So, I never had an issue exiting VIM (that’s a geeky joke!). Funny story, George R.R. Martin used WordStar for the Game of Thrones novel. It was a very simple and effective piece...
- [Value Streams](https://prt.sc/value-streams/): The other day I was talking to a customer about the value of a Value Stream approach for their organization. We tend to focus way more on tech, how teams are organized and sometimes we forget to focus on the customer journey, the value we’re creating and what that means when need to deliver something. So, achieving that real customer value requires a holistic approach, seamlessly integrating all phases of that journey; data science, systems and processes, organizational culture, business models, services, and of course, the customer experience. By aligning these elements, we can create a streamlined path from data to...
- [Time-Series LLM](https://prt.sc/time-series-llm/): The other day, I gave a short presentation to a manufacturing client where I highlighted our work with Time-Series LLMs, which we use for advanced predictive maintenance to enhance efficiency and reduce downtime. So, when comparing Time-Series LLMs (based on transformers) to ARIMA models, each has distinct advantages (see chart). ARIMA models often excel in predictive maintenance, quality control, and supply chain optimisation, providing high reliability and precision with moderate computational needs. However, Time-Series LLMs are quickly catching up, offering flexibility and scalability, and handling both structured and unstructured data for similar tasks, plus having the capacity to deal with far...
- [NAT: Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA)](https://prt.sc/nat-failure-mode-effect-analysis-fmea/): Imagine having a versatile tool used across various industries to pre-emptively recognize and resolve issues before they become larger problems. I mean, imagine a way to identify where and how it might fail and to assess the relative impact of different failures, in order to identify the parts of the process that are most in need of change. Sounds great, no? FMEA – Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, originally developed by the military and now adopted by several engineering disciplines, aiming to help design products, processes and services, free of errors. And now about this… So, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis...
- [Digital Operational Resilient Explorer](https://prt.sc/digital-operational-resilient-explorer/): Welcome to DORA, no, no, not the explorer! But rather a new European Law that aims to be a game-changing framework for the financial sector. It’s like the stress-tests that banks need to go for financial resiliency, liquidity and the capability to survive, but now for disruptions in technology and digital operations. Even third-party service providers aren’t spared – this one applies to all of them too. Welcome to 2024 where everything needs to be resilient. And now about this. Digital Operational Resilience Act, or DORA, is a pioneering regulatory framework set to transform the operational resilience landscape for the financial...
- [Read Before Monday](https://prt.sc/read-before-monday/): Feels like it was yesterday (in 2016!!) that I launched the “Read Before Monday” articles, which were a curation of things I found interesting and would give my personal view. And now, here I am, making a comeback, but in a newsletter format. Subscribe on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7122700545194119168
- [Generative Retail Revolution](https://prt.sc/generative-retail-revolution/): It’s the brink of retail revolution! Isn’t it? And now powered by Generative AI. From enhancing product design to optimizing supply chains, and from transforming marketing strategies to elevating customer experiences, GenAI is the catalyst and the new kid on the block for unprecedented growth and innovation in the retail sector. Well, we hope 🙂 And now about this…. In the realm of retail, Generative AI is start to become a cornerstone for transformation, by enabling businesses to leap into new dimensions of efficiency, personalization, and customer satisfaction – just to say the least. Recently I did a presentation for some...
- [Dr. Sbaitso with Generative AI](https://prt.sc/dr-sbaitso-with-generative-ai/): Remember Dr. Sbaitso, an artificial intelligence program designed as a digital psychologist, made by Creative Labs and introduced in the early 90s for DOS – you know the operating system? Now Imagine then the concept of a modern digital psychologist, much like the nostalgic Dr. Sbaitso, but powered by Generative AI. It surely presents a fascinating evolution in the intersection of artificial intelligence and mental health support. And now about this… So Sbaitso is just an acronym for Sound Blaster Acting Intelligent Text to Speech Operator. And in 1992 was created to showcase the digitized synthetic voice capabilities of Creative Labs’...
- [PrintScreen Magazine](https://prt.sc/printscreen-magazine/): Back in 2007, this website was a blog aggregator and we asked a few of the bloggers to resume their 2007. The result was this number zero of the PrintScreen Magazine. https://prt.sc/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/0.pdf
- [Throwback: Learning French from Joystick Magazine](https://prt.sc/throwback-learning-french-from-joystick-magazine/): It was Easter vacation in Portugal, back in 1993, when I started learning proper French. Why do I recall that so well? Because it was a few months after Gobliins 2 had been released, and I was in desperate need of a solution to pass a few levels. Back then, the only way was to either go back to your community and friends, asking if someone had overcome that level, or invest in a magazine that would have a solution for the game — a step-by-step kind of solution. There was Joystick Magazine, which at that time in Portugal, was the...
- [NAT: Thinking Inside the Box](https://prt.sc/nat-thinking-inside-the-box/): Most people talk about thinking “outside of the box” as an idiomatic expression encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving that goes beyond traditional boundaries or norms. It’s about innovation and unconventional strategies that may not fit within structured models. But what about thinking “inside the box”, as a systematic method for examining and improving your organization? And now about this…
- [Modern Wisdom](https://prt.sc/modern-wisdom/): For me, the Three Wise Monkeys were always a visual representation, a reminder of some bigger values, the ethical culture which I always brought to any work environment I’ve been in. Nowadays, in our current days and troubles, they’re needed even more: See No Evil This symbolizes the ethical imperative to avoid becoming involved in activities that are morally corrupt or that contribute to injustice. It signifies that one should avoid environments or groups where unethical practices are prevalent. In modern terms, this could extend to ethical consumption, advising against watching or sharing content that promotes hatred or misinformation. Hear No...
- [NAT: Generative Shoe Machinery](https://prt.sc/nat-generative-shoe-machinery/): Just as the Industrial Revolution transformed my grandparents from shoemakers into artisans operating machinery, this new age of AI is changing the landscape for developers. In the near future you’ll be either an artisan coding bespoke solutions, or an engineer operating the machinery that codes for you. Welcome to the next industrial revolution in software development. And now about this…. Both my grandparents were shoemakers. They handled all the manual labour involved in making a new pair of shoes, from crafting the sole, to stitching the leather, then polishing and personalising every one to meet customer needs. Obviously, after a while,...
- [NAT: Copilot everything, all at once](https://prt.sc/nat-copilot-everything-all-at-once/): Copilot everything, everywhere, all at once. It’s not the sequel, bur rather what Microsoft presented us recently! Could easily be the plot for world dominance, again, but it’s just a simple, rather intuitive assistant that everyone will have, right after Clipper, to help on every mundane tasks on our operating system…. applications, data…. and even life…But hopefully without any hotdog fingers… And now, about this… Lets go back to what Microsoft recently announced, shall we? The event was about their Surface devices and then the AI part of the event, announcing the 365 Copilot on most of the productivity applications like...
- [UK airport confiscates passenger's Flipper Zero](https://prt.sc/uk-airport-confiscates-passengers-flipper-zero/): Yup, That’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation… But here is the story behind the news: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/gatwick-airport-seizes-flipper-zero/ For those who follow me on Twitter and the thread, you already had the details, but for those that quickly jumped in on me over at news.ycombinator and even here on LinkedIn without knowing any details, just by reading the news, here are some details: – I was stopped by airport security because of other elements I had with me, a corkscrew (that was the red flag), lock picking tools and watch opening tools. All electronic devices were ok, the laptop,...
- [NAT: Friday Afternoon Deployments](https://prt.sc/nat-friday-afternoon-deployments/): Ah, the good old times of when the “no one ever got fired for buying IBM” – was a thing. Remember that? Then the next one was the golden rule of development; “never deploy on a Friday afternoon”. Right? Well, the year is 2023 and if you can’t deploy safely on a Friday afternoon, then you’re doing something wrong! And now about this…
- [NAT: Go-To-Market Strategy](https://prt.sc/nat-go-to-market-strategy/): GTM or Go-To-Market is that business slang that is also trendy, sounds good and it goes around in the business world. It’s sophisticated and modern. Yet its overuse and lack of clarity can be misleading. By a lot! While companies have always been doing marketing for their products, the trendy GTM can offer an illusion of something new and exciting, something like ‘sales motion’, but is it? Or just same old? And now about this…
- [NAT: Estimations and Expectations](https://prt.sc/nat-estimations-and-expectations/): Estimations and expectations, today’s modern source of most of tech problems, right? No matter what tools, processes, methods, techniques and software we use to aid, address or solve these two apocalypse horse riders, we can’t seem to deal with it. It is the divide between managers and developers. You can’t have expectations without estimations, or even estimations without expectations. Let’s sync our clocks and ToDo’s, shall we? And now about this….
- [NAT: Propaganda in the Digital Age](https://prt.sc/nat-propaganda-in-the-digital-age/): We live in a fast-paced digital age, where everyone lives in their own echo chamber, but the tactics and techniques of propaganda have been improved, refined and expanded. Mostly propelled by the advancements in technology and the tools available. From influencing attitudes, behaviours and perceptions towards a particular cause or position, propaganda has remained consistent, but the methods of delivery have dramatically evolved. And now about this…
- [NAT: Technical Debt IRL](https://prt.sc/nat-technical-debt-irl/): We are living in a world saturated with technical debt! I’m not just talking about the software we produce, but rather have it on our normal daily life. When we pay with our phones, when we board a plane, when we shop at the supermarket. It is like an invisible burden, the consequences of outdated technology – or even processes. It clearly hinders the pace of our global economy and even our environment. We should “pay” more attention to this type of debt! And now about this…
- [NAT: Product Lead Transformation](https://prt.sc/nat-product-lead-transformation/): Some of you might have noticed by now that I have several videos already on the “Now About This” channel discussing product and transformation, and the intersection between the two. But how can organizations undergo a product-lead transformation? I do believe it’s great strategy for growth, but it requires a significant shift in mindset and business operations. It involves placing the product and the customer at the centre of the business strategy, whilst aligning the organization around this focus. And now about this…
- [NAT: Generative Agent Smith](https://prt.sc/nat-generative-agent-smith/): Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence, with trailblazers like ChatGPT reshaping how we perceive and understand technology and the world. So a recent study from Stanford introduced us to ‘Generative Agents,’ and let’s be clear – it’s not Agent Smith from the Matrix we’re talking about here. These are computational software agents that use AI to simulate human behaviour, not a program designed to keep order in a dystopian digital world. But that’s where the lines begin to blur! And now about this…
- [NAT: Prompt Operators](https://prt.sc/nat-prompt-operators/): Last year, we saw a shift in the natural order of things, especially within the development world. Let me explain. When I started my career, we were all programmers. Then the web appeared, and we became developers (backend, frontend, full stack, you name it). Now, with the advent of AI, we’ll just be operators…of the matrix? 🙂 And now about this…
- [NAT: chatGPT made this video](https://prt.sc/nat/): As LinkedIn continued to grow in popularity, more and more people began using the platform to connect with others in their professional network and share updates about their work and careers. However, with the increasing amount of content being shared on the platform, it became difficult for users to stand out and get their posts noticed. That’s where GPT-3 came in. And now about this!
- [NAT: Build protocols, not platforms](https://prt.sc/nat-build-protocols-not-platforms/): For those who follow me here, know that I’m a big fan of Twitter and even one of the first ones with an account there, as I managed to get a username with only two letters. But any social media today is a platform and even Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder, knows that it’s better to build a protocol and not a platform, as we moved from dumb terminals, to powerful devices, to cloud and now everything is centralized, again. And now about this…
- [NAT: Let's talk about Apple](https://prt.sc/nat-lets-talk-about-apple/): Let’s talk about Apple! Again, I know I know. But this time is about my Apple pet peeves. The things that I really hate about Apple devices and most recently with some things I thought to be already addressed years ago, and they weren’t.  But even worse, I don’t think what kind of pros really use Apple devices and it feels they’re using them in a perfect world condition. And now about this…
- [NAT: Growing Teams and Culture](https://prt.sc/nat-growing-teams-and-culture/): If you work in a high growth company, where the head count doubles or triples every year, or even less, then you know it’s hard to build a proper team that can cope with that much change and above all, teams that need to be high performant, follow the culture and deliver things – most of them like magic – in a short time between different hells and freezing cycles. In short, how can organizations cope, build and sustain teams in growth cycles and demand? And now about this….
- [NAT: Work Ready For Students](https://prt.sc/nat-work-ready-for-students/): This week I spent a day with year 12 grade kids, in a workshop style approach, bringing real life scenarios for them to solve, propose solutions, use their imagination and knowledge of technology, in order to use their skills and solve them. That said, I was a volunteer for the KPMG program called WorkReady, which is done in partnership with The Talent Foundry and I loved it!  And now about this…
- [NAT: Building Roadmaps](https://prt.sc/nat-building-roadmaps/): Did you ever used a roadmap to build company culture and provide a communication tool for everyone? Or are you just stuck to product roadmaps as feature announcements and goals? Because roadmaps are great communication tools when used properly and they should answer key questions to your stakeholders. And now about this….
- [NAT: Building Feature Teams](https://prt.sc/nat-building-feature-teams/): I’ve been recently dealing up close with engineering teams – I’m leading one at the moment- and also with the way what we’re going to build (and setup) new feature teams. From how we should work together, to what tools and processes we’re aiming for, and how to deal with new features and build them. Now the problem is when you want to move a ‘legacy’ type of team to a modern world, where software has strict regulations and governance around it, plus you need to onboard new people. So how do you build such feature teams to cope with that?...
- [NAT: Acronyms & Business Jargon](https://prt.sc/nat-acronyms-business-jargon/): CoE, PaaS, SaaS, CI, CD, MVP, ACL, APIM, BSOD, EOF, FIFO, CDN… They’re all acronyms that most of us use every day, but my favorite ones are PEBMAC (problem exists between monitor and chair) and PICNIC (Problem in Chair, Not in Computer). So, do people use jargon not just to communicate, but also to show off? Or does it make sense to use it extensively across your communication and in a conversational way? Are we lacking status and therefor compensate with acronyms, creating a barrier for new people or is it really normal to be like this? And now about this….
- [NAT: Cloud Minimum Viable Product](https://prt.sc/nat-cloud-minimum-viable-product/): I still remember how complicated it was to develop applications on the late 90’s and then web applications on the early 2000’s. Back then there was no cloud, no agile, no ci/cd pipelines and an app had to be fully featured, tested and approved. And any continuous improvements would had a serious impact on the availability of the app. So today with cloud, the minimum viable product is something that we all got used to, right? And now about this…
- [NAT: Career Gaps Explained](https://prt.sc/nat-career-gaps-explained/): Recently, I’ve seen some posts and comments about career gaps. And looking at a recent LinkedIn feature, it seems like a thing they will do to help everyone explain gaps in their careers. From life changing events, to burnout or simply lay-off, gaps are sometimes a source of shame for candidates or simply proud moments. But should this be any relevant? And now about this…
- [The Resignation of Agile](https://prt.sc/the-resignation-of-agile/): Recently, everyone has been talking about the great resignation [1]; on how people are quitting their jobs in record numbers. Even after the pandemic, it accelerated, and people continued to move and find other alternatives that could suit them better. Between the three main reasons you have burnouts or breaks, but then it’s to find something more rewarding (as in, something they can see themselves doing better or with better outcomes) and finally a better pay. Now, the problem here with better pay is that creates a bottleneck for Agile – you didn’t see that coming did you? 🙂 – because...
- [NAT: Crisis Management](https://prt.sc/nat-crisis-management/): Few weeks ago, Portugal was targeted by hackers and a large newsgroup was hacked – or better, erased -, another one was disrupted and a critical infrastructure provider got impacted and lost service for a day.  Is this now the open hacker season and I didn’t got the memo? 🙂 But you know what was the major difference between them, despite the hacks obviously? The crisis management and response to the incidents. And now about this…
- [NAT: Hobbies in Technology](https://prt.sc/nat-hobbies-in-technology/): It feels like everyone in technology have a hobby nowadays! From what I’ve seen on pretty much of the social networks, it’s quite trendy to have a side hustle, a gig or even a healthy – sports related let’s say – hobby. Well, I for one, don’t have any of that and I don’t mind, as my hobbies are always related to technology or work and I do think it’s a good idea. And now about this…
- [NAT: Back to the Office?](https://prt.sc/nat-back-to-the-office/): It’s been over 2 years of covid and back to work is on everyone’s mind, coffee machines are being warmed up, desks moved and emails being fired asking people to go back to the office. But is it really the best strategy? After 2 years of working from home and some doing hybrid during the intervals, is back to the office the best outcome from all of the pandemic? And now about this…
- [NAT: Communicating your strategy](https://prt.sc/nat-communicating-you-strategy/): At the beginning of the last decade I was lucky enough to work for one of the largest communication and PR companies in Portugal, where I learned a lot, but also helped drive the digital efforts and technology forward. Also, I deeply consider myself a technology evangelist, as I truly believe that you need to proper communicate and convince others about tech, at any stage of your career. That lead me to mix both worlds and provide consultancy for several clients and industries, where all of them were bad communicating their strategy to their people, customers and market. And Now About...
- [NAT: Voice Operating Systems](https://prt.sc/nat-voice-operating-systems/): For those who have been following me for years, know that I’m a big fan of Alexa – the voice assistant from Amazon. Not only a fan, but actually had a skill and newsflash running every day for more than 2 years. But one thing is using it for news and updates, the other is to use for proper automation, and that has been failing quite frequently. And now about this…
- [NAT: Predictions for 2022](https://prt.sc/nat-predictions-for-2022/): Predicting something in today’s day and age is quite hard. Specially because times are fast changing and tech is moving at warp speed. For this year, my three predictions would be about world impact and how tech is evolving to a place where we’re more dependent of manufacturers. So, let’s talk about System on a Chip, Democracy and Security, as they will be key this year. And now about this…
- [Drone Rant - Over Water](https://prt.sc/drone-rant-over-water/): I’ve been a drone pilot for some time now. Since my Phantom 3 and now with my Mavic Zoom 2 – which I love it! I have already quite some long hours flying drones and never had a severe crash – trees are more common. So, one of the things I love is taking my drones and flying above water in Portugal, near the coast, where there’s no one, no houses, no boats. Just water and rocks to take photos like the one bellow. But whilst in other countries (EU) you can fly easily over water or with a minor authorisation,...
- [NAT: Innovation Per Watt](https://prt.sc/nat-innovation-per-watt/): 2021 was the year where we got the best performance per watt CPU on the market: the apple M1. But it was also the year that Intel got themselves into a lot of trouble and comparing the both, even for me, a non apple fan, I see it as a clear winner, by far! But it’s naive to think days of Intel and AMD are over. And now about this…
- [NAT: Human Action Cycle](https://prt.sc/nat-human-action-cycle/): There is a psychological model by which it describes the steps humans take when they interact with computer systems. This model can be used to help evaluate if an user interface (or computer user interface) is efficient – as in, if they are functional, easy to use and intuitive. The model was proposed by Donald Norman in 1988 and it’s called the Human Action Cycle. And now about this…
- [NAT: Competitive Advantage](https://prt.sc/nat-competitive-advantage/): There are lots of reasons for people and business to choose you, your work, product or services, over other available options and competitors, but it’s your ability to leverage competitive advantages the most important factor to attract success, wins, customers or fans. But most people and business fail at start. This episode is about competitive advantage. And now about this…
- [NAT: Zero Trust Security](https://prt.sc/nat-zero-trust-security/): We all love buzzwords! Especially security folks that for the past decade found ways to bring design and marketing together. Just look at the ransomware designs, or logos for security leaks or bugs or even new acronyms popping up. So, this year, what I’ve been seeing is the “zero trust” jargon being used, a lot. As someone that was already practicing that few years ago and talking to customers about it, is it now overhyped or not? And now about this…
- [NAT: Clive Sinclair ZX Spectrum](https://prt.sc/nat-clive-sinclair-zx-spectrum/): The Timex Sinclair 2048 was my first computer, ever. It’s the reason why I work in technology and why I do indeed love so much this world, even after all these decades! I was a kid when my family bought it and it was such a joy to learn and play with. But, this it’s a knock off, made in Portugal. version of the ZX Spectrum. This week, Sir Clive Sinclair, the founder of Spectrum died. And now about this …
- [Tech Talks London - Season 4](https://prt.sc/tech-talks-london-season-4/): There are some things in life that this pandemic changed, for sure and in a way that we’re still to understand. Tech Talks London is a show that Marco Silva, Basilio Vieira and I do for over 4 years now. We started doing it to show the tech world around London, since we all live here and mostly focused on the the tech events, as we would go to those events to ‘show and tell’ what we saw, what was the buzz about and how could we match that in Portugal. We then started talking about news and the tech world...
- [NAT: Event Driven Architecture](https://prt.sc/nat-event-driven-architecture/): Is really event driven architecture a buzz or actually a new idea? Indeed, it’s not something new. From complex event processing to the hardware interrupts of the UNIVAC, computers have been responding to events of some sort since the 1950s. But events and advances in technology and architecture have elevated the value of events above and beyond to what we have see in past generations. All these new trends are making event driven architecture an important pattern that will be around for a long time. And now about this…
- [NAT: No Code, No Worries](https://prt.sc/nat-no-code-no-worries/): No code? No worries! That’s how many of the no-code or even low-code platforms marketing themselves. But the purpose of no-code platforms is to make things easier for unexperienced developers and companies that just want things done. The headache of it is that you’re investing into a platform so deep that with some is hard to maintain, scale or even exit from. And now about this… #NoCode #LowCode #NAT #NowAboutThis
- [NAT: Domain Driven & Strategic Design](https://prt.sc/nat-domain-driven-strategic-design/): All these new microservice-based architecture became a standard for designing a modular scalable software architecture. You will face, at certain moment of growth, challenges of splitting monolithic applications into microservices. So we need to split and define proper responsibilities for each microservice, and learn how to let them communicate whilst keeping a high level of maintainability and evolvability. And now about this…
- [NAT: Cloud Exit Strategy](https://prt.sc/nat-cloud-exit-strategy/): We are currently in a world where friends don’t let friends build datacentres, where the cloud needs to be first and where serverless is the new gold standard for development. But back when I worked at Amazon, on the early days of cloud computing, people were afraid to move to the cloud because they couldn’t see their assets and needed control. With all the cloud issues around data, ownership and control, those days are back. And now about this…
- [NAT: Product Roadmaps](https://prt.sc/nat-product-roadmaps/): Did you know that effective roadmaps can help an organization make deliberate choices about a products’ development? But either you’re writing or reading a roadmap, you still have to make sure that it answers the questions on which you need stakeholders to provide consensus with. And now about this…
- [NAT: Failures and starting small](https://prt.sc/nat-failures-and-starting-small/): We all know that most projects fail. Some of them even fail multiple times. But is there a way to actually reduce this rate and likelihood of failure? Maybe if we look at better define the problem, scope and sort management problems, but not blame on culture, executive support or lack of talent. And now about this….
- [NAT: Product Strategy](https://prt.sc/nat-product-strategy/): What is value? How do we achieve value in a product? These are some of the things people think when they talk about value products. But values are also used as reference points, which can help guide your actions in order to do better, achieve more and they are the ideal that you strive for. And now about this….
- [IPV6 DNS with the Nokia HyperHub by Hyperoptic](https://prt.sc/ipv6-dns-with-the-nokia-hyperhub-by-hyperoptic/)
- [NAT: Dependencies in Agile](https://prt.sc/nat-dependencies-in-agile/): Agile isn’t something new. Actually, everyone in the industry thinks they do some sort of agile, even if sometimes it’s a masked version of waterfall. But one of the biggest issues with agile is managing dependencies. And now about this…. #Agile #Dependencies #NAT #NowAboutThis
- [NAT: Listen first, question later](https://prt.sc/nat-listen-first-question-later/): Everyone today wants collaboration to work. It’s important then to ask the right questions or give space for others to ask them. Harnessing the skills and independent thinking of your team to make intelligent business decisions is key. And now about this…
- [NAT: Dealing with complexity](https://prt.sc/nat-dealing-with-complexity/): The world now is quite complex, like it never was before. Not because only of the current pandemic, markets moving fast, but also companies have more complex operations that they try to simplify recurrently, but actually they’re increasing it as a whole. It’s like complexity has a life of its own, making it more difficult for companies to organize themselves. And now about this….
- [NAT: Performance Reviews](https://prt.sc/nat-performance-reviews/): Performance reviews are sometimes worse than filling timesheets. Not because managers have to do them, but rather because it requires an alignment between current company objectives, individual personal development and past achievements. From an employee point of view, it’s the time to talk to your manager and discuss bonuses, appraisals or motivation to improve. And now about this…
- [NAT: Agile should be fine, not better](https://prt.sc/nat-agile-should-be-fine-not-better/): Agile, scrum, devops and all other abstract solutions are common terms nowadays in companies, startups and development teams. But the problem is that expectations are always set too high towards unachievable goals. All of these solutions should be about the journey and attitude and not the destination. And now about this …
- [NAT: Disruption vs Motivation](https://prt.sc/nat-disruption-vs-motivation/): 2020 has been a very though year for everyone. From disrupting companies, life’s and families, the change that this pandemic brought is here to stay. This episode is about that change, which we need to be ready for, next year. And not about this….
- [Dell Hell - Final Take](https://prt.sc/dell-hell-final-take/): For those following me here on the blog, might have noticed that I’ve been complaining about Dell lately. First of modern standby, then about the WiFi from KillerNetworking (now an Intel company). But this is the final take on the Dell XPS 15″ (9500 model), that I recently got. First I thought that Dell might have learned something from its previous 15″ incarnations, but no. On paper it is a very good machine. Indeed one of the best. But only on paper! Because some early models came with a wobbly trackpad (like mine) that had to be replaced by Dell. Meaning...
- [Dell Hell WiFi (Killer)](https://prt.sc/dell-hell-wifi-killer/): Most – if not all – Dell XPS model have a wifi/bluetooth card that comes from Killer Networking. As the name says, it kills most of your laptop in a way that is unbearable to work and even put your hands on it. It’s in the name, actually (EA Sport pun). Anyway…. The Dell XPS 15 (9500) 2020 model comes no short of that claim, that the killer wifi kills your laptop. Since I got one – because of the NVidia graphics card – I’ve been facing serious overheating problems. Which at the end is a funny joke, as I chose...
- [Dell Hell and Modern Standby](https://prt.sc/dell-hell-and-modern-standy/): In short, Dell is screwing around Windows Modern Standby (CS3) and with Windows 10 20H2 some power options are removed. So what we would do before with power plans, now are restricted and the CsEnabled registry hack isn’t available anymore. Now, it’s a new reg key… So here it is: reg add HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power /v PlatformAoAcOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 0 That brings the old power options to Windows. Let’s hope that the next update doesn’t screw this further.

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