Ben Morgan-Smith

Cloud Architect, he/him

[Dan Slee @danslee]

The responses to snark by the @EdinburghZoo in the comments are an absolute masterclass in how to do it. I can't praise them enough. Straight into the training slides. Well done.

[Ben Morgan-Smith @benmwalt]

@Jimbogg @taskmaster It's on YouTube - right up there with the best of the UK edition!

[Sam Morgan @SamJamesMorgan]

*chef’s kiss* https://t.co/Lk5EQlIr83

[Paula Kennedy @PaulaLKennedy]

5 - Freedom over autonomy: developers need to be able to innovate and choose the right tools but this should not lead to unlimited chaos. Platform teams need to be gardeners, not gatekeepers according to @maremarebell https://t.co/SsmvYr3VoV #PlatformCon

[@jamestplunkett.bsky.social @jamestplunkett]

It’s really hard to think of a more perfect demonstration of sticky human behaviour than this whole 5-day-commute → WFH thing 🧵

[Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind]

Anybody I know seen any petrol in London, anywhere? WhatsApp me.

[Ben Morgan-Smith @benmwalt]

Both addictive and thought provoking, like all the best scifi. Highly recommended.

[Paul Johnston 🌍 non-exec/advisory @PaulDJohnston]

Does anyone else feel uncomfortable putting “Not all X” whatever the X is?

Is there an X where it is reasonable to put “Not all X”?

Because it seems as though this phrase is not allowed in common discourse any more.

[Ben Morgan-Smith @benmwalt]

@scott_lowe @anne_e_currie is about to release her 4th self published scifi adventure. Great stories and interesting thought experiments.

[Ben Morgan-Smith @benmwalt]

@emjohn20 @mikecherry @hacks4pancakes I like this realist approach!

What I'd add is that, coming from an app mgmt & DBA background, GCP gave me the most logical introduction to raw infrastructure of the 3.

AWS & Azure have too many complicated (and in my view unnecessary) artifacts to be easy to learn IMO.

[Ben Morgan-Smith @benmwalt]

@PaulDJohnston @killerswan Maybe AWS is different, but I'm not sure Amazon are in a position to preach about market behaviour. Not that I'm saying Google is either!

[Paul Johnston 🌍 non-exec/advisory @PaulDJohnston]

Google: A-
Azure: A-
AWS: C-
Alibaba: D-

Follow up blog from @anne_e_currie and update to our green data centre ethics report from 2018 https://t.co/9rg9DgjF6n

The Green Cloud: How Climate-Friendly Is Your Cloud Provider? https://t.co/cjcsFlbWfb

[Ben Morgan-Smith @benmwalt]

@anne_e_currie I wonder if people would be more prepared to trust a bot in a cooperative situation?

[Ben Morgan-Smith @benmwalt]

@anne_e_currie It seems to me that going public is the only way to avoid companies cashing in or misusing our identities. But I cant think of a way it could ever become politically acceptable to do so. Society would rather slide into 1984.

[Ben Morgan-Smith @benmwalt]

@anne_e_currie The key aspect of the Panopticon which makes it acceptable to the populace is the fact that the data is shared publicly. I dont see any moves, or even conversations about doing that in reality...

[Ben Morgan-Smith @benmwalt]

Highly relevant topic. Interesting discussion in the comments.

[Victoria MorganSmith @VictoriaJMS]

We're hiring! A couple of Delivery and Product roles have opened up in our Internal Products group @FT. If you want to help us give our partners in the organisation "super powers" via great tools and data insights, my DMs are open.

[Ben Sigelman @el_bhs]

1/ APM is dying – and that’s ok.

What happened? And why?

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