Every year at re:Invent, there’s that moment — the instant […]

Alan reflects on a turbulent yet transformative 2025 in IT, highlighting the AI-native shift across the stack, the reinvention of data centers, smarter cloud strategies, the rise of platform engineering in IT ops, and the resilience of tech professionals — along with the challenges the industry is less thankful for.

Alan calls for the tech industry to reclaim its moral purpose, resist political capture, and rediscover the idealism that once drove innovation and fought for the greater good.

As AI racks like NVIDIA’s GB200 push 120kW each, legacy data centers are hitting physical limits. Shimmy explores the power, cooling, and innovation crisis redefining the AI era.

In The Age of Extraction, Tim Wu argues Big Tech has stopped building and started squeezing. Alan counters that salvation won’t come from Washington but from innovation itself — a new wave of builders who can restore accountability, competition, and trust in tech.

$5 trillion. That’s not just a number — that’s a […]

Alan reveals the five scariest IT threats haunting 2025 — from runaway AI and cyber layoffs to collapsing defenses and quantum nightmares.

Cloud marketplaces have been steadily rising in prominence, and new […]

F5’s breach by a nation-state actor exposed stolen BIG-IP source code and unpatched vulnerabilities, highlighting deep risks in IT infrastructure monocultures. This incident underscores the urgent need for architectural diversity, transparency, and supply chain resilience across the digital ecosystem.

Alan explores how the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics honors the pioneers of quantum circuits — Clarke, Devoret and Martinis — laying the foundation for modern quantum computing.