Last week we discussed the first part of this series about how Scrum buzzwords can be a real buzzkill. We aimed to clarify roles, ceremonies (events), and backlog basics without...
Did you know...The concept of a “nonce" (short for "number used once") is fundamental to cryptography, blockchain security, and modern authentication systems. As discussed in Dataconomy’s recent article, nonces support...
Did you know…Meta’s AI infra group treats large-language model (LLM) serving like a distributed operating system. In a recent InfoQ talk, Ye (Charlotte) Qi unpacked the four make-or-break challenges that...
Did you know…The U.S. government has tightened export controls, informing Nvidia that its “China-safe” H20 AI accelerator will now require a license, and that licenses will be denied “for the...
Did you know…Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) started in 1991 as a grassroots response to growing email privacy concerns and has since evolved into the gold standard for hybrid public/private key...
Did you know…Timescale’s engineering team showed that watching how skilled analysts write SQL can unlock far more reliable text-to-SQL agents. By capturing the human workflow in a Semantic Catalog that...
Did you know…OpenAI’s new o3 model just spotted a previously unknown use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2025-37899) in the Linux kernel SMB server, without any customised framework, fuzzing harness, or symbolic execution. Security...
If your team brags about a 70-point sprint but half the work spills to next week, congratulations, you just bought a shiny bathroom scale and called it a Ferrari. Velocity...
Did you know…Recent CMU research shows that most “machine-unlearning” techniques for large language models (LLMs) don’t delete sensitive knowledge but hide it. By fine-tuning an “unlearned” model on a small...
Welcome to the great un-buzzwording of Agile. The last three months have been full of people claiming “Agile” is dead or “no one uses Scrum anymore”. All hogwash, IMO, but...
Did you know...AI is not replacing jobs on a large scale; it’s reshaping them. While companies like IBM have made headlines for reducing headcount in specific roles due to AI...
Déjà vu all over againEvery few years (or weeks lately) a headline pops up declaring The Death of Agile. I’ve been around long enough to remember when “Scrummer-fall” was the...