Wait, is cloud bad?

Introducing the Open Cloud Principles (OCP) - Sam Johnston

In light of the rapidly increasing (and at times questionable) use of the term "Open Cloud" I hereby propose the following (draft) set of principles, inspired

Launching a Cloud Atlas

The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.

Cloud without Kubernetes

I think it’s safe to say Kubernetes has “won” the cloud mindshare game. If you look at the CNCF Cloud Native landscape (and manage to not…

How we knew it was time to leave the cloud

How we're solving storage and performance issues as we scale.

The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?

Tired of relying on Big Tech to enable collaboration, peer-to-peer enthusiasts are creating a new model that cuts out the middleman. (That’s you, Google.)

@it_unprofession This is the Cloud era all over again. We rebranded hosting as Cloud to pump the stock. Now we rebrand scripts as AI. The crisis is vocabulary not code.

This is the Cloud era all over again. We rebranded hosting as Cloud to pump the stock. Now we rebrand scripts as AI. The crisis is vocabulary not code.— Youssef El Manssouri (@yoemsri) February 4, 2026

The Mirage of Cloud Gaming (And How to Reach the Oasis) — MatthewBall.co

Cloud game delivery and 'Netflix of Gaming' are the big new 'things' in media today. But they're unlikely to deliver the player or playtime growth that many expect.

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

In a world where corporations have detached buying from owning, one man attempts to do something radical: build his own cloud.

For Big Tech, a Comeuppance We’ve Seen Before: On Wall St. (Published 2018)

A decade after the financial meltdown, the cloud growing over Silicon Valley is a reminder that trust can be awfully hard to regain once it’s lost.

Is it time for Cloud Native Open Source?

tl;dr; maybe, but the old school Open Source is not going away any time soon

Apple Private Cloud Compute

Announced at [[Private Cloud Compute New Frontier]] blog post.[[Matthew Green]] initial reaction thread [[Matthew Green Apple PCC Thread]]

The next 10 years for cloud computing

The landscape of cloud computing is changing significantly as enterprises question the value of public cloud solutions. This shift marks a departure from previous years when the public cloud was widely regarded as the panacea for all technology and infrastructure needs. Companies are now reconsidering the efficacy, cost efficiency, and strategic alignment of public cloud computing in their IT frameworks. We’ve also been discussing this topic here in recent years.

Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC for a cloud one

Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos once said how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.