How many platform engineers think they can build a better logging library, see it adopted by the entire company, and achieve glory (and “impact” for promotion)?

In the face of an economic downturn, focus on profitability, and rising layoffs, it’s reasonable to expect that tech company executives and managers will start to question how many engineering resources are being dedicated to open source work.

Fifteen years or so into public cloud computing, perhaps the strangest lingering objection to cloud migration and lift-and-shift has to be the notion that “sensitive” data needs to stay on premise. Let's take a minute to break that down.