Interesting Links and Observations, March 17th, 2025

AI

• Thought provoking piece in Infoworld on Why AI Generated Code Isn’t Good Enough and How It Will Get Better.

General Interest

• Fascinating post on the evolution of AWS S3. I lost count of the amount of times I used S3 as a starting point in discussing various cloud concepts with clients in my Gartner days.

• Grafana posted a detailed incident post mortem following a recent outage. I always appreciate these post-mortems as a learning tool for everyone, and kudos to the Grafana team for publishing this one. Ultimately a change accidentally caused a default value to be overwritten across part of their Kubernetes fleet. They use crossplane, and normally have a staggered deployment via an automated pipeline, in this instance it was triggered manually. C

Data

• Detailed look, as always, on the overall market from Logan Bartlett at RedPoint. Nice to see Series B+C starting to grow again. More concerning is the number of Unicorn Zombies highlighted. Well worth a look through.

• A number to track from Gartner’s Forecast Analysis: AI-Optimized IaaS note “By 2028, AI-optimized IaaS spending will reach $79.2 billion in U.S. dollars, growing at a four-year 83.1% CAGR from 2024 through 2028”.