Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D.

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Founder & Chief Analyst, Platify Insights — the industry-analyst firm for technology platforms. Veteran product & technology leader. ☕📚🏝🍺.
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Very excited about the growth of passkey adoption. Especially with the rate that password managers are being compromised, we need a better way.

Curious what this will mean for corporate identity and access management. https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-password/

The beginning of the end of the password

We’ve begun rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms as an additional option that people can use to sign in.

Google

The tech industry analysis market:
- Gartner, $5.5bn
- Forrester, $0.5bn
- IDC, $0.5bn?
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- Boutique & independent firms, $0.005bn or less, each

We all know who and what we're competing against here. The biggest direct replacement is Gartner, while the biggest alternative is other ways to get market insight and third-party education/validation.

Private SaaS offers the benefits of fully managed cloud services and SaaS in your on-premises environment. Find out more about this emerging trend in our latest research:

"The rise of private SaaS" https://platifyinsights.com/2023/05/02/the-rise-of-private-saas/

The rise of private SaaS

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The "Private SaaS" trend continues to grow. Here's another example, with Snowplow: https://snowplow.io/blog/saas-vs-private-saas/
SaaS vs private-SaaS to maximize data ownership and compliance

With regulatory frameworks becoming increasingly strict on the ownership and good governance of data, alternative models to SaaS tools are becoming more prominent.  What is private SaaS? Many companies are choosing a ‘high governance and control’ approach, by reducing their technical dependencies on SaaS tools and instead are opting for ‘private SaaS’. SaaS can be […]

Snowplow

@jpetazzo Here's a data point: https://www.platformonomics.com/2023/03/tweetstorm-digest-reaction-to-oracle-earnings-and-coverage-of-oracle-earnings/

"But still ~$150 billion in CAPEX spend behind AWS, Google and Microsoft. Each of those companies spent more on CAPEX last year than Oracle in its entire history."

Tweetstorm Digest: Reaction to Oracle Earnings and Coverage of Oracle Earnings

The threading of these @charlesfitz Tweets was all messed up. I blame Elon. Now that the New York Times has cancelled the world’s worst technology column, our tech media quality control efforts hav…

Platformonomics

I'm now about 1/4 to 1/3 of the way toward making Platify Insights a viable business. Good early signs in month 1, although there's still a long ways to go!

Your input is crucial to making this sustainable. If you've got ideas, or you might benefit from my help, reach out!

http://platifyinsights.com/

Your expert advisor in technology platforms

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So, You Want To Build A DBaaS

You have made a mistake. Here is how to survive.

Just used ChatGPT to write a Python script that uses packages I didn't even know existed. Pretty slick.

Probably saved me at least a couple of hours. Rather, more like @simon says, it turned something I wouldn't even waste my time on into a very real outcome instead.

@mesirii @adrianco yeah there were a couple of bits I found interesting. For example mapping the content against a predefined list of topics, and the “error handling” for things not found. In general I found it useful to see many examples of prompts designed to produce well-structured output.

I'd highly recommend this short, brand-new course for any developers who want to quickly get familiar with building apps against the OpenAI API.

Plus it's in Python. Win-win.
https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-engineering-for-developers/

ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers - DeepLearning.AI

Level up your use of LLMs with prompt engineering best practices. Learn to automate workflows, chain LLM calls, and build a custom chatbot.