Kontroversial Keith

Category: technology

  • Twitch: A Money Loser for Amazon

    When Twitch got bought out by Amazon a while back, people were holding their breath for how the deal would work out. Around the same time, Google supposedly was interested in picking them up but streamers on Twitch feared that Twitch would eventually dissolve like other Google acquisitions and eventually everyone would be forced to…

  • Cloud vs Traditional Data Center vs Hosted Service vs Indoor Box

    Recently, I ran across an article on LinkedIn discussing how one company decided to switch from the cloud back to an in house data center. The person writing it mostly talked about cost savings as the major win but didn’t necessarily go into detail about what a lot of the move entailed. As someone who…

  • YouTube Is The Next Dead Tech in Social Media

    With YouTube now disallowing AdBlockers, I predict in about a year’s time, YouTube will lose a huge amount of money and users. More than that, most users will scramble to either find a new platform or resort back to digital piracy. What’s needed in the interim to shock the powers-that-be over at YouTube is a…

  • Advice For Computer Science Majors Facing Tough Environment

    Another article I found off of LinkedIn that’s worth me commenting on is “Comp sci majors face tough job market.” Right now, the tech job market is comparable to 2001 where recent graduating students in the engineer related field might be facing stiff competition as major tech companies are laying people off while some companies…

  • The Future Of The WWE In A Post-Pandemic Digital World

    For a while now, I have concluded that the WWE has not been a pro-wrestling company for some time. Instead, I describe them as a marketing company, specializing in a specific vertical. The problem with the WWE’s vertical has been shrinking for some time and the COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted some hefty punishment that puts…

  • What It Means To Be A Lead Engineer

    I’ve been in the tech industry for quite a while. Enough where I should be a lot higher than where I am. However, I usually end up in senior/lead roles and I think at this point, I have the experience to share what ends up happening in those roles and how one should handle them.

  • Is A Tech Union in the Works Finally?

    I just saw an article posted on the LA Times regarding the potential unionizing of the game and tech industries. In particular, Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (or CODE) “is a new project of the Communications Workers of America aimed specifically at unionizing video game and tech companies.” This has a lot of implications for…

  • How Social Media Died For Me

    When social media first came out (friendster, myspace, orkut, hi5, etc.), I was enthralled and wanted to partake in the space. It was at a time when the only manner of making money on the web was through ecommerce. Social media provided a new mechanism that went beyond the shopping cart as a possibility for…

  • Should We Continue Using the Cloud?

    Silicon Valley season 5 has made me really start rethinking the way of technology in terms of evolution. The internet in it’s inception helped move us away from heavy desktop clients (i.e. the stranglehold Microsoft had on the OS). But as the internet grew heavier, cloud computing became an unstoppable force. Now, with privacy concerns,…

  • Gripe: The Tech Industry Is Filled With Morons And We Need To Kick Them Out

    There’s a scene from Silicon Valley in season 1 where the character Bighead comments how he just wanted to be an engineer to work on cool things rather than compete for shares against his best friend. It’s a resonating thing for someone like myself who has spent 19 years in this industry. Like Bighead, I…