Author: MartijnVeldkamp

  • myEinstein

    myEinstein

    This year’s Salesforce Dreamforce conference started rather big with the announcement of my Einstein. The news spread quickly through the massive crowd of 170,000 plus attendees at Dreamforce 2017 and was met with equal levels of enthusiasm and scepticism. The Einstein machine learning platform has been updated with new predictive insights and chatbot capabilities. In…

  • Oracle in the Cloud is busy, very busy

    Apiary Oracle’s first Cloud move this year was to buy Apiary, an enterprise API specialist. Apiary provides hosted tools to build, test and monitor APIs working with REST protocol. It had three funding rounds totaling 10 million dollars. The firm marries DevOps with workflow for enterprise services and data to be turned into cloud-based applications…

  • Human Error -> Root cause AWS S3 outage is found

    Human Error -> Root cause AWS S3 outage is found

    Human Error -> Root cause AWS S3 outage is found Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert | Helping Businesses…

  • AWS’s S3 outage

    AWS’s S3 outage

    # AWS’s S3 outage Tuesday’s Amazon Web Services mega-outage affected not only websites big and small, by disrupting their backend storage, but also a lot of apps and Internet of Things gadgets relying on the technology. The AWS storage offering provides hosting for images for a lot of sites, and also hosts entire websites, and…

  • AWS’s S3 outage

    AWS’s S3 outage

    AWS’s S3 outage Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert | Helping Businesses Drive Digital Transformation"…

  • „Hoe vind je het zelf gaan, Buurman?”

    „Hoe vind je het zelf gaan, Buurman?”

    „Hoe vind je het zelf gaan, Buurman?” Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert | Helping Businesses Drive…

  • Design Thinking Agile Martijn Veldkamp

    Design Thinking Agile Martijn Veldkamp

    Is it same-same but different? When to use one or the other How do we determine which frameworks, organisational models and activities will get us from the products and services of now to those of tomorrow? I think they are both compelling theories but for different pieces of the puzzle “Innovation is no longer just…

  • Design Thinking and Agile

    Design Thinking and Agile

    Is it same-same but different? When to use one or the other How do we determine which frameworks, organisational models and activities will get us from the products and services of now to those of tomorrow? I think they are both compelling theories but for different pieces of the puzzle “Innovation is no longer just…

  • Amazon disrupts again

    Amazon disrupts again

    Amazon is now testing a store in Seattle where customers can walk in, take food off of the shelves and leave, without the hassle of having to wait in line. This new service is called AmazonGo, and it uses Amazon’s “Just Walk Out Technology”. Is this the result from Lean, checkout waste removal? Or Design…

  • LinkedIn acquired by Microsoft

    LinkedIn acquired by Microsoft

    LinkedIn acquired by Microsoft for a whopping $26.1 billion. But why? LinkedIn is essentially the Facebook of the business world, and the digital repository of most of the world’s resumes. LinkedIn has roughly 100 million members in Europe of a total of 450 million. Very few people lie on their public view-able and controllable resume.…