2020 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

All Content > Regular Column, Contributed > Pacific

Awarded to

Matt Asay, Contributor; Doug Dineley, Executive Editor

Entry details

Matt Asay

Issue or publication date: MAR 26, 2019; MAR 4, 2019
Publication name: InfoWorld
Publishing company: IDG
Website home page: https://www.infoworld.com/

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

InfoWorld is the leading voice in emerging enterprise technology. It's the go-to resource for developers, architects, CTOs, and business leaders launching next-generation initiatives on scalable cloud platforms, where such future-focused tech as AI/machine learning, big data analytics, and serverless computing evolve continuously. Rather than telegraph industry news, InfoWorld delivers service journalism, focusing on technology decision-making, implementation advice, and career guidance. A respected array of technologists regularly delivers in-depth, hands-on reviews of the latest tools, platforms, and environments. InfoWorld serves those determined to seek business advantage by staying ahead of the technology curve.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

In Matt Asay's March 26, 2016 column, he delves into the changing nature of programming language creation. In earlier decades, successful new programming languages were often the result of a single individual's efforts; today, instead, corporations tend to introduce, market, and sustain new languages, often to drive the adoption of their technology. Rather than offer a blanket indictment of corporate control, Asay honestly admits he doesn't know yet whether the new model is good or bad. But the fact he examines the issue so adeptly speaks to Asay's long experience as a technologist and industry observer, one who understands the dynamics of developer culture and the vendors that minister to it.

In Matt Asay's March 4, 2016 column, he confronts the dirty little secret of cloud adoption: Customers tend to lack a viable strategy to manage workloads across multiple clouds. In fact, cloud adoption tends to be fragmented, driven by developers who visit the cloud on their own when they need to build and deploy applications quickly. The "strategy" turns out to be, in the main, retroactive justification for cloud usage already in place, despite the fact most companies claim to have a central cloud team. Only an author steeped in the way enterprises function would be able to deliver such penetrating analysis, backed by a broad study that supports his points.

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https://www.infoworld.com/article/3383246/should-we-be-worried-about-programming-languages.html
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3346223/the-ugly-truth-about-cloud-computing-in-the-enterprise.html

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