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China-Scale Technology Sandbox

China’s Internet economy is often viewed by many people through the lens of U.S.-China relations or China’s domestic structure. Some times those lenses are useful, other times not so much. One aspect, where applying a geopolitical lens is not useful,

Topics: ByteDance• Open Source• China•

Can ByteDance Build Trust?

As I noted in Interconnected Weekly, [https://interconnected.blog/june-14-2020-interconnected-weekly/] the most interesting news item from last week was the revelation that ByteDance [https://en.pingwest.com/a/6875] is cutting its China-based engineers data access to TikTok and its other international products, reported

Topics: Open Source• China• RISC-V•

Open Source in China: The Trends

This is the third and last part of my multi-part series exploring “open source in China”. If you missed the two earlier posts, I’d strongly recommend you read them first to build some context. (Part I [https://interconnected.blog/open-source-in-china-the-players/], Part II [https:

Topics: Open Source• China•

Open Source in China: The Game

This post is part two of a multipart exploration of “open source in China”. If this is the first time you’ve ever heard of or thought about China’s open source ecosystem, I recommend reading Part I of this series, “Open Source in

Topics: Open Source• China•

Open Source in China: The Players

Open source technology has become mainstream [https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/14/how-open-source-software-became-the-new-industry-standard.html] , adopted by companies and organizations of all types and sizes. That adoption is not limited to the U.S., where much of the movement first started, but is worldwide.

Topics: Zoom• Open Source• China•

In Defense of Zoom: China FUD, Performance Tradeoff, Open Source

The most fascinating tech company story during this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is Zoom. It’s meteoric rise in usage, coupled by a similar surge in its stock price, is met with increasing scrutiny of its security practices, a drop in stock price, and a

Topics: Cloud Industry• Facebook• Open Source•

Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

I’ve written many posts on the global public cloud ecosystem lately, from in-depth comparisons of the big ones: AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, to a few of the less prominent but still very competitive ones: IBM, Oracle, Tencent. All of these

Topics: COVID-19• Open Source• Remote Work•

[Deep Dive] Coronavirus, Remote Work, Remote Consumption

Earlier this week, I wrote about the lasting impact [https://interconnected.blog/coronavirus-remote-work-remote-consumption/] that COVID-19 may have on China’s work culture, specifically that more remote work will be embraced after this public health crisis is over and that this fundamental shift could lead

Topics: COVID-19• Remote Work• Open Source•

Coronavirus, Remote Work, Remote Consumption

This post discusses two of the long-term impacts and behavioral changes that I think will emerge from the coronavirus (hereto called “COVID-19”, its proper scientific term): remote work, remote consumption. Disclaimer: what you will read is generally a positive piece. This is not in