Eric Collins, Author at Constant Vigil Technology News

FinOps Moves From Finance Decks Into Engineering Standups

Cost anomalies get treated like performance bugs — with owners, tickets, and postmortems.

Assistants that book, buy, and email on your behalf force a new privacy bargain.

Councils simulate traffic, flooding, and energy loads before pouring concrete — when the data is trustworthy.

Finance and research groups are shipping risky clicks into remote browsers — and keeping malware off laptops.

Selective harvesting trials are messy, weather-dependent, and surprisingly practical when labour is scarce.

Power meets battery anxiety on the train — and a growing crowd decides that’s a fair trade.

Consumer gateways still ship with long memories and short update habits. Providers are pushing fixes harder — and meeting resistance.

Electric air taxis keep flying demos; zoning meetings will decide if anyone rides them downtown.

Portable readers and paper-based tests shrink the distance between a rural consult and an actionable result.

Streaming stacks survive where seconds change outcomes — fraud, logistics, live ops — not vanity dashboards.