Since you may have missed some of my postings here, consider this your quick and easy recap of the biggest technology challenges of 2023.

It’s no secret–cloud providers command big money. They want you to move to the cloud at any cost. Even with huge initial discounts, a strategic partnership in which they agree to use your services as part of the deal, or by enabling you to migrate faster,

The explosion in AI growth, exacerbated by the introduction of Chat GPT in November of 2022, is further compounded by the cascading effect of other applications that leverage its abilities to do more, faster, and better.

With more cloud spending comes more decisions for CFOs on what budget requests to approve and decline without impacting the pace of innovation or potentially increasing the risk of bringing key technology services offline during critical times.

Once you implement a mindset of efficiency within technology, the impact on the bottom and top lines and how you build and deploy all code, processes, and data going forward can be tremendous.

I was thrilled to see this topic garner the most views on my blog in 2023 because it is also about efficiency. In fact, everything I write and talk about comes down to efficiency, including my book.