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Kit Merker

Seattle
As seen in: Medium, The Startup, Forbes, InformationWeek, DZone, Dark Reading, The New Stack, DevOps.com, VMblog.com
Software Executive and Investor, mostly focused on infra software enabling AI, cloud, data, security, and reliability.
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Don't Give Your Business Data to AI Companies

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By Kit Merker
| Dark Reading Verified
COMMENTARY Artificial intelligence (AI) is challenging our preexisting ideas of what's possible with technology. AI's transformative potential could upend a variety of diverse tasks and business scenarios by applying computer vision and large vision models (LVMs) to usher in a new age of efficiency and innovation. Yet, as businesses embrace the promises of AI, they encounter a common peril: Every AI company seems to have an insatiable appetite for the world's precious data.
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Computer Vision for Any Business

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By Kit Merker
| plainsight.ai
I’m happy to announce I am joining Plainsight Technologies as CEO. I wanted to tell you why I’m fired up to lead this company and where we are going. Plainsight Technologies is focused on building computer vision apps for businesses, and the approach is uniquely valuable.
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Debunking Myths About Reliability

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By Kit Merker
| staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud
“Our service should always be up.” Some myths just won’t die. Engineering for reliability is well understood by engineering leaders, less so by bosses demanding unreasonable uptime with minimal resources and immense feature pressure. Business leaders tend to waffle between ignoring reliability with a hand wave and freaking out after an outage. How can they understand the reality of reliability and forget the myths?
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