I'd love to read about IBM's opinion on this (and generally had always hold their in-depth developerwork's articles in high regard) but the site is beeing GDPR'd in EU (bringing up cookie setting dialogs that "make me think" and stop reading and even soft-blacklist developerworks) when I think it really doesn't have to. I just can't imagine IBM is after analytics and ad pennies, and think they should especially reconsider publishing justifications and opinion pieces behind GDPR walls when they want to reach the largest audience. Or best, stop tracking altogether; we know IBM isn't into doing evil things with user data, so why make developerworks look like a cheap content marketing site?