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CRM Online morphs into Dynamics 365 and 'confusion' reigns supreme

It turns out you need to test on-premises before you send an app to the cloud

Anyone who tried running containers in production agrees that managing stateful services is one of the biggest pain points. Whether it is Swarm, Kubernetes, or Mesos, scaling out stateless containers is simple and straightforward when compared to ensuring the high availability of stateful containers. Though the container ecosystem is actively contributing to this effort, it…

ClusterHQ is working to build a business model around data containers — portable volumes that can act as persistent, though virtual, storage devices, shared between applications in containerized environments. The company’s persistent container system, Flocker, was one of the first to take advantage of Docker’s extensibility model. Now the company is looking to build on that…

In December 2009, Google was the target of a series of highly coordinated, sophisticated advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks in which state-sponsored hackers from China stole intellectual property and sought to access and potentially modify Google source code — the company’s crown jewels. Dubbed Operation Aurora, the attack proved to be a referendum at Google…

Evolutionary data is a collection of past events and circumstances. Understanding it can be extremely valuable, because it reveals history, brings insights to the present, and often times forecasts the future well. In this post we’ll outline some useful techniques for visualizing evolutionary data and provide tips to make a powerful impact. The data At OpenDNS, we […]

A high level walkthrough of the basics of video compression techniques used in MPEG, AVC/H.264, codecs.

Every few years the world of web applications and services goes through a paradigm shift. The first such shift came when we moved from physical servers to virtualization. The latest shift that is happening right now is the transition from virtualization to Cloud Native architecture. Every time such a shift happens, it changes the level…

Recently, I came across a new Containers as a Service (CaaS) offering called Hyper. After signing up and installing their CLI, I liked the overall workflow of managing containerized applications. Having extensively worked on containers, I feel that Hyper got many things right. In a way, this is how Docker should have been designed in…

Existing web scanners search for server-side injection vulnerabilities by throwing a canned list of technology-specific payloads at a target and looking

Design Thinking, regardless of arena, has one or few people at the top dispensing special knowledge that could not possibly be created by the masses. The

What is Event Sourcing and what are the benefits that make it a very powerful pattern for data storage? As it turns out, there are many examples of Event Sourcing in daily life.

It has been six years now since the "Austin" release of the OpenStack cloud controller was released by the partnership of Rackspace Hosting, which

Java Design Patterns

Easily add license key validation, entitlements, and device activation to your software products using Keygen's licensing API.

HEVC is among us. On January 25, 2013, the ITU announced the completion of the first stage approval of the H.265 video codec standard and in the last 1 year several vendors/entities have started to…

The Internet forums and blogs today mainly consist of static text and images. Although rich, interactive contents can be made with HTML5/CSS/JavaScript technologies, most Internet users do not ...

Why to use serverless architectures and what is FaaS and BaaS

Introduction My first encounter with docker goes back to early 2015. Docker was experimented with to find out whether it could benefit us. At the time it wasn’t possible to run a container [i…

Visualizing JavaScript source code as navigable 3D cities - JSCity: Code City for (and by) JavaScript · aserg-ufmg/JSCity Wiki

Visualizing JavaScript source code as navigable 3D cities - JSCITY · aserg-ufmg/JSCity Wiki

A​ ​hands-on guide​ ​that​ ​demonstrates several storage APIs in action.​

3GPP has recently completed the Initial Cellular V2X standard. The following from the news item : The initial Cellular Vehicle-to-Everyt...