There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992, but I do not
Dimension Data 2017 Predictions: Automating, networking and containing clouds - Three trends for 2017 : @VMblog
Cloud is a ubiquitous part of the IT infrastructure. Many companies are moving from the traditional, on-premise data center to a hybrid IT structure consisting of hosted applications and servers distributed across data centers around the world. There
Netflix’s Open Source Orchestrator, Conductor, May Prove the Limits of Ordinary Scalability
How many times has this happened to you? You’re minding your own business one day, running your international delivery system for high-definition dramatic and comedic video with 16-channel stereo sound on tens of thousands of concurrent channels. Your content suppliers in Tokyo or Copenhagen or wherever, just like every other day, are flooding you with…
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Infographic Shows Common Handmade vs Factory Made Costs #ManufacturingMonday « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
The sub-text of the infographic below is pretty interesting. It purports that handmade products are currently made possible in part thanks to the costs of factory made products; or rather, if we ma…
A survival strategy for the digital transformation - All Things Distributed
This article titled Überlebensstrategie für die digitale Transformation appeared in German last week in the Die Zukunft beginnt heute (the future starts today) section of Wirtschaftwoche
Hyperscalers Ready To Run Barefoot In The Datacenter
Breaking into the switch market is not an easy task, whether you are talking about providing whole switches or just the chips that drive them. But there
This is from Walter Benjamin's essay "On the Concept of History," but I'm going to use the old translation back when it was called "Theses on the Philosophy of History," and mess with the line break
Protestors need signs, and recent demonstrations against newly-introduced American policies have revealed a wide range of graphic designs. While some protestors have access to signs that have been professionally printed… …and some appear to use actual fonts (if not paying attention to leading, kerning and tracking)… …the vast majority are
Unfortunately I don’t have hands on experience with microservices, but about a year ago I was very interested in learning as much as possible about the subject and gathered as much informatio…
The Internet has never had a universal trust framework before. Imagine if you could build the next sharing economy application without having to also build the platform that helps people trust. This post describes a universal trust framework that is open to all. Sovrin changes the world by providing a universal means of trusting.
The Alternative Periodic Table - Blog About Infographics and Data Visualization - Cool Infographics
The Alternative Periodic Table is a new project from Matt Baker at UsefulCharts being funded through a Kickstarter campaign that ends on February 9, 2017 . Act fast to get your copy and help support Matt! From Matt: Recently, I decided to tackle the most famous chart of all... the
A 27" 1080p matte digital video frame with a 2W speaker. It comes loaded with 10 high resolution videos, with more available on its store, as well as live streaming from cameras located around the world. It also has alarm clock, Google calendar and weather apps.