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I’m positive I’ve answered this question a dozen times in various blog posts and webinars, but it keeps coming back: You always mention that high speed links are always better than parallel low speed links, for example 2 x 40GE is better than 8 x 10GE. What is the rationale behind this? Here’s the N+1-th answer (hoping I’m being consistent):

Software Consultant. BranislavLazic has 52 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

The theme of this year's analyst firm RedMonk's one-day Monki Gras gathering was packaging. Like many attending, I'd suspected I'd be inundated with technical information about containers and other "packaging" formats. And certainly Docker was referenced as a solution more than once, but many of the conference's speakers took a much less literal approach to the topic, offering…

Webcam security camera, motion detection, and alert. Made in Python, using OpenCV. - GitHub - richard512/python-security-camera: Webcam security camera, motion detection, and alert. Made in Python,...

UPDATE 20171102: Since this story was originally posted back in January 2017 there have been a few things that have changed with the repository on GitHub, if you are going to be following along I’d suggest using the repository README.md in conjunction with this story to save any

Despite his widely read criticism of Tor, The Gruqq — a legendary, pseudonymous security expert — uses it as first and last line of defense in keeping your secret, activist Twitter acco…

Guidelines for safer resistance

It won’t surprise you to learn American policing has a racism problem. It may surprise you to know that the FBI has been quietly, systematically investigating the white supremacist infiltrati…

Politics happens in (at least) three places: political institutions, like legislatures, courthouses, and executive offices, places governed by elaborate rules and traditions; public spaces, like debates, protests, a

I used to work at Wired, and later at The Verge, and at both places we had a lot of reverence for "Wired in the 90s." You'd say it fast like that, too -- "wired-in-the-90s" -- and it was a universally

There should be nothing surprising about what the president has done in his first week—but he has underestimated the resilience of Americans and their institutions.

Hardware and device makers are in a mad dash to create or acquire the perfect chip for performing deep learning training and inference. While we have yet

By modifying the “middle end” of the popular open-source compiler LLVM, MIT computer scientists have created a C compiler that optimizes parallel code better than any other.

Phew! US ISPs finally free to roll out broadband, right?

Ten years after the iPhone, what assumptions can we leave behind? What do we build if we assume a billion people have a high-end smartphone, and forget about PCs?

Is it possible to hit a million requests per second with Python? Probably not until recently.

In the Northeast suburbs of central Osaka stands a curious train station unlike any other. Kayashima Station features a rectangular hole cut into the roof of the elevated platform and, from inside, a giant tree pokes its head out like a stalk of broccoli. It’s almost like a railway version of Laputa

Through the voices of individuals and the complexities of history, On the Media lays open the tales we tell ourselves about poverty.

I got to the gate just as they closed the door and the plane began to back away. It was thirty years ago, but I still remember how it felt. I think we’re hard-wired to fear these painful moments of…

Recent events have led me to contemplate the nature of evil---specifically as it pertains to government leaders. I feel like there are two different types

A bit of Linux, a bit of Nginx, and boom—fast and free Steam downloads.

Toward a virtuous cycle between people, devices, and cloud.

Elixir’s key organizational concept, the process, is an independent component built from functions that sends and receives messages.

You can win on your own terms even if you’re not all in.One of the most pervasive myths of startup life is that it has to be all consuming. That unless you can give your business all your thoughts …

After recent events, we’re all ready to hop aboard the next flight to Mars. But before us Earthlings embark on a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, we need to understand how the harsh conditions of space can affect our bodies.

Are you feeling stagnant? Do you have dreams left untouched? Find out why you need to step out of the comfort zone ASAP.

“I don’t think people tell the stories. I don’t think people ask the stories.” Illustration by Nate Otto Jewelry tells a story. For Kathy, the owner of a 90-year-old jewelry store in Berwyn, Illino…

The spreading of misinformation and doubt has undermined support for climate change. Despite broad consensus from climate scientists that humans are largely responsible for climate change, only 27% of Americans think there is agreement. New research points to a possible way to "vaccinate" against this misinformation.