The promise of speed and autonomy in development comes at a cost. Choreographing Microservices is Harder than Ruling the Seven Kingdoms We are won over by the idea of coding with abandon. We can write beautiful pieces of code. Each is a widget running in its robust little container on some virtualized compute complex, virtually interconnected. …
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SDx (software-defined everything) is not about software. It is about shifting of control. We hear about software eating our increasingly digitized world. Pervasively connected devices and software enables us to shift control at a whim. This shift in power could upstage your businesses if you don’t manage it carefully. Here are the five ways technology …
Serverless Computing accelerates time to value and reduces costs We are a long way from Remote Procedure Calls (RPC). We are in serverless land. Here is a quick look at its implications for developers, IT, and its impact on business velocity. In the serverless world, clients send messages to servers. Servers process messages upon the arrival. …
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An explanation and the three different types Edge computing is a means of processing data physically close to where the data is being produced, i.e. where the things and humans are — in the field area, homes, and remote offices. Since they don’t live in the cloud, we need to complement cloud computing with many forms of …
Incarnations of Edge Computing In the early 2000s, a few in our team decided to add an application environment to enterprise branch and mobile routers. “We’ll add a separate computer board to a router and run a virtual machine in it”, we thought; “we’ll enable applications like printing, point-of-sale, file-sharing etc. on it”, we said; …
Plenty is being said about the amount of data that exists and the amount that will be created in our world. More is implied than said about how the processing of data has fundamentally changed over the years and how application architectures and hardware infrastructure have evolved. The combination of fast and affordable computing and …
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The promise of the Internet of Things (IoT) to create unprecedented economic value is a dominant topic of recent technology & business stories. What would it take to create and capture value from connecting vast number of unconnected physical objects to the Internet? A while ago, I talked about how the dance between business and technology in this …
It’s a Friday night. I am perched on a cozy corner of my couch, wine on one hand, my smartphone on the other. The smart TV is on. I am pulling up House of Cards on Netflix via the phone, projecting it to the TV via Google Chromecast. Life is good! And then I start to …
Lately, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become de rigueur in the computer networking world. Before purpose-built networking devices came in to existence, networking was done via software running on expensive computers. That legacy makes the phrase software-defined to refer to networking superfluous. Clearly we must mean something more than just software when we talk about …
Several years ago I visited Parfumerie Gallimard in Grasse, France. Grasse is famous as the perfume capital of the world and Gallimard is the 2nd oldest perfumery in the world. There I learnt about how the les nez (“noses”– the perfumers who compose perfumes with their fine-tuned olfactory senses) create new perfumes. The vocabulary used to describe …
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