Before Amazon caught my eye, I found enjoyment in visiting brick-and-mortar technology retailers to check out new and exciting products. One retailer I visited more than others was Best Buy. Around that time, I was asked if I would be interested in signing up for a Best Buy rewards card during the c...

You're worried that adding if/else statements for feature flags might make your code confusing. Not necessarily! This article explains.

Although built for Linux, eBPF is finding a second home in Microsoft Windows for networking, observability and security.

This article examines the use of cookies vs. tokens for authentication, comparing the pros and cons of each method, so that you can determine which is best for your project.

There is no question that that the combination of Nvidia and Arm Holdings would have been a powerful one in the datacenter. This is something that we have

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Over the years, I've learned a few things when it comes to automation, not so much related to coding but general tips and methods that I've found helpful when building out successful network automation projects. Here they are: Workflow When it comes to automating a manual process, a good approach

This article will cover the basics of the object modeling. Object models refer to a visual representation of software or systems' objects, attributes, actions, and relationships.

A few notes on a small program I'd created to read a movie file, divide it up into constituent shots, and detect which shots contain NSFW content...

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Growing a team? Learn the Law of Scaling, the prerequisites for scalability, and the 2 paradoxes that make scaling up hard.

Simple as it may be, Little's law is an incredibly powerful tool in the arsenal of almost any team. From performing back-of-the-napkin calculations to showing the performance of a system over time, this formula is one of the key building blocks to running an efficient business. Without Little's law, Lean and Kanban wouldn't exist, and […]

Choosing the right CPU for your system can be a daunting - yet incredibly important - task. The shear number of different models available makes it difficult to determine which CPU will give you the best possible performance while staying within your budget. In this article we will be looking at a way to estimate CPU performance based on a mathematical equation called Amdahl's Law.

Learn about the simple and elegant formula known as Little’s Law and apply it to a vast range of business management and team leadership scenarios.

The Internet Computer is something between a blockchain and a decentralized cloud provider. Ambitiously, it's taking on all of Web 2.0.

OpenTelemetry provides an open standard for generating, collecting and exporting application telemetry across any number of backend systems.

Databases today are built for Big Data. But what happens when the metadata is bigger?

The OpenInfra Foundation's open source, edge-computing cloud stack StarlingX's latest version, StarlingX 6.0 is out and ready to run.

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On winter 2012 I had the chance to attend a talk by Robert.C.Martin(aka Uncle Bob) in Dublin. I think it was awesome. Uncle Bob is the…

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Except maybe in totalitarian states, you cannot ever have a single publisher. Most large cities had multiple independent newspapers. In recent years, we saw a surge of concentration regarding newspaper and television ownership. However, this was accompanied by a surge of online journalism. The total number of publishers increased, if nothing else. Yet you can … Continue reading The end of the monopolistic web era?

When we dine at a restaurant in the physical world, we do not do so within some administrative system. Rather, as embodied agents, we operationalize our relationships by acting for ourselves. Web3, if built correctly, can help people to act as full-fledged participants in the digital realm.

As AMD is getting closer to closing its $35 billion acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx, it is natural to think about how well that business is doing and how