Creating a Strategic Roadmap for Effective AI Implementation
The goal is to create an environment where your DevSecOps teams can thrive with AI superpowers built into their tools, backed by the appropriate leadership.
Weighing Fields in Library Catalog Search, or, The Hillbilly Elegy Problem | Ruth Kitchin Tillman
An overview of the challenges in assigning field weights in a library catalog. This uses the example of a book about Hillbilly Elegy to explain demonstrate where challenges arise.
You should separate your billing from entitlements - Arnon Shimoni
Building your own entitlement service is key for supporting a modern, flexible SaaS product. Whenever I read about billing systems, there’s a lot of talk about the billing aspects but not so much around entitlements. In the spirit of sharing, and since I haven’t found any good articles about it, I decided to tell you […]
I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance I've ever seen — more so than the metaverse, even — as company after company simply lies about their intentions and the power of AI.
I get it. Everybody wants something to be excited about.
Does Crossplane Replace Terraform? Part I: the Theory
What is Crossplane? If you don’t already know, Crossplane is billed as an: Open source, CNCF project built on the foundation of Kubernetes to orchestrate anything. Encapsulate polic…
By bridging the gap between dev and ops teams with automated resource specifications, you can create a more harmonious and efficient deployment process.
APIs Are Driving New Business Models and Unlocking Revenue Streams
Whether you’re sitting on a goldmine of data, looking to make things run smoother, or itching to share your top ideas, APIs are your ticket to a more connected, more profitable world.
I started programming in GW-BASIC on an IBM PC clone running MS-DOS. Back then, many so-called home and business computers came bundled with a BASIC interpreter, mostly made by or licensed from Microsoft. They all looked similar. You were greeted by a screen with a READY or OK prompt and a blinking cursor waiting for your input. The “screen editor” and interpreter were all in one in the true sense of the word – they weren’t bolted together like the separate text editors and interpreters/compilers we use these days…
We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it was just the flashiest of many audacious feats attempted and accomplished in the 20th century. Imagine, for a m…
For most people, you turn on your computer, and it starts the operating system. However, the reality is much more complex as [Thasso] discovered. Even modern x86 chips start in 16-bit real mode and…
Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look
Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world.
Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple
If you are of a certain vintage, this image is burned indelibly somewhere in your posterior parietal complex:
Oh, my old friend. How it’s been a long time.
Cultural Significance For the uninitiated, what are we looking at? Could it be the Moiré Error from Doom? Well, no. You are looking at (part of) the boot up screen for the X Window System, specifically the pattern it uses as the background of the root window.