Companies May Have Unrealistic Expectations of Their Data Infrastructure – The New Stack
Data and analytics leaders may be overestimating their companies' ability to benefit from the next round of investments in data infrastructure technology. A survey conducted on behalf of data catalog vendor Alation asked leaders at companies with more than 2,500 employees for grades about their corporate data culture. Two-thirds believe their company's data culture ranks…
While the interface has changed little over time, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is anything but basic on the backend. With over fifteen years of
Just about every business, every initiative and every intervention fails sooner or later. Since that’s demonstrably true, it’s worth considering how you intend to fail when the time com…
Emerging Edge Cloud and Computing Infrastructure – The New Stack
Global web services are largely served from public clouds today. As they reach the cloud edge, they are handed over to telco wireline and mobile wireless access networks for delivery to end users. While this delivery approach has been adequate as a best-effort service delivery, mission-critical services — with stringent latency requirements in the range…
Not Your Usual Supply Chain Hack: The Codecov Bash Uploader Blunder – The New Stack
We all know about the SolarWinds supply chain hack. But, while smaller in scope, Codecov's Bash Uploader Security supply chain failure is also a record-setter. And, this is not a record anyone wants to break. Months after their code was busted Codecov only discovered the foul-up, thanks to a security-conscious user. He checked the Secure…
Cahokia: The massive North American city that pre-dated Columbus | Boing Boing
Americans don’t reckon with history well, especially when it comes to the indigenous people our forefathers displaced (and worse) in order to live on this land. Growing up in New Haven County…
The Role of EiPaaS in Enterprise Architecture: Part 2 – The New Stack
Understanding the neural system of modern digitally-driven organizations In part 1 of this article, we introduced the four architecture domains as well as the evolution of a sample enterprise architecture. In part 2, we will look at an enterprise integration platform as a service (EiPaaS) reference architecture and highlight its key components. We will also…
Breaking into the datacenter compute or networking ASIC business is about as easy as trying to start up a new global car company. It can be done, as Elon
Future shocks: 17 technology predictions for 2025 | World Economic Forum
We asked our 2020 intake of Technology Pioneers for their views on how technology will change the world in the next five years. Here are their predictions.
Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server! | DevOps Directive
TL;DR I set out to build the smallest container image that I could that was still able to do something useful. By taking advantage of multistage builds, the scratch base image, and a tiny assembly based http server, I was able to get it down to 6.32kB!
The Postal Service is running a running a 'covert operations program' that monitors Americans' social media posts
The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.