Operating system: Linux Filesystem type: ext3 Preferred solution: Bash (script/one-liner), Ruby, or Python I have several directories with several subdirectories and files in them. I need to mak...

Event-driven architecture enables building highly available and reliable applications that can scale to handle traffic spikes. However, there are some misconceptions around its use. This article discusses some of these misconceptions and debunks them with some practical examples. Myth #1: Difficult to Manage Event-driven applications are designed around event brokers, which connect event producers and…

Kubernetes and containerization can feel transformative compared to traditional cloud deployment approaches — or at least, that’s how it comes across in development environments. However, platform managers, heads of infrastructure and other professionals tasked with overseeing the production environment know that the transformative benefits of containerization are limited. That's because the fast failover, scalability, resource…

“Because of the lockdown, we couldn’t have invited many people and therefore wouldn’t have needed to spend too much money. We would have saved the money that is ordinarily spent on paying for the tents, halwai (caterer), band baja. We would have been able to save a few lakhs. Because of the lockdown, we could […]

The cross-pollination of gaming tech benefits both the industries that adopt it and the gaming industry itself.

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The adoption of infrastructure as code (IaC) in many ways remains a work in progress, as providers respond to feedback from site reliability engineers (SREs) and DevOps teams on how to simplify and standardize the provisioning and managing of infrastructure. Often faced with managing infrastructures that span across a number of different environments, including multiclouds…

If you get a new router, what can you do with the old one? Here are some great ways you can reuse your old routers and put them to good use.

Business is the most important way in which human beings cooperate. In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire explained to his French compatriots how the British had achieved religious toleration by focusing on business: Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see representatives from all […]

Conservative pundits disparage the new anti-racism education laws coming out of Olympia, but there is nothing harmful about telling the truth.

I grew up in a fairly densely populated but suburban area, primarily with single family homes and duplexes. Each home had a yard, perhaps 30 feet by 75, mostly fenced in. We knew all of our neighbo…

“Collaborative applications” was one of the new buzzwords to come out of Microsoft Build, the company’s recent annual developer conference. The phrase was bandied about in reference to an application platform for Teams and Office, which gives third-party developers increased access to Microsoft’s core enterprise software products. Developers can both integrate their existing apps into…

KASHIWA, Chiba -- An eastern Japan city has decided to introduce a system where students can freely choose their own uniform, such as slacks or skirts

There's something happening in the E Ink space, somewhat quietly, but ...

They might be difficult to answer, but your project will benefit: What’s the hard part? Which part of your work, if it suddenly got much better, would have the biggest impact on the outcome y…

Pie charts and scatter plots seem like ordinary tools, but they revolutionized the way we solve problems.

I'm attended the Hyperledger Global Forum this last week–all virtual. I spoke on DIDComm and the Self-Sovereign Internet. If you're not up to speed with DIDComm and how it creates a secure overlay network on TCP/IP, you should be. I consider it one of the most important things to come out of the SSI movement.

Milgram's experiment is rightly famous, but does it show what we think it does?

Lev Reyzin says that working too long on a problem might be unproductive: I, personally, have diminishing (or negative?) returns to my creative work as I explicitly work on a problem past some amount of time. I often have insights coming to me out of nowhere while I’m relaxing or enjoying hobbies on nights or … Continue reading How long should you work on a problem ?

A selection of books I've found interesting, about the topics of learning-by-doing, apprenticeship and transfer.

A new report on risk and impact assessment for DevSecOps demonstrates a lack of real-time container runtime vulnerability scanning.

It’s a pointless form of argument. “This scientist made a careless error in their paper, therefore we need to excuse a con artist who falsified an entire career.” Or, “that …