Category: Technology
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The difference between software development and software engineering
The difference between software development and software engineering: Software development: The system performs function A. Software engineering: The system performs function A under operating conditions B with operational performance parameters C with tolerances within the probability distribution D and reliability within the probability distribution E and we are legally responsible if it doesn’t. Teaching software…
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Google Wants Your Next Password To Be A Physical One
Google Wants Your Next Password To Be A Physical One: New research from Google suggests what we all likely know to be true – your pet’s name followed by a few numbers just isn’t cutting it as a password these days. Google Declares War on the Password: Want an easier way to log into your…
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Systems Engineering and Automation
Systems Engineering: A great definition: This re-emergence of the systems engineering (or “full-stack” engineering) notion is excellent and exciting to me, and I’m hoping that everyone in our field, when they hear “DevOps” […] what they mean is taking a systems engineering view. A Mature Role for Automation: Part I: One of the ideas that…
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The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It
The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It: People ask what the next web will be like, but there won’t be a next web. The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. I can follow the observations, but I can’t imagine what David Gelernter’s future…
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Drink hackers take home carbonators to the limit
Drink hackers take home carbonators to the limit: It seems inevitable that if a product specifically advises against certain activities that some people are going to push the limit. Oh those hackers…
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Why Yammer believes the traditional engineering organizational structure is dead
Why Yammer believes the traditional engineering organizational structure is dead: Yammer’s biggest rule of thumb is “2 to 10 people, 2 to 10 weeks,” which means they generally don’t do projects that are larger or more complicated. There is a non-linear relationship between the complexity of a project and the wrap-up integration phase at the…
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Splunk rides machine data wave, expands enterprise footprint
Splunk rides machine data wave, expands enterprise footprint: Splunk is turning departmental deals into enterprise wide license agreements and becoming a machine data staple for many companies. Splunk has managed to ride security and a bevy of other machine-data use cases to emerge as an enterprise-wide platform. There’s your high-level plan on how to get…
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Open Source Strategies for Software Vendors
Open source strategies: From time to time I advise a software vendor on how, whether, or to what extent it should offer its technology in open source. In summary, I believe: The formal differences between “open source” and “closed source” strategies are of secondary importance. The attitudinal and emotional differences between “open source” and “closed…
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Interview with Nick Chamandy, statistician at Google
Interview with Nick Chamandy, statistician at Google: Nick Chamandy received his M.S. in statistics from the University of Chicago, his Ph.D. in statistics at McGill University and joined Google as a statistician. We talked to him about how he ended up at Google, what software he uses, and how big the Google data sets are.…
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How would a #NoFirePolicy affect your company?
How would a #NoFirePolicy affect your company? An interview with NextJump CEO Charlie Kim who decided to do just that.: Take hiring for example. Once you realize that you are entering into a lifelong relationship, hiring starts to look a lot more like adoption, or dating. Multiple interactions over some time are required before our…
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