Category: Technology
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Tableau Veers from the Path
Tableau Veers from the Path: I’ve seen it happen many times, but it never ceases to sadden me. An organization starts off with a clear vision and an impervious commitment to excellence, but as it grows, the vision blurs and excellence gets diluted through a series of compromises. A case of disappointed fanboi?
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A second spring of cleaning
A second spring of cleaning: We’re living in a new kind of computing environment. Everyone has a device, sometimes multiple devices. It’s been a long time since we have had this rate of change—it probably hasn’t happened since the birth of personal computing 40 years ago. Thus begins the n-th Google spring cleaning blog post,…
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Everyone needs a Developer Strategy
If software’s eating the world, everyone needs a developer strategy: This morning I woke up to news that Philips — yeah, the one that makes DVD players, etc. — is releasing an SDK for its surprisingly popular programmable light bulbs called Philips Hue. […] As the world moves more and more toward flexible, bare-bones hardware…
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How two volunteers built the Raspberry Pi’s operating system
How two volunteers built the Raspberry Pi’s operating system: When you buy a Raspberry Pi, the $35 computer doesn’t come with an operating system. Loading your operating system of choice onto an SD card and then booting the Pi turns out to be pretty easy. But where do Pi-compatible operating systems come from? Volunteers still make…
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Banks Using Big Data to Discover ‘New Silk Roads’
Banks Using Big Data to Discover ‘New Silk Roads’: JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest commercial bank in the U.S., generates a vast amount of credit card information and other transactional data about U.S. consumers. Several months ago, it began to combine that database, which includes 1.5 billion pieces of information, with publicly available economic…
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Pig Eye for the SQL Guy
Pig Eye for the SQL Guy: For anyone who came of programming age before cloud computing burst its way into the technology scene, data analysis has long been synonymous with SQL. A slightly awkward, declarative language whose production can more resemble logic puzzle solving than coding, SQL and the relational databases it builds on have…
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Barclays break the gambling addiction
Barclays break the gambling addiction: [The World Development Movement] have created a petition to lobby banks and politicians to stop this commodity trading speculation, and Barclays bank are the first bank to publicly step up and support the change. Just as interesting as the fact that UBS proactively complies with some of the requirements of…
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Controlling the load into your services and applications
Controlling the load into your services and applications: Administrators are occasionally faced with the task to size their applications farms properly so it can sustain network growth for the years to come. The lesson to be learned here is: You can do everything right when sizing your application/service, but you need to be ready for…
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IBM Makes a Big Bet on OpenStack In the Cloud
IBM Makes a Big Bet on OpenStack In the Cloud: The open source software for running cloud computing installations just got a big new name in its camp: IBM. Big Blue announced today that all of its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture. Do we have a winner yet…
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Mellanox open sources its switch software as SDN pressures vendors to react
Mellanox open sources its switch software as SDN pressures vendors to react: Mellanox, a company better known for selling Infiniband products, will open source its Ethernet switching code. It’s a response to software-defined networking and the commodification of networking gear. Another industry in the middle of disruption. Get ready or be eaten alive.
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