The other day at lunch, in the course of a discussion on startup business models, a friend of mine remarked that…
There is something strange about how we are building new distributed systems.
Distributed systems are supposed to be cheaper but less reliable and less secure alternatives to centralized systems. The world-wide-web (the Internets…
In his now much cited article, co-founder of resin.io, Alexandros Marinos, makes a case for an IoT ecosystem made almost entirely, if not exclusively, of devices running Linux (or presumably some other high-level OS).
Here’s a puzzle. Go read the man page on the POSIX fork(2) syscall. No arguments, one return value and about 20 lines of descriptive text. Right. Now go read Microsoft’s version of it. Ten arguments and about 200 lines of text.
Almost every Web Application you can think of (Dropbox, Evernote, Trello, Github, Bitbicket, Slack …) uses some…