Here are some ICT trends for year 2019 picked from various sources (linked to sources) and edited by me:
General: From AI to Moore’s Law, the entire industry is deep in the throes of massive changes. The future will be characterized by smart devices delivering increasingly insightful digital services everywhere. While CPUs continue to evolve, performance is no longer limited to a single processor type or process geometry.
Business: There seems to be a clear evidence from this research that businesses are adopting and looking to capitalise on the benefits of Big Data, the Internet Of Things and Sensor technology for their mobile workforces.
Open source: 2019 Will Be the Year of Open Source in software and even in hardware. We saw more activity in open source than ever before in 2018. And the momentum isn’t likely to slow down in 2019.
Web is mobile: According to the statistics of FICORA, Ofcom, the PC has lost its place as the first device and platform for web browsing. Almost half of the web browses the web with a smart phone, which places a requirement on all online services from shops to news sites.
Multiple devices: As the number of different IT devices continues to grow, there are more and more devices in use at the same time.
Situations and tasks that utilize and use multiple devices together have become commonplace. We need to think how how user interfaces could better support multi-device sharing.
Artificial intelligence: It seems that AI Market Ramps Everywhere. The AI term creates hope for some, fear for others, and confusion for all. Artificial intelligence (AI) is what the Internet of Things was two years ago – overhyped and not very well understood. The obvious shift is the infusion of AI (and its subcategories, machine learning and deep learning) into different markets. It seems that you don’t need to be artificial intelligence wizard anymore to use some AI – at best, implementation can be picked up by GitHub without really understanding anything. AI Still Has Trust Issues for many. There are also views that now hot artificial intelligence is the bubble that broke out last in the 1990s because at present, artificial intelligence and man form a bad cyborg. You need to separate AI Hype From Reality because it seems to be a miraculous thing where almost nobody knows what it is.
AI chips: While GPUs are well-positioned in machine learning, data type flexibility and power efficiency are making FPGAs increasingly attractive. Today, selling custom chips for artificial intelligence is still a small business. Intel, the largest manufacturer of computer processors, has appraised the current market at $2.5 billion, one half of one percent of the estimated value of the 2018 global semiconductor market. At a press event at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show, Intel announced the Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP-I), an AI chip for inference-based workloads that fits into a GPU-like form factor. Google and NXP advance artificial intelligence with the Edge TPU.
AI-driven development: AI-driven development looks at tools, technologies and best practices for embedding AI into applications and using AI to create AI-powered tools for the development process.
Huge data: It seems that It’s All About The Data. Data creation, management and processing always have been a winning business formula. It takes lots of data to train AI systems and IoT systems generate a lot of data.Data scientists now have increasing amounts of data to prepare, analyze and group — and from which to draw conclusions. The entire tech industry has changed in several fundamental ways over the past year due to the massive growth in data. Many data science tasks will be automated. Hardware and software are no longer the starting points for technology design. It’s now about data processing, flow and throughput.
Digital twins: A digital twin is a digital representation that mirrors a real-life object, process or system. Digital twins can also be linked to create twins of larger systems, such as a power plant or city. The idea of a digital twin is not new but is has become hot when AI and IoT were added to the mix.
Power consumption: Globally, ICT today consumes 8% of all electricity and doubles every year. I think we needs new semiconductor technologies and maybe also more optimized software that does more but consumes less power.
Memories: DRAM market growth stops in 2019. GDDR6 and HBM2 impacts system design. There is disparity between the different types of DRAM, from GDDR to HBM.
Faster storage: Apacer has CFexpress card, which supports PCIe and the new NVMe 1.3 protocol, transfers data at a rate of two gigabytes per second.
Heterogeneous architectures: Need for increased computing power requires new multi-processor architectures (hybrid processors). Heterogeneous design is changing the starting point for chip design so that integration is now more the real challenge rather than the processor core. Many ARM processors already use hybrid architecture. Intel has unveiled a new Foveros architecture that addresses the challenge of Arm processors.
Immersive technologies: Users can interact with the world with immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) and virtual reality (VR). AR brings new possibilities. A smart space is a physical or digital environment in which humans and technology-enabled systems interact in increasingly open, connected, coordinated and intelligent ecosystems.
Open hardware: Can RISC-V – Linux of Microprocessors – Start an Open Hardware Renaissance? RISC-V is an open source processor command set that can be used with the same principles as Linux code. RISCV is now being firmly linked to Linux as the Linux Foundation and the RISC-V Foundation have agreed to work together to promote open code development and RISC-V deployment. For the first time, Arm architecture will be a serious challenger in millions, even billions of embedded devices. Companies like Hi-Five, NVIDIA and WDplan to release product with RISC-V in them. This year RISC-V does not compete with traditional CPUs on PCs. Also MIPS hardware architecture is opening up.
Containers: Is Kubernetes the new application server? If you thought there was a lot of chatter about Kubernetes in 2018, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Software robotics: Software robotics becomes widely available. Robot Framework will be important on this.
Intel processors: Intel Announces Faster Processors Patched for Meltdown and Spectre, New Intel Architectures and Technologies Target Expanded Market Opportunities. Intel Demonstrates 10nm-based PCs, Data Center and Networking Systems, Next-Gen ‘Sunny Cove’ Architecture with AI and Crypto Acceleration, and 3D Logic Chip Packaging Technology. 5 Observations From Intel’s Event article says that mysterious locations, codenames and process delays are on the top of the list. Intel’s Foveros Lakefield technology for making smaller chips.
AMD processors: Ryzen mobile processors would begin showing up in ultrathin and gaming laptops by the end of the first quarter. AMD starts to use 7nm technology: Radeon VII GPU will be available and it is promised to be 27% to 62% faster, third-generation Ryzen desktop processor and second-generation EPYC server processor will be available starting later this year. AMD is challenging Intel in Chromebooks with A-Series CPUs and launching Ryzen Mobile 3000-Series chips with 2nd-generation Ryzen Mobile parts.
ARM processors: Taking aim at Intel, Qualcomm launches chip for business PCs. The Snapdragon 8cx series is Qualcomm’s first chip specifically designed for computers. Qualcomm’s pitch is that laptops using its chips will go days without needing to be plugged in, and will always be connected to the internet via cellular networks. The Snapdragon 8cx is also the world’s first 7-nanometer PC processor platform and promises superior performance for laptop. Intel’s position on laptops is very strong and Qualcomm has a big hill to get up if it really wants to challenge Intel’s PC side. Huawei Rolls 7nm ARM Server CPU Kunpeng 920 that is said to outperform ThunderX2, Ampere by 25%. Rumors are circulating that Apple will obsolete x86-based computers in favor of its own SoC-powered successors.
NVIDIA: RTX 2060 GPU was introduced. GeForce RTX™ graphics cards are powered by the Turing GPU architecture and the all-new RTX platform. This promises to give you up to 6X the performance of previous-generation graphics cards and brings the power of real-time ray tracing and AI to your favorite games. GeForce RTX 20 Series GPUs to gaming laptops.
Microsoft hardware: Microsoft reportedly working on Xbox and Windows webcams for 2019.
Windows security: Microsoft officially announces ‘Windows Sandbox’ for running applications in isolation.Microsoft’s coming ‘Windows Sandbox’ feature is a lightweight virtual machine that allow users to run potentially suspicious software in isolation. It could debut in Windows 10 19H1,
Storage: NVMe Hits a Tipping Point. A show dedicated to NVM Express (NVMe) next month solidifies an industry-wide sentiment that the host controller interface and storage protocol hit a tipping point in the last year. It is expected that we’re going to see the majority of new products coming out with NVMe. There are already relatively young NVM Express Over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) specification and even some hard disk enclosures using NVMe.
Fibre channel: Broadcom Nudges Fibre Channel to 64G using 64G optical modules (just starting to sample) and PCIe Gen 4 connections that are not yet generally available on x86 servers.
Faster PCIe:PCIe 4.0 is ready. The PCISIG organization has completed the new 4.0 version of the PCIe bus, and now the technology is expected to be deployed on the devices. It is possible to to get the full PCIe 4.0 speed with both copper and fiber. It seems that this year PCIe 4.0 comes to wider us for x86 servers.
FPGA: FPGA Graduates To First-Tier Status because FPGAs are better for certain types of computation than CPUs or GPUs.While GPUs are well-positioned in machine learning, data type flexibility and power efficiency are making FPGAs increasingly attractive.
Enterprise software:Legacy enterprise applications and software systems have a reputation for being clunky, expensive, and almost impossible to keep up to date. Rethink your enterprise software systems and consider whether cloud-based options like SaaS may better serve your needs. Office 365 is massively successful. AWS services are running the backend of thousands of major companies now. As internet connections and speeds increase, the cloud becomes more and more viable as it is more cost effective to centralize computer hardware reducing costs for companies and employee overhead.
Windows 10: Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10. Microsoft could be preparing to ditch the EdgeHTML layout engine of its unloved Edge browser in Windows 10 in favour of Chromium. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is improved. Microsoft new Windows 10 reserves ~7GB of disk space for updates, apps, and more to ensure critical OS functions always have space.
Light Windows: Microsoft is working on Windows Lite, a super lightweight, instant on, always connected OS that runs only PWAs and UWP apps, to challenge Chrome OS. Microsoft’s ‘Centaurus’ device is yet another potential piece of its Chromebook-compete strategy.
Coding for Windows: Microsoft has released a public preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac. Microsoft open sources its most popular Windows UX frameworks and says the first preview of .NET Core 3.0 is now available — Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub.
Quantum computing: Quantum computing is a type of nonclassical computing that is based on the quantum state of subatomic particles that represent information as elements denoted as quantum bits or “qubits.” Quantum computers are an exponentially scalable and highly parallel computing model. They can work well on some specific tasks suitable for them, but are not suitable for most generic computing tasks we are used to.
Blockchain: Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger, an expanding chronologically ordered list of cryptographically signed, irrevocable transactional records shared by all participants in a network. It can work with untrusted parties without the need for a centralized party (i.e., a bank). Businesses should begin evaluating the technology to see if it fits their business or not. You need to separate Blockchain hype from Reality because it seems to be a potentially miraculous thing where almost nobody knows exactly what it is to what it is good for. Check this related Dilbert comic.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Antitrust, billion dollar fines, privacy violations and numerous federal investigations. Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon are feeling the pressure from a wave of government inquiries.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jyxS2bvQGxc
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SUGGESTIVE FIGHTING GAME COSTUME Home News CPU, APU & Chipsets AMD smashes Cinebench world record with dual EPYC 7742 processors AMD kicks some serious ass with EPYC 7742: 128C/256T destroys Cinebench world record
Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/67586/amd-smashes-cinebench-world-record-dual-epyc-7742-processors/index.html
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Red Hat OpenShift 4 on your laptop: Introducing Red Hat CodeReady Containers
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/09/05/red-hat-openshift-4-on-your-laptop-introducing-red-hat-codeready-containers/
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ORACLE AUTONOMOUS LINUX: WORLD’S FIRST AUTONOMOUS OPERATING SYSTEM ANNOUNCED
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/oracle-autonomous-linux-worlds-first-autonomous-operating-system-announced-7355191.html
Oracle Autonomous Linux and Oracle OS Management Services are included with Oracle Premier Support at no extra charge.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://blog.paessler.com/5-things-i-learned-while-interning-as-a-system-admin
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Richard Stallman and the Fall of the Clueless Nerd
https://www.wired.com/story/richard-stallman-and-the-fall-of-the-clueless-nerd/
The controversial pioneer of free software resigned from MIT over his remarks on Jeffrey Epstein and Marvin Minsky. Stallman won’t be the last.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Computer scientist Richard Stallman, who defended Jeffrey Epstein, resigns from MIT CSAIL and the Free Software Foundation
https://tcrn.ch/30jWPGx
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Oracle Autonomous Linux: World’s first autonomous operating system announced
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/oracle-autonomous-linux-worlds-first-autonomous-operating-system-announced-7355191.html
Oracle has announced its free autonomous operating system — Oracle Autonomous Linux — which provisions itself, scales itself, tunes itself and patches itself while running.
Additionally, Oracle promises “literally instantaneous migration” to the new operating system. The OS is free for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers.
Besides the Autonomous Linux OS, Oracle also announced Oracle OS Management Service, which will basically help control systems whether they run Autonomous Linux, Linux, or Windows.
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A Developer Deletes His Code to Protest Its Use by ICE
Seth Vargo removed a tool used by customers of his former employer, Chef. The company quickly restored it, because the software is open source.
https://www.wired.com/story/developer-deletes-code-protest-ice/?fbclid=IwAR251NsoAOJCyjQ_GrYtbpSdiV7BNjYDapGX4aht6YzvtSsQPQ4_g5y_wpg&fbclid=IwAR3sctuuSiUmbTH6pvsWsztjk1COfpWq_zx1PD-NnAL7zXh25iIa0z3LQfY&mbid=social_fb&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=wired&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Chef situation also highlights changes in how software is developed and the challenges those changes present. Much modern software includes multiple open source components. Even commercial software often relies on “libraries” of code created or maintained by outsiders. This helps developers work faster by not having to recreate common features and components. But if the maintainers of those components delete or break them—or stop maintaining them—everyone who relies on that software is affected.
https://www.wired.com/story/developer-deletes-code-protest-ice/?fbclid=IwAR251NsoAOJCyjQ_GrYtbpSdiV7BNjYDapGX4aht6YzvtSsQPQ4_g5y_wpg&fbclid=IwAR3sctuuSiUmbTH6pvsWsztjk1COfpWq_zx1PD-NnAL7zXh25iIa0z3LQfY&mbid=social_fb&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=wired&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook
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A website coding itself live
https://www.strml.net/
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Async.h – asynchronous, stackless subroutines in C
https://higherlogics.blogspot.com/2019/09/asynch-asynchronous-stackless.html?m=1
The async/await idiom is becoming increasingly popular. The first widely used language to include it was C#, and it has now spread into JavaScript and Rust. Now C/C++ programmers don’t have to feel left out, because async.h is a header-only library that brings async/await to C!
(Discussion on HN – http://bit.ly/30jr4S1)
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Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech:
AMD says it is delaying release of its Ryzen 9 3950X until November due to high demand and the time needed to ensure sufficient stock availability — In a shock email late on Friday, AMD has released a statement to clarify the situation it is in with the manufacturing of its latest Ryzen processors.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14895/amd-next-gen-threadripper-and-ryzen-9-3950x-coming-november
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Agile BS.
DevOps BS.
Docker BS.
How Fake Agile At DoD Risks National Security
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2019/09/22/how-fake-agile-at-dod-risks-national-security/?fbclid=IwAR3WuT86s4XakTIRqUaxlMU0m_MMg0b4_nJXlXgoIUEDiS5isAmZzXbH-xE#1c5805ef8fa8
As Agile is increasingly seen as the standard way to manage work in the 21st Century, we are seeing more and more “Agile in name only” or “fake Agile”. The government is no different. The Department of Defense (DoD) has even issued a guide, “Detecting Agile BS” to help identify and drive out rampant fake Agile. What is at stake is significant: at a time when cyber warfare, both offensive and defensive, has become at least as important as physical fighting, rapid development of effective software at DoD has become a key ingredient in national security.
The current situation is worrying. In March 2019, the Defense Innovation Board concluded that DoD’s “current approach to software development is broken.”
The guide offers “flags” for detecting ‘Agile BS’ that include:
Software developers not talking to users
Meeting requirements more important than getting something useful to the field quickly
Stakeholders acting “more-or-less autonomously” (e.g. it’s not my job)
Manual processes are tolerated in situations when automation is possible
https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05.PDF
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Programmer who took down open-source pieces over Chef ICE contract responds
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/23/programmer-who-took-down-open-source-pieces-over-chef-ice-contract-responds/
On Friday afternoon Chef CEO Barry Crist and CTO Corey Scobie sat down with TechCrunch to defend their contract with ICE after a firestorm on social media called for them to cut ties with the controversial agency.
While the Chef executives stated that the company was in fact the owner, Vargo made it clear he owned those pieces and he had every right to remove them from the repository. “Chef (the company) was including a third-party software package that I owned. It was on my personal repository on GitHub and personal namespace on RubyGems,” he said. He believes that gave him the right to remove them.
Chef CTO Corey Scobie did not agree.
Vargo says that simply isn’t true and Chef misunderstands the licensing terms. “No OSI license or employment agreement requires me to continue to maintain code of my personal account(s). They are conflating code ownership (which they can argue they have) over code stewardship,”
Vargo said that Chef actually was in violation of the open-source license when they restored those open-source pieces without putting his name on it. “Chef actually violated the Apache license by removing my name, which they later restored in response to public pressure,” he said.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Note: Installing Firefox on a Fresh Windows Install without using IE
https://goughlui.com/2018/08/29/note-installing-firefox-on-a-fresh-windows-install-without-using-ie/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Conclusion
As it turns out, through Invoke-WebRequest, abusing certutil or using BITSADMIN, it’s possible to grab an alternative browser without having to fire up IE at all.
https://goughlui.com/2018/08/29/note-installing-firefox-on-a-fresh-windows-install-without-using-ie/
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Docker is in deep trouble
In a leaked internal memo, Docker CEO reveals the troubled company is looking for more money.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/docker-is-in-deep-trouble/
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There are many possible approaches to achieve an effective test-driven development workflow. Here’s one, described outside-in by Marko Bjelac, the lead software developer of Software Sauna. http://bit.ly/2onA8nA
A SHORT RECIPE FOR TEST-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE
https://talented.fi/blog/test-driven-architecture/
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Microsoft launches the ARM-based Surface Pro X
https://tcrn.ch/2osLbvZ
At its annual Surface hardware event, Microsoft today announced the long-rumored ARM-based Surface, the first time Microsoft itself has launched a device with an ARM-based processor inside. The 13-inch device will use Microsoft’s own custom SQ1 chip, based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon and an AI accelerator, making it the first Surface with an integrated AI engine. Microsoft and Qualcomm also worked on building custom-designed GPU cores for the Pro X, which will run Microsoft’s version of Windows 10 for ARM.
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Why software developers (quite honestly) hate Agile
https://www.objectstyle.com/agile/why-developers-hate-agile
, “In a nutshell, why do a lot of developers dislike Agile?” In the thread, many developers expressed their “feelings” towards Agile. Here are some highlights from that discussion:
Highlight 1: Agile = arbitrary goals and unrealistic deadlines.
Highlight 2: Agile = “red tape” and no room for developer creativity.
Highlight 3: Agile = rushing developers to do their job.
So, what exactly went wrong with the Agile movement? Wasn’t it supposed to be about “people over processes” and eventually eliminate all bureaucracy and middlemen?
When talking about the history and the future of Agile, he pointed out that Agile – the way it was originally envisioned by Kent Beck and other creators – has long been hijacked by an army of certified Scrum masters and businesspeople who do not understand how software is made (much like a city kid does not understand how a potato becomes chips).
[Agile] certification turned into this “siren song,” and it attracted, frankly, all the wrong people.
So according to Robert C. Martin, Agile was originally created for programmers by programmers. But it has now gotten off track. There is now a counter-movement that emerged after the split (when the original idea of Agile got tainted by thoughtless management). This counter-movement is Software Craftsmanship, and it has its Manifesto, too.
http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Incoming HP CEO Announces 7,000 to 9,000 Layoffs As Part Of Major Restructuring
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/10/03/incoming-hp-ceo-announces-7000-9000-layoffs-as-part-of-major-restructuring/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Gordie/#676f7264696
Maksym Babych says:
Laravel has amazing ecosystem. Almost 40 tools in this article
https://spdload.com/blog/best-laravel-tools-and-resources
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/02/the-problem-with-pc-vr-is-the-pc/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Building a PC… using only Wish.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ_8F4nzyiw
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/01/07/social-justice-warriors-wreaking-havoc-in-open-source-software/amp/
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Fuck is a magnificent app, inspired by a @liamosaur tweet, that corrects errors in previous console commands
https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
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This fluid simulator can be launched in your browser and it’s ridiculously calming
It makes putting up with Kevin’s BS easier
https://knowtechie.com/this-fluid-simulator-can-be-launched-in-your-browser-and-is-ridiculously-calming/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.techradar.com/news/google-chrome-is-in-danger-of-becoming-windows-everyone-uses-it-but-no-one-loves-it
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Microsoft: We want you to learn Python programming language for free
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-we-want-you-to-learn-python-programming-language-for-free/
Microsoft’s new free video course helps aspiring programmers learn Python… and then build AI apps on Azure.
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Stephen Armstrong / WIRED UK:
Google’s Stadia execs talk about plans for the service, including tackling latency issues, building an exclusive content library, and an internal game studio — Google Stadia promises console-free gaming where you can hop from watching to playing to streaming with just one click – but can it convince both developers and gamers?
Inside Google Stadia
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-stadia
“Historically, gaming was defined by the device you were playing on,” says Kareem Choudhry, vice president of cloud gaming at Xbox and the man looking to stymie Stadia’s ambitions. “Music and video started that way – now you listen and watch wherever you want. Now its gaming’s time. In mobile, music drove 3G, video drove 4G – and gaming will drive 5G.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Gartner predicts that by 2025, 80% of enterprises will shut down their traditional data centers. Hybrid model is more likely to stay here. Do you agree? #CloudComputing #Sysadmin #IT #AWS #Google
Tomi Engdahl says:
Vuokaavio korvaa koodin
https://www.tivi.fi/blogit/vuokaavio-korvaa-koodin/5550bba1-ed5d-42c7-98b3-adc9535bc4b7
Vuopohjainen ohjelmointi – Flow-Based Programming – on melkoinen sanahirviö, mutta ajatus sen taustalla on hyvä. Näin uskoo ainakin Amazon, joka julkaisi AWS IoT Things Graph -palvelun tänä kesänä. Palvelun ideana on helpottaa iot-sovelluskehitystä vähentämällä tarvittavien koodirivien määrää ja tekemällä ohjelmoinnista enemmänkin kaavioiden piirtelyä.
Vuopohjainen ohjelmointi ei ole uusi keksintö.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://dave.cheney.net/2019/09/24/be-wary-of-functions-which-take-several-parameters-of-the-same-type
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https://www.programming-idioms.org/
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DESIGN SYSTEMS & VERSION CONTROL – SAVING YOUR PROJECT FROM CHAOS
https://blog.taiste.fi/en/design-systems-and-version-control
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Common Systems Programming Optimizations & Tricks
https://paulcavallaro.com/blog/common-systems-programming-optimizations-tricks/
Today’s blog post is an overview of some common optimization techniques and neat tricks for doing “systems programming” – whatever that means today. We’ll walk through some methods to make your code run faster, be more efficient, and to squeeze just a little more juice from whatever you got.
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https://mortada.net/the-traveling-tesla-salesman.html
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https://linuxjournal.rocks/post/linux-kernel-53-released-this-is-whats-new
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Which Tech Leaders Do Tech Professionals Admire? Elon Musk Heads the List
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/which-tech-leaders-do-tech-professionals-admire-elon-musk-heads-the-list
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Sarah Gooding / WordPress Tavern:
Matt Mullenweg and Ruby on Rails’ creator David Heinemeier Hansson discuss balance of power in open source projects, tradeoffs of growing WordPress market share
Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson Discuss WordPress Market Share, Monopolies, and Power in Open Source Communities
https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-and-david-heinemeier-hansson-discuss-wordpress-market-share-monopolies-and-power-in-open-source-communities
“I think there’s potential to get to a similar market share as Android, which I believe now has 85% of all handsets,” Mullenweg told TechCrunch. “When you think about it, open source has a virtuous cycle of adoption, people building on the platform and more adoption.”
Hansson contends that he would like to see a very large, rich ecosystem of providers of tools and services on the web and expressed concern about WordPress growing many times faster than any of its competitors.
“Even though open source can become a bit of a standard, it doesn’t prevent others from starting on it,” Mullenweg said. “The truth is if I had an evil hat on – let’s say I started doing evil monopoly stuff, people could easily fork the software – and they would. There’s a checks and balances there.”
This is a classic power dynamic in BDFL-led open source projects where the potential for a fork checks the project leader’s actions.
“Why would venture capitalists invest half a billion dollars into WordPress if they didn’t see Automattic as a company as having a lot of power over WordPress? The whole reason someone is able to raise that kind of money is off the back of someone who can pitch: ‘We have over a third of all websites on the internet and we think we can get to 85%.’ That’s a very compelling venture story.”
One of Hansson’s chief concerns with WordPress reaching 85% market share is what he described as the “death of diversity.”
“We’re living through an era right now where a small handful of big tech companies are exerting a completely undue amount of power over the internet, over discourse, over all sorts of things, and that’s something we should try to recoil from and at least learn from, not aspire to building more of,”
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Peter Rubin / Wired:
Sony announces PlayStation 5 will launch in time for “holiday 2020”, featuring a new controller with haptic technology and triggers with varying resistance — Now that the name is official, we’ve got more details about Sony’s next-gen console—from the haptics-packed controller to UI improvements.
Exclusive: A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5
https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-playstation-5/
Now that the name is official, we’ve got more details about Sony’s next-gen console—from the haptics-packed controller to UI improvements.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts on Microsoft’s New-Found Love for Linux
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/linus-torvalds-doesnt-think-microsoft-is-out-to-hijack-linux
Ever since Microsoft announced that it “loves Linux” a palpable sense of scepticism and cynicism has been building within in the Linux community’s collective nervous system.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Which Agile Methodology is Right for Me and My Team? Kanban vs. Scrum
https://article.efecte.com/blog/en/which-agile-methodology-is-right-for-me-and-my-team-kanban-vs-scrum
Which Agile methodology is right for me?
When considering agile, many managers and companies try to adopt a particular framework. But this goes directly against one of the core values of agile, individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Enterprise Software Is Dead
Going forward it’s all just business software.
https://capiche.com/p/enterprise-software-is-dead
For decades, a stark distinction existed between enterprise software (targeting Fortune 2000 companies) and the rest of business software (targeting mid-market and SMB).
SMB could be a path to the enterprise, but the categories were vastly different. Different buyer personas, different brand goals, different product priorities, and different sales cycles.
Those differences are fading away. The distinction of enterprise software is becoming irrelevant. Going forward, it’s all just business software.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Microsoft’s new backpack-friendly Azure device weighs under 10 pounds, runs on batteries, and meets the 810G ruggedized standard.
Microsoft Unveils Battery-Powered Version of Azure That Fits in a Backpack
https://www.petri.com/microsoft-unveils-battery-powered-version-of-azure-that-fits-in-a-backpack
Tomi Engdahl says:
Open Source Alternative for Zapier
(Discussion on HN – http://bit.ly/2VoJmwh)
https://n8n.io/
Tomi Engdahl says:
5 Programming Languages That Refuse to Die
https://insights.dice.com/2019/10/03/5-programming-languages-refuse-die/?CMPID=SM_FB_UP_JS_US_OG_&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social_Media&utm_campaign=EMPLOYER_T1
Not all programming languages will stay relevant forever.
Make no mistake about it: Apple wants Objective-C dead. Although the language undergirded Apple’s development ecosystem for decades, the company has made an aggressive point of promoting Swift, its successor.
As with many programming languages, people have been breezily predicting FORTRAN’s demise for years. And to be fair, the language is 62 years old—unbelievably ancient by technology standards. However, it’s still very much in use by engineers and scientists, and (even more importantly) it’s evolving at a steady clip.
In our previous analysis, we suggested that Python would eventually swallow R.
Significant numbers of programmers still care very much about R, which is primarily used by academics and data scientists for data analytics.
After all, COBOL is 60 years old, and famous for its use on mainframes. And when was the last time you saw a mainframe in an office?
But COBOL remains in use, even if its usage has dropped radically.
A few weeks ago, TIOBE predicted that PHP was in a death spiral of sorts.
TIOBE blamed the decline on security holes; others have pointed to Python as swallowing up an ever-greater portion of the same market for backend development. However, PHP has been around long enough—and big companies such as Facebook have invested in it heavily enough—that it seems unlikely to disappear completely anytime soon
Tomi Engdahl says:
British Tech Firms Bought Up by Foreign Buyers After the Vote to Leave
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-16/british-tech-becomes-a-brexit-bargain-as-deals-keep-coming
Tomi Engdahl says:
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd has died at age 62
https://bit.ly/2VTiqoJ