An Examination of the Enterprise risks of building your Cloud stack

An Examination of the risks of building your enterprise stack This article refers to the kinds of risks CIO's need to look at, CTO's and others who have a concern for the long term issues associated with using any technology. These are risks Enterprises normally assess as part of technology adoption processes and PMO processes. […]

Simple Standards Crush Complex Ones

SOA :: API as PaaS :: Docker I frequently make an analogy of why API’s have supplanted SOA as being similar to reasons why Docker/Kubernetes is supplanting PaaS. SOA was architecturally superior and theoretically provided the same benefits as API’s. Many companies went down the SOA road but few ever implemented it very far. For instance, governance registry […]

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Amazon Serverless computing or Google Function as a Service (FaaS) vs Microservices and Container Technologies

The component world is facilitating reuse and increased efficiency through container technology The evolution of container packaging of components has been a huge boon to the productivity of software development. As an example, a prominent cloud management company, RightScale, recently moved some of its technology to containers and found a more than 50% improvement in […]

How to Scale APIs in the cloud with Security, Reliability and Quality of Service

Companies are moving to the cloud faster than ever. The motivation is higher than ever. One of the companies that first put APIs in the cloud was Netflix and they realized many of the issues that others would face sooner than anyone else. Microservices The key takeaway from Netflix’s experience could be microservices. […]

IOT Success depends on Integration

I have posted a set of slides on current IoT and IIoT status with some interesting architecture diagrams and material on success in some markets. Here are the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/johnmathon1/iot-success-depends-on-integration

The future of transportation – Self-Driving Cars, Hyperloop and sex

Originally posted on UnderstandItAll:
The premise of the article Sex distracted Driving on the rise is that more and more people will use the spare time and energy of level 3 and 4 self-driving cars to perform sexual activities. Whether this is frequent enough to measurably increase the death or accident rate I think is highly…

Software Development in Disruption – The New Paradigm of Software

In this series of blogs I will talk about the changes in software development over the last 10 years that have revolutionized our industry. I will also talk about what I see as the important trends and technologies. You can find at the end of this blog a list of the articles in this series […]

Basics of VC Investing from the VC’s and Entrepreneurial point of view

In my last article that talked of the merits of the Silicon Valley miracle and how it is unique and unstoppable more than one comment interpreted my article as an endorsement of VC’s in particular. Today VC’s are a shrinking importance to the Silicon Valley story. Part of this article will discuss the traditional VC […]

Security and Privacy – Not the staid and boring business of the past 20 years

Normally I consider security as something that is tedious but a necessary evil. Privacy is something lawyers mainly deal with, yuck. This has been a staid industry for some time with a number of fairly well known players. I started a security company in the DLP and eDiscovery space. We have to deal […]

The Indisputable list of 10 most Innovative Influential Tech Companies

Innovation is the lifeblood of truly transformative business success but what is it and who has it? Let’s define innovation a little. If we are looking for companies issuing the most number of patents that is one measure that is relatively meaningless. Some companies encourage and facilitate patents and become patent machines. Some companies are […]