Forget the Apps, Now the bots take over… Techcrunch

I was intrigued by this article in Techcrunch this morning: Forget Apps, Now The Bots Take Over A similar paradigm is emerging from IoT devices. The complexity of so many apps and so many devices is becoming mind-boggling. In order to deal with it I have started to use a number of automations to […]

IOT : Should you do your Automation for your disparate IOT devices locally or in the cloud, review HUBS

Here is my blog series on this IoT project to automate some key home functions using a variety of IOT devices from many manufacturers. Here is my “Buy/no buy/might buy list and IOT landscape article here” Here is my “What are the integration points for IoT article here” Here is my “Why would you […]

Why would you want to Integrate IOT (Internet of Things) devices? Examples from a use case for the home.

Using the Network Effect to build automation at home between IOT devices The Network effect is the value that is gained by the existence of a growing number of devices in a network. I talk about the network effect in this article. I am proposing to leverage multiple IOT devices in a coordinated way to […]

Iot (Internet of Things), $7 Trillion, $14 Trillion or $19 Trillion? A personal look

IoT 7 TRILLION, 14 TRILLION or 19 TRILLION DOLLARS! Internet of Things market to hit $7.1 trillion by 2020: IDC Mar 14, 2013 – SAN JOSE, Calif. –Cisco Systems is gearing up for what it claims could be $14 trillion opportunity with the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things: 19 Trillion Dollar Market – […]

Tech Explosion the greatest in history. Things that cost millions of dollars are costing thousands. Things that took years are taking months.

Yes, I’m an optimist, so you might put a grain of salt next to my unmitigated optimism about how things will go but I think we are seeing the greatest time in technology history unfolding and it is breathtaking and fun to participate and think about. I believe it will have an impact on our […]

Is 10,000,000,000,000,000 (= 10^16 ) API calls / month a big deal?

The scale is staggering 14 years ago I was running a group at TIBCO that was bringing TIBCO to the Internet. Yahoo!Finance was built on the TIBCO pubsub infrastructure. At the time Yahoo was the biggest cloud/internet company and the finance pages were the most popular pages on the companies web site other than search. […]

Publish / Subscribe Event Driven Architecture in the age of Cloud, Mobile, Internet of Things(IoT), Social

Event driven computing is the way we build software to give you information instantly when it happens. I invented Publish/Subscribe Event driven computing at TIBCO in the 1980s. Event driven computing and publish / subscribe (pubsub) is critical to the new world of Cloud, Mobile and now Internet of Things. I will show how […]

Enterprise Application Platform 3.0 is a Social, Mobile, API Centric, Bigdata, Open Source, Cloud Native Multi-tenant Internet of Things IOT Platform

What is Platform 3.0? It is the new development methodology, technologies and best practices that have evolved since the revolution caused by the growth of mobile, cloud, social, bigdata, open source and APIs. This article explains what Platform 3.0 is, what it is composed of, why those things are part of the platform. I’m not […]

The Virtuous Circle is key to understanding how the world is changing – Mobile, Social, Cloud, Open Source, APIs, DevOps

I could talk about each of these components in isolation, for instance, Mobile and talk about the growth of it and changes it is fostering but you wouldn’t get the big picture. The change we are seeing can only be understood by considering all these components together. They each affect each other and the widespread […]