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Linkedin is only useful because of the network effects of having a lot of people on it. Most of the complaints about linkedin are about the people on it (and the tendency of some to use it as a platform for self promotion) Any platform looking to replace linkedin would have the same issues.

Not the case; I work at a bank and we have widescale adoption of Kubernetes and cloud products (in fact most of the major banks do at this point)

If you happen to be looking for a DevOps or SRE role, check a large banks job boards, you'll be surprised how many open roles are available.

I wrote a set of internal use systems using Lambda and API Gateway. I'm in two minds about it; its handy but at the moment I dont think its mature enough for a critical live system.

I'd like better ways to collect execution data for debugging and more visibility all round. With those it would definitely be a contender.

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Benchmark from Intel i7 desktop

  CPU                 : 8 CPU GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)   i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz 3910MHz
  L2 Cache            : 8192 KB
  OS                  : Linux 3.16.0-55-generic
  C compiler          : gcc version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-  2ubuntu1~14.04.1)
  libc                : libc-2.19.so
  MEMORY INDEX        : 58.235
  INTEGER INDEX       : 52.421
  FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 79.472
  Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38

If youre on a tight budget and IO is your main bottleneck it may be easier to purchase a number of decent spec desktop PC's with multiple SSD's in them. SSD's have really come down in price while performance and capacity have improved greatly. Same goes for RAM. (Assumption here is that time is less of a concern than cost at the moment and youre not averse to doing some devops work. Also assuming that the processing youre talking about is some sort of batch processing and not realtime) This way you can try a number of different strategies without blowing the bank on AWS instances (and worst case you have a spare workstation)

Stratos Card 11 years ago

No support for EMV at the moment on this either. They actually recommend carrying the EMV cards as well which sort of negates the point of having this.

8000 seems like an awfully high number for whats effectively an e-commerce website. Be nice to know some more details of whats happening behind the scenes.

The really interesting bit for me is that theres a plugin module with a FPGA that can be programmed by the end user.

Which means simple apps wont even have their traffic leave the switch. I can think of a ton of uses for that, especially from a security perspective.

As with Uber & AirBnb this seems to be trend of moving the people providing the actual service from employees to independent contractors. Its a situation where both the consumer and the contractors are less protected and taken care of.

I find this a step backwards; but it remains to be seen if this is just a harbinger of change or just a passing fad.

If Amazons international experience is anything to go by this will pose a serious threat to local retailers.

Here in the UK Amazon offers prime with unlimited next day, which has led to sharp cuts at high street retailers. Its not quite same day but its simplicity and low friction means its mostly simpler to just order through Amazon than to walk down to the local store.

According to Geekbench the current CPU in the iPad Air (the A7) scores about the same as a Core 2 Duo from 2006 (the E6600). Nothing to sneeze at and definitely getting close to the low power Haswell CPU's in systems like the Macbook Air. But I reckon it'll be a few generations of A series CPU's before they reach the point where they can challenge Intel for the crown

With a lot of people out there looking for jobs it pays to be vigilant when dealing with agents you've never met before.

The article provides a brief rundown of how the scam works.

A WAF is like insurance, most of the time you wont need it, but its good to have when the s*it hits the fan.

While you can rely on your app to have its own security, it never hurts to have extra (unless latency is a concern).

I'd start with an open source version and move up to a commercial product if its necessary.

Are SoC's getting so cheap that this kind of scatter shot approach is cost effective ?

In all honesty I believe this is a fabricated story. Mainly 1) its not cheap 2) Irons are hot and can have water in them for steam. Not ideal for electronics 3) Irons aren't in use all day. Hardly a great attack vector, a mobile phone charger would be much better

The biggest problem was they were introducing new servers with similar or better specs than servers existing customers had. And instead of dropping existing customers prices, they kept them static. So a lot of people found themselves looking at a bill 600% higher for the same server just because they were an existing customer. Who in their right mind would pay 6x times more for the same service ?

They could stop the customer churn by simply changing the price to match the new offerings.

At the time I switched to a new server type I even asked their customer team if the new pricing would be offered to existing customers and the answer was a flat no.

Speaking as an enterprise customer on long upgrade cycles, RIM/Blackberry badly judged the situation vis a vis their enterprise customer base.

The new Z10 was not compatible with their large install base of Blackberry Enterprise Server. Anyone still running BES at the time the Z10 was introduced was likely to be a shop interested in security and control of the mobile platform their end users were using.

Which is why businesses like my employer and many others kept buying BB OS7 devices (did you notice they didnt break numbers out and actually mentioned BBOS7 as a significant portion during their investor call ?)

TL;DR: They thought all their enterprise customers would upgrade fast, they guessed wrong.