Posts with keyword: cloud

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We Need a Self-Sovereign Model for IoT

Mon Apr 25 10:46:00 2022

The Internet of Things is more like the CompuServe of Things. We need a new, self-sovereign model to protect us from proprietary solutions and unlock IoT's real potential.
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Picos at the Edge

Mon Nov 1 10:25:00 2021

The future of computing is moving from the cloud to the edge. How can we create a decentralized, general-purpose computing mesh? Picos provide a model for exploration.
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The Cloud Is Not the Internet

Wed Jan 27 09:10:00 2016

Don't confuse the Cloud with the Internet. They're not the same thing and have different properties.
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Modules in the Cloud

Thu Jun 9 13:16:00 2011

After I wrote my last blog post on "Hover Me - A Social Media Dashboard" I got to thinking about the power of modules and realized that there's a special power that is available from modules that operate in the cloud. First, a little discussion of what Ed's Empire Avenue Module does. Empire Avenue's current API doesn't allow you to look up information by Twitter handle, only by Empire Avenue ID. Ed discovered that you could use the site to do it, so he used Kynetx to essentially do a little screen scaping to get the data and return
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VARs, Clouds, and Silver Linings

Wed Jan 19 09:46:00 2011

Hunter Richards has a nice article on the challenges facing value-added resellers with the ongoing move to the cloud. He makes some excellent points about what parts of the VAR business are going away and which are expanding, giving five moves VARs can make to gain a foothold in the new cloud computing market: Specialize Develop competancy in PaaS poducts Make the cloud's efficiency work for you Offer technology-enabled services Promote the cloud to your existing customer base One of the things I like about Hunter's thinking is that he's not focusing, as many do, on the IaaS plays.
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A Big, Programmable Event Loop in the Cloud

Mon Jun 21 09:59:00 2010

An event loop is a message dispatcher. The loop runs, waiting for events, and responding to them. This is how I've come to think of the Kynetx Network Service (KNS): a big, programmable event loop that runs in the cloud. We haven't always thought of KNS as an event loop, we used to think of it as a ruleset evaluation engine. These ruleset evaluations were tied to users visiting a page. We now view that as just one kind of event (a pageview event, to be specific). We also promoted some other events in the system (like Web clicks
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Securing a Cloud Infrastructure

Tue May 12 15:35:00 2009

George Reese (author of the new book Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud) is talking at Gluecon about securing cloud infrastructures. Two recent surveys found "security" was the number one concern of companies considering a move to the cloud. George says the key to making customers comfortable with cloud security is transparency. Without security: You cannot know if the infrastructure meets your requirements. You can't comply with critical regulatory requirements So...demand transparency. That ought to be a critical part of deciding what cloud infrastructure to use. Control isn't the real issue: people don't build their
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