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Author: Andreas

  • Microsoft's event-triggered serverless Azure

    After Amazon Web Services launched their Lambda offering in 2014, they apparently had some success. Just a few weeks after Google announced their serverless offering, today Microsoft also announced they’d be offering a technology to execute code event-driven, on demand. Microsoft announced it was previewing a new service today at its annual Build Developer conference that…

  • Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled

    Linux, the open source operating system that virtually powers all of webservers, billions of Android phones as it’s kernel just as well as the majority of home routers and IoT devices, turns 25 years this year. IEEE Spectrum runs an article on the history and why the open kernel became so successful. Timing, cost, and…

  • Business jargon we got used to

    Everybody hates management-speak and corporate jargon, but here are some terms that people used to think of as horrible jargon that we all got used to. Maybe one day we’ll all be leveraging deliverables without a secon via: Business jargon we got used to

  • Zigbee for #IoT

    Zigbee is a wireless protocol for applications not requiring lots of bandwidth, e.g. home automation, lighting or sensor networks. The idea is to create so called Personal Area Networks. The specification is standardized as IEEE 802.15.4. Dresden Electronic offers the Rasbee (Picture to the left) to get started with low budget Raspberry Pi Hardware.

  • John Oliver talks about Encryption

    John Olivers ‘Last Week Tonight’ on encryption in general and the the case Apple vs. FBI in particular.

  • Blah Blah blah … I don't care!

    Nice rant every technical person in the industry can relate to. Blah Blah blah … I don’t care! To hell with your tech marketing bull. Also: In tech, filtering signal from noise is a full-time job True. via: The Register

  • Is cloud computing truly, truly disruptive?

    “Disruption” is one of those words that has been overused, being applied to every little product or service that comes to market, or every new company that emerges. Cloud computing and digital technologies, for example, are branded by many as “disruptive.” New services and business models sweeping through markets, such as Uber and Airbnb, are…

  • The Internet rules the Mobile World Congress.

    The Internet rules the Mobile World Congress. Writes Wired. Which is consequent, looking at the development of mobile technology and sales of devices. Slowing smartphone sales and metro strikes aren’t enough to get anyone down at the 16th annual Mobile World Congress. via: WIRED

  • #AWS #IoT Contest winners announced.

    AWS announced the winners of their IoT contest. Winners of @awscloud #IoT contest announced! Amazing projects, innovation, technical acumen: https://t.co/qZaiJFsVn5 pic.twitter.com/tzmvu5rU0v — Hackster.io (@Hacksterio) February 11, 2016

  • Fake Bomb Threat for Bitcoin

    Old and busted: DDoS 4 Bitcoin New hotness: Fake Bomb Threat 4 Bitcoin