Brad Johnson

It’s 2020 and we’re still beholden to application patterns established in the era of mainframe computing. The Web was originally created to exchange static resources between user agents. The Hypertext …

Last week, Swim.ai's Scott Clarke joined the team at MATRIX Labs for a video tutorial about his visualization tool for the MATRIX Creator board, which is powered by swimOS. If …

We’ve been hearing about 5G for what seems like years now, but there’s still a lot of confusion around it. The casual mobile user is likely aware that 5G exists …

Whenever I’m discussing swimOS with someone reasonably technical, we invariably arrive on the subject of microservices. It makes sense, as microservices are a commonly understood architectural paradigm and represent many …

In my most recent post, I made four recommendations about planning for an intelligent edge application. My primary takeaway was that building real-time applications requires a different mindset than building …

Last week, Microsoft announced their Azure Data Box Edge computing appliance. While it may seem like a pure edge hardware play, CEO Satya Nadella positioned the product as part of …

Learning a new technology takes time and effort, so it’s important to make sure you’ve identified a good fit before you invest precious brain cycles. To help you determine whether …

Yesterday, Google Cloud’s SVP of Technical Infrastructure, Urs Hölzle announced that they’d “removed the remaining [MapReduce] internal codebase for good.” He went on to elaborate that GCP was ditching MapReduce …

One of the key differentiators for all swimOS applications is statefulness. As today’s applications become more complex, distributed, and real-time, the logistical challenges of managing application state starts to outweigh …

Naming is critical for understanding any new technology, so I wanted to set straight some common terms and important acronyms you’ll run across in the swimOSphere. First, let’s start with …