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 …

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 …

Here's a cool demo from Swim developer, Scott Clarke. The Swim Greenhouse Demo (found here on GitHub) uses Swim, NodeJS, and Python to make an application which learns in real-time from a …

Swim can be a challenge to explain to people, even if the audience is fairly technical. Unless you've had firsthand experience building and running at-scale distributed applications with low latency requirements, it's difficult …

This is the second post in a three part series about the future of the World Wide Web. Click here to read part 1 or part 3. "The World Wide Web was designed to …

Serverless computing is a seductive and powerful addition to a cloud developer’s arsenal. But despite its elegance, serverless is not the right architecture for most edge applications. Combined with the …

Application developers frequently choose REST in the name of simplicity, but for real-time apps, REST introduces unnecessary complexity and performance bottlenecks. REST based APIs, stateless computing and database-centric applications are the …

The web and IaaS clouds only work because of REST and stateless computing. That and a couple of other infrastructure abstractions: load balancing, and a database of some sort. The …

Today’s architects and developers are comfortable with powerful cloud infrastructure service abstractions that help them quickly build applications. The (REST API + stateless microservice + database) model for cloud apps …