by Brad Johnson, on Oct 28, 2019 12:46:32 PM
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 …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Oct 16, 2019 11:03:30 AM
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 …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Oct 14, 2019 12:34:19 PM
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 …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Oct 4, 2019 9:41:35 AM
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 …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Sep 27, 2019 12:35:28 PM
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 …
Read Storyby Swim.ai Team, on Sep 23, 2019 2:35:11 PM
SWIM.AI Introduces DataFabric Software Which Provides Analysis and Prediction in Real-Time for Edge and Streaming Data and Full Integration with Microsoft Azure Businesses can collect, classify, reduce and analyze edge/streaming …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Aug 28, 2019 1:48:34 PM
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 …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Aug 22, 2019 1:25:23 PM
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 …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Aug 21, 2019 12:48:22 PM
Ever since the first applications started moving data records, we’ve needed ways to annotate those records with formatting instructions. Many of these record notation formats are familiar to developers. For …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Jul 2, 2019 3:19:54 PM
Today, the Java ecosystem remains one of the largest developer communities on planet earth. At over 9 million active developers, the Java programming language is used every day to build and run systems …
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