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Photo credit: jakeromeThere had been several rumors about Apple making a TV. Will this be another game changer, like the iPhone and iPad? Will Apple be able to leverage TV’s unique form factor to create a new paradigm for collaboration?Alre…
I can’t escape the feeling that today’s IT decision makers are passionately committed to building the best IT infrastructure the 1990′s have to offer. I have a very clear memory from the early eighties. I was standing on St Kilda Rd. It was a beautiful Melbourne weekday. Sun shining through the plane trees. A soft […]
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Via the open source monkeys, cloud developers everywhere will have an opportunity to learn how Netflix manages a spike laden business on Amazon’s cloud. In addition to the open source news, the article provides a nice overview of the business problem Netflix is solving, why they went cloud, how open source helps with recruiting talent, and profiles one of their big talents, Adrian Cockcroft.
An excerpt:
“Netflix is getting ready to unleash its Simian Army.
The online movie rental company uses a troupe of cloud software — it calls the programs “monkeys” — that poke and prod its online applications and keep the website and its services humming along.
There’s a Chaos Monkey, a program that randomly kills virtual machines to make sure that small outages will not disrupt the overall system. They’ve got Security Monkey — it looks for configuration and security flaws — and Janitor Monkey, too: It looks for system resources that aren’t being used and shuts them down.
Over the next few months Netflix will release the source code for these programs and more, giving cloud developers a look at how it runs its services on Amazon’s cloud. The plan is “to release pretty much all of our platform, including the Monkey infrastructure, over the rest of this year,” says Adrian Cockcroft, the Director of Cloud Architecture at Netflix. “We will be doing bits and pieces of it through the summer and into the fall.””
via Netflix to Open Source Army of Cloud Monkeys | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com.
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It’s that time of year again – the Gartner BPM Summit – where all of the business process management (BPM) gurus are set to gather together in Baltimore to discuss what is going on in the BPM world. The hot topics this year, not surprisingly, include case management, mobility, gamification and social media, and basic […]
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A great Tweet from Oscar Berg this morning: oscarberg: IMO #socbiz is primarily a mindset&way2see business in increasingly connected & digital age I think he’s exactly right there: in essence, ‘social business’ is a different mindset about the way a business relates with others, and also with itself (as in the now seemingly-all-but-forgotten ‘Enterprise 2.0′). […]
Crovitz: Complexity Is Bad for Your Health – WSJ.com
It’ll be interesting to see if SCOTUS determines if (a) the complexity of the entire law makes it impossible to strike down the mandate; or (b) if the mandate is deemed unconstitutional, thus sinking the entire complicated law.
Is it too complex to fail? Or, too complex to stand?
“The justices focused on the complexity of the law to debate what happens if they find some parts unconstitutional, such as the individual mandate that forces people to buy insurance. Can the rest of it stay, or must it all fall, and the political branches start on health-care reform from scratch? And how could the court practically pick and choose, given the law’s great length and complexity?”
“Perhaps ObamaCare will be remembered as the breaking point for top-down planning. There is not enough information available for the government to micromanage a system as complex as health care, which represents more than 15% of the economy. Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek wrote some 50 years ago about the “pretence of knowledge,” meaning the conceit that planners could know enough about complex markets to dictate how they operate. He warned against “the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess.”
tags: complexity healthcare scotus
5 ways to power the Internet of things — Cleantech News and Analysis
“The Internet of Things could have a mind-boggling 24 billion devices connected by 2020 and that means there will be more than three times the amount of connected devices as people on the planet by that time. So, how will the world power all of these gadgets and machine-driven devices? The answer, beyond plugging all of those devices into the grid, will include farming tiny slices of power when available, from sources like the sun, vibrations, mechanical energy, heat and more.”
tags: cleantech green internet-of-things
Business-Facing IT Jobs In Demand – The CIO Report – WSJ
“…outsources what he calls “run-of-the-mill coding jobs” to India, said there are plenty of positions for enterprise architects, data integration architects, and business analysts. Such jobs include all of the” thinking work” that ends up in code and can’t be done offshore because it requires core understanding of each individual company, Leader said.
Recent college graduates could fill core project management and business analyst positions in IT, he said. Leader himself hired project managers, an enterprise architect and business analysts. Many other jobs, including enterprise and integration architects, require strong skill sets that cannot be filled by students fresh out of college, forcing companies to compete for those applicants. “We cannot find people to fill these jobs,” Leader told CIO Journal.”
tags: wsj entarch integration IT business_analysis
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Last week I gave a talk about the lessons learned during the exponential growth of our company the last six years. I was invited to to talk at the Appsterdam meetup in Delft about “growing pains”. In other words: what lessons did we learn when our company grew from 3 to 100 employees. I enjoyed the preparations as much as the actual talk, as it forced me to step back.
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