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Security: Constant Software Patches Don’t Work — Can Secure Hardware Defeat Hackers?

By Dick Weisinger

The second Tuesday of each month is Windows patch release day. When shutting your computer off that day, Microsoft will download new software that fixes bugs and, more often than not, attempts to plug holes in the software that could…

API-Centric Service Mesh: Microservices with Observability, Security and Reliability

By Dick Weisinger

A Service Mesh is an infrastructure layer built into an application that allows communication between services and microservices in the application. Some open source project provide service mesh capabilities, like Istio, Linkerd and Kuma. RedHat explains the need for a…

Sustainability and the Cloud: It’s a Dream — It can be Improved, but It will Never be Truly Sustainable

By Dick Weisinger

It can be hard to argue that cloud computing is beneficial to the environment. After all, technology of all kinds use massive amounts of electricity and generate massive amounts of discarded electronic waste. But when cloud computing is compared to…

Containerizing Traditional Databases: Managing Apps with State in Containers

By Dick Weisinger

Containerization is gaining wide acceptance across organizations. Gartner predicts that by 2022, 75 percent of organizations will be using containerized applications in production. Carl Olofoson, vice president at IDC, said that “many databases were not designed to be cloud native,…

Blockchain and Consensus: Will Cybercurrencies Drain the World’s Power Supplies?

By Dick Weisinger

Blockchain provides a decentralized way for tracking information. Blockchains eliminate the need for a central authority to control the accuracy of the information. The key to the trustworthiness of the blockchain is the consensus algorithm it uses to guarantee correctness.…