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HTML Over WebSockets: Responsiveness with Low Latency, but Be Careful

By Dick Weisinger

Single-page Apps (SPA) have ruled developer mindsets over the last decade. The problem is that current SPA architectures are flawed. On the front end, the developer writes Javascript-based applications that exchange JSON packages asynchronously to backend RESTful APIs. In this…

Computational Storage Devices: Offloading CPUs of Compute-Intense Operations

By Dick Weisinger

As the end of Moore’s Law loom just ahead, alternatives to speeding up processing are being investigated. One of those techniques is to offload computationally intensive tasks to specialized hardware. Increasingly smart storage devices are being built that not only…

Security: Apple’s Highly-Secure ‘Walled Garden’ is a Gift to Elite Hackers

By Dick Weisinger

The Apple iPhone has a reputation as being a super-secure device. It’s locked down to the point where hackers have a very hard time trying to break in. But there is a flip side to having this level of security.…

Augmented Reality: Bionic-Eye AR Contact Lenses

By Dick Weisinger

We’ve all seen clips of users with virtual reality goggles bending backwards and spinning their heads to see the corners of a virtual environment that is projected all around them. But rather than goggles that totally cover and hide the…

Edge Computing: IoT Security at the Edge is Guaranteed to be Messy

By Dick Weisinger

“Edge products and services are powering the next wave of digital transformation. With the ability to place infrastructure and applications close to where data is generated and consumed, organizations of all types are looking to edge technology as a method…