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Serverless Computing: The Promise of Flexibility and Scalability in Exchange for More Complex Management

By Dick Weisinger

Serverless computing is effectively a function-as-a-service capability. IDC analysts conclude that serverless can make developers more productive and lead to lower costs, resulting in a return on investment of more than 400 percent. Serverless computing is flexible, cheap and highly…

Smart Cities: Potholes in the Road to Creating More Efficient Cities

By Dick Weisinger

Smart Cities is the idea that advanced technology can be applied to improve urban living. The core benefit of Smart Cities are cities that have significantly improved efficiency. Smart Cities have financial benefits from optimized trade and there proactive maintenance…

Security: Businesses Exposed to Insider Risk

By Dick Weisinger

Insider Risk is the general danger of damage or loss occurring to company data. Insider Threat more specifically focuses on users — it is the potential that a user who has authorized access does something either maliciously or unintentionally that…

Artificial Intelligence: Google’s Trillion-Parameter Predictive Language Model

By Dick Weisinger

GPT-3 the predictive language model created by OpenAI captured headlines last year when it showed that it could produce text and essays that couldn’t be distinguished from those written by a human. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said that “the…

Chaos Engineering: Learning How to be Resilient by Breaking Things

By Dick Weisinger

Chaos Engineering is a preemptive approach to creating resilient IT infrastructures. Development teams purposely try to throw as many problems at their systems to see if they can break it as a technique to identify system weaknesses and to devise…