Thursday, March 30, 2017
cloud big data: Amazon Athena, Facebook Presto, Azure HDInsight
Amazon Athena FAQs – Amazon Web Services (AWS)
"Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to setup or manage, and you can start analyzing data immediately. You don’t even need to load your data into Athena, it works directly with data stored in S3. To get started, just log into the Athena Management Console, define your schema, and start querying.
"HDInsight is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop offering that provides optimized open source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA."
"Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to setup or manage, and you can start analyzing data immediately. You don’t even need to load your data into Athena, it works directly with data stored in S3. To get started, just log into the Athena Management Console, define your schema, and start querying.
Amazon Athena uses Presto with full standard SQL support and works with a variety of standard data formats, including CSV, JSON, ORC, Apache Parquet and Avro. While Amazon Athena is ideal for quick, ad-hoc querying and integrates with Amazon QuickSight for easy visualization, it can also handle complex analysis, including large joins, window functions, and arrays.
Amazon Athena helps you analyze data stored in Amazon S3."
What is Presto? – Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Presto | Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data
"Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes."
Amazon Athena helps you analyze data stored in Amazon S3."
What is Presto? – Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Presto | Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data
"Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes."
Most efficient car: Hyundai Ioniq
2017’s Top Ten Tech Cars: Hyundai Ioniq - IEEE Spectrum
"The most energy-efficient car in America isn’t a Tesla, Toyota, or even the remarkable Chevrolet Bolt. It’s a Hyundai. With a range of 200 kilometers (124 miles), the all-electric Ioniq comes nowhere near the Bolt’s astounding 383 km (238 miles). But the Hyundai’s gasoline equivalent of 1.73 liters per 100 kilometers (136 mpge) tops all current EVs.
...
Ioniqs match the slippery 0.24 drag coefficient of the Tesla Model S, making them the most aerodynamic models on U.S. roads.
...
Hyundai is experimenting in California with a way to lure buyers from conventional cars: a cellphone-style subscription plan. It bundles unlimited mileage, charging costs, scheduled maintenance, and replacement of worn-out items into a single monthly payment."
The New Ioniq - One Car Three Options | HyundaiUSA
"The most energy-efficient car in America isn’t a Tesla, Toyota, or even the remarkable Chevrolet Bolt. It’s a Hyundai. With a range of 200 kilometers (124 miles), the all-electric Ioniq comes nowhere near the Bolt’s astounding 383 km (238 miles). But the Hyundai’s gasoline equivalent of 1.73 liters per 100 kilometers (136 mpge) tops all current EVs.
...
Ioniqs match the slippery 0.24 drag coefficient of the Tesla Model S, making them the most aerodynamic models on U.S. roads.
...
Hyundai is experimenting in California with a way to lure buyers from conventional cars: a cellphone-style subscription plan. It bundles unlimited mileage, charging costs, scheduled maintenance, and replacement of worn-out items into a single monthly payment."
The New Ioniq - One Car Three Options | HyundaiUSA
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
AI free ebook: Artificial Intelligence Now
Artificial Intelligence Now - O'Reilly Media
- "The AI landscape: the platforms, businesses, and business models shaping AI growth; plus a look at the emerging AI stack
- Technology: AI’s technical underpinnings and deep learning capabilities, tools, and tutorials
- Homebuilt autonomous systems: "hobbyist" applications that showcase AI tools, libraries, cloud processing, and mobile computing
- Natural language: strategies for scoping and tackling NLP projects
- Use cases: an analysis of two of the leading-edge use cases for artificial intelligence—chat bots and autonomous vehicles
- Integrating human and machine intelligence: development of human-AI hybrid applications and workflows; using AI to map and access large-scale knowledge databases"
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
APFS : new Apple iOS filesystem
Apple Quietly Upgrades the File System of Millions of iOS Devices
"With the release of iOS 10.3 to the general public, millions of devices will be upgraded to use Apple’s new file system, APFS,
...
APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames, or the fact that APFS allows multiple files whose names differ only in case to exist in the same directory.
...
the migration does not actually moves data, rather it writes APFS metadata into HFS+ free space. This approach has the advantage that if anything goes wrong with the conversion, the user is still left with a valid HFS+ partition."
"With the release of iOS 10.3 to the general public, millions of devices will be upgraded to use Apple’s new file system, APFS,
...
APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames, or the fact that APFS allows multiple files whose names differ only in case to exist in the same directory.
...
the migration does not actually moves data, rather it writes APFS metadata into HFS+ free space. This approach has the advantage that if anything goes wrong with the conversion, the user is still left with a valid HFS+ partition."
free book: Serverless Ops (cloud Function Services)
Serverless Ops - O'Reilly Media
"Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and IBM are among the dozen organizations that now provide serverless compute options in the cloud—also known as Function-as-a-Service..."
Guide to SSL Certificates
Ultimate Guide to SSL Certificates for Your Blog – WPLikeAPro – Medium
"An SSL certificate is absolutely necessary for anyone who wants to get the most out of their blog, or website..."
"An SSL certificate is absolutely necessary for anyone who wants to get the most out of their blog, or website..."
Monday, March 27, 2017
IaaC: Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
Introduction - Terraform by HashiCorp
"Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.
Configuration files describe to Terraform the components needed to run a single application or your entire datacenter. Terraform generates an execution plan describing what it will do to reach the desired state, and then executes it to build the described infrastructure. As the configuration changes, Terraform is able to determine what changed and create incremental execution plans which can be applied.
The infrastructure Terraform can manage includes low-level components such as compute instances, storage, and networking, as well as high-level components such as DNS entries, SaaS features, etc."
"Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.
Configuration files describe to Terraform the components needed to run a single application or your entire datacenter. Terraform generates an execution plan describing what it will do to reach the desired state, and then executes it to build the described infrastructure. As the configuration changes, Terraform is able to determine what changed and create incremental execution plans which can be applied.
The infrastructure Terraform can manage includes low-level components such as compute instances, storage, and networking, as well as high-level components such as DNS entries, SaaS features, etc."
Sunday, March 26, 2017
SVG libraries & examples
SVG.js | Home
Pablo
Raphaël—JavaScript Library
Snap.svg - Home
adobe-webplatform/Snap.svg: The JavaScript library for modern SVG graphics.
SVG Tutorial @ Jenkov
book: Building Web Applications with SVG
New book: Building Web Applications with SVG – Microsoft Press blog
sample chapter 1: Building Web Applications with SVG
examples from book cs.sru.edu/~svg/
An SVG Primer for Today's Browsers
SVG (Windows)
20 examples of SVG that will make your jaw drop | Creative Bloq
SVG Tutorial | Peter's Website
Draggable SVG element | Peter's Website
Isometric projection | Peter's Website
Tooltip | Peter's Website
Introduction to SVG scripting: an interactive map
Mouseover effects in SVGs | Peter's Website
Pablo
Raphaël—JavaScript Library
Snap.svg - Home
adobe-webplatform/Snap.svg: The JavaScript library for modern SVG graphics.
SVG Tutorial @ Jenkov
book: Building Web Applications with SVG
New book: Building Web Applications with SVG – Microsoft Press blog
sample chapter 1: Building Web Applications with SVG
examples from book cs.sru.edu/~svg/
An SVG Primer for Today's Browsers
SVG (Windows)
20 examples of SVG that will make your jaw drop | Creative Bloq
SVG Tutorial | Peter's Website
Draggable SVG element | Peter's Website
Isometric projection | Peter's Website
Tooltip | Peter's Website
Introduction to SVG scripting: an interactive map
Mouseover effects in SVGs | Peter's Website
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Thursday, March 23, 2017
cloud event: AWS Online Tech Talks
AWS Monthly Webinar Series - Cloud Computing Education
"The AWS Online Tech Talks is a selection of live online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These tech talks feature technical sessions led by AWS solutions architects and engineers, live demonstrations, customer examples and Q&A with AWS experts."
"The AWS Online Tech Talks is a selection of live online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These tech talks feature technical sessions led by AWS solutions architects and engineers, live demonstrations, customer examples and Q&A with AWS experts."
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Social Big Data, Economy, Measure to Improve
With world connected and instrumented, it is now more then ever possible to OPTIMIZE investments into social investments, based on science not on impulse and opinions.
This is a fascinating presentation for anybody who deals with data:
Bjorn Lomborg: From Feel-Good to High-Yield Good: How to Improve Philanthropy and Aid - The Long Now
"Bjorn Lomborg does cost/benefit analysis on global good. There are surprises when you examine what are the highest-yield targets in the domains of health, poverty, education, reduced violence, gender equality, climate change, biodiversity, and good governance."
An interesting story how "economy" data started, and huge benefit of doing this.
Planet Money : NPR #522: The Invention Of 'The Economy'
"A hundred years ago, nobody talked about "the economy." That's because easy ways to measure and talk about it hadn't been invented. On today's show: how we started boiling nations down to a number."
Peter Drucker quote: You can't manage what you don't measure.
Lord Kelvin quote: If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.
Peter Drucker quote: You can't manage what you don't measure.
Lord Kelvin quote: If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.
Monday, March 20, 2017
WWW 21 years ago
Kako su izgledali sajtovi pre 20 godina? | PC Press (in Serbian language)
21+ years ago I wrote a simple "web crawler" tool,
to help download web pages of then popular web sites
to be added to a CD that was included with popular book "Internet" that I co-authored. Thanks to Dragan Vecerina who tirelessly managed and used then quite unreliable network connections we did download many of those sites, way before Google even existed... Good times...
PC Press: book Internet
Here are state-of-the-art Apple and Microsoft web sites from 1995 :)
Sunday, March 19, 2017
IoT Device Identity Management
With data, devices, documents and any other management
there is always a need for "unique identifiers".
With billions of IoT devices that is even more critical, and harder to do right.
Current useful identity properties
identity-and-access-management-for-the-iot.pdf
Gartner Names Okta a Leader for Third Year Running in Gartner's IDaaS Magic Quadrant
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS)
Identity and Security Management for the Internet of Things @ GlobalSign
there is always a need for "unique identifiers".
With billions of IoT devices that is even more critical, and harder to do right.
Current useful identity properties
- SSN (USA Social Security Number)
- VIN number for cars
- MAC network address
- IPv6 address
- GUID
- Serial Number for class of device models (not globally unique, less useful)
identity-and-access-management-for-the-iot.pdf
Gartner Names Okta a Leader for Third Year Running in Gartner's IDaaS Magic Quadrant
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS)
Identity and Security Management for the Internet of Things @ GlobalSign
IoT Cloud: AWS "Device Shadows", Azure "Device Twins"
Device Shadows for AWS IoT - AWS IoT
"A thing shadow (sometimes referred to as a device shadow) is a JSON document that is used to store and retrieve current state information for a thing (device, app, and so on). The Thing Shadows service maintains a thing shadow for each thing you connect to AWS IoT. You can use thing shadows to get and set the state of a thing over MQTT or HTTP, regardless of whether the thing is connected to the Internet. Each thing shadow is uniquely identified by its name."
"AWS IoT provides a thing registry that helps you manage your things. A thing is a representation of a specific device or logical entity. It can be a physical device or sensor (for example, a light bulb or a switch on a wall). It can also be a logical entity like an instance of an application or physical entity that does not connect to AWS IoT but is related to other devices that do (for example, a car that has engine sensors or a control panel)."
***
Device management with Azure IoT Hub | Microsoft Docs
Understand the Azure IoT Hub query language | Microsoft Docs
"A thing shadow (sometimes referred to as a device shadow) is a JSON document that is used to store and retrieve current state information for a thing (device, app, and so on). The Thing Shadows service maintains a thing shadow for each thing you connect to AWS IoT. You can use thing shadows to get and set the state of a thing over MQTT or HTTP, regardless of whether the thing is connected to the Internet. Each thing shadow is uniquely identified by its name."
{
"state" : {
"desired" : {
"color" : "RED",
"sequence" : [ "RED", "GREEN", "BLUE" ]
},
"reported" : {
"color" : "GREEN"
}
},
"metadata" : {
"desired" : {
"color" : {
"timestamp" : 12345
},
"sequence" : {
"timestamp" : 12345
}
},
"reported" : {
"color" : {
"timestamp" : 12345
}
}
},
"version" : 10,
"clientToken" : "UniqueClientToken",
"timestamp": 123456789
}
{
"version": 3,
"thingName": "MyLightBulb",
"defaultClientId": "MyLightBulb",
"thingTypeName": "LightBulb",
"attributes": {
"model": "123",
"wattage": "75"
}
}
***
Get started with Azure IoT Hub device twins (Node) | Microsoft Docs
"Device twins are JSON documents that store device state information (metadata, configurations, and conditions). IoT Hub persists a device twin for each device that you connect to IoT Hub."
"Device twins are JSON documents that store device state information (metadata, configurations, and conditions). IoT Hub persists a device twin for each device that you connect to IoT Hub."
Device management with Azure IoT Hub | Microsoft Docs
Understand the Azure IoT Hub query language | Microsoft Docs
Tesla: battery upgrade via software update
Another "first" from Tesla: upgrading hardware (battery capacity) over the internet.
Pay over web account, and the car get's longer range.
Essentially the capacity is limited by software.
Tesla — 75 kWh Battery Capacity Upgrade
Order a Tesla Model S | Tesla
Tesla discontinuing Model S 60 and 60D on April 17, ahead of Model 3 ramp
Tesla is discontinuing its cheapest car, the 60kWh Model S - The Verge
HP or TI calculators during 80's used to do such trick with memory.
TI-59 / TI-58 - Wikipedia
Microsoft did this with Windows NT server & workstation ware the same except for a config flag.
Pay over web account, and the car get's longer range.
Essentially the capacity is limited by software.
Tesla — 75 kWh Battery Capacity Upgrade
Order a Tesla Model S | Tesla
Tesla discontinuing Model S 60 and 60D on April 17, ahead of Model 3 ramp
Tesla is discontinuing its cheapest car, the 60kWh Model S - The Verge
HP or TI calculators during 80's used to do such trick with memory.
TI-59 / TI-58 - Wikipedia
Microsoft did this with Windows NT server & workstation ware the same except for a config flag.
Friday, March 17, 2017
Azure Functions timer = Unix cron++ (crontab)
Azure Functions timer trigger | Microsoft Docs
crontab.guru - the cron schedule expression editor
Cron - Wikipedia
Azure Functions have 6 position, added position for seconds in front of minutes.
crontab.org - CRONTAB(5)
{second} {minute} {hour} {day} {month} {day-of-week}"schedule": "0 */5 * * * *""schedule": "0 0 * * * *",crontab.guru - the cron schedule expression editor
Cron - Wikipedia
┌───────────── minute (0 - 59) │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23) │ │ ┌───────────── day of month (1 - 31) │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12) │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday to Saturday; │ │ │ │ │ 7 is also Sunday) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ * * * * * command to execute
Azure Functions have 6 position, added position for seconds in front of minutes.
crontab.org - CRONTAB(5)
AI cloud: Microsoft Azure + Nvidia HGX-1
Microsoft and NVIDIA tackle AI cloud computing with HGX-1 - SD Times
“The HGX-1 hyperscale GPU accelerator will do for AI cloud computing what the ATX standard did to make PCs pervasive today. It will enable cloud-service providers to easily adopt NVIDIA GPUs to meet surging demand for AI computing.”
“The HGX-1 hyperscale GPU accelerator will do for AI cloud computing what the ATX standard did to make PCs pervasive today. It will enable cloud-service providers to easily adopt NVIDIA GPUs to meet surging demand for AI computing.”
...
The HGX-1 was designed alongside Microsoft’s Project Olympus to provide hyperscale data centers with a fast path for AI. Project Olympus is Microsoft’s next-generation hyperscale cloud hardware design"
The HGX-1 was designed alongside Microsoft’s Project Olympus to provide hyperscale data centers with a fast path for AI. Project Olympus is Microsoft’s next-generation hyperscale cloud hardware design"
Mindshift: book & online class
Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential: Barbara Oakley: 9781101982853: Amazon.com: Books
Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential - McMaster University | Coursera
"About this course: Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence. We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions. This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed."
book's web site: Mindshift - Barbara Oakley
Book-Extract-Chapter-1-Mindshift.pdf
Another very popular course and a book from same authors:
Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects - University of California, San Diego | Coursera
A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) 1, Barbara Oakley - Amazon.com
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
Serverless Computing (!)
Serverless computing - Wikipedia
"Function as a service (FaaS)"
Serverless - The Serverless Application Framework powered by AWS Lambda and API Gateway
Serverless Framework Documentation
Serverless Architectures @MartinFowler
Azure Functions—Serverless Architecture | Microsoft Azure
Azure Functions Documentation - Tutorials | Microsoft Docs
AWS Lambda - Serverless Compute
AWS Lambda | Getting Started
Cloud Functions - Serverless Environment to Build and Connect Cloud Services | Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Functions Documentation | Cloud Functions | Google Cloud Platform
"Function as a service (FaaS)"
Serverless Framework Documentation
Serverless Architectures @MartinFowler
Azure Functions—Serverless Architecture | Microsoft Azure
Azure Functions Documentation - Tutorials | Microsoft Docs
AWS Lambda - Serverless Compute
AWS Lambda | Getting Started
Cloud Functions - Serverless Environment to Build and Connect Cloud Services | Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Functions Documentation | Cloud Functions | Google Cloud Platform
Sunday, March 12, 2017
SVG / CSS matrix transform
SVG Essentials/Matrix Algebra - WikiContent
Understanding SVG Coordinate Systems and Transformations (Part 2) — The
SVG Matrix Transformations | apike.ca | Science, Technology, Programming and Anime
SVG Transformation @Jenkov
Css tutorial: Understanding the 2D transformation matrix - YouTube
Understanding SVG Coordinate Systems and Transformations (Part 2) — The
transform AttributeSVG Matrix Transformations | apike.ca | Science, Technology, Programming and Anime
SVG Transformation @Jenkov
Css tutorial: Understanding the 2D transformation matrix - YouTube
Azure Window of Malta Collapses
Azure Window of Malta Collapses Into the Sea After Storm - The New York Times
"The Azure Window, a limestone arch in Malta, was popular with locals and tourists. It collapsed on Wednesday morning after being battered by a storm."
Fabio Muscat on Twitter: "#Gozo, just lost it's famous #azurewindow due to heavy winds and storms. such a sad day... now we only have photos to admire this beauty! https://t.co/2yxIli4346"
"The Azure Window, a limestone arch in Malta, was popular with locals and tourists. It collapsed on Wednesday morning after being battered by a storm."
Fabio Muscat on Twitter: "#Gozo, just lost it's famous #azurewindow due to heavy winds and storms. such a sad day... now we only have photos to admire this beauty! https://t.co/2yxIli4346"
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Microsoft MakeCode for micro:bit programming
Microsoft MakeCode
"Microsoft MakeCode provides a programming experience based around Blocks and JavaScript (technically, a subset of TypeScript). The experience has a built-in progression from simple block-based editor, through in-browser text editor with robust auto-completion and auto-fixing, all the way to a professional integrated development environment (Visual Studio Code)."
"Microsoft MakeCode provides a programming experience based around Blocks and JavaScript (technically, a subset of TypeScript). The experience has a built-in progression from simple block-based editor, through in-browser text editor with robust auto-completion and auto-fixing, all the way to a professional integrated development environment (Visual Studio Code)."
cloud tool: Terraform
Terraform by HashiCorp
"Define infrastructure as code to increase operator productivity and transparency.
Use Terraform to create resources across all major infrastructure providers
(AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, VMware, and more)."
"Define infrastructure as code to increase operator productivity and transparency.
Use Terraform to create resources across all major infrastructure providers
(AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, VMware, and more)."
Google Python Fire for auto-generated CLIs
Google ignites Python library for command lines | JavaWorld
"With its Python Fire library, Google is offering Python developers a mechanism to easily generate command-line interfaces."
google/python-fire: Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object. @ GitHub
Microsoft Azure CLI 2.0 is also based on Python (instead of node.js used in v.1)
Azure/azure-cli: Command-line tools for Azure.
Bash on Windows is becoming Linux for Windows users | InfoWorld
"With its Python Fire library, Google is offering Python developers a mechanism to easily generate command-line interfaces."
google/python-fire: Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object. @ GitHub
Microsoft Azure CLI 2.0 is also based on Python (instead of node.js used in v.1)
Azure/azure-cli: Command-line tools for Azure.
Bash on Windows is becoming Linux for Windows users | InfoWorld
Friday, March 10, 2017
GitLab vs GitHub
GitLab vs GitHub: What Are The Key Differences?
GitLab vs. GitHub: How Are They Different? - Hiring | Upwork
Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab? | Hacker News
What are some major differences between GitHub and GitLab when comparing each others features for private repositories? - Quora
GitLab compared to other tools | GitLab
GitLab vs. GitHub: How Are They Different? - Hiring | Upwork
Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab? | Hacker News
What are some major differences between GitHub and GitLab when comparing each others features for private repositories? - Quora
GitLab compared to other tools | GitLab
AI: Microsoft "DeepCoder" self-programming
Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code | QuHarrison Terry | Pulse | LinkedIn
"The vision for DeepCoder is for a person to be able to merely give it an idea and the AI will automatically write all of the necessary code, without errors, in just seconds.
"The vision for DeepCoder is for a person to be able to merely give it an idea and the AI will automatically write all of the necessary code, without errors, in just seconds.
It works through a method called program synthesis, which essentially means stealing lines of code from other finished software. (script kiddies)."
Thursday, March 09, 2017
Windows 10 & Servers on ARM chips
Microsoft unveils new ARM server designs, threatening Intel’s dominance - The Verge
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"Qualcomm’s Centriq 2400 server design, running on ARM chips"
"Qualcomm’s Centriq 2400 server design, running on ARM chips"
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
solar: Hawai island Kauai += Tesla battery packs
Tesla battery packs power the Hawaiian island of Kauai after dark
"Using stored energy from Tesla's power packs is expected to save KIUC 1.6 million gallons of diesel fuel annually, which has traditionally been the way the utility generates power after dark."
Tesla built a huge solar energy plant on the island of Kauai - The Verge
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"Using stored energy from Tesla's power packs is expected to save KIUC 1.6 million gallons of diesel fuel annually, which has traditionally been the way the utility generates power after dark."
Tesla built a huge solar energy plant on the island of Kauai - The Verge
AI: Google cloud += Kaggle
Google buys Kaggle and its gaggle of AI geeks - CNET
"Google acquires what it calls the globe's largest community of AI enthusiasts (data scientists and machine learning geeks)"
"Google acquires what it calls the globe's largest community of AI enthusiasts (data scientists and machine learning geeks)"
Quantum Computers: IBM, Google, Microsoft
Microsoft: Quantum Computing is now feasible, it is an engineering challenge to make it usable.
An Introduction to Quantum Computing | MVP Led TechDays Online February 2017 | Channel 9
from video: "atom is too large; quantum is dealing with electrons and photons"
"if an electron is size of an apple, an atom is size of the Earth"
Brian Beckman: Project Quark - A New Beginning for Quantum Computing Rises from the Ashes of Theoret | Going Deep | Channel 9
Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017 : Nature News & Comment
Inside Microsoft’s quest for a topological quantum computer : Nature News & Comment
The Race to Sell True Quantum Computers Begins Before They Really Exist | WIRED
IBM Is Now Letting Anyone Play With Its Quantum Computer | WIRED
Quantum Computing Is Real, and D-Wave Just Open-Sourced It | WIRED
Quantum computing - Wikipedia
An Introduction to Quantum Computing | MVP Led TechDays Online February 2017 | Channel 9
"if an electron is size of an apple, an atom is size of the Earth"
Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017 : Nature News & Comment
Inside Microsoft’s quest for a topological quantum computer : Nature News & Comment
The Race to Sell True Quantum Computers Begins Before They Really Exist | WIRED
IBM Is Now Letting Anyone Play With Its Quantum Computer | WIRED
Quantum Computing Is Real, and D-Wave Just Open-Sourced It | WIRED
Quantum computing - Wikipedia
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
Alibaba Cloud: Aliyun
Ambitious Alibaba takes aim at the kings of cloud computing | TechCrunch
"NASDAQ-listed Amazon’s market cap exceeds $400 billion, while Alibaba is valued at $250 billion according to its NYSE share price.
...
Two years ago, Alibaba decided to take the cloud part of its business more seriously and expand outside of China with a billion dollar investment in Aliyun (now known as Alibaba Cloud in English). At the time, Alibaba Cloud’s president Simon Hu made a bold prediction, telling Reuters, “Our goal is to overtake Amazon in four years, whether that’s in customers, technology, or worldwide scale.”
...
Alibaba is sixth in the world behind AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Salesforce in infrastructure, platform and hosted private cloud services"
"NASDAQ-listed Amazon’s market cap exceeds $400 billion, while Alibaba is valued at $250 billion according to its NYSE share price.
...
Two years ago, Alibaba decided to take the cloud part of its business more seriously and expand outside of China with a billion dollar investment in Aliyun (now known as Alibaba Cloud in English). At the time, Alibaba Cloud’s president Simon Hu made a bold prediction, telling Reuters, “Our goal is to overtake Amazon in four years, whether that’s in customers, technology, or worldwide scale.”
...
Alibaba is sixth in the world behind AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Salesforce in infrastructure, platform and hosted private cloud services"
Visual Studio 2017
March 7-8 | Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event
Visual Studio 2017 Launch and 20th Anniversary Event
What's New in Visual Studio 2017
Downloads | Visual Studio Official Site
How to make an offline installer for VS2017 - Scott Hanselman
Channel 9: Videos for developers from the people building Microsoft Products & Services
Azure CLI 2.0 on Python
Original Azure Command Line Interface (xplat CLI) is based on node.js (JavaScript).
New version is based on Python. Apparently Linux admins prefer Python.
Or just use PowerShell (core :)
Azure CLI 2.0 | Azure Friday | Channel 9
"Azure CLI 2.0 is optimized for managing and administering Azure resources from the command line, and for building automation scripts that work against the Azure Resource Manager."
Azure Command Line 2.0 now generally available | Blog | Microsoft Azure
Exploring the new DevOps - Azure Command Line Interface 2.0 (CLI) - Scott Hanselman
Install the Azure CLI 2.0 | Microsoft Docs
Azure/azure-cli: Command-line tools for Azure. @ GitHub
New version is based on Python. Apparently Linux admins prefer Python.
Or just use PowerShell (core :)
Azure CLI 2.0 | Azure Friday | Channel 9
"Azure CLI 2.0 is optimized for managing and administering Azure resources from the command line, and for building automation scripts that work against the Azure Resource Manager."
Azure Command Line 2.0 now generally available | Blog | Microsoft Azure
Exploring the new DevOps - Azure Command Line Interface 2.0 (CLI) - Scott Hanselman
Install the Azure CLI 2.0 | Microsoft Docs
Azure/azure-cli: Command-line tools for Azure. @ GitHub
Sunday, March 05, 2017
Azure Stack: software subscription
Azure Stack TP3 Delivers Hybrid Application Innovation and Introduces Pay-as-you-Use Pricing Model | Blog | Microsoft Azure
“It’s going to be essentially the same as Azure — there’s no upfront fee. It’s a pay-as-you-go model,” said Julia White, corporate vice president for Microsoft’s cloud business, in an interview with GeekWire. “As you use the services in Azure Stack, the meters would spin just like you were using Azure in the public cloud.”
"The prices will be lower than those for the Azure public cloud, reflecting the fact that customers are running their own servers, explained Jeffrey Snover,Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Group technical fellow"
Microsoft's 'Azure Stack' for on-premises servers will use pay-as-you-go cloud pricing model - GeekWire
“It’s going to be essentially the same as Azure — there’s no upfront fee. It’s a pay-as-you-go model,” said Julia White, corporate vice president for Microsoft’s cloud business, in an interview with GeekWire. “As you use the services in Azure Stack, the meters would spin just like you were using Azure in the public cloud.”
"The prices will be lower than those for the Azure public cloud, reflecting the fact that customers are running their own servers, explained Jeffrey Snover,Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Group technical fellow"
Microsoft's 'Azure Stack' for on-premises servers will use pay-as-you-go cloud pricing model - GeekWire
Saturday, March 04, 2017
IoT: protocol IOP, data format ION
IoT may need more efficient protocols and data formats...
Competing with Google (HTTP2, ProtoBuf) is challenging...
Still, for example Angular.js was well challenged by React.js, and Angular2 is adjusted.
"ION uses a binary encoding to make it faster to read and write, more compact, and to make it possible to embed binary data. ION's encoding is described in the text ION Encoding."
"IAP (Internet Application Protocol) network protocol is designed to replace HTTP for the many use cases where HTTP is inappropriate. Why HTTP2 and WebSocekts are not enough."
"IAP (Internet Application Protocol) network protocol is designed to replace HTTP for the many use cases where HTTP is inappropriate. Why HTTP2 and WebSocekts are not enough."
"With the Internet of Things (IoT) we will have a lot more different devices communicating via the internet. Different devices send and receive different types of data, and have different communication patterns. A new network protocol should take that into account. Similarly the next generation of the web, being it Web 3.0 or Web 4.0 (or whatever name it gets), will most likely add new types of data and communication patterns to the ones already existing."
Nanosai - Intelligent & Versatile Distributed Systems
"Making the Internet Great Again! Distributed Computing Rebooted"
"Amazon Ion is a richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical data serialization format offering interchangeable binary and text representations. The text format (a superset of JSON) is easy to read and author, supporting rapid prototyping. The binary representation is efficient to store, transmit, and skip-scan parse. The rich type system provides unambiguous semantics for long-term preservation of business data which can survive multiple generations of software evolution."
"Making the Internet Great Again! Distributed Computing Rebooted"
:-)
Friday, March 03, 2017
JavaScript: pdf.js vs webpdf.js
even for image processing, JavaScript replacing C++...
pdf.js: free vs non-free (good marketing)
It is just that PDF is not good for web, plain HTML is better for web.
Introducing Foxit's new JavaScript PDF Viewer - Foxit SDK | PDF technology | Proven, robust, and
battle-tested
pdf.js: free vs non-free (good marketing)
It is just that PDF is not good for web, plain HTML is better for web.
Introducing Foxit's new JavaScript PDF Viewer - Foxit SDK | PDF technology | Proven, robust, and
battle-tested
cloud: AWS typo to bring down internet
Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
"an authorized S3 team member using an established playbook executed a command which was intended to remove a small number of servers for one of the S3 subsystems that is used by the S3 billing process. Unfortunately, one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed than intended... Removing a significant portion of the capacity caused each of these systems to require a full restart. While these subsystems were being restarted, S3 was unable to service requests..."
AWS says a typo caused the massive S3 failure this week | PCWorld
AWS cloudsplains what happened during S3 storage outage | TechCrunch
Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts sites
a more than four-hour problem... A big portion of Amazon Web Services' Amazon S3 system went offline Tuesday afternoon, a service used by 148,213 sites according to SimilarTech
"an authorized S3 team member using an established playbook executed a command which was intended to remove a small number of servers for one of the S3 subsystems that is used by the S3 billing process. Unfortunately, one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed than intended... Removing a significant portion of the capacity caused each of these systems to require a full restart. While these subsystems were being restarted, S3 was unable to service requests..."
AWS says a typo caused the massive S3 failure this week | PCWorld
AWS cloudsplains what happened during S3 storage outage | TechCrunch
Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts sites
a more than four-hour problem... A big portion of Amazon Web Services' Amazon S3 system went offline Tuesday afternoon, a service used by 148,213 sites according to SimilarTech
Thursday, March 02, 2017
SHA1 insecurity, HTTPS, Git
Google Online Security Blog: Announcing the first SHA1 collision
"Here are some numbers that give a sense of how large scale this computation was:
Nine quintillion (9,223,372,036,854,775,808) SHA1 computations in total
6,500 years of CPU computation to complete the attack first phase
110 years of GPU computation to complete the second phase"
Chrome and Firefox do not accept HTTPS based on SHA1 anymore.
Git is using SHA-1 for hashes (detecting changes) but not for security protection.
> SHA1 is not used for security in Git -S[], --gpg-sign[=]... | Hacker News
Git fscked by SHA-1 collision? Not so fast, says Linus Torvalds • The Register
"the sky isn't falling. There's a big difference between using a cryptographic hash for things like security signing, and using one for generating a 'content identifier' for a content-addressable system like git."
"Here are some numbers that give a sense of how large scale this computation was:
Nine quintillion (9,223,372,036,854,775,808) SHA1 computations in total
6,500 years of CPU computation to complete the attack first phase
110 years of GPU computation to complete the second phase"
Chrome and Firefox do not accept HTTPS based on SHA1 anymore.
Git is using SHA-1 for hashes (detecting changes) but not for security protection.
> SHA1 is not used for security in Git -S[
Git fscked by SHA-1 collision? Not so fast, says Linus Torvalds • The Register
"the sky isn't falling. There's a big difference between using a cryptographic hash for things like security signing, and using one for generating a 'content identifier' for a content-addressable system like git."
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