The secret history of Ctrl+Alt+Del
The background to why the famous "three finger salute" was chosen to be so difficult to do.
Read more ...Categories: technology
The background to why the famous "three finger salute" was chosen to be so difficult to do.
Read more ...Categories: technology
I have worked with various flavours of "Agile" over numerous years. These have ranged from the very formal where everything is done by the book to more ad-hoc versions where different parts are cherry picked or in most cases done because people think they should be done.
Read more ...Categories: technology coding
This article documents developments over the last ten years at all layers of the network stack. It also highlights how vulnerable the current Internet is.
Read more ...Categories: technology
This paper is a discussion around the issues faced by distributed systems when dealing with time, ordering and failures. This is particularly relevant with the work I am doing at the moment designing a very large distributed system that will need to scale massively.
Read more ...Categories: technology
This is a summary of a number of consensus algorithms currently being used in the Blockchain space. The most common at the moment is Proof of Work however this is slowly being replaced by other approaches that are more performant and don't use all the Earth's energy.
Read more ...Categories: technology
Search