Handling cloud data
A silver lining of any crisis is that experts get a data point… or many data points, depending on what that crisis is. The lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic, as bitter and hard-won as they might be, will find a use. It is the event that will test in real life whether the infrastructure already put in place will respond well. “Covid 19 is a black swan event,” said Patrick McFadin, Apache Cassandra and Developer Relations at DataStax. He was the second speaker for the webinar, “Cloud Native Data: The Foundation of Modern Business,” presented through The Briefing Room on […]
Wanted: Rubber bands
It’s the time of pandemic. Given the order to “shelter in place” throughout most of the developed world, how can global networks cope when the majority of the workforce is working remotely? For many knowledge workers, working remotely is not a new concept. “I’ve been working from home for twenty of the past thirty years,” said Eric Kavanagh, CEO of the independent research firm Bloor Group. “How to handle surges in traffic has been a topic of discussion for more than twenty years.” Kavanagh was the first speaker for the webinar, “Cloud Native Data: The Foundation of Modern Business,” presented […]
The Uninhabitable Earth
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells was launched a year ago—on February 19, 2019. It is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that climate change promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism, and the trajectory of human progress. Interest has spread rapidly in the year since its publication. It was named one of the best books of the year by a host of top publications: The New Yorker, The New York Times […]