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From what I have heard, it makes a successful pickup-line nowadays to tell you are involved in Software Engineering (“hey, I am in Google’s Project Glass, you want something to drink?”). With so many innovations going on in mobile, social...
Read moreCybersecurity - from Hollywood to Washington
Ethan Hunt escapes from a Russian prison, with a remote accomplice opening and closing the doors of the facility through the Internet. John McClane faces a digital fire sale that step by step shuts down the entire national infrastructure.They...
Read moreDoes what we know really matter?
In my role, I live and breathe IT infrastructure. I spend my day thinking and talking about all of the hardware, systems and services that are best placed to deliver cost savings, business agility and workplace efficiencies. So in my world of big...
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The best lessons stay relevant forever. As an aspiring software engineer, I learned about Larry Constanine’s rules of low coupling and high cohesion and they would remain guiding design principles for decades to come. Alan Kay developed one...
Read moreStarbucks IT
Imagine you are running a cosy, successful coffee bar in the centre of your old town. It’s the only one there and you seem to have built your own base of regular customers over the course of years. Then, one memorable day, Starbucks suddenly...
Read moreWhy Glasses are more relevant than Tablets
Is has been some time ago that the introduction of new technology has created such a vibrant enthusiasm at the Moscone center in San Francisco. As in the very best days of Apple – which seem quite a bit in the past right now – Google finally...
Read moreExpressway to the (Oracle) Cloud
It may be a bit of a Yin & Yang thing: where some would consider Oracle downright wobbly in its cloud strategy of the past few years, others would see a healthy, adaptive approach in times of uncertainty and skies full of Black Swans and...
Read moreYes is More: bringing back the Fun in IT
Today, we are finalizing the third worldwide edition of our Architecture Week, held from the 11th to 15th of June all around the world, from Brazil to India, from Europe to North America, from France to Australia. This year, the motto...
Read moreThe rise and fall of the megadeal?
Much has been said and written about the dramatic and disruptive change that the IT industry is undergoing today. Indeed, several posts on this blog have talked about various aspects of these changes from the benefits of big data and the enablement...
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