Last weekend, I co-presented a talk [http://www.slideshare.net/robertgreiner/fin-fest-2014-internet-of-things-and-apis] on the Internet of Things at a company sponsored conference. According to the 2014 Gartner Hype Cycle [http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hype-cycle.jsp], IoT is at the very peak of...
Lots of companies - especially in the non-startup world - are starting to look closely at upgrading their legacy systems to the "next generation" - services, scalability, NoSQL, etc. Most of these systems have existed, in some form or fashion, for decades and are beginning...
Note: Close to two months ago, I wrote a blog post explaining the CAP Theorem [https://robertgreiner.com/2014/06/cap-theorem-explained/]. Since publishing, I've come to realize that my thinking on the subject was quite outdated and is no longer applicable to the real world....
How do you get around 20 people to invest crazy amounts of personal time and energy into learning technologies that are important to know, but do not directly impact their day-to-day work lives? Turn it into a competition! Over the past several months, eight teams...
Note: This post is outdated. You can find the most up-to-date version here [https://robertgreiner.com/2014/08/cap-theorem-revisited/]. This post is outdated. Please find the updated version here [https://robertgreiner.com/2014/08/cap-theorem-revisited/]. I am intentionally leaving this article here so I do...
