My 2cents …

“I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet.”

Is this the day the Internet dies?

Quelle: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer

Serverless computing removes you from having to provision a server yourself; you simply write functions, and the resources you need are automatically allocated to that function.

There is always a BUT:

… new applications are a good fit for serverless computing, old applications often are not—and migrating those old applications to serverless could be more work than enterprises bargained for …

Even if the languages are supported, it takes a huge effort to refactor an application to properly take advantage of serverless computing.

Quelle: Serverless computing: Don’t make the wrong choices | InfoWorld

To this day, we remain captive of the infrastructure IT stack we have so painstakingly built over the last couple of decades in which applications were designed to conform to the infrastructure and not the other way around. …

Clearly, the infrastructure we have today is not going to carry us into the next couple of decades once we have billions of devices sending petabytes of data that need to be analyzed and acted upon in real-time or close thereof.

What we need is a fundamentally new infrastructure stack that is application first and lets the developer focus on delivering business value.

Quelle: Server-less eats the infrastructure – Hacker Noon

Quelle: Miles of Ice Collapsing Into the Sea – The New York Times

Quelle: Popular – EasyZoom | Place for high-resolution images

Autos, Wohnungen, Partner: Wir teilen alles und fressen uns am Ende der Nahrungskette gegenseitig auf.

Quelle: Shareconomy: Die Ausbeutung, die wir Sharing nennen – SPIEGEL ONLINE

…It was like you can now push a button and destroy a data center. How scary is that, right? If the wrong person can get credentials or can phish you, boop, goodnight. Oh, by the way, your backups are in the Cloud. Those are gone too.

Quelle: Understanding a Rugged DevOps Approach to Security

To all those DevOps who endlessly admonish us that DevOps isn’t a title: just call yourself Platform Engineers.

Quelle: DevOps Is Undead — The Opsee Blog

The Google Institute has developed an ultra-high resolution gigapixel Art Camera which can automatically recompose images into single works of extraordinary detail.

Quelle: Suche – Google Cultural Institute

In China, savvy entrepreneurs are making millions a year by mining bitcoin. Danny Vincent visited one of the world’s biggest facilities of its kind.

Quelle: BBC – Future – We looked inside a secret Chinese bitcoin mine