One of the most surprisingly complex and overlooked concepts young IT teams are missing is the difference between centrally federated identity management and signing in with your corporate Google account. They are completely different conceptually, even though they seem very similar.
When signing in with Google to a SaaS service…
As both an investor and a geek, Bitcoin is very close to my heart. Understanding the deep technological aspects of Bitcoin together with understanding how capital markets work helps me a lot in the decision making of investing in cryptocurrencies.
A bit about me — I sold my company on…
This is probably more suited to be a Stack Overflow answer, but I figured the answer is so interesting, I’d write a Medium post about it.
First of all, let’s define the problem:
Until this day, developers that wanted to create an SSH tunnel for development purposes only had to…
As much as Spark and Python are great at data analysis, most of the time, as a data engineer, you just want to start working on your CSV file in the command line.
Well, as it turns out, there’s so much you can do just with Bash. …
WeWork has worked hard to position itself as a fast-growing tech company with a bright future. SoftBank agreed to invest in the company at a $47 billion dollar valuation. But is it really worth that much?
Let’s take a balanced view on how much WeWork is worth, looking at the…
I’m not a biologist. But I do know a few things about aging. And I did come to an interesting conclusion that may actually make you want to upload your DNA to your favorite cloud storage.
Cells replicate naturally. As they replicate, two things happen: the DNA is copied, and…
Apache Pig is one of my favorite programming languages. Pig is a “data flow” language — kind of a hybrid between SQL and a procedural language. It mostly resembles bash one-liners that pipe data in and out.
Pig is not being used anymore, because it was replaced by different tools…
Writing your own version of a server is always a good exercise. The interface is very well defined, clients exist everyone, and it proves you can master a programming language to write practical applications.
Memcached is a practical application which is extremely easy to implement from the ground up, and…
