Posts Tagged ‘speed’
Multi Cloud Governance
This is one of those posts that started life on an email thread. It comes from a discussion on the topic of multi cloud governance for large enterprises. Why cloud? The answer is not ‘cloud is cheaper’, because it just isn’t. We know from Amazon’s financials that it’s gushing money because cloud is a high […]
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Tags: agility, CD, cloud, continuous delivery, cost, enterprise, governance, safety, speed
FPGA
TL;DR Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been around for decades, but they’ve become a hot topic again. Intel recently announced Xeon chips with FPGAs added on, Microsoft are using FPGAs to speed up search on Bing, and there are Kickstarter projects such as miniSpartan6+ trying to bring FPGA the ease of use and mass […]
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Tags: FPGA, HDL, Nand2tetris, programming, skills, speed, Verilog, VHDL
The suckage of hotel Internet
I’ve been on the road now for a week and a half, which has brought me into contact with some of the slowest, most expensive Internet access I’ve suffered in some time. I’m used to mobile Internet being expensive and slow, but this has been even worse. My problems started in an airport lounge in […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble, technology, travel | 1 Comment
Tags: download, hotel, Internet, lounge, mobile, speed, travel
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