Dan Pitt Steps Down From the ONF
Pitt championed SDN back when few had heard of it.
Welcoming Sir Tim Berners-Lee to the CloudFlare Internet Summit
This Thursday, September 15, we are holding our second Internet Summit at our offices in San Francisco. We have a fascinating lineup of speakers covering policy, technology, privacy, and business.
We are very pleased to announce that Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be our special guest in a fireside chat session.
Twenty-five years ago, Sir Tim laid the foundations of our modern web-connected society; first, in 1989, with his proposal outlining his idea for the Web and then by developing HTML, the first web pages, browser, and server.
He has continued this work through the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and World Wide Web Foundation and we are delighted that he will be on stage with us to talk about the web's history, expanding the web to truly reach everyone on Earth, and privacy and freedom of expression online.
If you would like to attend the Summit and hear Sir Tim and the other great speakers, sign up here.
If Traffic is an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game Can Smart Cars Evolve Co-operative Behavior?
Can small tribes of cooperating smart cars improve overall traffic even if they are not in the majority? Sure, if every car was a self-driving car maybe traffic jams could dissolve like blood clots on anticoagulants, but what about that messy in-between period? It will be some time before smart cars rule the road. Until then can smart cars make traffic better?
Adoption is hard. This is a general problem in tech. You want people to join your social network yet people won't join until enough people have already joined. What you really want is that virtuous circle to develop, where as more people adopt a technology it causes even more people to adopt it. So startups spend their VC money fast and furiously in hopes of acquiring new customers betting the lifetime value of a customer will be worth the investment. VC money is the dead corpse that feeds the rest of the ecosystem.
Traffic is already an example of a vicious cycle. Horrendous traffic jams are now the norm and "good" traffic windows are just tall tales texted to children. And it keeps on getting worse and not in a worse is better sort of way. Yet the incentives are still not Continue reading
Introducing the Docker Authorized Partner Program
Today the Docker team is excited to announce a new tiered Docker Partner Program to address the growing demand by companies to adopt Containers as a Service environments with Docker Datacenter. This enhanced program provides end-to end support for a community of Resellers, Regional Consulting partners, Global Systems Integrators and Federal Systems Integrators.
Since the launch of Docker over three years ago, there has been tremendous adoption from the developer community of Docker container technology to accelerate their development and CI workflows. Companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500 in healthcare, financial services, mobile apps and more are leaning on Docker to transform their application pipeline by containerizing legacy and new microservices applications. As companies embark on their Docker journey, they are looking to their business partners to assist them in developing a business case, understand the functionality, architect use cases and deploy the environments.
New Program, Training and Resources
Containerization is the next catalyst for transformation in application infrastructure. The Docker Partner Program is designed to help partners build a successful “Docker practice” rooted in best practices, technical expertise and as extension of their expertise in cloud technologies, Software Defined Datacenter and converged infrastructure.
The new tiered Continue reading
Google Cloud Eases IoT Development with Prototyping Kit
Beaglebone Green includes WiFi and Bluetooth radios.
Sponsored Post: ScaleArc, Spotify, Aerospike, Scalyr, Gusto, VividCortex, MemSQL, InMemory.Net, Zohocorp
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Spotify is looking for individuals passionate in infrastructure to join our Site Reliability Engineering organization. Spotify SREs design, code, and operate tools and systems to reduce the amount of time and effort necessary for our engineers to scale the world’s best music streaming product to 40 million users. We are strong believers in engineering teams taking operational responsibility for their products and work hard to support them in this. We work closely with engineers to advocate sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility with them in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues. We are looking for an SRE Engineering Manager in NYC and SREs in Boston and NYC.
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IT Security Engineering. At Gusto we are on a mission to create a world where work empowers a better life. As Gusto's IT Security Engineer you'll shape the future of IT security and compliance. We're looking for a strong IT technical lead to manage security audits and write and implement controls. You'll also focus on our employee, network, and endpoint posture. As Gusto's first IT Security Engineer, you will be able to build the security organization with direct impact to protecting PII and ePHI. Read more and apply here.