What’s next? Mobile is entering its comforting middle age period of development. Conversational commerce is a thing, a good thing, but is it really a great thing?
What’s next may be what has been next for decades: Augmented reality (AR) (and VR). AR systems will be here sooner than you might think. A matter of years, not decades. Robert Scoble, for example, thinks Meta, an early startup in AR industry, will be bigger than the Macintosh. More on that in a later post. Magic Leap has no product and $1.3 billion in funding. Facebook has Oculus. Microsoft has HoloLens. Google may be releasing a VR system later this year. Apple is working on VR. Becoming the next iPhone is up for grabs.
This is a technological revolution that will be bigger than mobile. Opportunities in mobile for developers have largely played out. Experience shows the earlier you get in on a revolution the better the opportunity will be. Do you want to be writing free iOS apps forever?
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Dan Conde, leader of Interop's Software-Defined Architecture Summit, discusses the changes taking place in infrastructure and how IT can adapt.
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Imagine that you’re sitting in a room interviewing a potential candidate for a position on your team. It’s not too hard to imagine, right, because it happens all the time. You know the next question I’m going to ask: what questions will you ask this candidate? I know a lot of people who have “set questions” they use to evaluate a candidate, such as “what is the OSPF type four for,” or “why do some states in the BGP peering session not have corresponding packets?” Since I’ve worked on certifications in the past (like the CCDE), I understand the value of these sorts of questions. They pinpoint the set and scope of the candidate’s knowledge, and they’re easy to grade. But is easy to grade what we should really be after?
Let me expand the scope a little: isn’t this the way we see our own careers? The engineer with the most bits of knowledge stuffed away when they die wins? I probably need to make a sign that says that, actually, just to highlight the humor of such a thought.
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It's the Network Break! This week we examine the latest round in the Cisco/Arista legal battle, applaud Cisco's IoT acquisition, review the latest cloud infrastructure numbers, parse a warning of armed revolt if governments weaken crypto systems, and more.
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It's the Network Break! This week we examine the latest round in the Cisco/Arista legal battle, applaud Cisco's IoT acquisition, review the latest cloud infrastructure numbers, parse a warning of armed revolt if governments weaken crypto systems, and more.
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A while ago I answered a few questions that Dan Novak from University of Maryland sent me, and as they might be relevant to someone out there decided to publish the answers.
Dan started with a soft one:
What circumstances led you to choosing network engineering for a career?
It was pure coincidence.
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With the rise of disaggregation, the networking industry needs more than the IETF in order to thrive.