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Fallacy #5: Topology doesn't change

Particular Software

In an era before virtualized infrastructure made allocating additional server resources much easier, Public102 became somewhat of a "junk drawer" server. You create a new server with the same software and add it to the load balancer. And then, despite the best laid plans, the slow creep of chaos eventually took over.

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

Back in the 1980s, Nicholas Negroponte said everything wired will become wireless, and everything wireless will become wired. Can 5G replace wired broadband, allowing one wireless service for home and mobile connectivity? I’d gladly give up my 50 Mbps wired connection for gigabit wireless. I don’t, do you?

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Ginseng: keeping secrets in registers when you distrust the operating system

The Morning Paper

OSes are complex software and have a large attack surface… Increasingly abundant evidence suggests that prudent apps should not trust the OS with their secrets. However, to use a secret, an app must decrypt it and usually store it as cleartext in memory. In doing so, the app assumes that the operating system (OS) is trustworthy.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

And today, we still have type in a digital context, but it travels through cables, wirelessly on smartphones, and in virtual reality glasses in 3D. Thus, one of the two typeface x-height’s will seem to be larger in size, although it may be the same point size in the software. Are Typefaces Tools, Software, Objects, Products Or What?

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Generative AI in the Enterprise

O'Reilly

Advanced Data Analysis does a decent job of exploring and analyzing datasets—though we expect data analysts to be careful about checking AI’s output and to distrust software that’s labeled as “beta.” They will simply be part of the environment in which software developers work.