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The Paradigm Shift to Cloudless Computing

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Serverless APIs are the culmination of the cloud commoditizing the old hardware-based paradigm. This means making the hardware supply chain into a commodity if you make PCs, making PCs into commodities if you sell operating systems, and making servers a commodity by promoting serverless function execution if you sell cloud.

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How Wi-Fi router security has deteriorated since 2003

The Parallax

The Cyber Independent Testing Lab , a nonprofit organization that focuses on consumer cybersecurity, published research in December demonstrating how 28 home wireless routers fail to use even basic security techniques. Thompson says CITL’s research concludes that the downgrade wasn’t a rare event.

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Azure vs AWS: How to Choose the Cloud Service Provider?

Existek

It eliminated the need to get back to the traditional environment when teams struggled with complex and costly in-house hardware and software. . Both Azure and AWS enable teams to select any operating system, database, and programming language. It’s worth mentioning that nonprofit organizations widely leverage cloud computing.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It can also apply to large companies, governments, and even nonprofits. Microsoft was founded in 1975, and its operating systems?—first first MS-DOS, and then Windows—became the platform for a burgeoning personal computer industry, supporting hundreds of PC hardware companies and thousands of software companies.