You're assuming that you're around when the team is building out said system. What if you have the misfortune of inheriting a system where there was plenty of rope to go around?
You'll be OK as long as you're dropping off suitcases of money at Oracle's door, but currently it appears that freely available fixes/security updates will cease as soon as the next LTS is released.
Yeah, the lack of overlap in support between LTS releases is the real killer. I predict that in 5 years there will be few people using the Oracle JVM. People will migrate to the JVM supported on their OS (for example, RedHat supports OpenJDK for the life of the OS as part of their OS/middleware offerings).
I've used Thrift on a project in the past and one feature gRPC has that Thrift doesn't is the ability to use streaming semantics. This would have actually been very useful for the project I used Thrift on. If I were implementing it now I'd definitely use gRPC.
They may well be buying locally (as in within Canadian borders, or perhaps even within the province) but they certainly won't be buying from small individual producers for the simple reason that a small scale farmer can't supply enough beef or eggs to satisfy McDonald's consumption requirements.
Containers are overkill if you're just trying to isolate environment variables and filesystems. I mean really, if that was your problem and you came up with containers as the solution I'd say you over-engineered the solution. Environment variables -- trivial -- set them in the wrapper script used to launch the binary and you're done. Filesystem -- use separate nix accounts for your binaries and set appropriate permissions, for additional security use tools like se-linux if needed. Somehow, somewhere along the line it seems like there's this huge echo-chamber of 'containers for all things' and we have thrown out all we ever new about basic nix.
Contrarian views like the one in the article are healthy!
Quite frankly I don't think we should be counting elapsed time from when the device was first released but rather to when the device was last sold as new. I have a Sony Z3 first released September 2014, but which I purchased new over a year later in October 2015. The last security update this phone received is the May 2016 one.
Ansible was designed to be server-less from the beginning. Are thinking of Chef or Puppet? Ansible Tower (which is the subject of this article) is a web application frontend for running Ansible.
If you're using <some-alias>@user.example.com nothing says that user@example.com has to be a valid delivery address. If I read the article correctly in fact, that is the case in their implementation. So it's not possible for spammers to guess an unaliased email address.
One thing I would have liked to have seen addressed in the article is whether the new architecture requires additional hardware (presumably) to operate and if so how much more.
I just wish they'd admit the same for the latest Macbook Pro where they appear to be optimizing for things that pros don't care about and removing things they do care about!
That said, I imagine anyone running a large deployment will most likely want to purchase a support contract anyways. This is why I don't understand the ForgeRock move (assuming this was intentional -- hard to say at this point): The people that are running larger deployments almost certainly have the budget and need support anyways so I'm doubtful that making the move make the source code less open helps their business in anyway.
Sensationalism and hyperbole sells. We all know that. We also know that the truth almost always lies somewhere in the middle. The writer of the post clearly bears a lot of scars. Self-inflicted? Maybe. Avoidable? Possible. Is Docker at fault in some ways? Definitely. In any case, such articles still serve to balance all the other hype and remind us where we're at on the Hype Cycle curve with respect to Docker containerization. ;)
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. RedHat is pretty invested in Docker right now via OpenShift so they have a lot incentive to backport required kernel fixes to Centos/RHEL 7 but at some point they'll likely have to drop support for the latest and greatest Docker release.
The power connector had a good run but they couldn't get the video connector right! Every new generation Apple laptop I buy has a different video adaptor.
I'm sure many will disagree with me on this but I'm convinced that Scala is the Perl of the JVM world. It's a language with too many succinct but unreadable ways of doing things. Ultimately I don't think languages like this age well and will eventually be super-ceded by other languages.
You don't need to start worrying about them becoming a monopoly until they actually figure out how to properly provide support for their products to the people (eg enterprises) that need it. :P
Google smart to be aggressive on the storage side of their Cloud business. Once you have the data (assuming it's big data) it naturally makes sense to move the processing of that data into Google Cloud services as well...
Woah, you drive with your cruise control on in bad weather conditions like that? I was always trained to never, ever use cruise control in adverse weather conditions. Without having your foot on the accelerator to be able to quickly react to a skid or whatever just seems insane...
I haven't taken many online courses but my wife & I just took the course "Learning How to Learn" (https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn) together and I wish this was available before I went to university. They do a great job of presenting the content and provide a lot of references for additional reading for those that have a deeper interest. It should probably be considered the pre-requisite to all other online courses!
If you're a startup selling services to large enterprises you may be forced to use Oracle because it gives your customers more confidence in your solution (assuming you're offering a service where you storing information on important assets on behalf of the enterprise).
After listening to the two videos on the site I don't think this is going to resonate (ahem) well with pianists. The sound, compared to a conventional piano sound is very different...
I can't reply to gk1 for some reason, but he's exaggerating. Russian's are still a minority, not half the population as he/she suggests. According to wikipedia it's around 17% of the population.
Russia has a lot of control over Ukraine however since over half of their exports go to Russia (and those exports are generally of poor quality that likely couldn't be exported elsewhere) and they're also heavily reliant on Russia for natural gas...