Black hat hacker group, Maze, claims to have used ransomware to compromise the systems of insurance giant, Chubb. They also claim to have stolen the firm’s data. Brett Callow,…
Tag: Systems
Why You Don’t Want to Pay Your Web Developer for Updating your Website
Most companies prefer to update their own websites using built-in Content Management Systems. However, once in a while, we meet customers who are resilient to this idea and prefer a…
Product is the King: How Ukrainian Engineers Are Creating Home Security Products
5 years ago, Ajax Systems were making 4,000 devices per month. 2 years ago, 30,000. Now we make 250,000. Our Kyiv team has managed to create competitive security systems,…
How To Modernize IBM i System
IBM i has evolved overtime and organizations are modernizing their existing legacy systems to use the latest updates in IBM i. It is generally considered as old, obsolete and…
Is Staking the Answer to Cryptocurrency’s Mining Problems?
For a tech that was supposed to be democratic and distributed in order to free financial systems from the grip of government-influenced banks and return control of the money…
Software Design Principles: Doing Little Things Right
Designing software systems is about tradeoffs and making tradeoff decisions is hard. You always feel like you are loosing one thing or the other but that’s not what we…
Taking the Harder Path
Is almost never the right answer when developing systems, at least the sort that I build. The easy path is almost always best and that feeling of “something being…
How To Make Sure Your Windows 7 PC Stays Safe
Windows 7 has recently joined the club of all Windows operating systems that Microsoft is no longer supporting with security updates. So if you’re still running on Windows 7,…
How Do You Create a System to Increase Your Time Reading?
To develop long term habits is about setting up systems that support your cause. Systems play an important role in surviving the time and keeping the habits alive. Without…
Architecting Serverless Data Integration Hubs on AWS for Enterprise Data Delivery: 2020 Edition
Happy New Year! If data is the new oil, why do we experience so many backfires in our systems? In a prior 2-part article series titled Serverless Data Integration…