Author: Nigel Pereira

Nigel Pereira explains why organisations are exploring chaos engineering, and disrupting their own chain of operations to discover the weaknesses within There were not a lot of people in 2010 who would willingly disrupt their production environments to find points of failure, but that’s exactly what Netflix did, and in doing so gave birth to the rise of Chaos Engineering. The year was 2009 and the popular OTT platform was migrating to AWS in order to support its ever-growing audience base. The problem, however, is that cloud infrastructure consists of Kubernetes, containers, microservices, and distributed cloud architecture and is far…

Nigel Pereira explores the limitless applications for superimposing computer-generated content over a user’s view of the real world You’re probably already familiar with augmented reality if you’ve watched Terminator, Universal Soldier, Predator, Top Gun, Iron Man, Avatar, and almost all the James Bond movies. Image Credit: Terminator Movie Poster In Terminator, in particular, you look through the eyes of a killer cyborg and what you see is the real world plus a bunch of other information on the screen like if the person is a friend, an enemy, a target, etc. In the Predator movie, we get to see through…

Nigel Pereira explores the technological marvel known popularly as Metaverse and finds out how ‘real’ this artificial realm is Philip Rosedale, the creator of the popular game Second Life, describes the metaverse as a three-dimensional version of the internet that’s populated with live people. That’s about as close as we’re going to get to a “nutshell” description of the metaverse. What’s interesting is that many people consider Second Life to be the first metaverse since it was the first time that social media was integrated into a 3D digital world. Similar to our post on how video games changed the…

Nigel Pereira gives us the rundown on how the geographical location of a data center can affect all subsequent aspects for the user While most people worry about RAM, storage, and processing power while setting up or renting data center space, an often-overlooked factor is the actual geographical location of the center. This is because users only care about two things, and RAM, storage, and processing power aren’t on the list. Speed and latency are the two factors that directly impact the end-user experience. If your customers are in India and your data center is in Australia, for example, whenever…

Nigel Pereira recounts the contributions of women, in the past as well as today, in pushing humanity forward in its search for truth They say behind every successful man there is a woman, and in this case, she isn’t cooking, cleaning, or doing the laundry. In this post, we’re going to talk about the women mathematicians, scientists, and engineers who are responsible for the technology that we take for granted today while rarely being mentioned or given credit for in history. In a previous post on the evolution of data centers, we briefly mentioned the subject while talking about the…

Nigel Pereira walks us through each data center ‘tier’ that is crucial when choosing a facility to host your data In our previous post on the evolution of data centers as well as our post on serverless data centers, we went through the changes in infrastructure and focused on the technology involved. This post will be different because Tiers in data centers are basically agnostic to technology and depend only on capability. Since new breakthroughs in technology continually disrupt the data center industry, in particular, Tier classifications are technology neutral and don’t come with any “minimum system requirements.” Instead, data…

Nigel Pereira explores a world of possibilities where Artificial Intelligence could resurrect harmonic minds of the past and bring alive their music for now and forevermore The musician Grimes was quoted on Sean Caroll’s Mindscape podcast stating, “Once there’s actually AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), they’re going to be so much better at making art than us.” If you missed our previous post on AGI, you could find it here. Now though this comment met with backlash from the music community, there are already a lot of examples of AI producing art, particularly music. No, we’re not saying AGI is already…

Nigel Pereira goes beyond the bleeding edge of data center technology to reveal the future of this revolutionary tech If you read our previous post on the evolution of data centers, we ended on the idea of hybrid ones that can encompass multiple public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises resources. With this post, we are going to go beyond and talk about ‘serverless’ data centers and how they are a product of Serverless Computing and Hardware Disaggregation. While both are inherently separate movements that have been gaining momentum with the proliferation of cloud computing, bringing them together seems like a…

Technology evolves just as life does. Nigel Pereira looks into the evolutionary history of one such form of technology, the increasingly ubiquitous data center. In simple terms, a data center is a dedicated space to house computer systems along with all the associated devices like switches, routers, servers, and storage systems. What essentially started off in the 1940s as a way for the US Army to calculate artillery fire and even develop the first thermonuclear bomb, has today become the backbone of what we call the internet. While the physical architecture and technology have changed dramatically to cover the IoT…

Online gaming is all the rage, and there is money to be made there too. Nigel Pereira finds out how cryptocurrency plays into the online gaming landscape In the aftermath of the global Covid-19 pandemic, gaming has emerged as one of the most popular online activities. However, making money while gaming has always been more complex than it appears to the layperson. This isn’t to say that there aren’t professional gamers who make loads of money gaming for a living, but the average person doesn’t associate playing Candy Crush with a steady source of income. In fact, most people who…