Author: Nigel Pereira

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…

While the entire world is facing an economic slowdown with the coronavirus and the war in Ukraine, India’s gig workforce is expected to grow to 24 million by 2029-30. Our in-house expert Nigel Pereira is here to take us through the highs and lows of gig economy. The gig economy refers to an exchange of short-term labor, based on ‘standardized’ outcomes, for money through a transaction facilitated by a digital platform. Examples of digital platforms where you can find a gig include Upwork, Fiverr, TaskRabbit, Handy, and Freelancer. In addition to labor, asset-sharing platforms make up a big part of…

APIs bring in and share data from apps and sites like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook or Youtube with the user. For those curious about APIs, Nigel Pereira gives you a rundown of the same. Imagine you’re developing an application that advises people about the best holiday destinations for outdoor activities like hiking and camping. You want to be able to give your customers live updates on the weather at all the locations that you are covering, but you don’t want to write a weather app from scratch. Application Programming Interface (APIs) are software programs that allow software programs to communicate with…

Artificial General Intelligence might seem like a pipe dream to many but to the engineering community the idea that AI might go beyond what it was programmed for is both a prologue to utopia and a premonition to dystopia, writes Nigel Pereira. It’s been a crazy month for the scientific community with a researcher at DeepMind claiming “the game is over” in reference to the quest for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), only to be followed by a Google engineer who has since been suspended for breaking his NDA and claiming Google’s AI is sentient. To the average person, these headlines signify…

Nigel Pereira finds out why big tech moved from monolithic applications to a superior form of programming in the form of microservices A famous Mark Twain quote reads “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.” That’s precisely the point of switching to microservices from monolithic applications that are getting too large or too complex to handle. Monolithic applications or “Monoliths” are software programs written and deployed as single units. While this is how most programs were developed in…