complex adaptive systems
3 Pillars Of The New Business World: APIs, Identity, and Data
techcrunch.com
At the Defrag conference in Broomfield, Colo., this week, three themes came in the forefront: APIs, identity and data. The themes reflect the tenor of the times, which can be summed up in the turmoil at Microsoft this week: Microsoft President Steve Sinofsky left the company. Steve Ballmer said the company needed...
How Machines Will Use Social Networks To Gain Identity, Develop Relationships And Make Friends
techcrunch.com
Activity streams and social networks now represent a fundamental aspect of the modern application. We use activity streams on Twitter to converse in 140 characters or less. We use the “like” gesture on Facebook to show approval for an update to a friend’s activity stream. In the enterprise, Salesforce.com Chatter...
Why the cloud has me fearing Wall-E more than Skynet
gigaom.com
Everybody who has watched any of The Terminator films knows about Skynet, the insidious computing system that becomes self-aware and decides to eliminate humans from the face of the earth. In the movies, a battle plays out, both in the present and the future, between humanity and this fearsome self-aware AI system....
OneOps, TwoOps … Exploring cloud ops
gigaom.com
OneOps, TwoOps, RedOps, BlueOps, DevOps, NoOps, OldOps, NewOps. This one relies on cooperation. This one banks on automation. Say! What a lot of ops there are. - With sincere apologies to Dr. Suess Those of you who follow me on Twitter (@jamesurquhart) may have come across frequent recent discussions about...
How ‘systems thinking’ is making the cloud transparent
gigaom.com
Given my current obsession with understanding everything I can about how cloud computing is beginning to look, feel and behave like a variety of other complex adaptive systems, I’ve started paying close attention to the widespread practice (outside of IT, it seems) of systems thinking. Defined in Wikipedia as “the...
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The Fertile Unknown: Improv Theater and Complex Adaptive Systems
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