Ramblings of a Software Engineer
So I’ve been running almost every days for some years now, and the other day I got this email about the Great American Challenge from Coastal Race Productions at https://coastalraceproductions.com/race/the-great-american-race/ The race id described by the organizers as “Complete 1063 Miles across the eastern portion of the United States from the Coast of Sunset Beach NC to …
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Looking for purpose or out of sheer boredom, about a decade ago I decided to try and run a marathon. After 5+ hours and 26 miles of sweat and tears I was able to drag my body thru the finish line. So I got my shiny finisher medal, and when I was leaving and about …
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Kubernetes is one of the coolest open software projects to pop out in a long time. But it is also mighty though to install and use. The K8S community (K8S being the acronym for Kubernetes) has tried to make things easier by creating a bunch of system administration and configuration tools such as kubeadm and …
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So we have a tough problem at my organization: We have a pretty cool web app that is modularized, reusable, clean and capable of connecting clients with a server side telephony system. I work for a telecommunications company and our job is to provide agents with access to their own call manager system via a …
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My book about Programming Quantum Computers just came out on January 2019 in Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1484242173/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 I wrote this book to be the ultimate guide for programming a quantum computer in the cloud. Thanks to the good folks at IBM research this is now possible. IBM has made their prototype quantum rig (QExperience) available not …
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Multicast is an amazing technology available in virtually all networking hardware out there. Virtually all IP routers on the cloud or in your company intranet are capable of multicast out of the box! so why it is so cool? Because it allows computers to communicate with each other with little or no configuration whatsoever, a …
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