Coding Relic

Microservices entered the lexicon of systems engineering a number of years ago, breaking up a system which might once have been delivered ...

Last week Greg Ferro wrote about the use of merchant silicon in networking products. I'd like to share some thoughts on the topic. ...

An observation for those working in a hot technology area. An inflection point is coming. Your actions at the low point influence what h...

There is a mantra amongst network equipment vendors: never let the customer unscrew the chassis from the rack. Replace every component with ...

Every handful of years we ratchet up the Ethernet link speed: from 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps in the early 1990s, to 1 Gbps in the mid 1990s, to 10...

Electronics distribution giant Avnet recently announced it would acquire Bell Microproducts . The deal values Bell at $250 million after p...

What the web needs right now is another blog post about the iPad. No, don't run away! This will be different, I promise. We'll foc...

Unbelievable: Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger's latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that perso...

Crossing the Chasm is a seminal book in technology marketing, whose ideas quickly spread through the industry. Originally written in 1991 b...

Intel markets the Atom processor for netbooks. It trades lower processing power for very low power consumption, and is quite inexpensive in...

Exhibit A: a bottle warmer by munchkin , a company focussed mainly on baby products. You pour water into the base, put the bottle in the ...

Rather by definition, embedded software involves building a gizmo of some sort. Manufacturing the hardware portion of the gizmo turns out to...

Using GPL software imposes the requirement to redistribute the source code, but this requirement is routinely ignored in commercial products...

I typically work on software for hardware platforms, where the design cycle is considerably longer than that of a desktop or web application...