Government Dataset HoneyTokens
Since governments are forcing us to give them information, we should booby-trap it so we know when their databases inevitably get breached. Read More
Category: Design
Centrelink Fuzzy Matching Is Broken By Design
Centrelink’s data matching system is broken by design. Justin explains how. Read More
Tuning Hottest100 Predictions For 2016
Justin explains why some of his predictions were so wrong last year. Read More
The Centrelink Robo-Debt Error Rate Is Higher Than 20%
Centrelink’s robo-debt error rate is much higher than 20%. We just don’t know how much. Read More
Centrelink Response to Questions on #notmydebt
DHS answers some questions, and avoids others, about Centrelink’s data matching and #notmydebt. Read More
DellWorld Solutions Exchange Experiments With Managed Democracy
The DellWorld’15 Solutions Exchange was a fascinating departure from the kinds of show floors I’m used to at recent trade shows. Instead of a raucous visual cacophony of booths competing for attention, the DellWorld show floor was a relatively sedate affair. Aside from a chosen few, the booths were identical… Read More
Cloud Mini-mills
What if cloud computing becomes the fully integrated steel mill of the future? What would disruptive mini-mills look like? I was musing on resiliency issues recently, which led to an interesting line of thinking that I’d like to share. I use the mini-mill analogy because it’s often cited in business school… Read More
Google Share Details on Their Datacentre Network Evolution
On Tuesday at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London, Google shared details, and I do mean details, on the way their internal datacentre networks are (or at least were) constructed. In a paper titled Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network [PDF] the authors describe how… Read More
Resilient Apps Or Hardware? A DevOps Conundrum
Much is being made of DevOps of late, and I’ve been doing a lot of work with clients in this area. What amuses me greatly is how little things have changed in the past several decades. This post by eBay cloud architect Subbu Allamaraju highlights a central struggle of IT: how… Read More
vROps in Practice: Review After A Month
This is the third post in a series on vROps sponsored by VMware. Check out part 1 and part 2. I’ve had vROps running in the lab for over a month now, and I’ve also been playing with it in Hands On Labs. Overall, it’s a good product, though not… Read More