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At the moment there seems to be an extremely unhealthy obsession in software with the concept of architecture. A colleague of mine, a recent graduate, told me he wished to become a software architect. He was drawn to the glamour of being able to come up with grandiose ideas - sweeping generalized designs, creating presentations to audiences of acronym addicts, writing esoteric academic papers, speaking at conferences attended by headless engineers on company expense accounts hungrily seeking out this year's grail, and creating e-mails with huge cc lists from people whose signature footer is more interesting than the content. I tried to re-orient him into actually doing some coding, to join a team that has a good product and keen users both of whom are pushing requirements forward, to no avail. Somehow the lure of being an architecture astronaut was too strong and I lost him to the dark side.
He'll be in good company though. I was recently called to a customer who expressed interest in a software tool I'm working on. I came armed with the latest build of the product, looking forward to the opportunity to test some ideas and concepts in front of potential users. Instead I found myself in front of the customer who had also invited a competitor in order to create a conference room product shoot out. While I had my PC with running code to show, my opponent had brought along a briefcase full of PowerPoint presentations. Their slides were impressive: good use of color, animation, and a generous splattering of buzzwords and acronyms. Despite the fact I had working code to showcase, the discussion quickly degenerated into a discussion about the fact that mine was a so-called "fat" client, in fact a pretty lean Eclipse RCP-based product, while the opposition had a "thin" client.
The truth was the opposition didn't have a thin Web-based offering; their current product was built six years ago as a desktop application that could be downloaded as an 87M applet. However, they were in the process of rewriting it all to run in a lightweight Java EE container as portlets. In other words, they had nothing. They were peddling vaporwear. Worse than that, despite the fact their company had a perfectly good product offering that I was prepared to go head-to-head with, they seemed to have given up on making it more usable and instead opted for the deep thought option: a total rewrite just to suit the whims of today's architectural fashion.
I kept wanting to take the customer's IT manager and shake him back to reality; however, he somehow got drawn into their trap and was asking me architectural questions rather than focusing on whether the product I had brought to show and tell was going to make his users more productive.
Remember the kid in the playground who knew the name of a band you didn't, or who had a new album? They were cool; they had knowledge we didn't; and whether or not it was any better didn't matter, it was new and shiny and we had to have it too. If we did, then we would also be in possession of knowledge that others didn't own, and we in turn could be the cool kid to someone else.
This kind of atavistic worshipping of the obscure and unknown piece of knowledge is the personality disorder that plagues the software industry and is somehow encouraged and admired by architects who are never satisfied with what they have available to them to build software. They're not innovators or research pioneers pushing knowledge forward though - such people are hugely important as they invent the future and redefine technology boundaries. Instead these silver-bullet junkies just latch onto ideas and fads for the sake of it, because if nothing else it makes them appear ahead of the curve and in possession of secret facts and information. As soon as a project gets into trouble, they can launch these facts at programmers and proclaim, "Aha, it's because you're not using BOJOX and NADA 2.0 combined with YML that you have a bug" in front of the nervous manager who wants nothing more than to buy more time by telling his reporting chain that he needs a year to do a total rewrite. During this time, because nothing ships, nothing can go wrong and, hopefully, the stock price will have grown to the point the manager can cash in his options in time to go be a coward somewhere else.
Meanwhile, the architects seem invincible to failure and rise within the ranks of their organizations, ordering fresh business cards each year with the words "architect," "senior" or, for the power blowhards, "distinguished" in the title. They are drawn to the tar pit of attending and creating presentations, or joining conference calls with fellow architects who showboat their knowledge of obscure standards specifications or bleeding-edge research projects. They'll have copies of Christopher Alexander books in their office and spend hours googling for obtuse and arcane quotations to lace their presentations with and gain kudos from fellow fools.
When confronted by such people, recant the following mantra:
Code ships,
code runs,
code helps users,
get their job done.
Remind any architects in your path that presentation charts, e-mails, project plans, line-items spreadsheets and so forth, are all there to help the code ship on time and to spec. The goal of everyone on a project should be to spend as little time as possible on tasks that distract from the job of creating quality, tested, and shippable code. Please architects, please understand this, respect this, and quietly stay out of the way of those good folk who prefer to spend their day working with an IDE writing code rather than composing e-mails.
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David Tomlinson 06/20/07 05:28:32 PM EDT | ||||
In regards to what Todd Little said, most companies, through their outsourcing of high skill IT functions to big 5/4/3 consulting companies and offshoring of the coding activities to Indian (and other) consulting companies, are in dire need of all forms of IT skill sets, not just architects. The C?O positions have sold you all out to cut a few bucks off the bottom line. The people that are left are often the b*llsh*t artists that know all the buzzwords, and the glorified middle managers that are left to fill the architect positions (which used to be highly skilled positions). That's one of the reasons I've been so successful as an application/system/network/data/security architect....I work for a consulting company. Eventually, all the C?Os realize they need help and call us. :) |
Adam OGorman 06/20/07 04:29:16 PM EDT | ||||
Pure Software Architecture is one thing, Application Architecture is another. I wonder if the original authors comments were intended to also include Network Architects, Infrastructure Architects, Security Architects, Solution Architects, Operational Architects, Data Architects, Systems Architects, Enterprise Architects, Information Architects or Integration Architects.... and all the other architectural skills that may be required to successfully deliver large complex projects to clients. |
[email protected] 06/20/07 04:06:33 PM EDT | ||||
I agree with the author. I have recently worked on a major project where the System Architect knew enough buzz words - BPEL, ESB, etc.. and wanted to use everything available for a DB of 200K records which was running on SQL Server. The company spent $10Million and laid off everyone and sold the company. The architect has a bigger title and better pay. The rest of us are still peeved. It is time that WE EDUCATE THE MANAGERS THRU WEB OR SPAM. |
Todd Little 06/18/07 06:11:13 PM EDT | ||||
Interesting story, although what it has to do with architecture is totally beyond me. It sounds like you simply got out sold by some hucksters that knew how to catch and hold the customers attention. Welcome to the real world. It seems the real issue here is what constitutes a "software architect"? My experience tells me that in many organizations, a software architect is someone that can dictate standards that must be adhered to. Personally I don't think that is architecture, at least not that main part of architecture. This is especially true when you get into mandating that certain tools, products, etc., are to be used. Maybe that is "systems architecture" but it certainly isn't "application architecture" which is what I think most companies are in dire needs of. Without going into a long post about architecture, may I suggest readers look at some of the work done by Michael Hammer. Although his focus years ago was on re-engineering, he had a lot of great thoughts on what was basically software architecture. I personally subscribe to the notion that in application architecture, architecture is the set of functions or features that remains relatively constant over time. Done well it can allow applications to be built that survive changes in requirements, changes in platforms, changes in technology, etc. Done poorly architecture simply becomes standards, functional specifications, or design documents. So is there an unhealthy "obsession" with the concept of architecture? I believe absolutely not. Is there an unhealthy view of what architecture is and what value it provides to an organization? Absolutely. |
Fat Bold Cyclop 06/14/07 01:29:57 AM EDT | ||||
Now You did it! Now my boss thinks he doesn't need a good and working software. Now he thinks that INSTEAD he needs more architects to sell powerpoint presentations! ;-) |
Dewayne Hafenstein 05/21/07 11:19:16 PM EDT | ||||
I agree somewhat that there are a great too many people calling themselves architects that wouldn't know a domain pattern from a transaction script! However, I take a great deal of offense at the broad generalizations that you are making. Software architects serve the same purpose as a building architect, and are just as important. Just as a building architect takes vauge ideas, concepts, and desires from a client and transforms them into a vision, a software architect has to do the same. We often work with the end users, product management, executive management, developers, QA, training, support, marketing, and so forth. We facilitate the process of building a successful product, and we define it in terms that the developers, QA testers, documentation, and customer support teams can consume and understand in the least ambiguous and most cost-effective ways. In order to perform this job, you MUST understand the underlying technologies, know what is possible and what is not, but more importantly, understand the consequences of your decisions. The process of software design, or any design for that matter, is never black and white. There are always trade-offs. In large, complex products, the developers are often ill-equiped to make these decisions. I take serious offense at your title, because to me a software architect, a truely good one, has to first be a good programmer. Notice I said programmer, not coder. To me a programmer is someone that can devise algorithms to solve problems. A coder is someone that can express that algorithm in a programming language. Often they are one in the same, but many times they are not. A good architect has to have a much broader understanding than a programmer typically, as well as understanding of how to express the concepts of the design. The audience that an architect deals with varies widely. We have to be able to describe the concepts and the end product before it is built to th customers, to management, and to non-technical audiences. We then have to turn around and explain the same things to a technical audience in much greater detail. We use tools such as UML and ERD (as well as others) to explain these concepts. We have to deal with higher levels of abstraction, such as deployment of the application, affects on performance by using different approaches to application structure, scalability issues, security, etc. We often have to wade through piles of regulatory documents and legal materials if we are working with products that deal with sensitive information (and most do these days). We also build the prototypes to ensure that the risky areas of the design will work correctly. In many cases, we roll up our sleves and develop some parts of the application. Case in point, the product I am building now has a good amount of code in it that I have written, as well as everyone on my team. If we do our jobs right, the result is an unambiguous design that will be easier to build, test, and maintain and with less cost. No, I disagree with your assumption, and I think you are way off target. I think that you need to re-think your assumptions. The whole software process needs a lot of contributors, and the mix varies widely from one project to another. You, just as the "architects" that you belittle, have missed the mark. |
David Tomlinson 04/12/07 07:34:41 PM EDT | ||||
Your rant is against software architects or silver bullet addicts, or competitors in the software space or .... what? 1) Being a software architect is a matter of experience and aptitude. There ARE too many people calling themselves architects who really aren't. But there are many qualified and even superior software development people out there who ARE architects. AND good ones at that. 2) Silver bullet addicts are everywhere! CIOs, programmers, managers, clients. I've got a client who thinks that SOA is the silver bullet that will save his company. I've got a developer that thinks that Ruby or Rails or Groovy is so cool that we need to use it on our current J2EE project. I've had CIOs that think the WebSphere (apparently, the name alone) will save their jobs. 3) Software vendors have been hyping vaporware since I started in the mid-70's. IBM was a major violator back then and they still are! 4) Lazy managers and CIOs who should be doing vision and management, love to tinker at the buzzword level. Just smack em. 5) It sounds like you didn't get your nap today. You rag on about a half dozen subjects and conclude that the life form 'architects' are to blame. You paraphrase "Those that can...do, those that can't...teach." to make it seem that all architects are useless, do nothing white paper architects seeking their next conference at the Moscone Center. 6) I an a Senior Solutions Architect for a national consulting company, and a Director in their Solutions Architecture Chicago office. I began 30 years ago writing assembler on mainframes and mini computers, working in C and C++ and Java on Unix and Windows for nearly 20 years. I've worked on very large projects and very small projects. I do architectural specification, design and J2EE development on a daily basis. You do working architects a disservice by your article. Sure white paper architects are to be despised. Sure, developers with 2 1/2 years of development are NOT architects, despite what their Monster resume says. Sure, many of the presenters at most of the conferences you might go to today, and a significant majority of the attendees that attend these conferences with "Grand Architectural Poobah" on their badge are NOT architects, but it doesn't mean that much of everything you wrote wasn't just wrong and maybe even mean-spirited. So take a nap, raise your blood sugar and post a retraction or an apology. Do your karma some good. Peace Out, David Tomlinson |
James White 04/06/07 01:06:04 PM EDT | ||||
I have been reading the list of comments and interestingly enough, I am taking a class on Software Architecture. A point the instructor (a long time Software Architect and Coder) made was that no one questions an architect for a construction project (e.g. building, bridge, etc.), or a mechnical engineering project to the same degree that a software architect is questioned. Perhaps because there is a certain level of rigor and standard that customers and people in general have come to accept when the construction or mechanical architect speaks. People tend to believe that they can live with bad software (some may even expect it to be bad to a certain degree), where as the consequences are far more grave if a bridge collapses or a machine (e.g. a car engine) locks up and becomes inoperable. Perhaps because of the fluid nature of software development people expect too much too fast. Unfortunately, it is thinking like the author of this article that lends into the misconception about Software Architecture. I am not an architect, but I hope to be one day. Coders in the U.S. (if that is all they can do well) are easy to replaced with coders from other countries. A coder must develop a sense of the non-technical aspects (i.e. business goals and strategies, sales, marketing, finance, etc.) of the business to become a better developer. Otherwise, the coder is only cranking out exactly what the user requests (at best), and how many users know exactly what they want? Furthermore, when a developer becomes adept enough at working with business people and can see the big picture from both a technical and business perspect, they eventually become architects (or something very similar). So, with that in mind aren't most technically inclined people striving for what the author of this article disdains so much? Just my Opinon. |
Jit 04/05/07 06:21:32 PM EDT | ||||
Humm interesting. Why did architect in IT come into being. Or ... better so, why did architect came into being anywhere? Yes ... a programmer does gets the job done. But, architect takes the image from the user's head and puts it into a form that can not only be coded and perform optimally through the life of the application but also include the morphing of the application. Further, how would an eterprise be architected by coders? It is like saying carpenters do the actual work while constructing a home ... what's the need of an architect? I think, when architecture office and developers work together then ... well things turn out OK. |
Adam OGorman 03/21/07 10:31:10 AM EDT | ||||
There has always been an interest in SW architecture - largely because applications that are developed without it usually fail in the long run. You make some valid points; we have all probably encountered architects that contribute little to (or even damage) a project. However there are plenty of excellent architects out there, ensuring that the overall solution is well architected, meets the business requirements and can operate in the target environment. There are also plenty of developers out there that contribute little to the team, they are dismissive of those that do not grasp the technical details of whatever their specialisation is, are too technology focused and have little or no interest in the actual end users requirements or the business problem that the project is tackling. A little humility goes a long way - for a project to be successful you need a good sales team, business consultants, developers, architects, test engineers and strong management, and for all of them to respect the contribution of the others - even if they don't understand it. |
Kirk 03/20/07 01:14:04 PM EDT | ||||
I am an architect who writes code. An architect who cannot write effective and efficient code is like the building architect who designed my first house. He understood the basics of home building and distributing loads, but he ran the joists thinking he was doing the HVAC guy a favor and instead increased the cost of the house by using glulams and joists 12 inches on center. The HVAC guy ran his ductwork in the crawl space and the attic, not even using the long runs between the joists of the second floor. Architects need to stay current by actually coding their designs once in while. Joe's "architect" sounded more like a marketing architect; as they say in Texas "All hat, no cattle". |
vikas 03/20/07 08:37:53 AM EDT | ||||
i do agree that this happens in realworld. but i came across the people who are perfect architect and they have left coding some years back. But they know if they are shown the design where the problem will come. i will call an architect as a programmer with view to details and person with more analytical skills |
Chris 03/19/07 05:17:08 AM EDT | ||||
As one of the targets of Joe's spleen-venting rhetoric I can only marvel at his singular lack of knowledge about what "architecture" actually is. His example of a brush with a software salesperson (who patently was not an IT architect) re-inforces the importance for clients understanding the place of the different technologies in their environment, rather than an obsession with buzzwords and techno-babble. I'm not sure why Joe feels so aggrieved - but his unbalanced, inaccurate and narrow minded rant merely presents a perspective that he is where he should be - tucked away from customers in the ivory echelons of the labs in Hursley. |
Skip Cashwell 03/18/07 08:39:31 AM EDT | ||||
One thing you got right - your "friend", the just graduated seeker of the lime-light, really does need to learn to code! Most of the other hypotheses you propose are immature, uninformed and just plain dumb. My suggestion is that you do some research at The Open Group site: there you will find what an IT Architect is and the intensive requirements to achieve that credential. |
Peter Thomas 03/18/07 04:57:59 AM EDT | ||||
One more reply in favor of the author of the article :) It's a rant after all but the point stands. There are indeed the good Architects, but let me rant about the bad ones for a moment. These kinds of Architects exist and I've seen them do huge damage to projects. These are the guys who would create the powerpoint slides that define the architecture and then leave the hapless developers to do the rest. The Architect would be unavailable to address any issues that come up during development because of course, he would be making the slides for another project. Most likely the Architect would not have worked hands-on on the technologies involved and this is the biggest problem. I see a lot of people similarly attracted to SOA nowadays. |
This is a silly article. Let's take the word "architect" from it's original sense. Do you think a carpenter (coder) can build a house without an architect? He probably can, but it might look like a doghouse instead of house. This is usually why we need architects. Get the point? |
Nativeson 03/14/07 03:25:23 PM EDT | ||||
By far the best article I have read in quite sometime. A voice of sanity in a completely insane buzzword world. |
Sunit Katkar 03/14/07 02:50:58 PM EDT | ||||
A very good article in a long time!! I completely agree with the author. Right now there is so much hype about Web2.0 and Ajax. It is supposed to solve world hunger if you believe some 'gurus'. What is Ajax? Just a Javascript call! The author forgot to mention that there are 'review' junkies too in this cadre who believe that the more the reviews, the more 'refined' the 'architecture'! Great article!! - Sunit |
Sudhir 03/13/07 02:03:48 PM EDT | ||||
In my view an architect is the one who has at one point of his life been through the code monkey cycle and shields the development team from erratic dreams of the CEO. It makes sense to be an architect in the long run otherwise whats the benefit of gaining all that experience you have. I have usually come across architects who are very developer friendly and insist on coding to suit the project/timeline instead of adding hi-fi technologies to make the project cool and this is very contrary from your observation |
Richard Ouimet 03/12/07 11:48:21 PM EDT | ||||
Perhaps you were unable to convince your friend because he had read some of your writing? Just how does someone, architect or otherwise, "creating presentations to audiences". |
Ron 03/12/07 09:18:54 PM EDT | ||||
I think you are talking about marketing guys, not architects. True architects started as developers, but have a knack for the bigger picture, such as how to structure data, how to handle complex systems integration, and how to assemble infrastructure. Code does not run in a vacuum, and a great number of expensive problems have been caused by developers who wrote "great code" but had no sense of context, no ability to see the bigger picture and account for dependencies and constraints. |
fury 03/12/07 11:16:24 AM EDT | ||||
Sounds like a case of sour grapes. The fact that you can't clinch the deal spells something really wrong....not with the client, the architect, but you. I'm not saying you don't have a good product, but the fact is you can't communicate why your working product is better than someone else's vapourware. If you know your stuff, why can't you counter the arguments? precisely you because you went to the meeting not as prepared as the competitor... you are focused on selling your product....not solving the client's problem. At least the vapourware Team realised their legacy product won't solve the client's problems well....they being smart, they proposed a new system....no shame in that. Think of why you lost the contract...not whine about losing the contract would do you a lot of good. Every top professional programmer or architect knows that you can't run projects, especially large projects well without good communications...and marketing is part of that. |
none 03/12/07 04:50:57 AM EDT | ||||
Well....I understand your point that the product quality would help your users more than architure mumbo jumbo....but the sad fact is that these stuff sells. And because these stuff sells....these people will continue to get paid more. If I were you, I'll learnt more of the marketing jargon so that when I sell my software, can I explain why those are just jargons and my working software rocks...No use having great ideas if you can't communicate and sell it right? |
Real Architect 03/10/07 05:45:13 PM EST | ||||
Well code monkey's don't get the fact that without a vision or promotion or business aspect to any software their code is just a bunch of bytes that ends up on some dusty hard disk in a thrash dump. Other commentors do a good job of addressing the fallacies expoused. Keep on coding you don't need to do better. |
wtranmer 03/09/07 07:35:14 PM EST | ||||
Congratulations. You have written a scathing epigraph to neatly bundle and package an entire profession into a tidy kettle all while managing to paint your own pot black. The article is sickeningly self-aggrandizing, paraphrased as "coders are good and architects are bad, and I am a coder by the way." Go back to your choir because I am sure they miss your sermons. |
Frank Krasicki 03/09/07 02:32:22 PM EST | ||||
I have been a software engineer who has spent over twenty-five years developing state of the art solutions for clients and in recent years I have served as an architect in many cases. I share some empathy for your laments on the state of the art in software architecture. In far too many instances it has become a career salary stepping stone for programmers whose interest is not to add vision and clarity to systems but to add to their paychecks. As such it has become a avocation that suffers from the misappropriation of its mission. However valuable running code is, your argument falls flat because you insist that whatever you have coded merely needs to adequately scratch an enterprise itch. And that's where I disagree with you. Organizations too often, and in fits of maddening immediate gratification pathologies, buy code as a something that fits a loud need. And these companies wind up with hundreds of running code solutions not a one of which cares to integrate with another. Architects, to the degree they can, attempt to be sure your running code fits into a grander scheme of things and that concept is not so much about executable code as integrable code. This is not to say that what passes as enterprise architecture groups sufficiently satisfy this charge, merely that they are supposed to. Frank Krasicki |
Cristiano Ronaldo 03/09/07 01:18:57 PM EST | ||||
I completely agree with all this. However, the reality of the situation is that coders are considered just "implementation engineers". And it's the architects who catch the eye of the powers that be. Sad, but true for coders (who really have all the deep knowledge). |
bevier 03/09/07 06:23:24 AM EST | ||||
ok, now a reply in favor of you ;-) the previous comments are not without truth, but that doesn't contradict you. The problem of the Great Pretenders cannot be denied... alas, i guess, it is not only about architects and coders - it is a general mismatch between planners and doers, doesn't matter, if you build software or engines. And yes, it is more about psychology than about products, because success is seductive and it is much easier to look successful than to be it - so Great Pretenders sell better than Great Engineers. Shiny vaporware will always impress more than a boring prototype, i guess, it's about the principle "hope", more stimulated by great promises - Law of Sales... |
James White 03/08/07 06:55:49 PM EST | ||||
Funny article. I must say that I am among those who aspire to become an architect, not to impress fellow architects and managers with obsure knowledge, but to lead efforts in developing better applications. Any way you can become an architect w/o becoming what you have described in your article, or is becoming an architect the way to lose your development skills? |
Dave Bernstein 03/08/07 05:07:01 PM EST | ||||
So you were incapable of differentiating your product from vaporware, but the fault for that was your prospect's unhealthy obession with architecture. You get extra credit for writing your excuse up as an article, but doing so makes it no less lame. Dave |
Charlie Alfred 03/08/07 02:14:13 PM EST | ||||
The title and premise of this article are guilty of the very same "smoke" that the author criticizes architects for. While I fully understand the value of provocative headlines to catch the reader's eye (amidst a flood of other text competiting for attention), this one is truly over the top. Fallacy #1: Architects can't code (or can't code well) This is BS. All old people don't have Alzehimers and all homeless people aren't lazy unemployed bums. I personally know dozens of architects who can and do code better than anyone else on their development team. Fallacy #2: Working code is good because it works This is more BS. Code is good because: o it works in all the contexts and situations it is supposed to work in o it is designed in such a way that it can adapt flexibly to different contexts o it handles error conditions cleanly and safely o it is easy to use, and provides the response time the user needs, o it was designed with a good separation of concerns, so that it doesn't break miserably when the first change is made to handle something that wasn't anticipated by the original author. What's ironic is that virtually every one of these considerations are things that *real* architects sweat every day. By contrast, I have worked with customers who have shipping products in the field that work (semiconductor control tools, in this case) that have horrible code - abuse of global variables, 3000 line methods, etc. So Joe, do us all a small favor. Get off your soapbox. Travel around a little more, and talk to some real architects. Not the ones who pretend to be architects because they memorize a few buzz words and draw some pretty box and line diagrams. Regards, |
SOA News 03/08/07 11:50:56 AM EST | ||||
At the moment there seems to be an extremely unhealthy obsession in software with the concept of architecture. A colleague of mine, a recent graduate, told me he wished to become a software architect. He was drawn to the glamour of being able to come up with grandiose ideas - sweeping generalized designs, creating presentations to audiences of acronym addicts, writing esoteric academic papers, speaking at conferences attended by headless engineers on company expense accounts hungrily seeking out this year's grail, and creating e-mails with huge cc lists from people whose signature footer is more interesting than the content. |
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Cloudistics delivers a complete public cloud experience with composable on-premises infrastructures to medium and large enterprises. Its software-defined technology natively converges network, storage, compute, virtualization, and management into a ... Mar. 28, 2017 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,254 |
By Elizabeth White Now that the world has connected "things," we need to build these devices as truly intelligent in order to create instantaneous and precise results. This means you have to do as much of the processing at the point of entry as you can: at the edge. The killer use cases for IoT are becoming manifest through AI engines on edge devices. An autonomous car has this dual edge/cloud analytics model, producing precise, real-time results.
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By Liz McMillan There are 66 million network cameras capturing terabytes of data. How did factories in Japan improve physical security at the facilities and improve employee productivity? Edge Computing reduces possible kilobytes of data collected per second to only a few kilobytes of data transmitted to the public cloud every day. Data is aggregated and analyzed close to sensors so only intelligent results need to be transmitted to the cloud. Non-essential data is recycled to optimize storage. Mar. 28, 2017 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,190 |
By Yeshim Deniz "I think that everyone recognizes that for IoT to really realize its full potential and value that it is about creating ecosystems and marketplaces and that no single vendor is able to support what is required," explained Esmeralda Swartz, VP, Marketing Enterprise and Cloud at Ericsson, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Mar. 28, 2017 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,459 |


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This is going to keep a smile on my face for a while :)Lily is one sweet dog !So....I've got to ask....did she get to go for her ride eventually?
Oh My, LOL!!!!! What a silly girl! I hope she enjoyed her ride, or should I say NAP;)Thanks for the laughs and enjoy the day!
Absolutely precious photos. Harriet is a little envious of Lily's ride!
You have just made my day so much brighter, Paula!
I needed to see this adorable picture this morning!! Blessings to you (both!) today!!
Hahahaaaa....Oh Girlfriend...What a Doll!hughugs
Just too darn cute Paula! That lily is so adorable. An extra nap sure doesn't hurt!
too funny!
So funny! I love the tooth sticking out in the first photo...
Love the photos, both the tooth and the tongue. But won't she wake up bumping into the furniture riding around in the house? LOL
Just adorable!
So dang cute.
You know what? That Lily Bell was born to have her picture taken. She really has a "make everyone smile" ministry!
I sure have a big smile on my face..it happens everytime you post pictures of Lily. ))smiles))
So cute!
Aww WHAT A CUTIE.
What an adorable dog. Lily just put a smile on my face. This is so cute. I like the way she's sticking her tongue out as she takes the nap.
She is just too cute! I love all her expressions! I think she may be a bit spoiled, though, lol!
That is so adorable.I guess that Lily does not like to wait to long for things. lolHave wonderful weekend.
Whut? Can't he sleep and ride at the same time?LOL
Love that Lily Doggie. =)
That is hilarious!! Great pictures!
Awww LOOK at that sweet baby! You tuckered her out! hahaha
I'm all for the "maybe not!"
Just too funny...........and cute!
She is one lovable dog..lol..I love it.
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Latin America tops discoveries list
On the opening day of trading in 2008 oil hit $100 a barrel for the first time. On July 7 West Texas Intermediate hit over $150 and settled at $145.29.
At that time there was much talk of "peak oil," and speculation by huge banks and hedge funds that were blamed with inflating the price of a crude by as much as 60 percent.
But by the end of 2008 oil had hit five-year lows, shedding over $100 a barrel, as the global economy ran out of gas – figuratively, of course.
Companies that had budgeted on $80 oil were at mid-fiscal year cutting way back on capital expenditures, shutting down projects and stacking rigs.
In December, Merrill Lynch predicted that oil prices are likely to keep falling until well into 2009 and could reach $25 a barrel before recovering.
Its research report also said oil prices should begin to rally in the second half of 2009.
But Merrill Lynch, one of the best-known securities houses in the world, was itself a casualty of the economic meltdown of 2008. The forecast was issued just one hour before it was announced that its shareholders voted to be acquired by Bank of America. (We're pretty sure they didn't predict that this time last year.)
With a backdrop of dramatic global change in '08 that recorded both thrills and agonies, there were some historic discoveries.
"Amidst the demands of a deepening global economic recession the oil industry also faced dwindling access to supplies and slowing production," said Ken White, senior editor at IHS Energy International Oil Letter. "Yet against the odds, the industry managed to achieve significant levels of success.
"This is particularly true of Latin America," he added, "where Brazil had an outstanding year recording five of the top 10 hydrocarbon discoveries of 2008 according to the IHS listing."
At the top of the listings is the Iara discovery drilled by Petrobras in the Santos Basin with reserve estimates of 3.5 billion boe, prompting comments last May by the president of Brazil about possibly joining OPEC.
White also noted that national oil companies operated 50 percent of the top 10 discoveries based on reserves.
As for 2009, White said the major players "have found themselves with large cash assets, while smaller exploration companies are finding it almost impossible to raise necessary funding to complete desired work programs.
"There is growing evidence of shrinking capital expenditure budgets going into 2009, a year that seems likely to see the market in predatory mood."
Predatory is a good description, since the global economy has become more of a jungle than a marketplace.
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Virgin Blue Holdings, which has operations under the Virgin Blue, V Australia and Pacific Blue names, has been rebranded as Virgin Australia Holdings and all the flights of the group will now operate under the Virgin Australia name, complete with a new corporate livery. The new identity was unveiled earlier this week at a special event at Sydney's Kingsford Smith International Airport when the company introduced its first Airbus A330-200 and latest Boeing 737-800 into its domestic fleet.
Up until now the carriers have been unable to use the Virgin name on international flights from Australia due to a clause in a contract signed when Singapore Airlines acquired a minority stake in Virgin Atlantic Airways in 1999. As a result the V Australia name was adopted when the company inaugurated trans-Pacific flights to the United States and more recently Abu Dhabi. However, a deal has now been reached with the Singaporean flag carrier, the details of which have not been made public.
Virgin Australia will now be able to bring together the domestic operations of Virgin Blue, the New Zealand-based activities of Pacific Blue and the intercontinental flights of V Australia to offer a seamless service across domestic and international markets. "Now we're able to provide not only one brand and one presentation of the brand but seamless customer experience as time moves on," John Borghetti, Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Australia, told reporters at this week's unveiling event.
The rebranding goes much deeper than the new corporate identity and includes major upgrades to the airlines' ground and in-flight services to compete more effectively with the country's national carrier Qantas. This includes a new Business Class service which will be available across its domestic fleet and an enhanced Economy product complete with leather seating, contemporary interior design, high quality in-flight products and a gourmet menu.
The new Boeing 737-800 Business and Economy Class interiors will be rolled out across the majority of Virgin Australia's domestic fleet and will be incorporated on more than 20 aircraft by the end of the year. Business Class is already available for sale on the Airbus A330-200 and will be available for sale on the Boeing 737-800 in the last quarter of this year.
"Virgin Australia will provide a new standard of airline travel in Australia," said John Borghetti. "Our new Business and Economy class has been designed from the ground up by experts in their fields. We have listened to what today's traveller wants from an airline and we are incorporating that into every feature and every part of our service, while maintaining competitive pricing."
Alongside these changes, Virgin Australia will also introduce some of the traditional 'frills' offered to Virgin Atlantic customers, making them available to the domestic Australian market for the first time. These include a premium kerbside entrance and premium kerbside valet service at the Virgin Australia lounge, in Sydney's domestic terminal. This exclusive offering also includes a dedicated security screening point (for guests with carry-on baggage only) and flight check-in, all within the comfort and convenience of the lounge.
A key part of the new service will be the introduction of two Airbus A330-200s on its 'Coast-to-Coast' route between Sydney and Perth with a daily flight from May 26, increasing to three times daily from July. These are configured with a 27-seat Business Class cabin offering a 62in pitch, alongside a 251-seat Economy layout and will enable the airline to boost capacity on this trunk route. They will also be used once weekly on the Sydney – Melbourne route from the same date.
MARKET ANALYSIS: SYDNEY TO PERTH (non-stop flights – two-way O&D passengers) |
Airline |
Flights |
Seats |
Passengers |
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Avg Fare |
Qantas |
53 |
12,397 |
782,3085 |
65.1 % |
$511 |
Virgin Blue Airlines* |
35 |
5,040 |
306,613 |
25.5 % |
$226 |
JetStar Airways |
11 |
1,947 |
82,147 |
6.8 % |
$196 |
TOTAL (including others) |
99 |
19,384 |
1,201,685 |
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$410 |
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As the table above shows, Qantas currently dominates the Sydney – Perth market with more than 50 weekly flights offering more than 12,000 seats. It holds a 65.1 per cent share of the estimated 1.2 million O&D passengers that travelled on the route in the past year, but more significantly - thanks to its premium cabin - its yields are much stronger than its rivals with average fares more than double those of Virgin Australia.


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Peter Ozsvath, from Princeton University, will give the Spring 2017 Phillips Lecture during the week of March 20-24, 2017.
Michigan State University will host the 15th annual Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference on April 8-April 9, 2017. The conference is aimed at graduate students, with talks by student participants, senior mathematicians and early career faculty. For information, please visit the GTSC 2017 website.
The Institute of Mathematical and Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University will host the second Great Lakes Mathematical Physics Meeting in June 2017. The tentative dates are June 23,24 and 25. For more information, visit the GLaMP2017 meeting page .
Sasha Volberg has been named a 2017-18 Simons Fellow in Mathematics as recognition for his work on Harmonic measures, singular integrals, and geometric measure theory. These highly competitive awards recognize excellence in the mathematical and physical sciences.
Thomas Grubb has won a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for his work with Prof. Bruce Sagan on combinatorial pattern avoidance in set partitions and restricted growth functions. There are 250 Goldwater Scholarships awarded annually to sophomores and juniors across mathematics and science in the US.
Tsveta Sendova, co-director of the Center for Instructional Mentoring at MSU, is one of a handful of mathematics educators nationally to be invited to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy "Math Matters" meeting on Sept. 8, 2016
The PSM National Office announced the recognition for the Professional Science Master's Program in Industrial Mathematics (aka the Master of Science in Industrial Mathematics) at Michigan State University in October 2014. The program was granted the PSM affiliation status from October 28, 2014 through October 27, 2019 as the first program in the Group 1, Cycle 1 nationwide because it fully meets the guidelines for the PSM re-affiliation.
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alpha's, global win. Just want to know if Im the only one having problems keeping my temp down 38c/45c
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What an amazing group of kids. How did yo get them to all to strike perfect poses??? Excellent.
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On October 3, 2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced it had filed a complaint in federal district court in Washington state against a leading debt-settlement payment processor, Meracord LLC, and its CEO. The CFPB contends that Meracord helped third parties collect millions of dollars in illegal upfront fees from consumers.
The complaint alleged violations of the Federal Trade Commission's Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) and the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010. The CFPB contended that Meracord maintained accounts and processed payments for consumers who had contracted with providers of debt-relief servicers and mortgage assistance relief services. As is often the case, when consumers enroll in a debt-relief program, they also enter into a separate agreement with a payment processor, which establishes and maintains a "dedicated account" for the consumer. At the time of enrollment, the debt-relief service provider instructs the consumer to stop paying his or her unsecured debts and, instead, to make monthly payments to the payment processor. The processor can later pay renegotiated debts to the creditor and also pay the debt-relief servicers' fees.
The CFPB alleged that, since October 27, 2010, Meracord processed payments for more than 250,000 consumers receiving debt-relief services from more than 250 debt-relief service servicers. According to the agency, consumers paid debt-relief service providers before any debts were settled. The Telemarketing Sales Rule has special requirements for debt reduction services. In particular, providers are not allowed to request or take fees for services before providing debt-relief services resulting in actual renegotiation or other settlement of a consumer's debt and a payment by the consumer to a creditor. The FTC asserted that Meracord processed payments for debt reduction services which routinely charged advanced fees to consumers in violation of the TSR.
The TSR also makes it unlawful for third parties to assist others in violating the TSR. The CFPB used this section of the TSR against Meracord. Since Meracord collected the payments from consumers and would know whether or not they had been disbursed to creditors, and when they had been disbursed to the debt-relief servicers, Meracord would have knowledge that the debt-relief servicers were violating the TSR by collecting fees prior to delivering debt-relief services that resulted in payments to creditors.
Meracord and its CEO have agreed to settle the case. In the Stipulated Final Judgment and Order, Meracord and its CEO, Linda Remsberg, agree that they will permanently enjoined from providing account-maintenance or payment-processing services to any provider of a debt-relief service or a mortgage assistance relief service. The proposed settlement (which must be approved in court) also provides for a civil money penalty of $1.37 million and compliance reporting and monitoring, as well as ongoing recordkeeping requirements.
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has anyone tried this flatz paint from tcp. i'm building a 66 galaxie fastback that i want to do like we did in the 50s. i've total de chromed the body electric doors trunk the works.it's in primer now & i want to paint it that saten sheen we used to do back then. some call it hot rod flat. please dont tell me to buy ppg or dupont & have them put a flat in it! i dont want a 500 dollar a gallon paint !!!!! in the good old days we used to just use black primer lac of course. thanks for your input jim PS don't tear me up like you did the guy with the dupi-color !!!!!!!!!!
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Double impact: Intrusion of two mandibular molars using an SAS—A case report
Kartik D. Dholakia, BDS, MDS/Shweta R. Bhat, BDS, MDS
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The size of the envelope of tooth movements using fixed mechanotherapy has been increased with the use of temporary anchorage devices (TADs). Orthodontic mini-implants, a form of TADs, have been successfully used for achieving a variety of tooth movements, such as bodily retraction, extrusion, protraction, and even intrusion of maxillary molars. However, the use of orthodontic mini-implants for intruding mandibular molars is questionable due to anatomical constraints. Skeletal anchorage systems (SASs), another form of TADs, overcome these limitations to give promising results for mandibular molar intrusion. The following case report shows the use of unilateral SAS for intruding two mandibular molars and extruding a maxillary molar of the same side to establish a stable occlusal plane. The amount of intrusion achieved in relation to mandibular molars was evaluated by comparing panoramic images. The mandibular left first and second molars were intruded by approximately 1.6 and 2.5 mm, respectively, in relation to the occlusal plane. ORTHODONTICS (CHIC) 2011;12:378–385.
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Kasia Klimasinska and Ian KatzU.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew urged Congress to raise the debt limit well in advance of a February deadline, calling an increase necessary to preserve the nation's promise to its creditors.
"There really is no alternative but to raise the debt limit when you need to borrow in order to pay the bills," Lew said at the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council conference today in Washington. "The full faith and credit of the United States -- whether it's bonds or contracts or benefits -- has to be honored."
Lew said his department can use so-called extraordinary measures, the accounting steps employed to avoid breaching the debt limit, for about a month after next deadline in early February. Those measures were used during a fiscal impasse that culminated in a partial government shutdown last month, a tactic President Barack Obama said later at the same conference was "like a loaded gun" that threatens global economic disruption.
Obama signed legislation Oct. 17, the day Lew said the U.S. would exhaust its borrowing authority, to suspend the debt ceiling until Feb. 7. The deal between Democrats and House Republicans sets the stage for another possible showdown early next year. The president today said he doesn't expect a repeat of the standoff that brought the country to the brink of a default.
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The deadlock also led to creation of a Senate-House conference committee with a Dec. 13 deadline to offer ways to resolve the fiscal disputes between Democrats and Republicans. U.S. lawmakers are at odds over whether ending some tax breaks for wealthier Americans should be part of a deal to replace the automatic spending cuts approved in 2011 that have trimmed funding for defense and domestic programs.
"The challenge of doing something really big is that both sides have to do something really hard," Lew said. "We've made clear that in order to do the kinds of entitlement reforms that are in the president's budget, it would require moving on tax reform and raising some additional revenue. If that's not a possibility for the Republicans, then something large is not likely."
Lew praised the details of a corporate-tax change plan he discussed yesterday with Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana. Baucus, the chairman of Senate Finance Committee, released a proposal today under which U.S. companies would face a minimum tax on the income they earn around the world, the senator's most significant proposal to revamp the tax code.
Bipartisan 'Convergence'
"It shares some significant characteristics with the president's framework, which I actually think has a certain amount of convergence between Democrats and Republicans," Lew said. "I look forward to studying the details."
The Treasury secretary reiterated he is "optimistic" the Volcker rule ban on proprietary trading will be published by the end of this year.
Lew, who visited five Asian nations including Japan and China last week, said he thinks the Chinese leadership is "serious" about opening up the economy.
"I don't want to suggest that a week or a month from now we're going to turn around and it will be transformed, but they certainly chartered a direction that is consistent with the things that we have very much encouraged them to think about," Lew said. "I suspect that we're going to still be pressing them to move faster."


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A senior Yorkshire and Humber conservative MEP has reacted angrily to news he's been expelled by the party.
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