The Rise Of Distributed Data Centers In The AI Era

For decades, the data center was a centralized place. As AI shifts to an everyday tool, that model is changing. We are moving ...
Communications of the ACM

How Over-Engineering Became the New Technical Debt in Distributed Systems

Traditional technical debt metaphors suggest something that can be paid down incrementally. Over-engineering does not behave ...

Convergent Intelligence Architecture: An AI Framework For Telecoms

As global carriers in aggressively pursue AI-driven automation, U.S. operators require architectural frameworks that enable innovation and manage infrastructure.
International Monetary Fund

A Crisis Like No Other, An Uncertain Recovery

Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...
TechCrunch

A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative

Mastodon was founded in 2016 by German software developer Eugen Rochko. Unlike Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or any other popular social media site, Mastodon is a nonprofit, meaning that, ideally, its ...