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One dog had to be put down and another was seriously injured after they were allegedly attacked by three pit bulls in southeast Calgary.
Calgary animal services have seized three pit bulls after a dog and a 13-year-old girl were bitten while walking in a southeast dog park.
The incident reportedly occurred in the Millican Ogden Outdoor Swimming Pool on Monday afternoon.
A 13-year-old girl and her 14-year-old brother were walking their dogs when they came across three pit bulls, which were all leashed, being walked by one man.
When the dogs approached one another, the pit bulls apparently attacked.
One of the other dogs recieved three deep holes in its chest cavity and late had to be put down.
The other suffered a bad bite that required 16 stitches.
The girl suffered a bite to her hand while trying to separate the animals.
Animal and bylaw services are investigating the incident.
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Hammer horror movie star Christopher "Dracula" Lee has been knighted in the UK for his many villainous screen performances. The 6' 5", 87-year-old actor, who has appeared in more than 250 film/TV productions, was honoured for his services to both drama and charity, receiving his knighthood from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace. Lee's first major acting role was as the 'Frankenstein Monster' in Hammer Films' Curse of Frankenstein (1957). More Hammer films followed including Horror Of Dracula, The Mummy and The Hound of the Baskervilles. In the 1970's, he continued working in genre films, including the role of 'Scaramanga' in the 'James Bond' film The Man with the Golden Gun, 'Rochefort' in The Three Musketeers, 'Lord Summerisle' in the original Wicker Man and the lead in Fu Manchu. Recently, he portrayed the wizard 'Saruman' in The Lord of the Rings and 'Jedi' villain 'Count Dooku' in Star Wars. »
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Hi, Matt here with your weekly dose of Queer Cinema. With Halloween coming up, we turn our focus to horror.
Hammer Horror films are not truly part of the gay canon, and as a body of films they are conservative in their narrative arcs and messages. However, I've always been a huge fan. They are undeniably camp and always feature either subtle homoeroticism or full on Lesbian Vampires. For those unfamiliar with this horror subgenre, it is a collection of films produced by Hammer Film Studios from the late 50s to early 70s that mixed Gothic melodrama with exploitation horror. The studio was most famous for their vampire, mummy, Frankenstein, and cave girl pictures.
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The UK's longest-running genre event, the Festival of Fantastic Films, has added director Peter Sasdy to the guest lineup of its 2009 edition, running Friday-Sunday, October 16-18 in Manchester, England. Best known for his work with Hammer Films, Sasdy's association with the iconic company stretches all the way from the 1969 TV anthology Journey To The Unknown to the company's 1986 swansong, Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense, also encompassing the features Taste The Blood Of Dracula, Countess Dracula and Hands Of The Ripper.
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We have had troops in Afghanistan since late 2001, contributing to the War on Terror. Under the withdrawal plan, the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team would be back from Bamiyan by the end of April, leaving local forces in charge of security.
This, presumably, was preferable to an earlier plan to withdraw our troops by September 2014. Prime Minister John Key explained it, saying the Government had been encouraged by the International Security Assistance Force to bring the withdrawal date forward. The rebuilding of Bamiyan airport (we were told) was a consideration, too: this would make it off-limits to New Zealand's Hercules aircraft after April.
But room for manoeuvre could be found in the fine print. Future support was likely to include sending a small number of Defence Force trainers to the Afghanistan National Army Officer Training Academy later in 2013.
Sure enough, this week we learned the Cabinet has approved a contingent of 27 military personnel, including three SAS soldiers, staying on for a year. Mr Key said this "small niche" contribution would remain, mainly in Kabul, to work with other international forces.
Labour claims the Government has broken a promise. Its defence spokesman, Iain Lees-Galloway, said the deployment was a new mission in a new area with a new mandate that extended New Zealand's commitment indefinitely.
Mr Key denies this. But he obviously dipped deep into his spin doctors' lexicon to describe it as "a legacy commitment". New Zealand must stay on to honour the commitment made to Afghanistan, including the deaths of 10 Defence Force personnel. Perhaps not enough attention was paid to those commitments when Mr Key was discussing the withdrawal. But if we honour the casualties of war by staying on, we should still be ensconced in Gallipoli, Crete, Vietnam and many other theatres of war.
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Our towels were getting so worn out and I had just purchased a brown and sort of green/blue shower curtain. I was concerned they wouldn't match but they are prefect! Now we can use the old ones for rags!
the color is not what I wanted; maybe my fault though. I believe them to be a little on the cheap side as well.
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FDA OKs saliva-based ovulation test
WASHINGTON -- Women wishing to become pregnant are about to get a new way to predict when they are fertile: The government has approved the sale of the nation's first saliva ovulation test.
Women's estrogen levels gradually rise each month, peaking with ovulation, the time each month that they can conceive.
A woman can predict ovulation by measuring her body temperature's rise with estrogen's rise, undergoing a blood test to check hormone levels, or -- more common -- using a urine test that detects a surge in an estrogen-related hormone 24 to 36 hours before ovulation.
The new TCI Ovulation Tester is a reliable alternative that women may find less messy to use, Food and Drug Administration reviewer Veronica Calvin said Friday.
Roughly 50 years ago, scientists realized that as estrogen surges, the salt content of saliva increases, too, Calvin explained. When the saliva of an about-to-ovulate woman dries, the salt leaves a crystal pattern called ferning -- it actually looks like a fern plant -- that can be seen under a microscope.
The new test is a round device that pairs tiny slides with a handheld microscope.
Touch a little brush to saliva in your mouth, then dab it onto one of the slides. Let it dry and look through the eyepiece. If there's only a little of the salt -- potassium chloride -- seen as little dots, then ovulation isn't near yet. Test the next day and you may see the dots starting to form chains. Once a true fern pattern appears, ovulation is imminent.
90 percent reliable
In studies comparing the saliva test to urine tests, the TCI Ovulation Tester proved more than 90 percent reliable in indicating ovulation, Calvin said.
In fact, "one of the things that's interesting about this test is you may be actually getting a little bit of warning that you're getting close to ovulation" by watching the pattern gradually appear, said FDA medical device chief Dr. David Feigal.
With urine tests, in contrast, women have a chance of missing ovulation depending on when they test, because the results are given as a simple yes or no instead of suggesting whether hormones are increasing, he said.
Manufacturer TCI Optics said it will begin selling the nonprescription test, for $59.95, in a few weeks. Sales will begin via the company's Internet site -- www.ovulationtester.com -- or by telephone at 1 (866) OVULATION. But the company is negotiating with larger medical firms in hopes of beginning drugstore sales as well, a spokesman said.


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My husband and I joined the Silver Shadow this past June. It was our first time on the Shadow, but certainly not our first cruise with Silversa and in Alaska.
At first we were a bit concerned with the weather, but what can one do about that. The food was as always fantastic.
Although there were several crew members going above and beyond, we could not help but notice a slight decline in over all service in the dinning rooms. We also did not care for the Cruise director, Ron Goodman. He did not come across as either friendly, helpful, or sincere. The Concierge was very nice as was the International Hostess and Maitre d' along with several others as I mentioned above.
We were also disappointed in the entertainment. We had heard through the "sea grapevine" that one of the production cast members broke their leg and, therefore, was unable to do their shows to their best. The other entertainment, with the exception of the tenor, John D. Smitherson, was More about average. John, however, had a wonderful two shows and was a pleasure to talk with off the stage.
Luckily the weather changed for the better as our cruise progressed and as a whole we enjoyed our cruise. Less
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06 Jul 2011
Der Ring des Nibelungen in San Francisco
Some of the experts said it was the best Ring ever, others merely said it was one of the best (these were lecturers at a Wagner Society symposium).
The Princeton Festival presents one opera annually, amidst other events. Its offerings usually alternate annually between 20th century and earlier operas. This year the Festival presented Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, now a classic work, in a very effective and moving production.
If you like your Ariadne on Naxos productions as playful as a box of puppies, then Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is the address for you.
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis took forty years before attempting Verdi's Macbeth but judging by the excellence of the current production, it was well worth the wait.
On June 16, 2016, Los Angeles Opera with Beth Morrison Projects presented the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang's Anatomy Theater at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT).
In its compact forty-year history, the ambitious Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has just triumphantly presented its twenty-fifth world premiere with Shalimar the Clown.
The sharp angles and oddly tilting perspectives of Charles Edwards' set for David Alden's production of Jenůfa at ENO suggest a community resting precariously on the security and certainty of its customs, soon to slide from this precipice into social and moral anarchy.
Last week an audience of 50 assembled in the kitchen of a luxurious West Village townhouse for a performance of Marriage of Figaro.
In a recent article in BBC Music Magazine tenor James Gilchrist reflected on the reason why early-nineteenth-century England produced no corpus of art song to match the German lieder of Schumann, Schubert and others, despite the great flowering of English Romantic poetry during this period.
With the New York Premiere of Florencia en el Amazonas, the New York City Opera Steps Out of the Shadows of the Past
Opportunities to see Idomeneo are not so frequent as they might be, certainly not so frequent as they should be.
Not merely Don Carlo, but the five-act Don Carlo in the 1886 Modena version! The welcomed esotericism of San Francisco Opera's extraordinary spring season.
The early summer San Francisco Opera season has the feel of a classy festival. There is an introduction of Spanish director Calixto Bieito to American audiences, a five-act Don Carlo and two awaited, inevitable role debuts, Karita Mattila as Kostelnička and Malin Bystrom as Janacek's Jenůfa.
Now that the curtain has long fallen on the third and last performance of the Ring cycle at the Washington National Opera (WNO), it is safe to say that the long-anticipated production has been an unqualified success for the company, director Francesca Zambello, and conductor Philippe Auguin.
Most of the attention during this revival of Daniele Abbado's 2013 production of Nabucco has been directed at Plácido Domingo's reprise of the title role, with the critical reception somewhat mixed.
Four years ago, almost to the day (13th to 12th), I saw Melly Still's production of The Cunning Little Vixen during its first Glyndebourne run. I found myself surprised how much more warmly I responded to it this time.
This recital celebrated both the work of the Park Lane Group, which has been supporting the careers of outstanding young artists for 60 years, and the 90th birthday of Joseph Horovitz, who was born in Vienna in 1926 and emigrated to England aged 12.
Headed by General Director Luana DeVol, a world-renowned dramatic soprano, Opera Las Vegas is a relatively new company that presents opera with first-rate casts at the University of Las Vegas's Judy Bayley Theater. In 2014 they presented Rossini's The Barber of Seville and in 2015, Puccini's Madama Butterfly. This year they offered a blazing rendition of Georges Bizet's Carmen.
Ever since a friend was reported as having said he would like something in return for modern-dress Shakespeare (how quaint that term seems now, as if anyone would bat an eyelid!), namely an Elizabethan-dress staging of Look Back in Anger, I have been curious about the possibilities of 'down-dating', as I suppose we might call it. Rarely, if ever, do we see it, though.
Leading a very muscular Dutch Radio Philharmonic, Principal Conductor Markus Stenz brilliantly delivered Alban Berg's Wozzeck with a superb Florian Boesch in the lead and a mesmerising Asmik Grigorian as Marie his wife.
There can't be that many operas that start with an extended solo for double bass. At Holland Park, the eerie, angular melody for lone bass player which opens Pietro Mascagni's Iris immediately unsettled the relaxed mood of the summer evening.
Some of the experts said it was the best Ring ever, others merely said it was one of the best (these were lecturers at a Wagner Society symposium).
The final curtain down at last on the second cycle, the audience leapt to its feet and roared. What was all the fuss about?
The delights of the San Francisco Ring were myriad. The cycle played out over a mere six days during which Wagner's drama did not seem to stop. It was an immersion Ring rather than episodic one as the Freyer Ring in L.A. seemed over its ten long days, not to mention the Berlin Philharmonic Ring in Aix-en-Provence that was spread over four years.
Conductor Donald Runnicles slid into the initial E flat pedal tone and relentlessly sustained Wagner's orchestral deliberation for its seventeen hour duration. The maestro drove an orchestral continuum that was imperceptibly fleet (it was actually fast), its speed though was calibrated to the careful articulation of Wagner's score, the conductor knowing that Wotan's plight and designs give rise to riveting music only when they are musically exploited to the maximum.
Mo. Runnicles achieved a rare transparency of orchestral sound in the War Memorial, the percolating inner voices of the continuum often shining brilliantly in the vast space of the hall as they can never do in the recordings we use to learn and casually listen to the Ring. And too the vast spaces of the War Memorial allowed huge fortes to roll forth, immersing the hall in mighty sound, Even the quirks of the hall contributed, its "golden horseshoe" overhang magnifying the eight horns and double timpani for those of us seated on the right side of the orchestra.
The careful musical exposition was subject to the largest arc of Wagner's myth, the orchestral climax of the entire Ring occurring about sixteen hours into it, only at the end of the second act of Götterdämmerung when Mo. Runnicles unleashed it all for Brünnhilde's pact with Hagen to murder Siegfried. This Ring was bigger than its pieces, and we understood that the usual frenzy we missed at the conception of Siegfried was measured against the hugely complex dilemma of his death.
It is futile to discuss the concept of the production, San Francisco Opera touting it as "an American Ring." There were indeed vibrant American images, like redwood trees. like American industrial wastelands, but the Gibichung headquarters was well beyond the 1930's American skyscrapers director Francesca Zambello cites in her program book apology, and much more on the scale of Austrian expressionist Fritz Lang's immense Metropolis of his 1927 film. And too the light green behind Brünnhilde's fire seemed more like a weird color choice that an evocation of escaping industrial gases.
Melissa Citro (Gutrune), Andrea Silvestrelli (Hagen) and Gerd Grochowski (Gunter)
All these specific images however quietly dissolved into the careful storytelling that was the hallmark of the Zambello production. Not a musical motive was left without a corresponding movement on the stage, no musical interludes were left on an abstract imaginative level but accompanied by moving projections — clouds, water, trains, fire, more clouds, etc. It was a fully illustrated Ring (take it or leave it) that (if you took it, and that took a while) eased you, even gracefully, inside the Ring's musical universe.
It was an easy, engaging Ring that deflated Wagnerian philosophical pomposity at every turn with surprising, sometimes funny twists — Alberich attached to his homeless supermarket cart searched for Faftner with infrared binoculars, the forlorn Rhine maidens hopelessly picked up plastic bottles from a dried up river bed, beer guzzling buddies who were actually sworn enemies downed cases. Not to mention the purely comic book, utterly delightful visuals for Fafner and Fasolt, or the Valkyries parachuting onto the rocks of Valhalla (this image said to have been borrowed from a Swedish commercial for a detergent powder).
Finally the Zambello Ring maybe even arrived at tongue-in-cheek with the black covered Arab-esque women cowering in the wake of their men, black uniformed fascistic soldiers of Hagen's evil army. Not to intimate that Mme. Zambello did not somehow make all this bring Wagner alive. She did.
Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Andrea Silvestrelli (Hagen), Ian Storey (Siegfried) and Ensemble
San Francisco Opera promoted a number of seminars to accompany its Ring, Anti-Semitism was a big topic, though it was put in succinct perspective by the Mime of the production, David Cangelosi who rhetorically asked "haven't we turned the page on all that?" Distinguished lecturers examined the Ring in Schopenhauerian terms, a former Buddhist monk delineated the Ring's roots in Buddhism. The most convincing of the philosophical analogies described the Ring in purely Sartrean Existential terms. (I might also mention a concert of Wagner transcriptions on the 5000-pipe organ of St. Mary's Cathedral — the Ride of the Valkyries executed by four hands and four feet and those 5000 pipes).
Well, none of that for the San Francisco Ring. While there were two real dogs portraying wolves, a bear played by a real man and a number of fantastic and dead animals involved, there was no horse at all for Brunnhilde to ride into the flames. The flames were fed by the downtrodden Gibichung women and the Rhine maidens throwing the plastic bottles picked up from the riverbed (tossed there by males in the context of this production). Gutrune, a male-victimized "moll" embraced Brünnhilde and we understood that she was redeemed. Photographs of the fallen heros rescued by the Valkyries showered down and at last a young girl planted a tree. Mo. Runnicles had had his fun with the murder pact, the usually spectacular ending instead was musically rather resigned.
This was not a minimal Ring created by veteran opera designer Michael Yeargan. There were four superimposed prosceniums and a sentient floor (lighted from underneath) that served as the stage mechanism for the Wagner mega-drama, with full stage screens flying in and out at all depths of the stage to capture the inexhaustible catalogue of projections developed by Jan Hartley and her associates. If the freeway interchange under which Wotan saw Siegmund die and where he murdered Hunding was not life size it seemed so. Hunding's mountain cabin was as good as real as was Mime's wrecked Airstream trailer.
What, you may ask, held all this together. It was the Brünnhilde of Swedish soprano Nina Stimme who brought bonafide Teutonic style to rock solid vocal production and muscular physicality to her indefatigably energetic Valkyrie. This Ring was Brünnhilde's personal story, placed in even higher relief by the pallid portrayal of Wotan by American bass Mark Delavan, a performance that effaced the Wagnerian complexities and emotional stature of this human father cum transcendent being. The suspicion lurks that this was the intention of Zambello, a suspicion founded on the portrayal of Siegfried as one step above the village idiot, charmingly rendered by Jay Hunter Morris in Siegfried, and less vividly but vocally far more convincing by English tenor Ian Storey in Götterdämmerung.
Lauren McNeese, Renée Tatum and Stacey Tappan (The Rhinemaidens).
There were several performances that stood out among the universally good performances of the entire cast. The Siegmund of American tenor Brandon Jovanovich was disarmingly charismatic and Italian basso Andrea Silvestrelli created Zambello's arch villain Hagen with supreme testosterone gusto. American tenor David Cangelosi as Zambello's creepy hobo Mime succeeded in making the first two acts of Siegfried high points (well, among many) of the entire cycle.
San Francisco Opera does not seem to have been a competitor in who-can-spend-the-most-for-a-Ring contest. Still, there went a pile of gold. One assumes costumer Catherine Zuber was well rewarded for what was an heroic and immensely successful effort, as was the complex lighting of Mark McCullough — both seasoned opera pros, like Zambello and Yeargan and their supporting teams.
It was not a prestigious Ring, like the Aix Ring with the Berlin Philharmonic in the pit (by the way with the six harps Wagner requires — San Francisco made do with two) with its elegant, minimalist staging by Stéphane Braunschweig. It was not an arty Ring imagined in a rarefied visual language like the splendid L.A. Achim Freyer Ring, nor was it a big, international house Ring with proven big name interpreters and the flavor-of-the-day producer (by the way that would be the Robert Lepage Ring at the Met).
The San Francisco Ring was a good Ring, if a wacky one that seemed at times like it might even be a spoof. It was however, perhaps therefore absolutely understandable. The experts may debate how it betrayed or illuminated Wagner's musico-philosophic treatise, but they too will admit that those seventeen hours in the War Memorial Opera House were full of fun and richly rewarding.
Michael Milenski


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CenturyLink has announced that application server solutions from GENBAND are now available as part of CenturyLink's Networx contracts. The General Services Administration (GSA)'s Networx program includes the largest telecommunications contract vehicles ever awarded by the federal government. CenturyLink recently secured an extension through spring 2020 of its offerings available to federal government agencies via GSA's Networx Universal and Enterprise contracts. GENBAND's EXPERiUS™ Application...
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Connected devices and the industrial internet are growing exponentially every year with Cisco expecting 50 billion devices to be in operation by 2020. In this period of growth, location-based insights are becoming invaluable to many businesses as they adopt new connected technologies. Knowing when and where these devices connect from is critical for a number of scenarios in supply chain management, disaster management, emergency response, M2M, location marketing and more. In his session at @Th...
Jun. 29, 2016 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,220
Machine Learning helps make complex systems more efficient. By applying advanced Machine Learning techniques such as Cognitive Fingerprinting, wind project operators can utilize these tools to learn from collected data, detect regular patterns, and optimize their own operations. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Stuart Gillen, Director of Business Development at SparkCognition, discussed how research has demonstrated the value of Machine Learning in delivering next generation analytics to imp...
Jun. 29, 2016 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 889
The idea of comparing data in motion (at the sensor level) to data at rest (in a Big Data server warehouse) with predictive analytics in the cloud is very appealing to the industrial IoT sector. The problem Big Data vendors have, however, is access to that data in motion at the sensor location. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Scott Allen, CMO of FreeWave, discussed how as IoT is increasingly adopted by industrial markets, there is going to be an increased demand for sensor data from the outermos...
Jun. 29, 2016 09:25 AM EDT Reads: 190
In his keynote at 18th Cloud Expo, Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise, provided an overview of the evolution of the Internet and the Database and the future of their combination – the Blockchain. Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life sett...
Jun. 29, 2016 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,419
IoT is rapidly changing the way enterprises are using data to improve business decision-making. In order to derive business value, organizations must unlock insights from the data gathered and then act on these. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Hoffman, Vice President at EastBanc Technologies, and Peter Shashkin, Head of Development Department at EastBanc Technologies, discussed how one organization leveraged IoT, cloud technology and data analysis to improve customer experiences and effi...
Jun. 29, 2016 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 448
There are several IoTs: the Industrial Internet, Consumer Wearables, Wearables and Healthcare, Supply Chains, and the movement toward Smart Grids, Cities, Regions, and Nations. There are competing communications standards every step of the way, a bewildering array of sensors and devices, and an entire world of competing data analytics platforms. To some this appears to be chaos. In this power panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, Bradley Holt, Developer Advocate a...
Jun. 29, 2016 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 929
In addition to all the benefits, IoT is also bringing new kind of customer experience challenges - cars that unlock themselves, thermostats turning houses into saunas and baby video monitors broadcasting over the internet. This list can only increase because while IoT services should be intuitive and simple to use, the delivery ecosystem is a myriad of potential problems as IoT explodes complexity. So finding a performance issue is like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack.
Jun. 29, 2016 08:39 AM EDT Reads: 214
A strange thing is happening along the way to the Internet of Things, namely far too many devices to work with and manage. It has become clear that we'll need much higher efficiency user experiences that can allow us to more easily and scalably work with the thousands of devices that will soon be in each of our lives. Enter the conversational interface revolution, combining bots we can literally talk with, gesture to, and even direct with our thoughts, with embedded artificial intelligence, wh...
Jun. 29, 2016 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,188
The cloud market growth today is largely in public clouds. While there is a lot of spend in IT departments in virtualization, these aren't yet translating into a true "cloud" experience within the enterprise. What is stopping the growth of the "private cloud" market? In his general session at 18th Cloud Expo, Nara Rajagopalan, CEO of Accelerite, explored the challenges in deploying, managing, and getting adoption for a private cloud within an enterprise. What are the key differences between wh...
Jun. 28, 2016 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 994
Basho Technologies has announced the latest release of Basho Riak TS, version 1.3. Riak TS is an enterprise-grade NoSQL database optimized for Internet of Things (IoT). The open source version enables developers to download the software for free and use it in production as well as make contributions to the code and develop applications around Riak TS. Enhancements to Riak TS make it quick, easy and cost-effective to spin up an instance to test new ideas and build IoT applications. In addition to...
Jun. 28, 2016 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 575
When people aren't talking about VMs and containers, they're talking about serverless architecture. Serverless is about no maintenance. It means you are not worried about low-level infrastructural and operational details. An event-driven serverless platform is a great use case for IoT. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Animesh Singh, an STSM and Lead for IBM Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, will detail how to build a distributed serverless, polyglot, microservices framework using open source tec...
Jun. 28, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 494