In the Review Archives: 2000–2004
To celebrate the Review’s fifty-fifth anniversary in 2018, we have been going back into our archives year by year. Today we go back to the turn...
Elasticsearch 6.5.0 brings support for JDK 11 and several new features
Elasticsearch 6.5.0 is here and it brings some big updates and changes. Let’s have a closer look at the highlights of this release. Cross-cluster replication – 6.5...
How a Person Shouldn’t Have to Be: On Heather Havrilesky’s ‘What if This Were Enough?’
In 2018, the phenomenon of the magazine “agony aunt” might strike as an outdated relic. Within a climate where reactions and opinions to our most prosaic...
Don’t be a turkey: Use Google Maps to avoid traffic and crowds this Thanksgiving
Ah, Thanksgiving?. A time for food, family, fun and the overwhelming stress that can come from getting stuck in holiday traffic. To make sure you make...
ThoughtWorks Technology Radar: Istio, Knative, WebAssembly & Flutter are worth exploring
The latest edition of the biannual Technology Radar from ThoughtWorks once again takes it upon itself to assess the major trends in software development. Central themes this time around...
Walmart’s Black Friday ad for 2018 is finally here: A lot of toys, plus gaming gear, Instant Pots, and iPads
Nov. 1st is unofficially the start of gifting madness, and the biggest players in the online shopping game did not hesitate to throw their massive Black...
Thieves are using ‘informed delivery’ to spy on mail and commit fraud
Welp, another day and another way for thieves to violate your privacy and commit credit card fraud. Scammers have figured out how to view your mail...
Best Buy’s Black Friday 2018 ad has landed: 4K TVs, iPhone X, Microsoft Surface Pro, and more tech on deck
You know those Black Friday videos of customers running into the store and trampling each other for a TV like the IRL version of the wildebeest...
Lies, damn lies, and HQ2
There are few things certain in our world except for the uplifting tendencies of technology. I’ve spent the past few years trying to prove this to...
Eclipse Tahu
Background MQTT was originally designed as a message transport for real-time SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems. The MQTT message transport specification does not specify...
