As I See Tech

Usually, the way we put together an application results to sets of UI/UX that should appear to work together as one. Naturally, we create the application as a single project, which we then build and deploy as a single product. All is well and good. That is until microservices become the norm.

Gigabits per second is the new business rave for ISPs. Both wired and wireless are on a race. Whoever delivers first covering a wide scale with the most profitable investment could win the industry over. And there might be a fat chance 5G can succeed, if the price is right.

8K TVs are big at CES 2018. However, there is really no 8K content available. Heck, OTA broadcast TV doesn't even support 4K yet, granted ATSC 3.0 just got officially announced at the same CES event.

Is compact disc media dead? I have a Blu-ray player collecting dusts. I haven't used it for a long time. Netflix and Amazon Prime Videos are serving their purposes well for me. There is almost no need to buy or rent movies in CDs anymore. Should I sell my Blu-ray player? Will anyone buy it?

One way to "kill" a technology is to launch it too soon. Apple's bet on 100% touchscreen smartphones back in 2007 proved that the world was ready. Although Apple was not the first in the touchscreen phone business, Apple's brave bet to venture first with touchscreen paid off. In most respects, their success was because the world was ready.

Biometric authentication is not mainstream. It's expensive. It's hardware specific. It is also not an all-in-one solution. However, if done right, there is a higher chance that the future would be better with it.

For the longest time, web applications absorb processing loads on the server-side, leaving the client-side to mostly just rendering the response (i.e. HTML/CSS) from the web server. Now, with JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, etc., the client-side is sharing the processing load.

What does it take to be a data scientist? What do I need to learn? What skills should I have? What tools should I know?

To those who own game consoles, you know very well why they should last a long time. Unlike smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops, which have 3 to 5 year life cycles, game console life cycles are estimated at 6 to 8 years. In my opinion, XBox One X just about got it right.

Imagine a future where you can have a single device from which you can choose whichever network carrier/provider is providing the best service and offerings where you are. Imagine carrier competition on steroids. Possible? Perhaps with eSIM, and with prepaid subscriptions the norm.

Apple SIM has gone a long way from just enabling data to now include making and getting calls as exemplified by the new Apple Watch Series 3 . As I See Tech thinks this is big , and you should too!

Apple released the 3rd-generation of the Apple Watch in September 2017. It's available with GPS only or with GPS+cellular via eSIM. This article is interested in the latter, and As I See Tech thinks it's going to be big!

Unlike how Apple iOS and Google Android started, when Microsoft launched Windows for phones, it needed justification.

If there's anything the iPhone X proves, it's the fact that mobile tech innovation has gone stagnant. It's almost like how our cars are mostly still running on fossil fuel, or that they are still rolling on four air inflated rubber tires. The mobile industry has taken its cue from the automobile industry. Just advertise it as new, even if there's really nothing new, and it will still sell as new.

The people who promote MongoDB are smart. They don't push MongoDB at you. They help you make intelligent decisions. After all, they know MongoDB is new. They don't just recommend migrating your 10+ years old RDMS-based applications to MongoDB. More likely, they would instead recommend that you consider creating new requirements and applications in MongoDB.

Data collection is highly valued. There are businesses focused on profiting from them. Data analysts and data scientists are the new careers to aim for. It's not just about big data anymore. It's now about really putting them to work, with the ultimate manifestation building what is known as artificial intelligence.

I am a Windows 10 phone user. I own a Nokia Lumia ICON. I love it. With Microsoft seemingly killing off Windows 10 for phones anytime soon, I feel the pain. I probably share the same sentiments as other Windows 10 phone users. Regardless how loyal to the platform we wish to be, it seems inevitable that we shall forever be the last few. Microsoft does not care.

Regardless what some programmers may think, SQL is still the best language to express operations with sets. And, yes, I want to stress exactly that. Sets!

I just realized that more than six years ago, As I See Tech kinda, sorta predicted BlackBerry's trouble.

In a world filled with jargons, software developers never run out of new ones. MVC, ORM, UoW, SPA, SignalR, GitHub, NuGet, DevOps, etc. If you don't catch up, you can get lost in figuring which new one is a concept, a technology, a product or a service.