I recently joined the Office of CTO in Azure at Microsoft and wanted to ramp up on one of the open source projects the team has built there called Dapr. Dapr describes itself as: A portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice stateless and stateful applications that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks. ...
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about Big Data Opportunities, focusing primarily on Leveraging Unused Data, Driving New Value From Summary Data and Harnessing Heterogeneous Data Sensors (more recently known as Internet of Things). Since that post, data space has exploded with numerous solutions addressing many of these areas. These solutions while mostly based on batch operations and limited to serial MapReduce jobs against frequently off-line, inadequately secured, Hadoop cluster, they do allow access to previously inaccessible data. ...