A recent paper from Microsoft Research, Azure and John Hopkins University discusses the issues of troubles of grey failures. This is a type of cloud failure under some discussion, that I treat as follows: A grey failure is a problem that is affecting one or more applications deployed on a platform, that is detectable by those…
It was an impressive looking demo reel: an indoor guidance system that used no hardware at all on-site. This is in contrast to the usual wisdom of indoor positioning being inaccurate without radio support. That is a promise of epic proportions, and yet thinking about it, it doesn’t look as revolutionary as the demo reel…
So this was something fairly interesting I came across. For some background info, Google Opinion Rewards is an Android app that gives people Google Play credit to answer surveys. As part of the process, they reserve the right to stop sending surveys if they “believe [the user] is lying” on the survey results. Star Citizen…