Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 28: Bitcoin trade group forms digital currency PAC, Coinbase gets insured, and merchants see promise in Bitcoin’s future

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week, the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a relative newcomer on the scene, announced registration to form a PAC to increase the lobbying power of Bitcoin-related interests in the US political space. Reuters is running an article talking about big merchants such …

Twitch Twilight Zone: How Google vs Amazon would use Twitch data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The news just came down that Amazon.com, Inc. will be buying Twitch for $970 million. This news comes right after rumors of a one billion dollar deal from Google to buy the video game live streaming website. Google’s offer led to a …

DevOps synchronizing files without the cloud with BitTorrent Sync 1.4

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Today BitTorrent, Inc. announced BitTorrent Sync 1.4, a distributed peer-to-peer file synchronization platform that allows for large scale file sharing without the need for a central or cloud server. The file sharing platform is still in beta, but is free to download …

Sony PlayStation Network, other gaming networks blasted with DDoS attacks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Over the weekend the PlayStation Network, Microsoft’s Xbox Live, Blizzard’s Battle.net, and Grinding Gears Games reported massive network disruptions caused by large scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks occurred around the same time that a bomb threat was made …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 20: BTC-e market price ‘flash crash’, blockchain API news from Coinbase, Block.io, and Chain

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week, Monday saw the bitcoin market value experience an odd dip known as a “flash crash” when market price fell almost 12 percent. Coinbase has acquired the talent behind blockchain explorer Blockr.io; and, entirely separately, Block.io just launched a new developer-centric …

EnterpriseDB seeks to bridge structured and unstructured data with free PostgreSQL AWS dev kit

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

EnterpriseDB Corporation has announced the release of a new suite of developer tools for Amazon Web Services that will enable the next generation of Web 2.0 applications built atop the NoSQL capabilities with the open-source database PostgreSQL. This new dev environment, the …

Coinbase grows Bitcoin talent and tools with acquisition of Blockr.io

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Coinbase, Bitcoin wallet and merchant payment processing company, just publicized another talent acquisition today with the announcement of the buy of blockchain explorer Blockr.io. As part of the acquisition two talented engineers from Blockr.io will join the Coinbase team: software engineer Sašo Matejina …

Performance trends thrive in Big Data DevOps | HP Vertica event highlights

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Modern business produces data from everything it does, and a great deal of that data arises in forms that normal, everyday databases do not handle very well. The result is that much of that data is dismissed or lost into the ether …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 13: Blockchain exceeds 2 million users, ChangeTip expands social networks, Britain and regulation, and a Chinese mining operation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Blockchain’s wallet service exceeded two million users this week, showing a clear continuing interest in Bitcoin. Tipping in bitcoin has extended beyond Reddit bots and into social media in general as ChangeTip expands out into YouTube, G+, and Twitter. Britain could be …

Splunk adds real-time streaming capture of over-the-wire data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Splunk, Inc. today announced the general availability of the Splunk App for Stream—a new software-based approach to capturing real-time streaming wire data directly from the network. Wire data is information captured by the network as sent by applications. Splunk App for Stream …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 28: Bitcoin trade group forms digital currency PAC, Coinbase gets insured, and merchants see promise in Bitcoin’s future

Twitch Twilight Zone: How Google vs Amazon would use Twitch data

DevOps synchronizing files without the cloud with BitTorrent Sync 1.4

Sony PlayStation Network, other gaming networks blasted with DDoS attacks

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 20: BTC-e market price ‘flash crash’, blockchain API news from Coinbase, Block.io, and Chain

EnterpriseDB seeks to bridge structured and unstructured data with free PostgreSQL AWS dev kit

Coinbase grows Bitcoin talent and tools with acquisition of Blockr.io

Performance trends thrive in Big Data DevOps | HP Vertica event highlights

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 13: Blockchain exceeds 2 million users, ChangeTip expands social networks, Britain and regulation, and a Chinese mining operation

Splunk adds real-time streaming capture of over-the-wire data

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