Kyt Dotson
Latest from Kyt Dotson
David Clark, who could be described as one of the inventors of TCP/IP (protocols that became the foundation of the Internet), sat down with Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelley at MIT ECIR 2014 for an interview in theCUBE. Clark’s list of accolades …
GHash.IO mining pool getting too big, Bitcoin community calls for diversification before it reaches 51%
It looks like the GHash.IO mining pool is getting too big for its britches for the Bitcoin community—and by that it means that the pool-based Bitcoin mining concern is rapidly approaching the dreaded 51% rate. Bitcoin mining is an important part of …
Ask DevOps: Interview with CA Technologies’ Shridhar Mittal
The needs of the enterprise sector when it comes to development, deployment, and operations has been advancing at a pace that only technology can sustain. In the early days of software, development was a question of producing a product in an office …
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 8: Bitcoin hits $1000, Zynga tests BTC for cow clicking, KryptoKit gets three big names, BTC bulletin boards in SF
Happy birthday Bitcoin! Along with the start of January, and a great deal of good news surrounding Bitcoin, there’s been a noticeable resurgence of market price for BTC. In the gaming community Zynga has partnered with BitPay to process bitcoins for virtual …
DevOps Interview: Rajat Bhargava, CEO of JumpCloud
Rajat Bhargava, CEO of JumpCloud, was kind enough to sit down with DevOpsAngle and talk about his experience in the cloud with DevOps. Through JumpCloud he has given a tool to the industry that has been quickly pulling in developers of all stripes. The …
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 January 1: Indian government raids BTC exchanges, Overstock.com joins the community, Stross and Krugman hate Bitcoin
Happy New Year everyone in the Bitcoin community! This little cryptocurrency that could has racked up yet-another-year of the interesting and the strange and has 2014 ahead of it. These past few weeks have seen something strange from the market in India …
DerpTrolling continues DDOS trolling gaming sites and Twitch streamers for New Years Eve Day
Yesterday, a new DDOS troll moved onto the gaming scene by lighting up a Twitter account (@DerpTrolling) and began to wash away Internet gaming services. The anti-fireworks and criminal behavior culminated in the harassment of a Twitch streamer named PhantomL0rd who had …
DDOSers targeting Twitch user shut down various gaming services
[UPDATE: The DDOS harassment has continued onto a second day hitting World of Warcraft, Minecraft, and more streamers.] Tonight the Twitch user James “PhantomL0rd” Varga found himself in the crosshairs of a DDOSer going by the moniker DERP (under Twitter handle @DerpTrolling) decided …
DevOps into 2014: The biggest challenges for DevOps next year (Part 2 of 2)
In the first part, we discussed the practical adoption of DevOps practices (and the potential pitfalls of failing to instance them properly) as well as how the market right now is being flooded with new ideas and tools. But other challenges that …
DevOps into 2014: The biggest challenges for DevOps next year (Part 1 of 2)
The highly adaptive and fast-paced schedule of deployment and development of the service-based and application software market has driven companies to push hard for faster-and-faster cycles. This in turn has put a strain on the humans behind the scenes as well as …