Author: Nigel Pereira

From ordering taxis to getting movie tickets, checking into airplanes, and hotels, or even booking reservations and doctor’s appointments, modern Chatbots can do it all, says Nigel Pereira While people have always questioned the authenticity, intelligence, and overall effectiveness of Chatbots when dealing with real human problems, Insider Intelligence predicts that consumer retail spending via chatbots worldwide will reach $142 billion, up from just $2.8 billion in 2019. That’s a huge jump and a lot of it can be attributed to how modern AI-powered Chatbots are revolutionizing the overall Customer Experience. From ordering taxis to getting movie tickets, checking into…

Nigel Pereira on the NFT market which is currently valued at $35 billion and expected to cross $147 billion over the next 5 years While we’re definitely going to get technical with this post and explain how JPEG files of funny-looking animals can sell for millions of dollars, the Beeple story is without a doubt what most people want to hear so let’s get to that right away. If you were to meet Mike Winkelmann a few years ago, you probably wouldn’t guess that he would soon be one of the world’s top three most valuable living artists. Especially since…

It’s not just the job of the security team anymore! An important aspect of DevSecOps is a shared sense of responsibility towards security, writes Nigel Pereira As the focus of the enterprise has shifted towards pushing changes to production as quickly as possible, security is often left on the back burner. In a mad scramble to harness the power of the cloud to remain relevant and competitive, organizations end up leaving huge gaps in security that cannot be addressed as an afterthought. These gaps could be caused by anything from a misconfiguration to an insecure service being enabled or even…

Organizations like Netflix, Amazon, Google, Instagram, and Facebook (which practice DevOps) have set the bar pretty high concerning the end-user experience Most people have probably heard the term DevOps being used a lot lately, either from people who work with software or from an online post like this one. DevOps is hard to explain, even for those who practice it. This is because as opposed to well-defined concepts like Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and automation, DevOps is a culture of collaboration that encompasses several different concepts. While CI/CD and automation are about software, DevOps is about the people…

Nigel Pereira finds out what makes Bitcoin a superior form of currency to anything we have seen before as he compares its monetary properties with fiat money Most people want to slap themselves when they read posts that say “If you had invested $100 in Bitcoin in 2010 it would be worth over $48 million today,” especially those who were initially dismissive of cryptocurrency. While it is true that 2010 would have been an excellent time to invest in Bitcoin, don’t beat yourself up too much over the fact that you couldn’t see it happening, not a lot of people could. In…

Virtually every single high-performing application that we use on our phones uses containers for deployment. From Google Search to Gmail, YouTube, Spotify, Netflix, AirBnB, and Uber, everything runs on containers To understand what containers are and how they’ve contributed to almost every aspect of our digital lives, it’s probably important to understand where they come from. Containers were born from the need to better isolate processes in environments that were growing too large and complex to manage. Modern applications deliver an end-user experience unlike anything in the past, where downtime is unheard of and updates are fast and frequent. That’s…

The NVIDIA chipset from back in late 2011 was indeed one of the most important factors in making AI available to developers While we hear a lot about how Artificial Intelligence will change the world as we know it, what we don’t often hear about is how video game technology contributed to the biggest breakthroughs in AI and deep learning. AI was a term first coined in 1956 but it wasn’t until the ImageNet challenge of 2012 that a deep learning algorithm outperformed human coded software. Subsequently, in 2015, deep learning projects from both Microsoft and Google were able to…

Many believe the mid-band to be the key to unlocking true 5G potential It was exactly 100 years ago, in 1922, that Charles Francis Jenkins sent the first still picture by radio waves. If you explained to someone back then that the entire world would be wirelessly live streaming in less than a hundred years’ time, you would definitely be laughed at and ridiculed. Similarly, if you told someone ten years ago that the majority of the world would be working from home in the not-so-distant future, they probably wouldn’t believe you either. Fast forward to the present day where…