A new era in geospatial technology

A new era in geospatial technology

2-minute read In a 2019 “Leaders” column, The Economist wrote, “A new age of space is beginning … Falling costs, new technologies, Chinese and Indian ambitions, and a new generation of entrepreneurs promise a bold era of space development.” Today, this sentiment has...
Securing application program interfaces (APIs)

Securing application program interfaces (APIs)

4-minute read What is an API? Have you ever wondered why you can be playing Pandora, check the weather on your phone, look at your email, and use navigation all at the same time? All these things rely on APIs, and APIs are woven into the fabric of most things end...
What about Zanzibar?

What about Zanzibar?

9-minute read Zanzibar is Google’s internet-scale permissions service. Google originally described it in a whitepaper in 2019, which can be found here. Currently, no cloud host provides a publicly available implementation of Zanzibar, although there are efforts of...
AWS Well-Architected Framework: pillars for success

AWS Well-Architected Framework: pillars for success

4-minute read Adapted from gregbouwens.com with the permission of the author: AWS Well-Architected Review Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the world’s leading cloud platform, with over 1 million active users and consistent year-over-year growth rates of more...