[Link] Facebook's newest data center using Open Compute Project (OCP)

For tech giants, it's a never-ending race to do things that will enable their agility & scalability, all while finding newer avenues to optimize costs.

Facebook, like other new-age companies, needs sizeable infrastructure, within it's data centers. And, while it has been building its own data centers for a while, the newest one will be more efficient (read: greener) and will be powered by the Open Compute Project.

Find out more at: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebooks-newest-data-center-going-000000195.html

And, some more interesting related links:
Inside Facebook's data centers: (Slideshow/pictures) 
How Facebook is eating the $140billion hardware market

[Link] How Strong is Gravity on Other Planets?

Ever wanted to understand gravity? Or wondered what is the gravitational force on other planets in our solar system?

Well, this informative article explains this well:


http://www.universetoday.com/35565/gravity-on-other-planets/

[Link] How Uber's devastating New York's taxi business

Uber has been at the forefront in city-based passenger transit and has disrupted the local modes of transport viz. taxis, in many places around the world.

Here are some interesting facts about the impact to NYC;s taxi business.


http://www.vox.com/2015/12/26/10647418/uber-new-york-taxi-medallions

[Link] Bitcoin and Blockchain technology can help counterfeiting

Bitcoin, the virtual, cyber/digital-currency is touted as one of the most secure currencies, and it's use has been steadily growing. Though in it's initial years, acceptance by business and financial institutions had been low, there seems to be a gradual mainstreaming of this with Amazon, Walmart and Nike have begun accepting it.

Blockchain, a technology to provide a "ledger" of bitcoin transactions, is also something that's catching on.

It's a trend that needs to be closely followed.
Read more in this TOI article from the Dec 26, 2015 edition: 'Tech behind bitcoin can help check counterfeiting: RBI"

[Webcast] Automated Mobile App Testing & AWS Device Farm

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has recently launched another useful service: the AWS Device Farm.
This cool offering allows you to provision mobile devices - Android & iOS - to run your mobile application workloads. So, say goodbye to having to setup a device lab for testing your smart apps!

Watch the webcast: Automated Mobile App Testing & AWS Device Farm

[Link] WebSocket Microservice vs REST Microservice

Article about performance of WebSocket Microservice versus REST Microservice.

Also contains more reference links for microservices.

Visit for the article:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/websocket-microservice-vs-rest-qbit-rick-hightower

[Image] Intelligent Automation Continuum

A long-term goal of automation is to make it more intelligent. Along with improving the maturity of processes (BPM Maturity), there's also a dimension to cater to the increasing maturity of digital processes.

(Source: Google | http://image.slidesharecdn.com/fershtnasscombpmphilfershtsessionparti-150924073906-lva1-app6892/95/the-emerging-digital-bpm-economy-strengthening-the-foundations-to-get-ahead-of-the-disruption-curve-13-638.jpg?cb=1443080618)

[Image] Process Management Maturity

Graphic depicting the maturity levels for process management:

(Source: Google / http://joeshepley.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/document-capture-continuum-roadmap.jpg)