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We are leaving older adults out of the digital world
Jessica Fields Contributor Share on Twitter Jessica Fields is a research analyst and program manager at the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and a collaborator in The OpEd Project. May is national Older Americans Month, and this year’s...
How Microservices Saved the Internet
An Introduction to Building Applications for Scale Introduction For how impactful it is today, distributed systems remain one of the most overlooked topics, at least at the college level. Not many students understand concepts like containerization and fault tolerance and you’ll...
No, Blockchain Isn’t Net Neutrality’s Silver Bullet: Part One
We Begin With Hyperlinks Introduction Net neutrality, at its most basic, is the idea that there should be no prioritizing of information or data on the internet. Netflix shouldn’t load quicker than Hulu because they’ve paid an internet service provider...