Year in Review 2018

1) Long Thread - For me, this was a good year for blogging, especially for getting deeper into particular technologies. I use my blogging as a way to share, but most importantly as I way to enable me to educate myself.

2) Database benchmarking was a big part of my blogging, including breakthroughs with PostgreSQL and achieving 4.3 Million TPS with 1 GB RAM https://bit.ly/2BLqput and being able to show how SDS architectures provide the ability to improve and scale quickly.

3) I also dabbed once again into Healthcare at @HIMSS timeframe and created the Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Healthcare IT Infrastructure https://bit.ly/2VgT8zZ where data security lies at the bottom of the pyramid, followed by system resiliency.

4) I also set the framework to demonstrate that unless one can beat the speed of light, it's not possible to defeat the data gravity hypothesis. I explained how Datrium is the data anti-gravity agent. https://bit.ly/2QS1zTS

5) Coming from EUC world, as of now, I would say there's no better platform for VDI than Datrium. I wrote a 2018 review for my Hands Down the Ultimate VDI Platform https://bit.ly/2CE10EE but also worked with @SimonLong_ on a deep whitepaper.

6) Later in the year, I started working intensely with Docker and Kubernetes, and wrote many articles on the subject; including running with VMware https://bit.ly/2GWOvbB and running bare-metal with Datrium.

7) On the competitive realm, I felt the need to address FUD posted by vendors, including Datrium's ability to scale to 138 nodes https://bit.ly/2SqaLeW and the Unique and Original Datrium Data Locality https://bit.ly/2ESDbuj and this last one is my favorite for the year.

8) Some articles were spun-up from customer interactions, like the "Shocking datacenter reality?" https://bit.ly/2QXTSvF that opened my eyes to the pain IT organizations are going through with a lack of standards and integrations.

9) There were many more articles, but all in all, it was a great year! I'll finish this thread with a quote from Mark Twain to incentivize others to learn and share.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

– Mark Twain

10) Happy New Year !!!
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