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Feb 25, 2020

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. In 2020, these two terms just may be the most trendy terms in tech but are they really as revolutionary as people say they're going to be? 

Historically speaking, the AI and ML hype machine revs up and comes around every 10-years or so. Alan Turing was the first innovator to...


Feb 17, 2020

SecOps. It's something that Thomas Hatch is very passionate about. What exactly does that term mean?

SecOps is the practice of automating IT and security operations in order to get the two departments to work more efficiently with one another. There's always been varying degrees of friction between security and IT...


Feb 14, 2020

In today's world, cyber threats are constant and the criminals are getting smarter.  At the same time, companies are being pressured in a variety of ways, to grow and create more, faster! Unfortunately, the faster they move, the more vulnerable they become.

It's not just companies that are at risk. We all are! So......


Feb 14, 2020

In 2011, Thomas Hatch created an open-source program called Salt. In the years since Salt has become a program that's used by millions of people.  It's gotten big... Very, very big.

As software grows, it becomes more brittle and less flexible. It's because of this that Tom created a brand new program called POP. POP...


Feb 13, 2020

The open-source community is interesting. It's massive and made up of brilliant men and women. It's also incredibly transient. What is it about open-source that makes people flock to it the way they do?

Tom initially went to open-source so that he didn't have to re-build his work every time he switched jobs. Even though...