CTO Breakfast Notes for January 12th, 2024

Another year and another great CTO Breakfast Discussion! Here are the topics that came up:

• Early days of Modems and Bulletin boards and 1200/2400 baud modems. https://www.auvik.com/franklyit/blog/history-of-the-modem/
• Early days of Arpanet, Internet in Utah. https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/birth-of-the-internet/
• Early days of WordPerfect and Novell. https://www.deseret.com/2023/2/14/23590975/4th-node-podcast-arpanet-tech-history-novell-wordperfect-bill-gates
• Dr DOS – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS
• Early databases vs Lotus 123 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3
• Early Oracle Databases – https://content.dsp.co.uk/the-history-of-oracle-corporation-1977-2000
• Postgres JSONB support – https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-json.html
• Postgres GIS support – https://postgis.net/
• Running ChromeOS Flex on an old mac book Pro – https://chromeenterprise.google/os/chromeosflex/
• Hackintosh – Open Core – https://hackintosh.com/
• Ubuntu on Mac Book Pro – https://gist.github.com/cjonesy/2e2d8ca5e50ee1811f70
• QT Toolkit and C++, WASM complies to Webpack to run in the browser – https://www.qt.io/
• C++ changes for better memory handling – https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/freestore-mgmt
• Flutter UI toolkit (Based on Dart Language) – https://flutter.dev/
  • Cross compiler for Android, IOS, Native, etc
  • Null safe language
  • Names Parameters, Optional parameters, multiple value return from functions
  • Elegant Syntax
  • Java/C++ style
• Flutterflow website for UI building – https://flutterflow.io/
• Tenfold – https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/tenfold-corporation
  • Database with auto-generated forms
  • Early tech was brittle and limited by the need for custom code for business rules
• Drools – business rules description – https://www.drools.org/
• BPML – Business Process Modeling Language – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Modeling_Language
• State Charts – Based on XML spec – https://statecharts.dev/
• State JavaScript library – https://xstate.js.org/docs/guides/introduction-to-state-machines-and-statecharts/
• XState – https://xstate.js.org/docs/guides/introduction-to-state-machines-and-statecharts/
• JSON description on the state machine
• System design for high availability – https://cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/reliability/design-scale-high-availability
  • 2-3x the cost will get you that last 9 of availability
  • Large scale infrastructure scaling factors
  • Multi-tenet vs. Single Tennet
• Hibernate multi-tenant implementation – https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.1/devguide/en-US/html/ch16.html
  • 5 different models for schema
• Discussion on Self-Sovern Identity and Customer owned/managed data – (Wish Phil was in attendance!) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity