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What are the most over-hyped tech trends right now?

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Blockchain. photo credit: PeteLinforth via pixabay cc Experts predict blockchain will transform everything from digital currency to voting processes to entire economies. According to a recent survey from Gartner, only 1% of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption and only 8% planned to experiment with it.

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The Architecture of Identity Systems

Phil Windley

This blog post uses terminology and ideas from Sam's paper to classify and analyze three different identity system architectures. I'm using "ledger" as a generic term for any algorithmically controlled distributed consensus-based datastore including public blockchains, private blockchains, distributed file systems, and others.