Colin works on platforms for renewable power generation, battery storage, vehicle charging, and grid services. Over the past decade, he has seen these platforms grow from their infancy to become the largest and most integrated platforms for distributed, renewable energy in the world. Previously, Colin worked on the PI System at OSIsoft, a time-series platform for industrial monitoring and automation.
There are significant changes happening in distributed systems. Object storage is becoming the database, tools for transactional processing and analytical processing are becoming one in the same, and there are new programming models that promise some combination of superior security, portability, management of application state, or simplification. These changes will influence how systems are opera...