Author Archives: Robert Ilardi

As a red blooded American Capitalist why read Karl Marx?

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Robert Ilardi

So some of you may be asking yourself why I have read Marx and why am I even willing to go see his statue while I’m in town in Berlin, the answer is simple: “Know thy self, know thy enemy. … Continue reading →

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We Need An Internet First Amendment NOW!

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Robert Ilardi

Let’s get the Hashtag: #InternetFirstAmendment trending! Today, Alex Jones’ InfoWars was removed from the social media platforms: Facebook, Spotify, YouTube, and Apple iTunes PodCasts. This is a major attack on the freedom of expression on today’s Internet. You don’t need … Continue reading →

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Red Tide: Prologue

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Robert Ilardi

The Democrat Party in the United States around the year 2045 was in shambles; a mere shadow of its former self. After approximately 4 major US Senate Election Cycles and 7 US Presidential Election Cycles the Democratic Party only continued … Continue reading →

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What is Red Tide?

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Robert Ilardi

Red Tide is a Fictional Universe, I’m creating based on this premise: The year the main story starts in is 2045. Since the first election of Donald J. Trump, America as enjoyed a very strong economy with lower taxes and … Continue reading →

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Calculating the value of Phi aka the Golden Ratio in Perl

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Robert Ilardi

I was watching a video by 3blue1brown and decided to code up the Continued Fraction of “phi” aka “The Golden Ratio“. It’s pretty simple, it’s basically a recursive function (Here’s a link to the Mathematical Definition of a Recursion and the Programming … Continue reading →

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Wisdom is Real and Meaningful

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Robert Ilardi

Back in College, a humanities professor I had, postulated that Wisdom is meaningless, and there is an assumption that just because someone is older they are wise and someone who is younger and educated via the modern western education system … Continue reading →

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Master Map-Reduce Job – The One and Only ETL Map-Reduce Job you will ever have to write!

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Robert Ilardi

It’s fitting that my first article on Big Data would be titled the “Master Map-Reduce Job”. I believe it truly is the one and only Map-Reduce job you will every have to write, at least for ETL (Extract, Transform and … Continue reading →

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Synthetic Transactions and Capability Monitoring of your Enterprise Architecture

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Robert Ilardi

Back in my days at Lehman Brothers, I was introduced to the concept of “Synthetic Transactions”. That is an automated action that is scheduled to execute periodically to monitor performance and availability of one of more components in your enterprise … Continue reading →

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Lightweight User Reference Object for Securing APIs

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Robert Ilardi

Back in 2005, I was face with developing a Secure Set of APIs that could run in multiple deployment configurations. At the time we were heavily developing EJB’s, specifically Stateless Session Beans. We were also starting to deploy SOAP based … Continue reading →

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Writing a Good Job Description for Hiring Core Java Developers

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Robert Ilardi

As a Development Manager or a Team Lead, you often need to write up Job Descriptions which include a brief description of the Team, and the Role’s responsibilities. Some people also include a description of the company, but I usually … Continue reading →

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