1. How Society Runs on Credit First, let’s do a Q&A: @ask:Why can you ride the bus with just a card? @answer:Because I topped it up. @ask:Money? Then where did your money come from? @answer:My monthly salary. @ask:Why does the company pay you a salary every month? @answer:We signed a contract.

English title: The Black Swan Subtitle: How to Deal with an Unpredictable Future Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Translator: Wan Dan Publisher: CITIC Press Publication Year: 2009-8 ISBN: 9787508616018 Notes: The author uses his own experiences — the Lebanese war, a journalist’s war diary, a stock market crash, Yevgenia’s book — as his entry points, describing from personal experience this world that lives in uncertainty.

1. Work Scenario The team I am on has 20+ people and carries the responsibilities of both PaaS and SaaS development. The people who develop PaaS, the PaaSer, are mainly responsible for developing and maintaining the PaaS platform, with the goal of providing the SaaS developers with the APIs and documentation they need.

1. Overview DevOps (a portmanteau of Development and Operations) is a culture and a movement that values communication and collaboration between software developers (Dev) and IT operations staff (Ops). By automating the processes of “software delivery” and “architecture change,” it makes building, testing, and releasing software faster, more frequent, and more reliable.

1. The Past and Present of ICANN ICANN, The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, was founded in 1998 and is responsible for allocating Internet resources such as domain names and IP addresses. ICANN’s predecessor was IANA (Internet Assigned number Authority), which for a long time was funded directly by the U.