Meera Nair
Drawing from her diverse experience in journalism, media marketing, and digital advertising, Meera is proficient in crafting engaging tech narratives. As a trusted voice in the tech landscape and a published author, she shares insightful perspectives on the latest IT trends and workplace dynamics in Digital Digest.
Microsoft Ignite 2025: The Future of Resilience and AI Unfolds
Microsoft Ignite 2025 returned to San Francisco from 18–21 November, and the message across the four days was impossible to miss: the future of enterprise resilience will be shaped by AI. Not just AI as an add-on or a productivity trick, but AI that sits inside your cloud, your workflows, your security, and every operational decision your…
Academic Strategist Ross Morrone on the TikTok Job Search Era
Expert insight on how TikTok’s influence, algorithms, and creator-driven advice are reshaping early-career expectations for Gen Z and millennials. Careers in the Algorithm Age: As algorithms shape how we learn, network, and pursue opportunity, the job search has shifted from a private journey to a digital performance. This series examines the platforms, creators, and behaviours…
The Rise of Space Startups: Building the Next Orbital Economy
For decades, space belonged to the giants. NASA charted new frontiers. Roscosmos kept pushing the limits. ISRO proved that world-class missions don’t always need world-breaking budgets. ESA and JAXA filled in the gaps with deep-space science and engineering brilliance. These agencies shaped the early chapters of space exploration, the era of national pride, moonshots, and slow, steady progress. …
Why a Site Reliability Engineer Treats Failure as a Feature
Resilience By Design When you work in technology long enough, you realise something unusual. Systems don’t break because people are careless; they break because complexity wins. That is why every site reliability engineer learns early that failure is part of the job. They don’t wait for trouble. They design for it, call this mindset resilience by design, and it…
How a Single AWS Outage Bug Cascaded Across Industries
The dependency crisis The latest AWS outage in late October shook the digital world again. It began with what seemed like a minor technical slip. A quiet DNS (Domain Name System) automation bug inside US-EAST-1 created a fault that few noticed at first. Then the failures spread. Payments stalled. Health data streams paused. Smart home…
Cash App Settlement: What Fintechs Learned the Hard Way
When a payment app stops working, people feel it in real life. They worry about rent, groceries, school fees, fuel, and bills. The Cash App outage demonstrated the scale of stress financial delays can cause. Transfers failed. Cards declined. Balances are updated slowly. Users felt unsure and unprotected. Soon after, stories about the Cash App settlement, data exposure,…
Netflix Chaos Monkey: An Idea That Reshaped Modern Reliability
The Netflix Chaos Monkey sounds like something dreamed up in a late-night engineering chat: a playful name, a wild premise, and a fearless goal. The idea was simple, yet shocking. Break systems on purpose. Shut down healthy servers during the working day. Watch what happens and see what fails. This strange experiment soon became a turning point in cloud history, because it proved…
Quantum Sensors: Measuring the World Beyond Limits
Imagine spotting water deep underground without digging a single hole. Imagine understanding brain activity without huge scanners or loud machines. Imagine tracking climate shifts with details so small that older tools never even noticed them. These ideas once felt like something from a futuristic novel. Now they are slowly becoming real because Quantum Sensors are changing how…
Inside the n8n Automation Platform Revolution
The n8n automation platform is an open-source, low-code workflow tool that lets teams automate, customise, and collaborate with ease. Automation used to feel robotic, fast, efficient, and utterly soulless. Then came n8n, the rebel in the low-code world. Created by German developer Jan Oberhauser, the n8n automation platform doesn’t just automate tasks; it lets humans…
What is Shor’s Algorithm: Why it Matters for Encryption’s Future?
In the world of digital security, the phrase Shor’s algorithm already sends ripples through the foundations of encryption. This quantum-computing method, developed by Peter Shor in 1994, offers a way to tear apart the very mathematics that underpin much of modern public-key encryption. It could be the biggest shake-up in cybersecurity since the birth of public-key…