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 Arun Gupta discusses with Wes Reisz some of the container-focused services that AWS offers, including differentiating ECS and EKS. Gupta goes into some detail about the role that Amazon Fargate plays and goals behinds EKS. Gupta wraps ups discussing some of the open source work that AWS has recently been doing in the container space. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Matt Abrahams of BoldEcho and Stanford Graduate School of Business on becoming effective communicators, especially around speaking in public. (Podcast) |
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 Data citizens are impacted by the models, methods, and algorithms created by data scientists, but they have limited agency to affect the tools which are acting on them. (Article) |
 Michael Slinn discusses Smart Contracts, what they are, various implementations, how they can learn, and use cases. (Presentation) |
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 Mike Place discusses how automation changes SaltStack’s development process, the tooling used, what can be done better, and asks general questions about automation, using it to improve DevOps. (Presentation) |
 Gilberto Bertin discusses the architecture of Cloudflare’s automatic DDoS mitigation pipeline, the initial packet filtering solution based on Iptables, and why Cloudflare had to introduce userspace offload. Bertin also describes how they switched from a proprietary offload technology to XDP for network stack bypass and how they are using XDP to load balance traffic. (Presentation)
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 Felipe Huici introduces Unikraft, an open source, incubator project under the auspices of the Xen Project and the Linux Foundation aimed at automating the process of building customized images tailored to specific applications and significantly reducing development time. He describes Unikraft in greater detail, and gives a brief demo of how to use it in order to build a few different unikernels. (Presentation)
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 Quantum information theory really took off once people noticed that the computational complexity of quantum systems was actually a computational capacity, which could be applied to other problems, such as factorization, which is used within public key cryptography. This article explores quantum algorithms and their applicability. (Article) |
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 Trisha Gee explores common coding scenarios using Java and Kotlin, discussing Java's evolution to improve productivity, and why staying up to date with Java can help. (Presentation)
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| JSUI introduces a visual tool for creating and managing JavaScript applications. The project provides utilities and features for both front-end and back-end applications, and most of its features are independent of underlying JavaScript frameworks. (News) |
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| Google recently announced Flutter Release Preview 1. Flutter is an open-source framework for cross-platform app development for both iOS and Android. Flutter Release Preview 1 includes support for hardware keyboards and barcode scanners, video recording, ML Kit, an update to the Flutter extension for Visual Studio Code, and more. (News) |
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 The book Book Fluid: How Culture, Hidden Opportunities, and Flatter Structures Lead to Profitable Innovation explores how to create a culture of change in companies. Najeeb Khan shows how fluid companies can act with higher speed and experiment to innovate, and how to transform towards a flat structure that allows everyone to test and validate ideas. (Article) |
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