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November 16, 2020

Why AWS leads in the cloud

The offshoot of Amazon’s online bookstore has led the public cloud market for a decade. How did it get there? Will its dominance continue? Read more ▶

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Sponsored by IBM: Who has the edge in BI tools for 2021?

IBM continues to invest in AI capabilities across data modeling, dashboards, data exploration and AI-driven automation. Moreover, IBM has extended Cognos Analytics in the area of advanced analytics. See why BARC named IBM a BI market leader.

Figuring out programming for the cloud

A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, promising more simplicity and safety than imperative languages.

Applying agile in POCs for emerging technologies

From story writing to scrums and sprints, agile can improve the proof of concept process.

Python creator Guido Van Rossum heads to Microsoft

In a new role at Microsoft’s Developer Division, Guido van Rossum hints at how he and the company will be working to improve Python

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WekaFS: Storage for Modern Exascale Workloads in the Enterprise

Enhancing Performance and Productivity with WekaIO.

What’s new in Angular 11

Highlights of the latest upgrade to the Google-developed web framework include stricter types, router performance improvements, and automatic font inlining

Pyston, an alternate runtime for Python

Pyston, created originally at Dropbox, aims to speed up execution of Python programs with various acceleration techniques like just-in-time compilation ("JITting"). In this video we demonstrate Pyston's speedups -- still modest, but noticeable -- against the regular Python interpreter and the PyPy runtime, which also uses JITting for speed.

How to use RecyclableMemoryStream in .NET Core

Take advantage of Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemoryStream to eliminate LOH allocations and avoid memory fragmentation and memory leaks in your .NET Core applications.

The ‘distributed cloud’ isn't emerging — it’s already here

Assigning data storage and processing to specific cloud regions is a good move, but still benefits from centralized control and risk awareness.

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