Tag: Architecture and apis
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Announcing TensorFlow Quantum: An open source library for quantum machine learning
Posted on March 10, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Machine learning (ML), while it doesn't exactly simulate systems in nature, has the ability to learn a model of a system and predict the system's behavior. Over the past few years, classical ML models have shown promise in tackling challenging scientific issues, leading to advancements in image processing for cancer detection, forecasting earthquake aftershocks, predicting extreme weather patterns, and detecting new exoplanets. Posted by Alan Ho, Product Lead and Masoud Mohseni, Technical Lead, Google Research.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Event-driven servers: An Intuitive Study
Posted on March 4, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
James Lim out together this piece about short explainer of event-driven servers, intended to help readers gain an intuitive understanding of event loops.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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AWS Lambda vs. Azure Functions: 10 major differences
Posted on February 24, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Since 2014, the serverless model has taken off, and every major cloud provider has introduced its flavor of an FaaS service: Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and IBM Cloud Functions, to name a few. By Mikhail Shilkov.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Building an adaptive, multi-tenant stream bus with Kafka and Golang
Posted on February 20, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Back in the 2000s, SOAP/WSDL with ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) was the dominant server-side architecture for many companies. Since the 2010s, microservices and service mesh technologies have grown wildly and thus became the de-facto industry standards. By Xinyu Liu.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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How to automate PostgreSQL 12 replication and failover with repmgr
Posted on February 17, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article about using repmgr for Postgres replication failover. repmgr is an open-source toolset from 2ndQuadrant, a leading specialist in PostgreSQL-related technologies and services. The product is used to automate, enhance, and manage PostgreSQL streaming replication. By Sadequl Hussain.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics software-engineering
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How to: Kubernetes for cheap on Google Cloud
Posted on February 16, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Niko Kosonen published this step by step tutorial how to run Kubernetes on two micro instances on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) without external load balancers. Cluster setup from scratch.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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A serverless journey begins with several first steps, actually
Posted on February 15, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
AWS serverless expert explains what you need to know before launching a serverless pilot. By Joe McKendrick.
Tags architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Best practices for event-driven microservice architecture
Posted on February 14, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
While you might have used REST as your service communications layer in the past, more and more projects are moving to an event-driven architecture. Let's dive into the pros and cons of this popular architecture, some of the key design choices it entails, and common anti-patterns. By Jason Skowronski.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics software-engineering
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Mathematicians are studying planet-sized Quantum Computers with God-like powers
Posted on February 13, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
New research has exploded the space of problems that quantum computers can efficiently verify, simultaneously knocking down milestone problems in quantum physics and math. By Mordechai Rorvig.
Tags software-engineering architecture-and-apis ai-and-machine-learning cloud-and-infrastructure
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Scaling payments for Black Friday 2019
Posted on February 3, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
A blog post about Black Friday's production scalability experience in payments provider company named iyzico. By Yalçın Yenigün.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career
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The rise and fall of the OLAP Cube
Posted on January 30, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
One of the biggest shifts in data analytics over the past decade is the move away from building "data cubes", or "OLAP cubes", to running OLAP workloads directly on columnar databases. By Cedric Chin.
Tags data-and-analytics miscellaneous architecture-and-apis
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Here's what I learned about SaaS during my 5 years at Buildium, after it sold for $580M
Posted on January 29, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
I think it's clear that the world of technology start-ups is pretty screwed up when it comes to financial valuations. Only in this world is whether or not your company is profitable so often seen as being of secondary importance. I digress. By Geoff Roberts.
Tags architecture-and-apis business-and-emerging-tech how-to software-engineering