Tag: Cloud
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PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator: What it means
Posted on August 26, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
PHP 8.5, due out November of this year, will bring with it another long-sought-after feature: the pipe operator (|>). It's a small feature with huge potential, yet it still took years to happen. By Larry Garfield.
Tags php cloud software-architecture app-development web-development
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Four hot startups aim to keep AI data centers cool
Posted on August 24, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
Data centers consume up to one-third of their energy for cooling, driving demand for innovative solutions. Direct-to-chip cooling, a emerging technology, uses cold plates to target heat sources directly on CPUs/GPUs, improving efficiency and sustainability. Traditional cooling relies on large chillers and water systems, while direct-to-chip cooling attaches cold plates to processors. These plates use liquid or advanced materials to absorb heat locally, reducing reliance on centralized cooling and lowering energy use. By Heather Clancy.
Tags startups cloud cio performance
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Microservices for machine learning
Posted on August 7, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Learn how author scaled my ML-powered finance tracker by breaking a monolithic design into microservices for better performance, maintainability, and deployment. Author's finance tracker project started with a simple idea: automatically categorize bank transactions using a text classification model. Author trained a basic logistic regression model on my transaction history, wrapped it in a Flask API, and called it done. By Ramya Boorugula.
Tags microservices machine-learning big-data cloud agile
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New Akka deployment options: elasticity on any infrastructure
Posted on July 25, 2025, Level advanced Resource Length medium
Akka's latest deployment options represent a significant evolution in distributed systems architecture, addressing long-standing challenges in transitioning from development to production environments. The introduction of self-managed nodes and self-hosted Platform regions extends Akka's "build once, deploy anywhere" philosophy while maintaining the framework's core technical advantages. By Tyler Jewell.
Tags akka devops cloud java jvm
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DIY Docker volume drivers: What's missing
Posted on July 6, 2025, Level advanced Resource Length medium
This post explores the limitations of the current Docker volume plugin ecosystem, emphasizing the difficulty in finding unprivileged solutions. The author details their journey in creating a custom volume plugin as a way to address this limitation. By Adam Faris.
Tags cloud docker app-development software
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Docker's best-kept secret: How observability saves developers' sanity
Posted on July 6, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Observability is crucial for managing the increasing complexity of modern distributed software systems, especially those built with Docker containers and microservices. Traditional monitoring often falls short, leading to slow troubleshooting and increased Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR). End-to-end observability, particularly through distributed tracing, provides deep insights into system behavior, enabling proactive detection of performance issues and improved reliability. By Aditya Gupta.
Tags cloud docker devops how-to
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How to run GUI-based applications in Docker
Posted on July 4, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Docker is commonly used for server-side and command-line apps. However, with the right setup, you can also run GUI-based applications inside containers. These containers can include GUI libraries and display tools, which enable apps to run in a secure and isolated environment. Docker containers can run GUI applications by configuring display sharing with the host system. This approach packages applications with their dependencies while maintaining isolation, enabling consistent cross-platform deployment without cluttering the host system. By Anees Asghar.
Tags programming cloud docker devops iot how-to
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Multimodal AI for IoT devices requires a new class of MCU
Posted on July 2, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
Context-aware computing enables ultra-low-power operation while maintaining high-performance AI capabilities when needed. The rise of AI-driven IoT devices is pushing the limits of today's microcontroller unit (MCU) landscape. While AI-powered perception applications—such as voice, facial recognition, object detection, and gesture control—are becoming essential in everything from smart home devices to industrial automation, the hardware available to support them is not keeping pace. By Todd Dust.
Tags programming cloud ai infosec servers iot how-to
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The edge of security: How edge computing is revolutionizing cyber protection
Posted on July 1, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The traditional centralized model of cloud computing presents significant cybersecurity risks, creating a single point of failure and suffering from latency that can delay critical security updates. Edge computing emerges as a superior, decentralized solution that brings processing power closer to where data is generated. By Andrew Garfield.
Tags programming cloud cio infosec servers iot
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How to improve JVM-based application startup time?
Posted on June 20, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Optimizing JVM startup time is vital for many applications. This post explores various strategies, comparing their effectiveness through benchmarking a simple Netty server. Class Data Sharing (CDS) and its evolution, AppCDS, cache class data to reduce initialization overhead. By Michał Zyga.
Tags cloud jvm java app-development performance
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Evogene and Google Cloud unveil foundation model for generative molecule design
Posted on June 18, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
Evogene and Google Cloud are accelerating life science discovery with ChemPass AI, a generative AI foundation model focused on small-molecule design. Launched in May, this collaboration dramatically reduces the time and cost associated with identifying novel drug candidates and crop protection agents. ChemPass AI's core strength lies in its ability to simultaneously optimize multiple critical properties – potency, toxicity, stability, and bioavailability – within a single molecule generation cycle, surpassing previous approaches. By Antoine Tardif.
Tags cloud data-science gcp big-data google
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Exclusive-OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry
Posted on June 15, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
OpenAI is collaborating with Alphabet's Google Cloud, a move designed to address the escalating demand for high-powered computing infrastructure required by AI models. The agreement, finalized in May, represents a substantial expansion of Google's cloud services, signaling a broadening strategic focus beyond Microsoft's Azure. By CNA.
Tags cloud ai gcp google