Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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Introduction to Linear Programming in Python
Posted on June 19, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A guide to mathematical optimization with Google OR-Tools. Linear programming is a technique to optimize any problem with multiple variables and constraints. It's a simple but powerful tool every data scientist should master. By Maxime Labonne.
Tags backend-development product-and-design software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure
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Three myths of open source software risk and the one nobody is discussing
Posted on June 18, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Open source software is being vilified once again and, in some circles, even considered a national security threat. Open source software risk has been a recurring theme: First it was classified as dangerous because anyone could work on it and then it was called insecure because nobody was in charge. By Josh Bressers.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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A deep dive into OpenTelemetry metrics
Posted on June 12, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for infrastructure instrumentation hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The project gained a lot of momentum with contributions from all major cloud providers (AWS, Google, Microsoft) as well as observability vendors (including Timescale) to the point it became the second-highest ranked CNCF project by activity and contributors, only coming second to Kubernetes itself. By James Blackwood-Sewell.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career product-and-design
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How Power BI metrics and scorecards can transform productivity within business objectives
Posted on June 11, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Metric and goal setting is paramount when formulating business operations. That's why Microsoft Metrics (previously known as "Goals") make it possible to keep every member of a team striving toward a singular, unified key objective and ensures a higher probability of positive outcomes. By Jocelyn Porter.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd
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Blockchain scalability: Execution, storage, and consensus
Posted on June 10, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Trust minimization is a valuable security property that blockchain technology is uniquely positioned to generate—replacing handshakes, brand reputation, and paper contracts with guarantees based on computer code, cryptography, and decentralized consensus. These superior guarantees provided by blockchains form the basis of cryptographic truth. By chain.link.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career software-engineering data-and-analytics
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Demystifying getting a job in Google DevRel
Posted on June 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This post is written from author's personal experience in Google DevRel for 12 of the last 16 years. By Mano Marks.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Distributed ledger technology 101
Posted on June 8, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
The terms "blockchain" and "distributed ledger technology" (DLT) may be widely used but are not always well understood. This article explains the differences between them. Rather than covering the technical aspects in depth, we will focus on how and why these technologies have the potential to disrupt existing business models and perhaps even create entirely new ones. By Bankless Publishing.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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What MongoDB teaches us about database trends
Posted on June 7, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Back in June 2014, the top five most popular databases were exactly the same as June 2022: Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MongoDB. The difference is their relative popularity: PostgreSQL and MongoDB have been gaining in popularity relative to the relational incumbents. By Matt Asay.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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Guide to enterprise open source: Why your organization needs it now
Posted on June 6, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
There are some universal truths about open source software (OSS). It has revolutionized our world and become the foundation of our digital society, the backbone of our digital economy, and the basis of our digital existence. By @linuxfoundation.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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The future of computer vision
Posted on June 5, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Computer vision is a rapidly growing field in research and applications. Advances in computer vision research are now more directly and immediately applicable to the commercial world. By Richmond Alake.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous leadership-and-career data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning
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AIOps with Azure Metrics Advisor
Posted on June 4, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
AIOps is a term introduced by Gartner in 2016, referring to AI for IT Operations. It combines big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event correlation, anomaly detection, and causality determination. By ODSC Community.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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Web3: What is it and what it means for freelancers
Posted on June 1, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
It is being said that Web3 is the future of the internet which promises a decentralised, immutable version of the global web -- free of intermediaries and equipped with the same cryptographic verifiability as cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). But what does that really mean? By Stefania Volpe.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech how-to leadership-and-career