Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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Neurons act not as simple logic gates, but as complex, multi-unit processing systems
Posted on May 30, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A study published in the journal Science has upended 80 years of conventional wisdom in computational neuroscience that has modeled the neuron as a simple point-like node in a system, integrating signals and passing them along.? By William Brown, resonance science research scientist.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning miscellaneous leadership-and-career product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure
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Greykite: A flexible, intuitive, and fast forecasting library
Posted on May 29, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this blog post, we introduce the Greykite library, an open source Python library developed to support LinkedIn's forecasting needs. Its main forecasting algorithm, called Silverkite, is fast, accurate, and intuitive, making it suitable for interactive and automated forecasting at scale. Co-authors: Reza Hosseini, Albert Chen, Kaixu Yang, Sayan Patra, Rachit Arora, and Parvez Ahammad.
Tags backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning
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Introducing Kubewarden, an open source policy engine
Posted on May 28, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Security has always been a wide and complex topic. A recent survey from StackRox about the state of containers and Kubernetes security provides some interesting data on these topics. By Flavio Castelli.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering security-and-privacy
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Extreme HTTP performance tuning: 1.2M API req/s on 4 vCPU EC2 instance
Posted on May 25, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON "API" requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance. For the purposes of this recreated quest, we will ignore most of the dead ends and dark alleyways that I had to struggle through on my solo expedition. By Marc Richards.
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd backend-development architecture-and-apis
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5 feedback loops that avoid software architecture chaos
Posted on May 19, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Product development can be chaotic these days. Planning for these five challenges helps avoid them. By Jim Tyrrell (Red Hat).
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure
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How we put the first quantum computer on the cloud
Posted on May 12, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
Five years ago, we made history by launching the IBM Quantum Experience, putting the first quantum processor on the cloud for anyone to run experiments. By Ryan Mandelbaum @IBM.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning software-engineering product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure
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Monitoring and observability in cloud-native ASP.NET Core apps
Posted on May 11, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Distributed applications are complex and bring in their own set of challenges for developers to debug and fix production issues. Though the microservices architecture helps maintain a smaller team that works autonomously and focuses on separate business domains, it introduces newer challenges due to its distributed nature. By Nish.
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Defenseless: UVA engineering computer scientists discover vulnerability affecting computers globally
Posted on May 7, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In 2018, industry and academic researchers revealed a potentially devastating hardware flaw that made computers and other devices worldwide vulnerable to attack. Since Spectre was discovered, the world's most talented computer scientists from industry and academia have worked on software patches and hardware defenses, confident they've been able to protect the most vulnerable points in the speculative execution process without slowing down computing speeds too much. By Audra Book @virginia.edu.
Tags security-and-privacy leadership-and-career miscellaneous software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech
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Introducing PHP on Cloud Functions
Posted on May 4, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Google is bringing support for PHP, a popular general-purpose programming language, to Cloud Functions. With the Functions Framework for PHP, you can write idiomatic PHP functions to build business-critical applications and integration layers. By Brent Shaffer and Vinod Ramachandran @googlecloud.
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Network MOP's as automated workflows
Posted on April 29, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
While there are generic use-cases, the real value of automation is truly uncovered when you are able to translate your existing processes into automated workflows that need no human intervention in order to be executed. By Nicolas Leiva.
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A pragmatic architecture
Posted on April 25, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
REST, CQRS and messaging are not just buzzwords to you? But you want to know how to put them all together? Then let's make a plan! By Michael Zangerle.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design frontend-and-mobile backend-development devops-and-ci-cd
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Kubernetes in space - Azure
Posted on April 21, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Brendan Thompson published this article about deploying Kubernetes (k8s) to the major public clouds. There is a lot of drive with Cloud Native technology and consuming public clouds native PaaS offerings and I think we are losing some of the joy and certainly flexibility when it comes to consuming those.
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