Tag: Cloud
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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
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Introducing KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs
Posted on May 20, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning, language understanding, and even creative tasks. Yet, a key challenge persists: how to efficiently integrate external knowledge. By Taketomo Isazawa.
Tags azure cloud ai cio big-data
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How much observability is enough?
Posted on May 17, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Observability is the process of watching what your systems do at every layer so that you can build a comprehensive picture of how it does what it does. By Dotan Horovits and Jujhar Singh.
Tags devops cloud kubernetes cio containers
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Python adopts standard lock file format for reproducible installs
Posted on May 13, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
Python's ecosystems now have a standardized lock file format called pyproject.lock (or pylock.toml) defined by PEP 751. This was formally adopted after the proposal was accepted. By Sarah Gooding.
Tags python cloud infosec devops
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A brief history of SQL and the rise of graph queries
Posted on March 13, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
GQL addresses the need for sophisticated queries that reflect the increasingly complex and connected nature of data in the real world. The benefits of graph databases not only exist in providing more intuitive and powerful ways to visualize and interrogate data relationships but also in storing and processing data more efficiently. By Jocelyn Hoppa.
Tags apis cloud app-development software-architecture servers
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JavaScript frameworks - heading into 2025
Posted on March 9, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This article reflects on the state of JavaScript frameworks in 2024, concluding that the pursuit of simplicity hasn't necessarily resulted in easier development. By Ryan Carniato.
Tags frameworks cloud javascript software-architecture frontend
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Seven essential big data analytics tools every business needs in 2025
Posted on March 5, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Data floods in by the second, fueling every facet of business operations. Yet, raw data offers little value on its own — this is where big data analytics tools step in, transforming numbers into actionable insights. By Irina Prevalova.
Tags analytics cloud big-data database
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The role of containers in DevOps and CI/CD pipeline
Posted on March 1, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
DevOps and CI/CD are two significant methodologies that have changed software development in modern times. DevOps unites development and operations teams, and software delivery can become rapid and efficient with them. CI/CD, or Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, tests and releases software via automation to deliver software updates in a reliable and efficient manner to its users. By apiculus.com.
Tags containers cloud cicd devops