Tag: Cloud
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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
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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