Tag: Data and analytics
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Moving fast and breaking us all: Big tech's unaccountable algorithms
Posted on April 14, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
They decide who passes and who fails in secondary school. They decide who gets arrested and who goes to prison. They decide what news you see first thing in the morning as well as what news you won't see. And they drive the business models—and revenues—of the world's largest and most powerful digital platforms. By Ellery Roberts Biddle & Jie Zhang.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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How quantum computing will transform these 9 industries
Posted on April 12, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Quantum computing remains a nascent technology, but its potential is already being felt across many sectors. From healthcare to finance to artificial intelligence, we look at the industries poised to be reshaped by quantum computers. By cbinsights.com.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning
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How we implemented Distributed Multi-document ACID Transactions in Couchbase
Posted on March 24, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
ACID Transactions are a must when you have strict data consistency requirements in your application. The costs of running transactions on distributed systems can rapidly create bottlenecks at scale. By Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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How to containerize a local DynamoDb
Posted on March 15, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
This is going to be a very quick tutorial. I am going to show you how you can use Docker to spin up a DynamoDb. By Phillip Ninan.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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DynamoDB checklist
Posted on March 14, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
DynamoDB is the leading serverless database in the AWS suite of offerings. It provides an easy to configure, high-performance, NoSQL database with low operational overhead and almost endless scalability. By SenseDeep.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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Exploring semantic map embeddings
Posted on March 3, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
How do you convey the "meaning" of a word to a computer? Nowadays, the default answer to this question is "use a word embedding". A typical word embedding, such as GloVe or Word2Vec, represents a given word as a real vector of a few hundred dimensions. By Johannes E. M. Mosig.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Integrating Apache Kafka into your CI/CD with Jenkins & Lenses
Posted on March 2, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
This tutorial will illustrate how you can integrate Lenses into your Jenkins CI/CD using the lenses-cli. The Lenses CLI allows you to manage your Apache Kafka environment using a single unified and secure API across all Kafka components (Kafka Brokers, Zookeepers, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry etc.). By Mihalis Tsoukalos.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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Understanding Unikernels: The future of cloud computing, probably
Posted on February 21, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Having used Containers, Kubernetes and Serverless (a lot!) over the last few years, I catch myself wondering 'What next?' when it comes to more efficient, faster and secure units of computing. By Nithin Jois.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning
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How to make Kafka Consumer compatible with Gevent in Python
Posted on February 17, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Asynchronous task management using Gevent improves scalability and resource efficiency for distributed systems. However, using this tool with Kafka can be challenging. By Jessica Zhao and Boyang Wei.
Tags backend-development devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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How to write custom cypher procedures with NetworkX and Memgraph
Posted on February 15, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Angular is one of the most popular front-end frameworks, with 30% of developers preferring it for their projects. Angular is especially useful for large scale projects with many different views and components. By Ryan Thelin.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd how-to product-and-design data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Open sourcing the Netflix Domain Graph Service Framework: GraphQL for Spring Boot
Posted on February 12, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Alex Birsan recently published his article "Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies" in which he explains how he used language level package managers like npm (Javascript), pip (Python), and gems (Ruby) to get companies to install and run his malicious code on their infrastructure. By Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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10 reasons to use Azure SQL in your next project
Posted on February 7, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
There are many database technologies available on Azure that you can choose from. Why would you use Azure SQL. By Davide.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics leadership-and-career