Tag: Data and analytics
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How to teach Artificial Intelligence
Posted on February 22, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Tom Vander Ark writes about the future of learning, work and human development. Here we have his thoughts on how to teach Artificial intelligence (AI).
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics
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Building an adaptive, multi-tenant stream bus with Kafka and Golang
Posted on February 20, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Back in the 2000s, SOAP/WSDL with ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) was the dominant server-side architecture for many companies. Since the 2010s, microservices and service mesh technologies have grown wildly and thus became the de-facto industry standards. By Xinyu Liu.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile software-engineering
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How to automate PostgreSQL 12 replication and failover with repmgr
Posted on February 17, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article about using repmgr for Postgres replication failover. repmgr is an open-source toolset from 2ndQuadrant, a leading specialist in PostgreSQL-related technologies and services. The product is used to automate, enhance, and manage PostgreSQL streaming replication. By Sadequl Hussain.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics software-engineering
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Best practices for event-driven microservice architecture
Posted on February 14, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
While you might have used REST as your service communications layer in the past, more and more projects are moving to an event-driven architecture. Let's dive into the pros and cons of this popular architecture, some of the key design choices it entails, and common anti-patterns. By Jason Skowronski.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics software-engineering
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Behavior-Based attribution using Google BigQuery ML
Posted on February 12, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Constantine Yurevich is author of this article in which he argues why you should create a custom attribution tool. With out-of-the-box tools, you're limited by their functionality, data transformations, models, and heuristics.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning cloud-and-infrastructure
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Can wearables keep up with us?
Posted on February 10, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Brinnae Bent and Jessilyn Dunn form Duke University wrote an article about wearable technology. Wearable technology has the potential to transform healthcare and research through accessible, continuous, and longitudinal health monitoring.
Tags software-engineering data-and-analytics miscellaneous
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Embodied Learning is essential to Artificial Intelligence
Posted on February 9, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Jeff Hawkins has a principle that intuitively makes a lot of sense, yet is something that Deep Learning research has not emphasized enough. This is the notion of embodied learning. That is, biological systems learn from interacting with the environment. By Carlos E. Perez.
Tags software-engineering data-and-analytics miscellaneous
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Covariant uses simple robot and gigantic neural net to automate warehouse picking
Posted on February 6, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
A massive neural network connects cameras, a robot arm, and a suction gripper in Covariant's logistics system. By Evan Ackerman.
Tags miscellaneous data-and-analytics business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure
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Quantum computing for the very curious
Posted on February 2, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
If aliens have computers, it's because computers are the answer to a question that naturally occurs to both human and alien civilizations. By Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen.
Tags how-to cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning software-engineering
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The rise and fall of the OLAP Cube
Posted on January 30, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
One of the biggest shifts in data analytics over the past decade is the move away from building "data cubes", or "OLAP cubes", to running OLAP workloads directly on columnar databases. By Cedric Chin.
Tags data-and-analytics miscellaneous architecture-and-apis
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Exploring an Apache Kafka to Pub/Sub migration: Major considerations
Posted on January 28, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In many cases, Google's Pub/Sub messaging and event distribution service can successfully replace Apache Kafka, with lower maintenance and operational costs, and better integration with other Google Cloud services. By Leonid Yankulin.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning cloud-and-infrastructure
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SQL Injection: A beginner's guide for WordPress users
Posted on January 22, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
SQL injection, or SQLi, is an attack on a web application by compromising its database through malicious SQL statements. As it's a common attack, let's try to learn more about what it is, how it happens, and how to defend yourself from it. By Shaunik Daityari.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure