Tag: Leadership and career
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MLOps and the evolution of data science
Posted on September 27, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
The advancement of computing power over recent decades has led to an explosion of digital data, from traffic cameras monitoring commuter habits to smart refrigerators revealing how and when the average family eats. Both computer scientists and business leaders have taken note of the potential of the data. The information can deepen our understanding of how our world works—and help create better and "smarter" products. By IBM Data and AI Team.
Tags leadership-and-career ai-and-machine-learning product-and-design data-and-analytics
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Cloud technologies for startups: Fuelling growth and innovation
Posted on September 26, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Cloud computing has become an essential tool for startups, providing them with the flexibility, scalability, and affordability they need to grow and innovate rapidly. By dataconomy.com.
Tags leadership-and-career business-and-emerging-tech product-and-design
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Distributed computing system models
Posted on September 21, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
Distributed computing refers to a system where processing and data storage are distributed across multiple devices or systems, rather than being handled by a single central device. By @geeksforgeeks.org.
Tags architecture-and-apis software-engineering leadership-and-career product-and-design
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Notes on teaching Test Driven Development
Posted on September 20, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Notes from interesting exercise where author was helping a client learn how to apply Test Driven Development and developer testing from scratch. The developer in question was very inquisitive and trying hard to understand how best to apply testing and even a little TDD. By @jeremydmiller.
Tags testing-and-quality software-engineering leadership-and-career product-and-design
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Streams in Scala - introductory guide
Posted on September 19, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Streams in Scala provide a lazy evaluation mechanism where elements are computed on-demand rather than being eagerly evaluated and stored in memory. This allows for efficient memory utilization, especially when dealing with large datasets or potentially infinite sequences of data. By Aniefiok Akpan.
Tags architecture-and-apis backend-development software-engineering leadership-and-career data-and-analytics
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What is the difference between tech debt and code debt?
Posted on September 18, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The article explains the difference between code debt and technical debt, two concepts that are often used in software development. Code debt refers to the potential cost that developers incur when they take shortcuts or implement quick fixes during the coding process, such as hard coding values, duplicate coding, or using deprecated libraries. By Sofia Jürgenson.
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Measuring trends in Artificial Intelligence
Posted on September 17, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
The AI Index is an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry. The annual report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence, enabling decision-makers to take meaningful action to advance AI responsibly and ethically with humans in mind. By stanford.edu.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Artificial intelligence is a very real data center problem
Posted on September 16, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It would be stupid for us to not consider the consequences as tools like Open AI's ChatGPT or Google's Bard for example to proliferate and introduce machine intelligence to everyday people. That includes how our data centers are evolving amid the rapid growth in data that needs to be stored, processed, managed, and transferred. By Dr. Michael Lebby.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Discussing PostgreSQL: What changes in version 16
Posted on September 15, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
The article discusses the new features and improvements in PostgreSQL 16, the latest version of the open source relational database. By Amit Kapila.
Tags backend-development leadership-and-career data-and-analytics frontend-and-mobile
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How to use MailHog to test emails locally (step-by-step guide)
Posted on September 13, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
MailHog is an open source email testing tool that allows developers to test their email sending and receiving capabilities more efficiently. It is a lightweight and easy-to-use tool that can be run on multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS. By Salman Ravoof.
Tags testing-and-quality software-engineering architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career frontend-and-mobile
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Google Cloud Next 2023 FinOps product announcements recap
Posted on September 12, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Google Cloud recently announced a number of new FinOps features and enhancements at Google Next '23. These new features and enhancements are designed to help organizations optimize their cloud costs and get the most value from their cloud investment. By Sarah McMullin.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career business-and-emerging-tech
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AWS EC2 instance types: Challenges and best practices for hosting your applications in AWS
Posted on September 11, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
When it comes to hosting applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the most important decisions you will need to make is which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type to choose. EC2 instances are virtual machines that allow you to run your applications on AWS. By Christopher Graham.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd product-and-design