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I’d like Gmail to be smart enough to automatically skip the spam folder for any mail that’s coming from someone I just wrote to. I’d like my Apple calendar to know that I never, e…

How do you solve a problem that someone doesn't know they have?

If you are a designer of chips that are based on the most advanced processes available from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and your roadmap is

An organization is FIPS-compliant when it adheres to Federal Information Processing Standards and the Federal Information Security Management Act.

On the back of strong execution and revenue growth of 55% for the first half of 2021.

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The explosion in AI and data-driven apps has in turn driven the migration from Hadoop and fueled the adoption of Spark and machine learning.

Stop saying WASM is the end of containers, start saying WASM plus containers

Contributor Connor Hicks describes three benefits of WebAssembly — security, portability and performance — and why they make WASM powerful.

Take your skills to an entirely new level by learning to create a visually stunning and blazing fast next generation web app using web…

A misconception that I held for a really long time was that systems that use SQL (Structured Query Language) are by definition relational databases, and systems that don’t (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra) are non-relational. It’s easy to understand whether a database uses SQL or not, but what does it mean when we say a database is relational? At a minimum, relational databases expose data in the form of “relations,” another word for tables with rows and columns.

Almost half of Kubernetes users surveyed said the problems with running stateful workloads on it represent their primary challenge in using the technology, according to a study from Cockroach Labs, Red Hat, and Gatepoint Research.

Why multicloud is an important part of any cloud native strategy.

An old apricot tree reminded me that life is wonderfully decentralized, helping it succeed in harsh conditions.

The inside story of how and why a leading cloud-based visual-effects rendering platform moved from Kubernetes to Nomad and how it turned out.

Pulumi's open source infrastructure as code SDK enables you to create, deploy, and manage infrastructure on any cloud, using your favorite languages.

Codex can convert written command into code. Codex takes written instructions and turns them into usable code.

D1 deliver 362 TeraFLOPs of power

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When doing data engineering, it is common for engineers to want to first load all of the data in memory before processing the data. If you have sufficient memory and the loaded data is not ephemeral or you have small volumes, it is a sensible approach. After all, that is how a spreadsheet typically works: … Continue reading The big-load anti-pattern

Intel has announced two more IPUs and a SmartNIC at an Architecture Day event, as it disses the DPU idea and doubles down on the IPU term. These Intel IPUs (Infrastructure Processing Units) process IT infrastructure-related events for cloud service providers, as opposed to their tenant CPUs which process client applications and directly generate revenue. […]

In episode 2 I mentioned three aspects of pl/python that are reasons to use it instead of pl/pgsql: access to Python modules, metaprogramming, and introspection. In episode 5 I discussed metaprogra…

All processor designs are the result of a delicate balancing act, perhaps most touchy in the case of a high performance CPU that needs to be all things to

When the top brass at Intel say that the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP CPUs and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe HPC GPUs that are coming out early next year represent the

Kentik Labs is making five open source projects available as part of an effort to advance observability across network operations (NetOps).

With telecom APIs, businesses can support robust interactions and consumers can choose from an array of communications options.

A snapshot of the IT environment provided by a Veeam survey shows that hybrid IT has become reality, cloud disaster recovery is difficult and a minority interest, and Office 365 data needs backing up — as does cloud-native app data. Data protector Veeam has issued a 2021 Cloud Protection Trends Report based on data from […]