HashiCorp’s State of Cloud Strategy Survey reveals an ongoing cloud skills shortage, driving use of cloud platform teams and adoption of automated tools.

If we focus on security certifications and don’t embed controls on our actual tech stacks, user data and infrastructure, we’ll soon find the show’s over.

Somebody is wrong on the internet - gotta fix it!

We are finding out that as machine learning models grow larger and larger, so do their corresponding carbon footprints, especially when it comes to creating and training these complex models.

This is a guest post written by Olivia Meehan, a 2022 Junior Fellow working with the Web Archiving Team. Her project was completed under the mentorship of  Lauren Baker. If you follow a link referenced in an article just to hit a dead-end, “page not found” error message – you have experienced link rot. “Link […]

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Best thing we can do to JavaScript is retire it: JSON creator Douglas Crockford

What if we pointed unconstrained compute at our planet and our own bodies? The concept of digital twins leads our world to this future.

Sema CEO Matt Van Itallie recently wrote a new article for "This is Learning".

Kyndryl and DXC Technology report declining revenues and worsening bottom line

Developers need to always be learning, but knowing what skills companies need can help you direct your learning towards marketable skills.

It’s a communications medium.

On 23 March 2021, LINX London experienced an outage. As this is one of the very large Internet Exchange Points, this is an interesting case to study in more depth in order to see what we can learn about Internet robustness.

Guest Post: The RIPE Labs team takes a look at a recent outage at one of the largest IXPs in Europe to see how well the Internet was able to route around it.

In today’s episode, we complete the ultimate showdown between product and developer! In this round, it will be the developers who are on the defensive as Dave and Michael account for their faux pas as developers. Rob O'Brien returns to the show with plenty of ammunition. Our conversation starts with a friendly exploration of the type of faux pas a developer might generally commit, as we repeatedly return to the importance of a team-based mindset and why developers need to be invested in user outcomes. We explore how a developer’s role goes beyond completing their delegated tasks and some handy tips for working with designers. The crew also outlines the many benefits of building rapport with your co-worker including having more resilience when things get stressful and having a more cohesive team working environment. Tuning in you’ll hear a thrilling, action-packed discussion on the merits and flaws of developers and how to make your team a badass trifecta of efficiency!

Build & Share Delightful Machine Learning Apps

A plan to turn Amazon into a dumb pipe.

A deeper dive into how LiveView became LiveView

People who don’t listen to podcasts often ask people who do: “When do you find time to listen?” For me it’s always on long walks or hikes. (I do a lot of cycling too, and ha…

The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped

Twelve years ago, I posted The Data Bubble. It began, The tide turned today. Mark it: 31 July 2010. That’s when The Wall Street Journal published The Web’s Gold Mine: Your Secrets, subtitled A Jour…

Photo courtesy of Emad/Stablity.ai via Twitter The Verge reports on the internal challenges at Meta nee Facebook and how company is trying to deal with it. Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO…

Many organizations routinely make trade-offs between application quality and a need to deploy code faster, an Applitools survey showed.

What’s been your experience with architecture vs. engineering roles? Are those distinct functions or combined in your organization? How do the roles interact? Does the architecture team hand down holy designs from their ivory tower the engineering team is expected to implement them? Is the architecture and engineering function more combined, where experienced engineers are expected to create an architecture and help put it in place? Ethan Banks and guest Pat Allen share their experiences with architecture and engineering roles from organizations they've worked in.

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