The German automaker uses new software from chipmaker Nvidia to simulate train robots and human workers.

If you’re operating on the IT side, you’re likely all too familiar with troubleshooting an unexpected outage caused by what should be a simple upgrade to a switch, or bringing a new server onto the network. While modern data center design for private and public clouds has been rapidly evolving from traditional Layer 2 networks…

For the most part, this post is a summary of CAP and PACELC Theorems. Here I have just the gist of it, short and in plain English.

The societal ramifications of Covid-19 passports are not easy to parse. Ultimately, I believe they are inevitable, so the questions for us are when, where, and how they should be used.

HackerRank introduces the ability to create customized Whiteboard questions in an effort to save time while providing a great interview experience.

The contest is over. Faster, cheaper, more flexible than gas turbines – battery energy storage must be the future peaking energy service provider of choice, according to a new paper by Australia's Clean Energy Council.

In a spare, drab office park in Sunnyvale, California, a bunch of two-by-fours and foamboard have been nailed together into a makeshift model of a shipping container. Inside, a bare, unlit Edison...

Cookies are dying, and the tracking industry is scrambling to replace them. Google has proposed Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), TURTLEDOVE, and other bird-themed tech that would have browsers

  This course is intended to teach you x86 assembly programming. This course teaches you how processors work and how machine code is possible. We start the course using an emulator for the legacy Intel 8086 processor. Since we start the...

As the pandemic has rolled along, many things in phone retail have changed. What's happening in stores, according to a recently departed Verizon employee, seems quite extraordinary.

Running Apache Kafka as a service on Kubernetes provides a number of benefits to different environments, especially to organizations that are focused on becoming cloud native. After a few years of experience running Kafka on Kubernetes, we've learned that it doesn’t have to be complicated. To clarify what we mean by Kafka as a Service,…

Deployments, pods, and services add connectivity and communication in our Kubernetes apps. Scott Coulton, Microsoft Developer Advocate and Docker Captain, explains when to use these resources.

Cloud Native CI/CD

Helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager.

The world is going multicloud. But what does that mean precisely? When we talk about the word “multicloud” we tend to talk about it in a monolithic way. But if you look just beneath the surface, you’ll find that people have different ideas about what it means — so these conversations need to be more…

By Goran Petrovic History It’s been a long-standing tradition of my team to organize hackathons twice a year. In weeks prior to the hacka...

Code rots. The day you release it, your software becomes a legacy. Some call this technical debt. You have to maintain actively.

Grafana Labs has introduced a number of features to its popular observability platform ahead of what will be perhaps its most major release of the year when it launches Grafana 8.0 in June. The updates were made in large part from the feedback of the active Grafana open source community. “The usability improvements, the tighter…

Establishing some first principles of the bullshit economy.

These are the three problems with creative work. The first is that when we begin, we’re not that good. This is a fact. The breakthrough for anyone on this journey is adding the word “ye…

Recently, I demonstrated how to implement full-drive encryption on Linux with LUKS and the cryptsetup command. While encrypting a whole drive is useful in many cases, there are reasons you might not want to encode an entire drive. For instance, you might require a drive to work across several platforms, some of which may not have Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) integration.

I first heard the story of Steven Donziger on the fifth season Amy Westervelt’s brilliant true crime climate change podcast Drilled! But Esquire also recently published an excellent story abo…

How Farmhand Automation built a custom system for long-range communication to support autonomous micro-tractors