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Meet Seymour: New Relic’s Exploration into Machine Learning for App Monitoring
New Relic founder and CEO Lew Cirne unveiled the future of his company at its FutureStack16 conference earlier this month, and its name is Seymour. This machine-learning technology mines data from the...
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In March of this year, Microsoft backed out of a deal to buy Slack deciding instead to focus on expanding Skype to handle business needs better, the work of which resulted in the recent release of...
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Margaret Hamilton: Software Engineering Pioneer
The next time you read a report about the low numbers of female software engineers in the field, keep in mind the irony of this: It was a woman who coined the term “software engineer.” That woman,...
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CloudNOW’s Award Event Celebrated Women’s Innovations
Over 250 people gathered Wednesday on the Google Campus in Mountain View, California to celebrate 12 projects representing a wide range of use of cloud technology and hours of hard work. CloudNOW, a...
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IBM Introduces Cognitive Computing to Developers with Project Intu
To help coders get a handle on the emerging practice of cognitive computing, IBM has launched an experimental service, called Project Intu, that provides a way to quickly integrate various IBM Bluemix...
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How Zuck Built His Jarvis AI Bot from APIs
You may have heard by now that Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s personal project for 2016 was to build his own Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot, which he affectionately named Jarvis. Zuckerberg’s...
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2007: The Year We Reinvented Everything
At the keynote speech at GitHub Universe this year, CEO Chris Wanstrath reminded the audience that the first code was committed to GitHub in 2007, just nine years ago. I got lost thinking about how...
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CES 2017: Buddy the Bot and Other Cool Electronics from the Show Floor
The buzz word for the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas the show is “Next Generation.” This means there is a lot of advancing existing technology and devices, and maybe less in the way...
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A Trick to Reduce Processing Time on AWS Lambda from 5 Minutes to 300...
Jean Lescure, Data Mining Expert. At the beginning of 2016, Jean Lescure, Senior Software Engineer and Architect at Gorilla Logic, watched a 3GB file containing five million rows of data churn through...
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Nate Silver’s Lessons for Big Data from the Unpredicted Trump Victory
Four years ago, Nate Silver, data analyst extraordinaire and editor-in-chief at fivethirtyeight.com wrote a book subtitled Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t. It explains why predictive...
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Know When to Fold ‘Em: CMU AI Program Beats Humans at No Limits Texas Hold...
We fought the AI, and the AI won. And in this round of machine learning, computers learned to bluff. In Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University pitted its artificial intelligence...
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GitLab Data Loss Incident Prompts a Review of its Restore Processes
A short outage this week on the GitLab hosted code service struck a combination of fear and sympathy across the tech community and offered a sharp reminder of the importance of testing your backups...
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The Rise of the Rogue Government Tweeters
It started with a single tweet and ended with the roar of #Resist. The U.S. National Park Service (NPS), who maintains a very active Twitter feed, re-tweeted a set of images by Reuters showing the...
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DigitalOcean Now Offers Load Balancing as a Service
Cloud services provider DigitalOcean has launched Load Balancers, a service for customers to use to distribute traffic across their infrastructure to achieve 100 percent uptime for their production...
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Lyft’s Envoy Proxy Server Helped Move the Company to a Service-Oriented...
At the Microservices Practitioner Summit held in San Francisco on January 31, Matt Klein, software “plumber” at Lyft, delved into how the car-sharing service moved its monolithic applications to a...
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GitLab Now Offers Free Static Web Page Hosting
In response to community requests, GitLab has launched a new service that gives developers the ability to host static web pages for free, called GitLab Pages, community edition (CE). Getting Started...
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Six Challenges Every Organization Will Face Implementing Microservices
Susan Fowler-Rigetti at the Microservices Practitioner Summit in San Francisco There are six issues that every organization will run into when attempting to implement a microservice architecture at...
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GitHub Now Offers Single Sign-On
GitHub, the open source code-sharing platform supporting 52 million projects, has upgraded its code-hosting services with single sign-on (SSO) authentication. The company used SAML (Security Assertion...
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Bonsai’s Mark Hammond on Artificial Intelligence: It’s About Teaching
In a way, the phrase “machine learning” is misleading to programmers, because, really, successful artificial intelligence is more about “teaching,” than “learning,” so asserts Mark Hammond, founder and...
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With a Full-Stack Columnar Data Store, Interana Can Answer Your Questions...
It all starts with curiosity, said Bobby Johnson, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Interana, a company providing Interactive Analytics to clients with big data. Curiosity and a belief that...
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