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For this podcast, Ann Lewis, CTO at MoveOn, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. Topics discussed included: the political tech landscape; MoveOn’s architecture and scaling challenges; MoveOn’s open-source text banking platform Spoke; and advice when stepping into a CTO role. (Podcast) |
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Research teams from Google and Microsoft have recently developed natural language processing (NLP) AI models which have scored higher than the human baseline score on the SuperGLUE benchmark. SuperGLUE measures a model's score on several natural language understanding (NLU) tasks, including question answering and reading comprehension. (News) |
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced Amazon DevOps Guru, one of several new machine learning-driven services. DevOps Guru detects operational issues, generates reports and notifications, and offers insights and recommendations on how to take action. (News) |
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Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant Clojure HTTP stack aimed to scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and save us computing costs. In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. Finally, we will discuss Clojure and immutability, and some of our design decisions. (Article) |
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Idit Levine discusses the unique opportunities presented in service mesh for multi-cluster and multi-mesh operations. (Presentation with transcript included) Level-up on the practices, patterns, and skills most in-demand in software right now. Attend QCon Plus (May 10 - 28, 2021). |
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Is the rapid pace of continuous rollouts making it too easy for your organization to cut corners when it comes to ensuring product source code is secure? You may need to reorient your team culture to adopt agile-friendly security processes. True collaboration between security and dev teams is the key to avoiding product vulnerabilities without compromising on your sprint cadence. (Article) |
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The second article in a series on how software companies adapted and continue to adapt to enhance their resilience explores how organizations can shift to a Learn & Adapt safety mode and compares the traits of an organization that is well poised for successfully persisting this mode shift. This shift will not only make them safer but will also give them a competitive advantage. (Article) |
Dan Abel discusses how they have changed their culture and built confidence in security practices with a culture of collaboration across their organization. (Presentation) |
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