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| Facebook AI researchers open-sourced CraftAssist, a framework for building interactive assistants for the Minecraft video game. The bots use natural language understanding (NLU) to parse and execute text commands from human players, such as requests to build houses in the game world. The framework's modular structure can be extended by researchers to perform their own ML experiments. (News) |
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 In this article, we will look at how the CNAB packaging format provides application providers and developers with a way of installing a multi-component application into a distributed computing environment, supporting many executable units, and makes it easy to deliver apps across teams, organizations and marketplaces. (Article) |
 The 2019 news cycle within the "cloud native" corner of the world has been abuzz with a word previously thought outmoded by the rapid rise of containers: “hypervisor.” This article explores the motivations behind this, focusing on security, user experience, and isolation flexibility, and concludes by speculating on the future direction of development within the cloud and container industry. (Article) |
 Mark Price explores the improvements in cloud networking technology, looks at performance testing and measurement in cloud environments, and outlines techniques for low-latency messaging from an application and operating-system perspective. Finally, he compares the performance of the latest cloud tech with a bare-metal installation. (Presentation with transcript included)
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 Robin van Zijll and Janna Brummel talk about the history, present and future of ING’s SRE team and practices. They touch upon people (hiring, coaching, organizational aspects, culture), process (way of working, education), technology (observability, infrastructure), and share lessons learned that can be applied to any organization starting or growing SRE, financial or not. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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| In a recent paper, Google researchers claim they programmed a quantum processor to perform a task that would require 10,000 years on a state-of-the-art classical supercomputer. Google's claim did not entirely persuade IBM researchers, who proposed an ideal simulation of the quantum task which, they argue, only requires 2.5 days on a classical computer and provides greater fidelity. (News) |
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| A study published in June 2019 reveals that in the Alexa Top 1 million websites, one out of 600 sites execute WebAssembly (Wasm) code. The study moreover finds that over 50% of those sites using WebAssembly apply it for malicious deeds, such as cryptocurrency mining and malware code obfuscation. (News) |
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| The latest NDK for Android, version r21, now available in beta, brings a number of significant changes, including Fortify being enabled by default, and newer versions of GNU Make and GDB. Additionally, starting with r21 Google will manage a new release process with a yearly Long Term Support (LTS) guarantee to provide users more stability. (News) |
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 Stan Rosenberg explores a set of core building blocks exhibited by Adtech platforms and applies them towards building a fraud detection platform. After addressing performance, he touches on the key attributes of system reliability and quality in an Adtech system. He concludes with many insights learned from building one of the leading fraud detection platforms from the ground up. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Jarrod Overson describes the cost vs value justification of an attack, how it shifts over time, and why it means that silver bullets just don’t exist. He walks through the evolution of one of the cheapest modern attacks, credential stuffing, and sees what attackers do after they have data and access. (Presentation with transcript included) |
 Robert Roeser and Arsalan Farooq talk about how techniques used in Fintech and Adtech – such as zero copy, flyweights, composite buffers, pooled memory, shared memory transport and direct memory in languages like Java – can be used to improve performance in distributed applications. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 Productivity decline and technical debt, as often seen in agile development, can be prevented by separating unsolved problems into premature and foreseeable. It shifts the discussion about unsolved problems from importance to likelihood. With small but essential adjustments, agile can be kept sustainable. With this insight, developer-architect differences and team psychology gaps can be bridged. (Article) |
 The Technology Takers – Leading Change in the Digital Era by Jens P. Flanding, Genevieve M. Grabman, and Sheila Q. Cox explains how organizations can achieve competitive advantage through their speed and flexibility in adopting technology. It prescribes a change management approach for adapting workplace behaviors to market-dominating technology to maximize its benefits. (Article) |
 Lisa Crispin talks about the current and future state of testing, how testing works in agile environments, the value testers bring to DevOps, testing machine learning and where testing is headed. Testing is a communication activity and communication skills are vital to successfully leveraging testing skills and knowledge in modern software development. (Article) |
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 Ian Mitchell discusses why “blended” roles are less sustainable and scalable, and also considers the extent to which such roles are common because “broken” Scrum implementations are common. (Presentation) |
 Dan Makoski discusses how, whether designing for tech giants or the oldest banking institutions, retaining the human touch is key to empowering prosperity for everyone. (Presentation) |
 Mario Areias presents a different way of engaging security, and, in doing so, he’ll make the case that security can deliver value without necessarily being a blocker. (Presentation) |
 Katharina Probst discusses autonomy, mastery, and purpose which motivate people, diving deeper into purpose. (Presentation with transcript included) |
