Bulletin for Friday, 14 Oct 2022
7 days digest
Andrew Helwer (1)
dr knz @ work (1)
Computer Things (1)
Earthly Blog (1)
Stratechery by Ben Thompson (1)
Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
Google AI Blog (1)
Graham King (1)
High Scalability (1)
Tech Notes (1)
Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog (1)
Stay SaaSy (1)
dropbox.tech (1)
- Is the strategy of joining late-stage startups for the financial upside, a dead end?
- Will Facebook / Meta do engineering layoffs?
Tech at Meta (2)
- Meta Connect 2022: Meta Quest Pro and the road to the metaverse
- Reality Labs Research at Meta Connect 2022
- Use configuration audit logs to track changes in your tailnet
- Use NextDNS everywhere you use Tailscale
- Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2022 Edition
- Report: Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims
Weaveworks (2)
- New Executive Briefing for Business Leaders: Adapt and Thrive
- ADAPT AND THRIVE: How to Keep Hold of Your Most Important Assets
Replit Blog (2)
Timescale Blog (2)
- VPC Peering: From Zero to Hero
- How to Test Performance Improvements on Up-To-Date Production Data in Timescale Cloud
The CircleCI Blog Feed - CircleCI (2)
- Containers vs virtual machines: what is the difference?
- Share secrets with standalone projects with project context restrictions
- Cloudflare DDoS threat report 2022 Q3
- Assembly within! BPF tail calls on x86 and ARM
- Cloudflare Pages gets even faster with Early Hints
- Microsoft named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management
- Introducing new Microsoft Defender for Cloud innovations to strengthen cloud-native protections
- 5 cybersecurity capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite 2022 to help you secure more with less
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (4)
- Day Two Cloud 167: Interviewing At A Huge Tech Company
- Tech Bytes: Get Early Attack Detection And Fast Response With Fortinet FortiDeceptor (Sponsored)
- Network Break 402: Ex Uber Exec Guilty Of Breach Coverup; Startup Promotes Decentralized Cellular Networks
- Heavy Networking 650: Whether And How To Adopt Whitebox Switches
jacobian.org (4)
- When Is Short Tenure a Red Flag?
- Writing With Copilot
- Is this a parable about software development?
- Role Title Terminology
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (5)
- Pluralistic: 13 Oct 2022 US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care
- Pluralistic: 11 Oct 2022 Trusting (machine learning) trust; The housing market turns (more) toxic
- Pluralistic: 10 Oct 2022 Antitrust is – and always has been – about fairness
- Pluralistic: 09 Oct 2022 $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck
- Pluralistic: 07 Oct 2022 "Don't spy on a privacy lab," and other career advice for university provosts
- How observability-driven development creates elite performers
- The right way to job hop (Ep. 495)
- How to earn a million reputation on Stack Overflow: be of service to others
- Missed our Flow State conference? Catch up on all the sessions
- The Overflow #146: Weekday vs Weekend
- A chat with Red Hat’s Matt Hicks on his path from developer to CEO (Ep. 494)
Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (6)
- How to implement a “dry run mode” for data imports in Django
- The AI that creates any picture you want, explained
- Reasons Why I Think 50% Coding 50% Marketing is the Best Framework for Solo Tech Founders
- Can :has Connect 4?
- Stringing together several free tiers to host an application with zero cost using fly.io, Litestream and Cloudflare
- py2rs
- Five MIT PhD students named as inaugural Amazon Fellows
- 3 questions with Antia Lamas-Linares about the Nobel Prize in physics
- Amazon, Virginia Tech announce fellowship and faculty research awards
- Using graph neural networks to recommend related products
- Amazon Research Awards recipients announced
- TRIPP explores the potential of VR–powered meditation
- Hacking with Go: Part 2 (Go Time #251)
- Vorsprung durch Technik (Ship It! #74)
- What's up, DocQuery? (Practical AI #196)
- Forking SQLite, generative AI for music, saying no to sprints, awesome diagramming tools & state machine facts (The Changelog)
- A new batch of web frameworks emerge! (The Changelog #509)
- 7 pounds of news in a 5 pound bag (JS Party #246)
- Mat's GopherCon EU diary (Go Time #250)
Cloud Blog (19)
- Google Cloud infrastructure enhancements tailored for your workloads
- At Next ’22, introducing new capabilities for secure transformations
- The future of sustainable flying is data-driven for Lufthansa Group
- Introducing Software Delivery Shield for end-to-end software supply chain security
- Developers - Build, learn, and grow your career faster with Google Cloud
- Introducing the next evolution of Looker, your unified business intelligence platform
- Advancing digital sovereignty on Europe's terms
- Building the most open and extensible platform for hybrid work
- What's new in Google Cloud databases: More unified. More open. More intelligent.
- 20+ Cloud Networking innovations unveiled at Google Cloud Next
- Save time deploying web applications using MongoDB and Cloud Run
- Introducing Confidential Space to help unlock the value of secure data collaboration
- The next wave of Google Cloud infrastructure innovation: New C3 VM and Hyperdisk
- Open source collaborations and key partnerships to help accelerate AI innovation
- New cloud regions coming to a country near you
- Building the most open data cloud ecosystem: Unifying data across multiple sources and platforms
- Introducing Chronicle Security Operations: Detect, investigate, and respond to cyberthreats with the speed, scale, and intelligence of Google
- Introducing innovations in Google Workspace to help your organization thrive in hybrid work
- New AI agents can drive business results faster: Translation Hub, Document AI, and Contact Center AI
It’s hard to find a textbook series garnering more effusive praise than The Little Schemer, The Little Prover, The Little Typer & co. The Little Typer introduces dependent type theory and is the first of the series I’ve read. I quickly grew to appreciate & enjoy its dialogue-based presentation - I’m a real convert! I might release future didactic blog posts as a dialogue rather than straight recitation of material in block paragraphs. (BACK TO TOP)
What makes an engineering manager want to improve their people management behaviors & skills? In this document, we will look at various mechanisms through which organizations incentivize good people management, and which levers are available to reports to “manage up” and hold their managers accountable. ❦❦❦ For context, a quick aside: what … (BACK TO TOP)
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Sorry this newsletter is late! I was at a wedding on Monday and forgot to say “no newsletter this week”. As penance for my crimes, I’m going to turn my personal life into content . One of the nice things about being in software is I don’t have to dress up much. I still try to look good at conferences and events, but it’s more “shirt jacket over white tee” fashion, not “suit” look-good. “Fanciness” and “Comfort” are both optimization targets. ↩ (BACK TO TOP)
A conversation between Travis Brooks, Netflix Product Manager for Experimentation Platform, and George Khachatryan, OfferFit CEO Note: I’ve known George for a little while now, and as we’ve talked a lot about the philosophy of experimentation, he kindly invited me to their office (virtually) for their virtual speaker series. We had a fun conversation with his team, and we realized that some parts of it might make a good blog post as well. Hope you enjoy the result. — Travis B. 1. You’re a PM. 2. (BACK TO TOP)
As a developer managing containerized applications can be daunting especially when it comes to using a command-line interface; administrating docker containers, writing complicating, and having to learn the various commands can be intimidating. Depending on where you land on the spectrum, you might have no problem using a command-line interface; but for many folks, it’s a challenge. Portainer is an open-source service that provides a visual web view for containerized applications. (BACK TO TOP)
How to securely manage all of your event-driven audit logs with Snowflake and Teleport. (BACK TO TOP)
Meta's new hardware is more impressive than expected, and the Microsoft partnership makes a lot of sense. The question is if Meta will capture enough value to outweigh their costs. (BACK TO TOP)
sponsor The open source Product OS. Built on the modern data stack. PostHog's open source platform has everything engineering teams need in one place. Product Analytics, Session Recording, Funnels, Feature Flags, Experimentation and more — all seamlessly integrated. And you can self-host, so user data never leaves your infrastructure. this week's favorite Facts about State Machines They're all over the place. Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six Everyone wants to write clean code. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast
Stress, anxiety, nervousness — when these feelings inevitably arise, lecturer Kelly McGonigal says it’s not about making them go away, but using them to your advantage. “What I have come to value about anxiety,” says McGonigal, “is it’s a sign that I care.” As she explains, feelings of stress alert us to things that matter to us and help us stay present in the moment — particularly useful, she says, when it comes to communication. See Privacy Policy at https://art19. (BACK TO TOP)
This post also appears on Larry Paulson’s blog. We use distributed systems every day in the form of internet services. These systems are very useful, but also challenging to implement because networks are unpredictable. Whenever you send a message over the network, it is likely to arrive quite quickly, but... (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Ashish Thapliyal, Software Engineer, and Jordi Pont-Tuset, Research Scientist, Google Research Image captioning is the machine learning task of automatically generating a fluent natural language description for a given image. This task is important for improving accessibility for visually impaired users and is a core task in multimodal research encompassing both vision and language modeling. However, datasets for image captioning are primarily available in English.0 license .g.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
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When is the linear scan Two Sum solution faster than a map? What if we use AVX-512 instructions? (BACK TO TOP)
http://highscalability.com/blog/
I've been working hard on a completely updated version of Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 and I'm happy to announce it's ready! You can buy version 2.0 at: https://www.amazon.com/Explain-Cloud-Like-Im-10-ebook/dp/B0765C4SNR . If you've already bought, Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 , then you should just be able to update to the new version for free. What's new? This version has about 2x the material. How to decide between cloud providers. How to switch to the cloud. And lots more. So much more. (BACK TO TOP)
Given an array of N numbers of type double, the standard way to sort it in C is to invoke the qsort function qsort(array, N, sizeof(double), compare); where compare is a function which returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the first argument is less than, equal to, or greater … Continue reading The number of comparisons needed to sort a shuffled array: qsort versus std::sort (BACK TO TOP)
https://neugierig.org/software/blog/atom.xml
My first post-Figma hobby project is a win32 emulator I've called retrowin32 . It is now barely capable of executing a few unmodified Windows exe files in a browser (see the site for some links). I think I started thinking about this idea when I read the remark "win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI". That is, Linux churns so much that a given program written today won't work in a year; meanwhile, programs written in the Windows 95 32-bit era are guaranteed to never change again...). And so on. (BACK TO TOP)
https://geohot.github.io//blog/
So things have been pretty bad lately. The culture war is as far from won as ever. And I’m getting sued by a patent troll, which is a daily reminder of how completely broken our societial reward mechanisms are. How many booster u get bro? Reread the unabomber manifesto (1995) recently, and it is as unanswered as ever. I can’t bring myself to accept his conclusion that technology is bad and our only hope is to destroy it. Then I would forfeit any hope of being able to know everything. (BACK TO TOP)
If you're running Firefox on macOS you might have noticed that its responsiveness has improved significantly in version 103, especially if you've got a lot of tabs, or when your machine is busy running other applications at the same time. This improvement was achieved via a small change in how locking is implemented within Firefox's memory allocator. The post Improving Firefox responsiveness on macOS appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We’ve written before about how to be a senior leader . But at very senior levels, when you actually run a complete department, there are additional factors that you need to consider in order to be successful. When we talk about the head of a department, we’re referring to something like this list from Snowflake , excluding the CEO and Cofounders. The litmus test of whether you’re in this group: you are and/or report to a C-level executive, and your role is unique within the company.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Dropbox originally used Amazon S3 and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as the backbone of its data storage infrastructure. Although we migrated user file data to our internal block storage system Magic Pocket in 2015, Dropbox continued to use S3 and HDFS as a general-purpose store for other internal products and tools. Among these use cases were crash traces, build artifacts, test logs, and image caching. Caches built against S3 burned pricey GET requests with each cache miss. (BACK TO TOP)
In Work on what matters , I wrote about Hunter Walk’s idea of snacking: doing work that is easy to complete but low impact. The best story of my own snacking behaviors comes from my time at Stripe. I was focused on revamping the engineering organization’s approach to operating reliable software, and decided that it might also make sense to start an internal book club. It was, dear reader, not the right time to start a book club. Let’s call this reminiscing .g. a Grand Migration ). (BACK TO TOP)
Over time, these folks become increasingly load bearing, as few others acquire the knowledge, and access credentials, to respond when they’re not available. Fast forward to the future, and one of these key responders leaves the companies, which creates more load on the remaining key responders. More and more depart, and eventually the company has a painful era of relearning how to effectively respond to incidents. The harder but less painful path is to build data to support your case.g.g.0 (BACK TO TOP)
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/
The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO company issuing generous equity, then wait for the IPO. This strategy seems to be less profitable in 2022. (BACK TO TOP)
Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline possible options and give my opinion on the likelihood of layoffs in the coming months. (BACK TO TOP)
Last year at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg shared our vision for the metaverse — a set of interconnected digital spaces that will let you do things you can’t do in the physical world and connect more deeply with the people who matter most. Today, he took the virtual stage alongside leaders from Reality Labs at […] The post Meta Connect 2022: Meta Quest Pro and the road to the metaverse appeared first on Tech at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
When it comes to the futuristic AR/VR and neural interface research that will underpin the coming metaverse, seeing is believing. Much of this research — led by Reality Labs Chief Scientist Michael Abrash — is still several years out from possibly making its way into consumers’ hands, and not everyone can make the trek to […] The post Reality Labs Research at Meta Connect 2022 appeared first on Tech at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Understanding what changes were made to your Tailscale network, and who made them, is critical for maintaining the security and integrity of your network. That’s why we’re making it even easier for admins — and your auditors! — to review changes made to your tailnet’s configuration, such as adding devices, updating ACLs, or changing DNS settings. Configuration audit logs, now in beta, capture changes made to your network in the coordination server . See documentation for the Tailscale API . (BACK TO TOP)
Ever wanted to run your own DNS resolver but you don’t actually want to run your own DNS resolver because running DNS is fraught with pain? Tailscale now supports NextDNS ! NextDNS lets you choose exactly how you want to run a DNS resolver — but they run it for you, all over the world. (It’s a bit more robust and lower latency from other cities than that Pi of yours dangling off the shelf by your cable modem. Select “Override local DNS” to force your devices to use NextDNS.32 or later . (BACK TO TOP)
Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 85 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a new zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that is being actively exploited. However, noticeably absent from this month's Patch Tuesday are any updates to address a pair of zero-day flaws being exploited this past month in Microsoft Exchange Server. (BACK TO TOP)
When U.S. consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. But new data released this week suggests that for some of the nation's largest banks, reimbursing account takeover victims has become more the exception than the rule. (BACK TO TOP)
In this briefing for business leaders, we examine the ways in which GitOps can help businesses to compete more effectively. For anyone outside of technical roles, approaches to software delivery like DevOps and GitOps can seem too abstract to be of real use. In a new executive briefing, we explain some of the most important business benefits of adopting a model like GitOps, focusing on areas that are vital for organizations across all sectors. (BACK TO TOP)
If you can’t give your developers the tools they need to deliver, they’ll work elsewhere. Developers want to be productive. And to be competitive, you need them to be productive, too. But as the cloud native era places more pressure on organizations to deliver software quickly, it can be easy to overlook the importance of the developer experience. In this article, we look at why it’s so important – and how GitOps can be used to give your developers what they need. But it’s not all bad news. (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how we detected and optimized two slow queries in arewefastyet using PlanetScale Insights. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how and when to use inner joins, outer joins, left joins, and right joins. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
Part of what makes Replit so exciting to us is our community. We're always looking for new ways to help our creators connect, collaborate, and create something great together. When you're coding a great idea, we want to help you stay in creative flow, without being isolated from your friends or team. Since their introduction in 2021, Threads have been important for collaborative creation on Replit, especially for educators and students. Click it to open the associated thread. (BACK TO TOP)
Web hosting on Replit is simple yet effective. When you start a server in your repl, we automatically detect which port it opened on and provide a public endpoint for you to access it. In other words, every HTTP request that goes to a *.repl.co domain is reverse-proxied through our secure infrastructure. This lets us do some cool things that more basic hosting providers simply can't do. One of these is analytics for your website or API. Please leave a comment on this repl with your feedback. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.timescale.com/blog/
Are you a newbie to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering? Do you have experience but would like to learn more? Join the Timescale Support Team in a step-by-step guide on configuring VPC peering between Timescale Cloud and AWS to ensure your services will never be exposed to the public internet. (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to easily and safely test performance improvements in your production database, including advice on designing and writing your own tests. (BACK TO TOP)
In computing, virtualization is the creation of a virtual — as opposed to a physical — version of computer hardware platforms, storage devices, and network resources. Virtualization creates virtual resources from physical resources, like hard drives, central processing units (CPUs), and graphic processing units (GPUs). By virtualizing resources, you can combine a network of resources into what appears to users as one object. Generally, people discussing containers mean application containers. (BACK TO TOP)
Introducing project context restrictions for GitLab organizations. This feature enables project-based restrictions on contexts for standalone projects that are not tied to a VCS. Standalone projects are available at this time only with a GitLab integration with CircleCI. In this blog post, we hope to explain the value of this feature and how it can be used to further secure your workflows. By default contexts are unrestricted on CircleCI. Project restrictions also work great with Project roles. (BACK TO TOP)
In Q3, DDoS attacks increased by 111% YoY, Cloudflare auto-mitigated a 2.5 Tbps attack targeting a Minecraft server as multi-terabit scale DDoS attacks become increasingly frequent. Read more in our 2022 Q3 DDoS Report (BACK TO TOP)
We have first adopted the BPF tail calls when building our XDP-based packet processing pipeline. BPF tail calls have served us well since then. But they do have their caveats (BACK TO TOP)
Announcing support for sending Early Hints from your Cloudflare Pages projects (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for security information and event management and is positioned highest on the measure of Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Defenders are facing expanding attack surface areas and sophisticated threats compounded by insecure code that leaves the door open to attackers. To counter these threats we’re excited to announce new innovations in Microsoft Defender for Cloud to provide cloud-native application protection to strengthen security posture and mitigate risk from code to cloud. (BACK TO TOP)
Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Compliance, Identity, and Management Vasu Jakkal shares five security strategies to protect your organization and do more with less. The post 5 cybersecurity capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite 2022 to help you secure more with less appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
On today's Day Two Cloud we talk about what it's like to interview for a job at a massive tech company. How do you get yourself in line? What can you expect from the interview? How do you prepare? How do you overcome your own imposter syndrome? Our guest is Nathaniel Avery, Outbound Product Manager at Google Cloud. He recently ran the gauntlet of the tech interview, and is here to share tips and insights on the process. (BACK TO TOP)
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking deception. That is, deceiving attackers that try to exploit your network by creating fake assets and infrastructure. Sponsor Fortinet is here to talk about using deception techniques to spot intruders via its FortiDeceptor product. We’ll also talk about threat reconnaissance capabilities of a product called FortiRecon. Our guest is Moshe Ben Simon, VP of Product Management. (BACK TO TOP)
Network Break 402: Ex Uber Exec Guilty Of Breach Coverup; Startup Promotes Decentralized Cellular Networks
This week's Network Break podcast discusses new security capabilities from Aryaka, a Cisco/Microsoft partnership, the guilty verdict for Uber's former CSO, a startup tackling decentralized cell networks, and more tech news. The post Network Break 402: Ex Uber Exec Guilty Of Breach Coverup; Startup Promotes Decentralized Cellular Networks appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
On today’s Heavy Networking podcast, Kevin Myers joins us for a whitebox conversation. Kevin helps Internet Service Providers build their networks, and has noticed increased adoption of whitebox switches. Why? Are the problems whitebox solves for these ISPs the same you might have at your company? Should you consider whitebox instead of Cisco, Juniper, or Arista? Maybe…and maybe not. The post Heavy Networking 650: Whether And How To Adopt Whitebox Switches appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
A pattern of short tenure – multiple short jobs over a small period of time – can be a red flag, but necessarily. I’ll dig into short tenure in this article. What’s “short”? What’s a “pattern”? When you’re thinking of switching jobs, when and how should your tenure factor into the decision? For hiring managers, when is it reasonable to be concerned about job tenure, and what should we do when we become concerned? (BACK TO TOP)
On using Copilot as a writing assistant, and my complex feelings about the ethics of doing so. (BACK TO TOP)
You tell me. (BACK TO TOP)
In my writing about hiring and management, I often talk about role titles – terms like “manager”, “director”, “executive”, and so forth. I’ve found that many readers find the precise definitions of these terms confusing. So here’s a glossary of the terms I use when I’m talking about job titles. (BACK TO TOP)
Pluralistic: 13 Oct 2022 US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care
Today's links US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care: Medicare Advantage will murder your grandparents – and you're next. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: None Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care (permalink) The American healthcare system is the worst of all possible worlds.cnn.ac. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Undetectable, undefendable back-doors for machine learning: IMPNet will give your model hallucination and you can't stop it. Shelter in place: Prison for homelessness and lock-ins for home owners. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. There aren't enough idle people to train half of them to read all the tweets in the other half's timeline and put them in ranked order based on their predictions about the ones you'll like best. https://gizmodo. https://pluralistic.org/pdf/2210.cs. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Antitrust is – and always has been – about fairness: SCOTUS is entitled to its own (judicial) opinions, but not its own facts. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Long before Citizens United, there was Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp: https://supreme.justia.'" What Kennedy meant was that antitrust laws don't exist to protect small businesses per se – rather, they exist to promote "efficiency," which is best understood as "prices going down.medium.8.uiowa. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck: The self-driving car fraud was great business for Uber and Tesla. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck (permalink) Autonomous vehicles were always a shell-game." https://pluralistic. After blowing $2.s3. (BACK TO TOP)
Pluralistic: 07 Oct 2022 "Don't spy on a privacy lab," and other career advice for university provosts
Today's links "Don't spy on a privacy lab" (and other career advice for university provosts): Northeastern grad student vs surveillance-driven austerity. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. It's a tale of hand-to-hand, victorious combat with the "shitty technology adoption curve." What's the "shitty tech adoption curve?" It's the process by which oppressive technologies are normalized and spread. https://pluralistic." https://twitter." https://twitter. The meeting was packed.reddit.youtube. (BACK TO TOP)
Most organizations struggle to change their culture or find a formula for success in difficult-to-mature processes. They don't always understand their own systems. The post How observability-driven development creates elite performers appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
How long is too long to stay at a software development job? The post The right way to job hop (Ep. 495) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
And he keeps learning with every answer. The post How to earn a million reputation on Stack Overflow: be of service to others appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
An amazing group of experts gave talks on everything from developer productivity to the future of hybrid work and remote learning. The post Missed our Flow State conference? Catch up on all the sessions appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Flow state via fingertips, recovering from a PIP, and hello Hacktoberfest The post The Overflow #146: Weekday vs Weekend appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Sometimes the path from IC to CEO is learning that you love being a coach. The post A chat with Red Hat’s Matt Hicks on his path from developer to CEO (Ep. 494) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Stringing together several free tiers to host an application with zero cost using fly.io, Litestream and Cloudflare
Fellowships will provide support to pursue research in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics. (BACK TO TOP)
The head of Amazon Web Services’ quantum communication program on the Nobel winners’ influence on her field. (BACK TO TOP)
Two doctorate students and five Virginia Tech professors will receive funding to conduct research. (BACK TO TOP)
Dual embeddings of each node, as both source and target, and a novel loss function enable 30% to 160% improvements over predecessors. (BACK TO TOP)
Awardees represent more than 30 universities in eight countries. Recipients have access to Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools. (BACK TO TOP)
Alexa Fund portfolio company’s science-led program could change how we approach mental wellness — and how we use VR. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re once again exploring hacking in Go from the eyes of security researchers. This time, Natalie & Ian are joined by Ivan Kwiatkowski (a.k.a. Justice Rage)! (BACK TO TOP)
I don’t think that you can imagine just how excited Gerhard was to find out that Audi, his favourite car company, has a Kubernetes competence centre. We have Sebastian Kister joining us today to tell us why people, followed by tech make the process. The right thing to focus on is the genuine smiles that people give in response to something we do or say. That is an important SLI & SLO for reducing friction between silos. (BACK TO TOP)
Chris sits down with Ankur Goyal to talk about DocQuery, Impira’s new open source ML model. DocQuery lets you ask questions about semi-structured data (like invoices) and unstructured documents (like contracts) using Large Language Models (LLMs). Ankur illustrates many of the ways DocQuery can help people tame documents, and references Chris’s real life tasks as a non-profit director to demonstrate that DocQuery is indeed practical AI. (BACK TO TOP)
Forking SQLite, generative AI for music, saying no to sprints, awesome diagramming tools & state machine facts (The Changelog)
The libSQL community is forking SQLite, StabilityAI announces Haromai and Dance Diffusion, Robin Rendle doesn’t believe in sprints, Shubham Garg curates some awesome diagramming tools & Chris Pressey writes up some must-read facts about state machines. (BACK TO TOP)
This week we’re talking fresh, faster, and new web frameworks by way of JS Party. Yes, today’s show is a web framework sampler because a new batch of web frameworks have emerged. There’s always something new happening in the front-end world and JS Party does an amazing job of keeping us up to date. So…what’s fresh, faster, and new? The first segment of the show focuses on Deno’s Fresh new web framework. In segment two, AngularJS creator Miško Hevery joins Jerod and KBall to talk about Qwik.0. (BACK TO TOP)
Hang with Jerod, Nick & KBall while we discuss what’s new & noteworthy in the web world. Cloudflare Turnstile, Linkify 4.0, TC39 updates, the Figma acquisition, Penpot, pay transparency, and more! We might even discuss TypeScript if Nick gets his way… (BACK TO TOP)
Join Mat Ryer on his journey to Berlin for GopherCon EU 2022. Along the way he chats with Egon Elbre, Ale Kennedy, Ole Bulbuk, Christian Haas, Bill Kennedy & Ron Evans. Danke! (BACK TO TOP)
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For far too long, cloud infrastructure has focused on raw speeds and feeds of building blocks such as VMs, containers, networks, and storage. Today, Moore’s law is slowing, and the burden of picking the right combination of infrastructure components increasingly falls on IT. At Google Cloud we are committed to removing that burden. And at this year’s Google Cloud Next, we made some exciting new announcements across key workloads. Learn more about Hyperdisk in breakout session MOD206 . (BACK TO TOP)
Organizations large and small are realizing that digital transformation and the changing threat landscape require a grounds up effort to transform security. At Google Cloud, we continue to invest in our vision of invisible security where advanced capabilities are engineered into our platforms, operations are simplified, and stronger security outcomes can be achieved. Our Assured Open Source Software service, which we announced earlier this year, is now available in Preview... Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
In the past few years, the airline industry has announced its commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions in the next 30 years. Meeting this target will largely depend on the industry’s ability to access sustainable fuel, acquire the latest carbon-friendly aircraft technology, and develop optimization strategies for efficient operations in the air and on the ground. The Lufthansa Group recognized that this increasingly complex environment required a new approach to data management. (BACK TO TOP)
Organizations and their software delivery pipelines are continually exposed to growing cyberattack vectors . Coupled with the massive adoption of open source software, which now helps power nearly all of our public infrastructure and is highly prevalent in most proprietary software, businesses around the world are more vulnerable than ever. Today’s organizations need to be more vigilant in protecting their software development infrastructure and processes. Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
To help developers build faster, learn faster and grow their career faster with Google Cloud, we are excited to announce three developer initiatives today: a new Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription with expanded developer benefits; no-cost #GoogleClout challenges; and the Google Cloud Fly Cup Challenge happening during Google Cloud Next, in partnership with the Drone Racing League (DRL). Register here to join the race to become the DRL champion today. Related Article Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
As consumers, we all benefit from unprecedented access to data in everything we do, from finding answers on the web to navigating a new city to picking the best place to eat dinner. But at work it’s not that easy. Instead of having answers to questions at our fingertips, getting those answers is a costly IT project away—and when we get the answers, they only raise new questions that you then need to get back into the IT queue to answer. And starting today, Data Studio is now Looker Studio . (BACK TO TOP)
In September 2021, we unveiled “ Cloud. On Europe’s Terms ,” an ambitious commitment to deliver cloud services that provide the highest levels of digital sovereignty while enabling the next wave of growth and transformation for European organizations. We’ve since seen increasing demand from customers and policymakers for digital sovereignty solutions. Google Cloud Sovereign Solutions come from these efforts to understand evolving sovereignty requirements... Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
Flexible ways of working have become second nature for people everywhere, especially for the more than 8 million customers that use Google Workspace in their offices, homes, or on mobile devices. However, the rise of hybrid work has also demonstrated the importance of choice. People don’t want to be locked into a single app or in a closed environment. The chips provide a visual thumbnail of the project so you can easily tell what you’re clicking into. Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
Every organization is going through some form of digital transformation and serving their customers in new ways. Modern conveniences have taught consumers that their experience is paramount — no matter how big or small the company or how complex the problem. Powering these digital experiences are operational databases, the backbone of most applications. At Google Cloud, our mission is to accelerate every organization’s ability to digitally transform... Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
Networking is the foundational fabric that allows organizations to thrive in a digital business world. Today at Next ‘22, we are announcing a series of innovations to our Google Cloud networking services, all designed to meet customers where they are with AI/ML-powered services and built-in security. We start with a planet-scale network that is continually expanding to reach more customers. Accelerate modernization When it comes to the network, modernization takes on many forms. (BACK TO TOP)
Today we’re announcing a collaboration with MongoDB to simplify use of our combined products. As a software developer, you want the freedom to combine the technologies you already know and love. This freedom helps enhance productivity and ROI because you can leverage the right technology combinations suitable to your use case and that best fit your team’s current knowledge and practices. For example, web developers often combine a front-end web framework with a back-end server and a database. (BACK TO TOP)
Business partnerships across many industries strain under rules and requirements that prevent them from sharing sensitive data. Organizations also recognize that collaboration can accelerate innovation, but meaningful collaboration can be limited or even prevented by the need to protect intellectual property or regulated data. Today at Google Cloud Next , we are announcing Confidential Space, the next solution in our groundbreaking Confidential Computing portfolio. Information sharing is power. (BACK TO TOP)
Meeting the rapidly growing demands of our customers’ high performance computing and data-intensive workloads requires deep innovation — at Google Cloud, we know we can’t rely on ever-faster CPUs alone, like Moore’s Law has enabled in the past. Customers can either optimize their workloads for a given platform, or we can offer them a platform that is optimized for their specific needs. At Google Cloud, we choose the latter.” – Aaron Sheldon, Sr. Software Engineer, Snap Inc. Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
Closed and exclusive ecosystems are a barrier to innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), imposing incompatibilities across technologies and obscuring how to quickly and easily refine ML models. At Google, we believe open-source software (OSS) is essential to overcoming the challenges associated with inflexible strategies. This flexibility will let developers make the right choice for their project, rather than being locked into decisions by closed systems... (BACK TO TOP)
Our global network of Google Cloud regions underpins all of the important work we do for our customers. With 35 regions, 106 zones, 173 network edge locations and 22 subsea cables available to serve customers in over 200 countries and territories, Google Cloud’s infrastructure supports digital transformations for organizations across the globe. This builds on recent announcements we made in August to add cloud regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, and Thailand .” - Mag. (BACK TO TOP)
Data is the most valuable asset in any digital transformation. Yet limits on data are still too common, and prevent organizations from taking important steps forward — like launching a new digital business , understanding changes in consumer behavior , or even utilizing data to combat public health crises . Data complexity is at an all time high and as data volumes grow, data is becoming distributed across clouds, used in more workloads and accessed by more people than ever before. (BACK TO TOP)
Introducing Chronicle Security Operations: Detect, investigate, and respond to cyberthreats with the speed, scale, and intelligence of Google
Staying ahead of rising security threats and incidents are among the most vital discussions any organization can have, yet too many alerts and shifting threat trends make security operations notoriously difficult. The recent mass pivot to remote and hybrid work, coupled with increasingly sophisticated threat actors, make threat detection more challenging and more data intensive — and more important — than ever before.security to learn more or contact Google Cloud sales . 1.S. (NASDAQ: MNDT)... (BACK TO TOP)
For most organizations, the physical office is no longer the center of gravity for work. And as they look to establish a hybrid workplace that’s energized with ideas and a drive for succeeding together, many are finding that their legacy tools just aren’t meeting their needs. Today, Google Workspace is the most popular productivity tool on the planet — relied on by more than 3 billion users. Availability: Private preview begins later this year. Availability: Early 2023. Availability: Early 2023. (BACK TO TOP)
New AI agents can drive business results faster: Translation Hub, Document AI, and Contact Center AI
When it comes to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), we have reached a tipping point. Technologies that were once accessible to only a few are now broadly available. This has led to an explosion in AI investment . While investments in pure data science continue to be essential for many, widespread adoption of AI increasingly involves a category of applications and services that we call AI agents. “AI is becoming a key investment for many companies’ long term success.6% to 83.9%... (BACK TO TOP)
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