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Michael Levin's Blog – January 2015 Archive (6)
Phone Software Entrepreneurs? Under 30 Forbes List
Forbes published an under 30 tech list featuring entrepreneurs who've made it big. Read about it …
Added by Michael Levin on January 27, 2015 at 12:30pm — No Comments
Getting Started With Android
Interested in Android programming? Here's a nice, recent article at Lifehacker outlining good, free resources to get you going. http://lifehacker.com/i-want-to-write-android-apps-where-do-i-start-1643818268 ;
Added by Michael Levin on January 22, 2015 at 11:05am — No Comments
Pay What You Want: Back-End Developer Course Bundle
Added by Michael Levin on January 20, 2015 at 10:23am — No Comments
Speak at OSCON!
Here's a message from O'Relly about OSCON 2015:
We're deep into planning OSCON 2015 and we've got some exciting news: OSCON is changing. We're no longer beating the drum and…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 11:47am — No Comments
O'Reilly Solid Conference CFP closes 1/20!
The O'Reilly Solid conference is in San Diego in June and it's all about the merging of HW/SW for the IoT. Want to get involved? The Call for Papers is open and there are loads of benefits in giving a presentation for an O'Reilly conference., Take it from me! It's a great thing to do for the community and you learn a ton…
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How to Use SQL, Hadoop, Drill, REST, JSON, NoSQL, and HBase in a Simple REST Client
Our friend Carol just published this article.
SQL will become one of the most prolific use cases in the Hadoop ecosystem, according to Forrester Research. Apache Drill is an open source SQL query engine for big data exploration. REST services and clients have emerged as popular technologies on the Internet. Apache HBase is a hugely popular Hadoop NoSQL…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on January 7, 2015 at 1:45pm — No Comments
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Improving Threads' iOS Performance at Meta
An app's performance is key to make users want to use it, say Meta engineers Dave LaMacchia and Jason Patterson. This includes making it lightning-fast, battery-efficient, and reliable across a range of devices and connectivity conditions. In a recent article, they recounted their experience with the Threads app.
By SergioLLaMA-Mesh: NVIDIA’s Breakthrough in Unifying 3D Mesh Generation and Language Models
NVIDIA researchers have introduced LLaMA-Mesh, a groundbreaking approach that extends large language models (LLMs) to generate and interpret 3D mesh data in a unified, text-based framework. LLaMA-Mesh tokenizes 3D meshes as plain text, enabling the seamless integration of spatial and textual information.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiHow to Go from Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps
InnerSource helped reduce the amount of development work involved when introducing GitOps by sharing company-specific logic, Jemma Hussein Allen said at QCon London. She showed how they went from copy and paste deployments to full GitOps. She mentioned that a psychologically safe environment is really important for open and honest discussions that can help resolve pain points and drive innovation.
By Ben LindersPresentation: Panel: What Does the Future of Computing Looks Like
This panel dives into advancements that will redefine how we interact with technology, exploring new concepts and discussing their potential to transform the world.
By Julia Lawall, Matt Fleming, Joe Rowell, Thomas DullienPresentation: Leveraging Internal Developer Portals to Achieve Strategic Initiatives
Frank Fodera discusses how they introduced an IDP at CarGurus, the key features that contributed to achieving critical mass within their organization, and how they leveraged the IDP.
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