February 2017 Blog Posts (4)

Public Safety Data Hackathon

Looking for something interesting to do this weekend? Well, if you're in South Florida, there's a hackathon Saturday that sounds like a great way to learn some new tools and use some interesting …

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Added by Michael Levin on February 16, 2017 at 12:58pm — No Comments

O'Reilly Conference Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Program

O'Reilly Conference Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Program:

At O'Reilly, they believe that true innovation depends on hearing from, and listening to, people with a variety of perspectives. They want their conferences, and the technology communities and companies who participate in them, to include, encourage, and recognize people of all races,…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 11, 2017 at 7:19pm — No Comments

Humble Bundle 2017

Humble Bundle 2017: 



O'Reilly has another Humble Book Bundle, this time: All about Hacks. 



Fill your library with practical and creative hacks with O'Reilly's latest Humble Bundle. Readers can pay any price they choose and support a charity at the same time! Bundle Ends …

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Added by Michael Levin on February 11, 2017 at 7:17pm — No Comments

JFocus!

JFocus is going on right now in Stockholm! I should say it just ended yesterday, but the ripples usually linger from the great talks and conversations.

https://www.jfokus.se/jfokus/

I noticed Matt Raible is there and a bunch of people you probably know.

If you have some news to report about JFocus or just want to keep up with what's going on, stay tuned and please add comments.

Added by Michael Levin on February 9, 2017 at 8:30am — No Comments

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Uber Gets Ready for AI in Network Observability with Cloud Native Overhaul

Transportation company Uber has publishing a detailed account of its new observability platform on it's blog, highlighting that for them, network visibility is now a strategic capability rather than a set of discrete monitoring tools.

By Matt Saunders

Rspack Releases Version 1.7: Final 1.x Update Before 2.0 Transition

Rspack 1.7 has launched, enhancing performance and plugin compatibility as it prepares for a major version transition. Key features include improved SWC plugin compatibility, native asset importing as bytes, and default lazy compilation for dynamic modules. With performance gains reported up to 80%, Rspack offers a faster, Rust-based alternative to webpack while maintaining API compatibility.

By Daniel Curtis

Presentation: WASM Components are a FaaS' Best Friend

Laurent Doguin shares why Wasm’s cold-start performance and security model make it the ideal FaaS runtime. He discusses the WebAssembly Component Model for polyglot interoperability and explains how to build distributed, provider-based architectures using CNCF wasmCloud and NATS. Ideal for architects looking to scale "scale-to-zero" infrastructure without the overhead of heavy containers.

By Laurent Doguin

Podcast: The Technical Founder's Path: Code, Leadership, and Balance

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Trisha Ballakur about transitioning from coder to startup CEO, balancing technical leadership with business development, and avoiding burnout on the journey.

By Trisha Ballakur

Article: Autonomous Big Data Optimization: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Self-Tuning Apache Spark

This article introduces a reinforcement learning (RL) approach grounded in Apache Spark that enables distributed computing systems to learn optimal configurations autonomously, much like an apprentice engineer who learns by doing. The author also implements a lightweight agent as a driver-side component that uses RL to choose configuration settings before a job runs.

By Hina Gandhi

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