Bulletin for Friday, 30 Sep 2022
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Metadata (2)
- Lessons Learned from Algorithmic Impact Assessments in Practice
- From Development to Real Users: How to Create a Web Performance Story
- Fake CISO Profiles on LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s
- Accused Russian RSOCKS Botmaster Arrested, Requests Extradition to U.S.
The CircleCI Blog Feed - CircleCI (2)
- Optimize Unreal Engine builds with BuildGraph and CircleCI
- Automate deployment of a Vue.js application to Firebase
Weaveworks (2)
- Super Tables: The road to building reliable and discoverable data products
- Open Sourcing Venice – LinkedIn’s Derived Data Platform
- How one product manager builds community at Microsoft Security
- CSO perspective: Why a strong IAM strategy is key to an organization’s cybersecurity approach
- ZINC weaponizing open-source software
Timescale Blog (3)
- Nightmares of Time Zone Downsampling: Why I’m Excited About the New time_bucket Capabilities in TimescaleDB
- What’s New in TimescaleDB 2.8?
- PostgreSQL Caching: The Postmaster Process
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (5)
- Kubernetes Unpacked 010: Troubleshooting And Alerting On Kubernetes
- Day Two Cloud 165: Does Your Infrastructure Need Istio?
- Network Break 400: Ex-Cisco CEO Launches Network Startup; The Persistence Of Floppy Disks
- Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Enhances AIOps For Prisma SD-WAN (Sponsored)
- Heavy Networking 648: Using Zero Knowledge Middleboxes To Enforce Policy On Encrypted Traffic
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (5)
- Pluralistic: 29 Sep 2022 Porn on Tumblr is a complicated subject
- Pluralistic: 28 Sep 2022 Maintaining monopolies with the cloud
- Pluralistic: 27 Sep 2022 Federalist Society v Corporate Personhood
- 25 Sep 2022 McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution
- Pluralistic: 24 Sep 2022 Billionare grifters hate her
- Klustered & Rawkode Academy (Ship It! #72)
- Production data labeling workflows (Practical AI #195)
- Firefox supports blockers, NATS is great, Uber's MFA fatigue, OAuth2 drawn in cute shapes & an aging programmer (The Changelog)
- Product development structures as systems (The Changelog #507)
- The spicy React debate show 🌶️ (JS Party #244)
Sentry Blog RSS (5)
- Python Performance Testing: A Comprehensive Guide
- Unity Exception Handling: A Beginner’s Guide
- Code-level Application Monitoring for Every Developer
- Deploy your Next.js application on Vercel using Sentry and GitHub Actions
- The Sentry Remix SDK is Now Available
- For developers, flow state starts with your finger tips
- Don’t let software steal your time (Ep. 491)
- Stack Overflow trends: Weekday vs weekend site activity
- Ethereum finally merges, semiconductors stay scarce (Ep. 490)
- The Overflow #144: Number input is the worst
- We hate Scrum and Agile…when it’s done wrong (Ep. 489)
- Amazon Scholar Rupak Majumdar wins CONCUR Test-of-Time Award
- The science behind Alexa’s new interactive story-creation experience
- The science behind Amazon’s spatial audio-processing technology
- Amazon Halo Rise advances the future of sleep
- Alexa’s text-to-speech research at Interspeech 2022
- Scaling to trillion-parameter model training on AWS
- Hackathon promotes language diversity in speech technology
- Alexa’s spoken-language-understanding research at Interspeech 2022
- The (hardware) key to making phishing defense seamless with Cloudflare Zero Trust and Yubico
- Click Here! (safely): Automagical Browser Isolation for potentially unsafe links in email
- Back in 2017 we gave you Unmetered DDoS Mitigation, here's a birthday gift: Unmetered Rate Limiting
- Now all customers can share access to their Cloudflare account with Role Based Access Controls
- How Cloudflare implemented hardware keys with FIDO2 and Zero Trust to prevent phishing
- Announcing Turnstile, a user-friendly, privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA
- We've shipped so many products the Cloudflare dashboard needed its own search engine
- Private by design: building privacy-preserving products with Cloudflare's Privacy Edge
Cloud Blog (16)
- Efficient File Management using Batch Requests with Google Apps Script
- Google Cloud supercharges NLP with large language models
- Introducing Workforce Identity Federation to easily manage workforce access to Google Cloud
- How to get the most from your Intel-based instances on Google Cloud
- Cloud Spanner doubles the number of updates per transaction
- Introducing support for GPU workloads and even larger Pods in GKE Autopilot
- Arize AI launches on Google Cloud Marketplace and more than doubles its use of Google Cloud in 12 months
- What’s new with Google Cloud
- Google Cloud Deploy introduces post deployment verification
- Announcing new routing, address validation and map customization capabilities
- Announcing Routes API: the new enhanced version of the Directions and Distance Matrix APIs
- Synopsys helps semiconductor designers accelerate chip design and development on Google Cloud
- Lufthansa increases on-time flights by wind forecasting with Google Cloud ML
- Accelerating SAP CPG enterprises with Google Cloud Cortex Framework
- Google Cloud VMware Engine - What’s New: Increased commercial flexibility, ease of use and more
- Gyfted uses Google Cloud AI/ML tools to match tech workers with the best jobs
Nvidia is in the valley in terms of gaming, the data center, and the omniverse; if it makes it to future heights its margins will be well-earned. (BACK TO TOP)
Since February we have been working on adopting Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies for our cell simulation platform at Turbine.ai . Part of my job entailed figuring out how to onboard developers who didn’t practice DevOps before. Companies I’ve worked at during the past 7 years have all used Kubernetes in some way; and the last one, Turbine.ai, adopted it with my lead. The tech was fresh and all backend engineers at our company were pretty hyped about migrating to GKE from Heroku.fluxcd... (BACK TO TOP)
When programming, it can be wasteful to store the same constant data again and again. You use more memory, you access more data. Thankfully, your optimizing compiler may help. Consider the following two lines of C code: printf("Good day professor Jones"); printf("Good day professor Jane"); There is redundancy since the prefix “Good day professor” is … Continue reading Optimizing compilers deduplicate strings and arrays (BACK TO TOP)
sponsor TimescaleDB – The modern Postgres for time-series The open-source relational database for time-series with proven reliability and scale. Try TimescaleDB for free–no credit card required. this week's favorite How I’m a Productive Programmer With a Memory of a Fruit Fly Programming got vastly more varied compared to when I started dabbling in AmigaBASIC in the mid-1990s. Back then you could buy one very big book about the computer you’re programming and were 99% there. (BACK TO TOP)
https://monzo.com/blog/technology
Since 2018, we've used Dep to manage our monorepo dependencies, but when it was deprecated switching to Go Modules was a high risk change. This post explains how we reduced that risk by iteratively updating our dependencies for a seamless migration. (BACK TO TOP)
The folks @bigthink , who are behind this short video put a huge amount of work illustrating my ideas about Protopia and making them watchable. It's the best 7-minute talk I've done. https://t.co/PoakytydaB — Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) September 21, 2022 CountThings is a very expensive phone app, but worth it if counting is part of your job. (Not just bricks, but bits in a microscope, or parts in a bin.) https://t.co/ZihLlsWpsP https://t. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast
As the dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dean Jon Levin knows the importance of crafting the right message and sharing it in the right way. But, as he says, one of the biggest challenges for any leader is to know what to communicate, and how. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . (BACK TO TOP)
http://neugierig.org/software/blog/atom.xml
I gave Figma a year but it ended up not being quite right for me. I've reflected a lot on why that is and I have many complex thoughts on it, but they're hard to communicate well in a way that doesn't come across as griping, and that is not how I feel about it overall. Everyone was extremely kind; the product is very successful; I learned a lot. Working on Figma gave me a renewed respect for what it means when talented people go really deep on something. ( This post has links to them. (BACK TO TOP)
ShareChat needed to create an efficient process for building internal tools to keep up with its rapid growth. The end result: ShareChat builds tools and operates faster, all while reducing engineering expenses by 20%. (BACK TO TOP)
Currently, in the Android world, the topic of modularization is very popular. Many bloggers describe their experiences with it and analyze what Google recommends . Our team started the modularization process before it was hot. I will describe our reasons, decisions, problems and give you some advice. We will see if modularization makes sense and what it brings to the table. I will also post some statistics showing what it looked like before and after the modularization process. Our gradle.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Flexa continues to recognize our life-before-work approach for Ablyans...wherever they may be located. (BACK TO TOP)
https://blog.hansenpartnership.com
Over the last few years it’s become popular to suggest that open source maintainers should be paid. There are a couple of stated motivations for this, one being that it would improve the security and reliability of the ecosystem (pioneered by several companies like Tidelift) and the others contending that it would be a solution […] (BACK TO TOP)
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Hi everyone, I’m back from Strangeloop! As always it was a fantastic conference. I’ve already done a 2000-word writeup on it but I’m waiting for all the videos to be uploaded first. (As part of SL I taught 7-hour, 30 person TLA+ workshop. Normally my workshops are 3 days and 4 people, so this was a big experiment for me, and it worked pretty well! Students said they really liked it; I’m aiming to run a web version of it in early December. The first is a markdown link adder. pic.twitter. F. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Srivatsan Krishnan, Student Researcher, and Aleksandra Faust, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Deep reinforcement learning (RL) continues to make great strides in solving real-world sequential decision-making problems such as balloon navigation , nuclear physics , robotics , and games . Despite its promise, one of its limiting factors is long training times.e., total greenhouse gas emissions) of training and inference.5-5.4x while maintaining performance.8x. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/
I was in the grocery store the other day and saw two young kids looking at a picture on a cellphone. (Well, "kids" may not be right; they might have been in college, but they all look so young.) One of them said, "Oh my Gawd! Is that real?" and the other immediately replied, "I don't know. Check the metadata!" I don't know what picture they were looking at, but clearly the concept of metadata has reached critical mass. This online service was very easy to use: upload and see the metadata.com.). (BACK TO TOP)
In this blog post, we'll deep-dive into JSON web tokens (JWTs), how JWTs work and how to implement them securely. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ongoing.atom
The Go Blog Go runtime: 4 years later Michael Knyszek 26 September 2022 Since our last blog post about the Go GC in 2018 the Go GC, and the Go runtime more broadly, has been steadily improving. We’ve tackled some large projects, motivated by real-world Go programs and real challenges facing Go users. Let’s catch you up on the highlights! What’s new? sync.Pool , a GC-aware tool for reusing memory, has a lower latency impact and recycles memory much more effectively than before. (Go 1. (Go 1. (BACK TO TOP)
It’s been a little over a decade since Marc Andreesen famously declared that software was eating the world. He was right. Now, we’re in a new phase: There is powerful software everywhere we look, and we’ve been consuming it without much regard for the long-term effects. So much so that, today, we’re faced with an... Read More The post Did We Overeat on Software? appeared first on Future . (BACK TO TOP)
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.7.0 is the first release to add support for non-deterministic functions, specifically RANDOM. It accomplishes this via statement-rewriting. Many thanks to Ben Johnson for the pure-Go SQLite parser. You can download the release from GitHub. The post rqlite 7.7.0 released appeared first on Vallified . (BACK TO TOP)
When I was in college almost a decade ago, I lived on the computer science floor of my dorm. It was quite possibly one of the most interesting places I’ve ever lived. It was full of nerds, and we had file shares and LAN parties every weekend. While I was there, I got introduced to a tool called Hamachi that we used in order to keep playing games like Minecraft, StarCraft (Brood War), and Age of Mythology together over winter and summer breaks. It was a fantastic thing in practice. That was it.0. (BACK TO TOP)
This year’s post in the Autism Awareness series comes late—in September, whereas Autism Awareness Month is April—with a reasonable excuse. It took six month to confirm the value of this year’s development: scalable advocacy . (Previously in the acceptance series: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 .) ❦❦❦ Last year … (BACK TO TOP)
Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of our media encoding platform, Cosmos . Over the past 2. All in all, millions of critical workflows within Netflix now flow through Timestone on a daily basis. Filtering for EDF messages with criteria (e.g. 2. 3. Figure 2.g. (BACK TO TOP)
06:15 AM My two young kids come in waking me up, presenting me with iPads in the hopes of a quick game of Minecraft before school. I sometimes give in as it might mean a few more minutes sleep! 07:00 AM It’s time for the first of many oat flat whites — or oat flatties […] The post A Day in the Life of a Cloud Engineer at Slack Australia appeared first on Slack Engineering . (BACK TO TOP)
This is the first in a series of posts about hiring. While some of this content might seem obvious to experienced recruiters, these are all pieces of advice that we didn’t know when we got started in the industry. We’ve spent countless hours discussing topics around building and scaling companies over the years, but the single topic that we’ve probably spent the most on is hiring. AWS doesn’t stop when it runs out of servers, it stops when you run out of money. Time spent in each stage above. (BACK TO TOP)
This is part 16 of a series about my experiences being a parent. Read the rest here . I always assumed that I’d teach my kids about the things that I love, and that I’d start early. Gaby thought the same, and recently we’ve been putting more effort into guiding and challenging Oscar. At first this felt awkward and embarrassing. We worried that trying to teach maths and chess to a three year old might be a waste of time or harmful, or that other people might think we were ridiculous. (BACK TO TOP)
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Last week I traveled to the Strange Loop conference. I chaired the TLA+ conference held as part of pre-conf events. I will write about that below. Strange Loop was my first developer's conference. I have mixed feelings. I will write about that as well. Travel to the conference was eventless via Delta connection through Atlanta. Atlanta to Sait Louis gave me one hour on the clock because I moved from Eastern to Central time zone. I had gotten exit row seats, so I had ample legroom. It was fun... (BACK TO TOP)
This paper (SIGMOD'22) discusses the evolution of Amazon Redshift since 2015 when it launched. Redshift is a cloud data warehouse. Data warehouse basically means a place where analysis/querying/reporting is done for shitload of data coming from multiple sources. Tens of thousands of customers use Redshift to process Exabytes of data daily. Redshift is fully managed to make it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze BIG data. Code Generation Code generation is at the core of the system. (BACK TO TOP)
https://engineering.atspotify.com/
TL;DR Understanding algorithmic impact is critical to building a platform that serves hundreds of millions of listeners and creators every day. Our approach includes a combination of centralized and distributed efforts, which drives adoption of best practices across the entire organization — from researchers and data scientists to the engineer pushing the code. How we [...] The post Lessons Learned from Algorithmic Impact Assessments in Practice appeared first on Spotify Engineering . (BACK TO TOP)
Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to work with performance are, How do you convince stakeholders that improving the performance of your project is actually worth the investment? How can you prove that the work is necessary to begin with? Or prove that you have shipped improvements? And what is the [...] The post From Development to Real Users: How to Create a Web Performance Story appeared first on Spotify Engineering . (BACK TO TOP)
Learn about the new PlanetScale Insights database errors feature. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
Learn what the MySQL JSON data type is, when to use MySQL JSON, and some caveats to using JSON documents in relational databases. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. It’s not clear who’s behind this network of fake CISOs or what their intentions may be. But the fabricated LinkedIn identities are confusing search engine results for CISO roles at major companies, and they are being indexed as gospel by various downstream data-scraping sources. (BACK TO TOP)
A 36-year-old Russian man recently identified by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely proprietor of the massive RSOCKS botnet has been arrested in Bulgaria at the request of U.S. authorities. At a court hearing in Bulgaria this month, the accused hacker requested and was granted extradition to the United States, reportedly telling the judge, "America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it." (BACK TO TOP)
In the following tutorial, we will demonstrate how you can significantly accelerate the build times for your Unreal Engine games using Unreal Engine’s BuildGraph technology alongside CircleCI’s dynamic configuration and self-hosted runners to execute build steps in parallel. Every step (build, cook, package, and gameserver deployment) happened sequentially and was taking up to 2.5 hours to complete in some cases. We first focused on the build process of Project-V. We used AWS FSx for OpenZFS .. (BACK TO TOP)
This tutorial covers: Setting up a Vue.js application on Firebase Using the Firebase CLI to deploy a Vue.js app Creating a continuous deployment pipeline A quick search of the internet will reveal many services available for freely hosting single page applications or static sites. Firebase is one of these services. Firebase is a development platform developed by Google that provides file storage, hosting, database, authentication, and analytics. You will use it to deploy an existing Vue.18.4.0 . (BACK TO TOP)
Progressive delivery is emerging as a worthy successor to continuous delivery by enabling developers to control how new features are launched to end-users. Its wide popularity is owed to the demand for faster and more reliable software releases. The increasing emphasis on customer experience has made continuous delivery an inadequate methodology. Large enterprises like Netflix, Amazon, and Uber are turning to progressive delivery to test and release code in a phased and controlled manner. 2. 3. (BACK TO TOP)
Multicloud is one of the most talked-about ideas in today’s tech landscape. Organizations of various sizes are either dabbling with the idea of multicloud or already running their production workloads on multicloud infrastructure. The popularity of multicloud is largely due to an apprehension towards vendor lock-in, and the need for resilience. Relying on a single public cloud vendor is now a liability for any organization. However, building a seamless multicloud fabric can be very complicated. (BACK TO TOP)
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/
Two chapters from the book Understanding Distributed Systems by Roberto Vitillo (BACK TO TOP)
A broad overview of the data engineering field by former Facebook data engineer Benjamin Rogojan. Part 2. (BACK TO TOP)
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog.rss.html
Co-authors: David Lu, Hong Liu, Thomas Kwan, Christopher Harris, Weiping Si Many companies, including LinkedIn, have experienced exponential data growth ever since the Apache Hadoop adoption a decade ago. With a proliferation of self-service data authoring tools and publishing platforms, different teams have created and shared datasets to address business needs quickly. (BACK TO TOP)
We are proud to announce the open sourcing of Venice, LinkedIn’s derived data platform that powers more than 1800 of our datasets and is leveraged by over 300 distinct applications. Venice is a high-throughput, low-latency, highly-available, horizontally-scalable, eventually-consistent storage system with first-class support for ingesting the output of batch and stream processing jobs. It is used by the […] (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/
In this interview, Principal Product Manager Joey Cruz explains how his military experience inspires his work protecting customers in identity and access management at Microsoft. The post How one product manager builds community at Microsoft Security appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Mastercard Deputy Chief Security Officer Alissa “Dr. Jay” Abdullah, Ph.D., shares insights on why identity and access management is necessary and strategies for securing identities. The post CSO perspective: Why a strong IAM strategy is key to an organization’s cybersecurity approach appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
In recent months, Microsoft detected weaponization of legitimate open-source software by an actor the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) tracks as ZINC, targeting employees at media, defense and aerospace, and IT service provider organizations in the US, UK, India, and Russia. The post ZINC weaponizing open-source software appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.timescale.com/blog/
Nightmares of Time Zone Downsampling: Why I’m Excited About the New time_bucket Capabilities in TimescaleDB
Rolling up time-series data, also known as downsampling, often requires the user’s time zone to be taken into account, and TimescaleDB 2.8 makes it as simple as never before. (BACK TO TOP)
This major release is loaded with improvements to time_bucket, continuous aggregates policies, distributed hypertables querying, and more. (BACK TO TOP)
shared_buffers are a very important part of configuring your PostgreSQL instance. On our second trip to PostgreSQL caching land, we continue the explanation of how they work with the main workhorse of the system, the postmaster process. (BACK TO TOP)
In this episode, Michael catches up with Natan Yellin, CEO of Robusta.dev. Michael and Ned chat about how logging and troubleshooting works in Kubernetes today. They discuss three stages of troubleshooting evolution - manual playbooks, automatic playbooks, and the third stage, which is what you do with logs and how automatic remediation can come into play for any Kubernetes environment. (BACK TO TOP)
On today's Day Two Cloud we dive into Istio with Kevin Davin, a senior back end engineer who works deeply with Istio. We discuss Istio's promises, balancing its complexity with the capabilities it enables, understanding when and when not to use it, and more. The post Day Two Cloud 165: Does Your Infrastructure Need Istio? appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
This week's Network Break podcast covers a startup backed by ex-Cisco CEO John Chambers, US federal agencies wanting service providers to get serious about BGP security, SASE growing 30% in a quarter, a thriving floppy disk business, and more IT news. The post Network Break 400: Ex-Cisco CEO Launches Network Startup; The Persistence Of Floppy Disks appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk with sponsor Palo Alto Networks about the latest AI Ops features for SD-WAN. AI Ops analyzes network data and then recommends fixes for probems, a capability that's becoming increasingly necessary as network complexity grows to encompass underlays, overlays, on and off-prem cloud destinations, remote working, and more. The post Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Enhances AIOps For Prisma SD-WAN (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Encrypted traffic poses a problem for enterprise policy enforcement. On today's Heavy Networking, we explore the notion of zero knowledge middleboxes, which use a variety of techniques to allow firewalls or other middleboxes to enforce policy without the need for decryption. Our guest is Dr. Paul Grubbs, whose research into zero knowledge middleboxes prompted this episode. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Porn on Tumblr is a complicated subject: Chokepoints, compliance, weakest links. 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 Porn on Tumblr is a complicated subject (permalink) In 2018, Tumblr announced a ban on "adult content. The filters were…not good. That post was blocked by Tumblr's filter. https://gizmodo. I did it again.tumblr. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Maintaining monopolies with the cloud: Microsoft, Oracle and other cloud giants use their terms of service to prevent competition. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. In reality, Rockefeller controlled those railroads through bribery and coercion, not an equity stake. I regret the error. "There is no cloud, there is only other people's computers. That makes it hard – or impossible – to shop around for cloud services: https://www.bloomberg. https://www.fairsoftwarelicensing.co. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Federalist Society v Corporate Personhood: Corporations don't have First Amendment rights except when they're making political donations, refusing to bake cakes, or blocking birth control. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Wilhoit), and here's a crucial one: the left knows its ideology arises from material reality, while the right claims otherwise. The right likes to claim to be "rationalist," grounded in the realm of ideas, not the material world.kirkusreviews.techdirt.net. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution: "How would you like to pay that today?" 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 McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution (permalink) Providence is a health giant whose anchor is a network of Catholic hospitals.nytimes.nytimes. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Billionaire grifters hate her: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Ida M Tarbell. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. He woulda gotten away with it, but for the reporting of a former nurse turned self-trained muckraker: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-11/payments-billionaire-found-to-have-knowingly-deceived-customers The Fleetcor scam wasn't sophisticated." These cards had lots of transaction charges and hidden fees. That's it. That's the scam. It's an amazing story. (BACK TO TOP)
One of our listeners, Andrew Welker, suggested that we talk about Klustered, so a few hours before David Flanagan was about to do his workshop at Container Days, we recorded this episode. We talked about all the weird and wonderful Kubernetes debugging sessions on Klustered, a YouTube playlist with 43 videos and counting. We then talked about Rawkode Academy, and we finished with conferences. Gerhard is looking forward to talking at it! No, seriously, check it out at kubehuddle.com. (BACK TO TOP)
It’s one thing to gather some labels for your data. It’s another thing to integrate data labeling into your workflows and infrastructure in a scalable, secure, and useful way. Mark from Xelex joins us to talk through some of what he has learned after helping companies scale their data annotation efforts. We get into workflow management, labeling instructions, team dynamics, and quality assessment. This is a super practical episode! (BACK TO TOP)
Firefox supports blockers, NATS is great, Uber's MFA fatigue, OAuth2 drawn in cute shapes & an aging programmer (The Changelog)
Mozilla says Firefox will continue to support current content blockers, Nabeel Sulieman thinks NATS is great and recommends you check it out, InfoQ breaks down Uber’s recent security breach, Klemen Sever explained OAuth2 by drawing cute shapes & Jorge Manrubia reflects back as an aging programmer. (BACK TO TOP)
This week we’re talking about product development structures as systems with Lucas da Costa. The last time we had Lucas on the show he was living the text-mode only life, and now we’re more than 3 years later, Lucas has doubled down on all things text mode. Today’s conversation with Lucas maps several ideas he’s shared recently on his blog. Have you heard? It’s this newly disruptive Agile framework that seems to be working well. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re back with another spicy YepNope debate! This time, Amelia and KBall are arguing that there’s real value to (continue) using React in 2022, while Amal and special guest (and author of the post which stemmed the whole debate) Josh Collinsworth argue that React’s time leading innovation has passed. Of course, the stance each panelist is taking is assigned ahead of time. Is that how they really feel? Tune in and find out! (BACK TO TOP)
The following guest post addresses how to improve your services’s performance with Sentry and other application profilers for Python. Check… (BACK TO TOP)
Exceptions are the outcomes you do not usually expect in your application. But as a developer, expecting the unexpected is essential to… (BACK TO TOP)
The monitoring, tooling, and observability space is crowded. It’s hard to keep track of what most tools in this category originally set out… (BACK TO TOP)
Thanks to the power of open source tooling and cloud services, shipping an application to production has never been that easy, In this blog… (BACK TO TOP)
Sentry has made it a priority to support frontend JavaScript developers, regardless of the framework they use. This is why we have SDKs for… (BACK TO TOP)
Sponsored by Logitech Developers and their employers are constantly thinking about productivity. We partnered with Logitech to produce a four-part podcast series to chat about how your hardware and software work together to keep you in a flow state and make you more productive. Each podcast will have it’s own landing page on the blog,… The post For developers, flow state starts with your finger tips appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
While countless apps are competing for your attention, here's some tips on how to fight back. The post Don’t let software steal your time (Ep. 491) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Is everybody coding on the weekends? Is everybody learning Rust? The post Stack Overflow trends: Weekday vs weekend site activity appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Proof of work is here, but who can stake me some silicon? The post Ethereum finally merges, semiconductors stay scarce (Ep. 490) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Single sign-on, a 9V battery to power the world, and the core ideals of Steve Jobs The post The Overflow #144: Number input is the worst appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
When it's done wrong, it becomes punitive micromanagement. When it's done right, it empowers everyone to tackle the problems they handle best. The post We hate Scrum and Agile…when it’s done wrong (Ep. 489) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Majumdar’s 2003 paper established an elegant algorithm that influences current work on timed games. (BACK TO TOP)
AI models that generate stories, place objects in a visual scene, and assemble music on the fly customize content to children’s specifications. (BACK TO TOP)
Combining psychoacoustics, signal processing, and speaker beamforming enhances stereo audio and delivers an immersive sound experience for customers. (BACK TO TOP)
Built-in radar technology, deep domain adaptation for sleep stage classification, and low-latency incremental sleep tracking enable Halo Rise to deliver a seamless, no-contact way to help customers improve sleep. (BACK TO TOP)
Highlighted papers focus on transference — of prosody, accent, and speaker identity. (BACK TO TOP)
Contiguous parameter management and prefetched activation offloading expand the MiCS tool kit. (BACK TO TOP)
Two-day hackathon will provide a hands-on approach to building speech-technology applications for underrepresented languages; registration deadline is Sept. 30. (BACK TO TOP)
Methods for learning from noisy data, using phonetic embeddings to improve entity resolution, and quantization-aware training are a few of the highlights. (BACK TO TOP)
Announcing a new collaboration with Yubico, to remove any barriers for organizations of any size to deploying hardware security keys. (BACK TO TOP)
There’s always a cat and mouse game between hackers and security companies. New attacks try to weaponize website links after emails have been delivered to mailboxes, and Email Link Isolation is here to revolutionize protection against those attacks. (BACK TO TOP)
Starting today, Free, Pro and Business plans include Rate Limiting rules without additional charges. (BACK TO TOP)
Role Based Access Controls are now available for every plan! (BACK TO TOP)
Adopting a phishing resistant second factor, like a YubiKey with FIDO2, is the number one way to prevent phishing attacks. Cloudflare has used phishing resistant second factors only since February 2021, and these were the steps we took to accomplish that. (BACK TO TOP)
Any website can use a simple API to replace CAPTCHAs with our invisible alternative, whether they’re on the Cloudflare network or not. (BACK TO TOP)
Today we’re proud to announce our beta release of quick search for the Cloudflare dashboard, our first ever cross-dashboard search tool to help you navigate our products and features. (BACK TO TOP)
Introducing Privacy Edge – a collection of products that make it easier for site owners and developers to protect their users’ privacy by default. (BACK TO TOP)
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Abstract Google Drive alone can handle small file management jobs, but for larger batches of files, it can be too much for a simple Drive script to manage. With Google Apps Script, even large batches can be executed within 6 minutes, offering businesses the monetary and time benefits of efficient file management. This report looks at how Google Apps Script improves file management with batch requests, judging its efficacy by measuring the benchmark.\r\n * @returns {Object} UrlFetchApp.rich_text. (BACK TO TOP)
Natural language understanding (NLU) is getting increasingly better at solving complex problems and these language breakthroughs are creating big waves in Artificial Intelligence. For example, new language models are enabling Everyday Robots to create more helpful robots that can break down user instructions and have even enabled people to generate imaginative visuals from complex text prompts . These leaps in NLU are powered by neural networks trained to understand human language. Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
At Google Cloud, we’re focused on giving customers new ways to strengthen their security posture. Managing identities and authorization is a core security control that underpins interactions inside and collaboration outside the organization. Today we’re pleased to announce Workforce Identity Federation in Preview. Workforce Identity Federation uses a federation approach instead of Directory Synchronization , the method currently used by most organizations for onboarding Google Cloud identities. (BACK TO TOP)
Deploying mission-critical applications on Google Cloud can yield immediate benefits in terms of performance and total cost of ownership (TCO). That’s why Google Cloud is partnering with Intel to help our mutual customers optimize their most demanding workloads on Intel-based instances. Now, Intel and Google Cloud are expanding the program globally by opening it up to select high-growth enterprise accounts. Analytics : Get guidance on using Apache Spark. Phase 2: Performance Review ... (BACK TO TOP)
We are excited to announce that Cloud Spanner now supports 40,000 mutations per commit, double the existing limit at no additional cost. Cloud Spanner is a globally replicated, highly available, externally consistent ACID-compliant database. Customers across multiple sectors, including financial services and gaming, rely on externally consistent inserts, updates and deletes at scale to deliver fast and accurate experiences. This is available to all customers of Cloud Spanner today... (BACK TO TOP)
Autopilot is a fully managed mode of operation for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). But being fully managed doesn’t mean that you need to be limited in what you can do with it! Our goal for Autopilot is to support all user workloads (those other than administrative workloads which require privileged access to nodes) so they can be run across the full GKE product. Many workloads, especially those running AI/ML training and inference require GPU hardware.google.wagtailcore.rich_text.google. (BACK TO TOP)
Arize AI launches on Google Cloud Marketplace and more than doubles its use of Google Cloud in 12 months
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models have become incredibly advanced in the last decade. AI has transformed how we’re served ads, receive recommendations for care at the doctor, and even how we’re helped by customer support teams. Enter Arize AI. Now, Arize is launching its platform on Google Cloud Marketplace, helping scale its product to users around the globe. Arize also uses GKE as a part of its developer onboarding environment. Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources . Week of Sept 26 - Sept 30, 2022 Google Cloud Logging launches Log Analytics powered by Big Query . Learn more . Learn More . Learn more. Learn more. (BACK TO TOP)
Google Cloud Deploy is introducing a new feature called deployment verification , with this feature developers and operators will be able to orchestrate and execute post deployment testing without having to undertake a more extensive testing integration, like through using Cloud Deploy notifications or manually testing. The 2021 State of DevOps report showed us that continuous testing is a strong predictor of successful continuous delivery. First, we need to modify the skaffold.yaml . (BACK TO TOP)
At Google Maps Platform, we strive to continually bring you helpful new capabilities, so you can build innovative geospatial experiences. This includes the latest innovations that people use every day from Google Maps, and additional highly requested platform capabilities. Today, we’re announcing that eco-friendly routing will be available to you in the new Routes API. We’re excited to bring eco-friendly routing to you later this year. Sign up to receive updates. Sign up to receive updates. (BACK TO TOP)
For over a decade, our Directions and Distance Matrix APIs have helped you quickly and efficiently route people and goods from A to B. And in the last few years, we’ve worked closely with the largest operators in the transportation and logistics industries to help them improve customer experiences and delivery operations at scale via our Mobility services . Let’s take a closer look at what you can do with this new API.g. EV/hybrid) and type of electronic toll pass. Sign up to receive updates. (BACK TO TOP)
Google Cloud and Synopsys Inc are partnering to help semiconductor companies drive Electronic Design Automation (EDA) innovation in the cloud to accelerate time to market, and lower costs across the entire semiconductor product life cycle. Synopsys is the industry’s largest provider of EDA technology used in the design and verification of integrated circuits, or semiconductor chips. EDA software is a large consumer of high performance computing capacity in the cloud.com/cloud . (BACK TO TOP)
The magnitude and direction of wind significantly impacts airport operations, and Lufthansa Group Airlines are no exception. A particularly troublesome kind is called BISE: it is a cold, dry wind that blows from the northeast to southwest in Switzerland, through the Swiss Plateau. Its effects on flight schedules can be severe, such as forcing planes to change runways, which can create a chain reaction of flight delays and possible cancellations. Since the target variable — i.e,. Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
In a rapidly changing Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry, business agility and digital innovation are essential to achieve business outcomes. Cost pressures, rising demand, and new consumer expectations have led to whiplash for CPG companies who need to accelerate digital transformation to remain competitive. Google Cloud has a tradition of delivering solutions specifically designed to help CPGs deliver on these imperatives... Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
We’ve made several updates to Google Cloud VMware Engine in the past few months — today’s post provides a recap of our latest milestones making it easier and more cost-effective for you to migrate and run your vSphere workloads in a cloud-native enterprise-grade VMware environment in Google Cloud. In January, we announced Single node private cloud, additional regions, PCI-DSS and more . This enables in-guest NFS, SMB, and HDFS to be accessed by GCVE VMs. To learn more, please read this post . (BACK TO TOP)
It’s no secret that many organizations and job seekers find the hiring process exhausting. It can be time consuming, costly, and somewhat risky for both parties. Those are just some of the experiences we wanted to change when we started Gyfted , a pre-vetted talent marketplace for people who complete tech training or degree programs and are looking for the right career move. It’s similar to the common app system in higher education. Sounds simple, but it is a herculean technical and UX task... (BACK TO TOP)
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