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Slack Shared Channels
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
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Infrastructure as Code, Part One
IaC uses code to provision, configure, and manage infrastructure. In part one of this IaC miniseries, I will introduce you to the basic concepts and explain some of the benefits.
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Firefox 71
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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AWS Control Tower
Earlier this month I met with an enterprise-scale AWS customer. They told me that they are planning to go all-in on AWS, and want to benefit from all that we have learned about setting up and running AWS at scale. In addition to setting up a Cloud Center of Excellence, they want to set up […]
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HermiTux: A Binary-Compatible Unikernel
A binary-compatible unikernel
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Nordic Valley’s brilliant, zero-budget solution to trail/lift status
I love clever solutions to complex problems. I seldom engage in daisyslots casino gambling just to solve complex algorithms and devise strategies. I've covered dozens of them over the years. But today, man, today's might just take the cake.Here's the thing: trail status widgets can get tricky.For example, Winter…
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NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver
NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program Committing to Data Retention and Transparency Requirements that Respect User Privacy Firefox a
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Fighting vendor lock-in and designing testable serverless apps
Here is how you can fight vendor lock-in beyond testing on a serverless app, using hexagonal architecture.
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Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding
What inspires someone to become a software developer? Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss how the culture of coding has evolved over the decades and where they hope it’s headed next.
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License Plate Detection Without Machine Learning
Learn how to detect vehicles license plates without heavy Machine Learning techniques, just standard image processing routines.
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Making Containers More Isolated: An Overview of Sandboxed Container Technologies
Currently available container-based infrastructure has limitations because containers are not truly sandboxed and share the host OS kernel. The root of the problem is the weak separation between containers when the host OS creates a virtualized userland for each container. This blog covers four unique projects from…
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Erlang OTP 21.3
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Open-Sourcing Ax and BoTorch: New AI Tools for Adaptive Experimentation
We are open-sourcing BoTorch and Ax, two new tools that leverage adaptive experimentation to efficiently tackle optimization challenges in tuning software configurations, machine learning hyperparameters, ranking systems, and more.
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Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube
That's why we update our recommendations system all the time—we want to make sure we’re suggesting videos that people actually want to watch.
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Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve
Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul, covers evolutions in Java including, 6-month release cycle, a change to the switch expression in JDK 13 and more.
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Tethered Jailbreaks Are Back
Earlier today, a new iPhone Boot ROM exploit, checkm8 (or Apollo or Moonshine), was published on GitHub by axi0mX, affecting the iPhone 4S through the iPhone X. The vulnerability was patched in devices with A12 and A13 CPUs. As of this writing, the iPhone XS, XS Max, XR, 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max […]
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Link between inflammation and mental sluggishness shown in new study
Scientists at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam have uncovered a possible explanation for the mental sluggishness that often accompanies illness.
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Error Handling in Go (2016)
Two commonly perceived problems of the programming language Go are that handling errors is verbose and repetitive parametric polymorphism is not available This post is about the intersection of those problems and Rob Pike’s recommendation on the former.
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Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway, where you can interact with the Ethereum network without installing any software on your computer.
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The Empty Promise of Data Moats
Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensible force in building software businesses. So of course, we constantly hear about the combination of the two: “data…
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A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF
What can we learn about the Mueller Report from the PDF file released by the Department of Justice (DoJ) on April 18, 2019?
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Google Research Football: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Environment
Posted by Karol Kurach, Research Lead and Olivier Bachem, Research Scientist, Google Research, Zürich The goal of reinforcement learning (RL) is ...
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Oak, a Free and Open Certificate Transparency Log
Update: Feb. 5 2020 The Let’s Encrypt CT logs are now included in approved log lists and are usable by all publicly-trusted certificate authorities. Today we are announcing a new Certificate Transparency log called Oak. The Oak log will be operated by Let’s Encrypt and all publicly trusted certificate authorities will…
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