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There are a lot of theories out there as to why obesity rates have been increasing in the West over the past forty years.  One of the most convincing and well-vetted was formulated by two scientists — David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson — in the early 2000s. Their idea potentially explains why obesity levels have […]

Making CI/CD pipelines observable improves troubleshooting, development agility and efficiency.

Data fabrics—AI-based data management designed for federated environments—are the connective tissue between data, infrastructure, and software.

Enterprises see the potential for AI to benefit network management, but progress so far is limited by AI’s ability to work with company-specific network data and the range of devices that AI can see.

To truly deliver a secure and integrated experience, network and security can no longer be on the periphery to one another, they must be delivered as a fully integrated solution where security isn’t bolted onto the network, it’s fully integrated into it.

DoorDash’s consumer iOS team manages the complexities of release management at scale.

DoorDash builds an internal ML Workbench by taking a user-centered approach to solve for productivity and velocity of our Data, ML, AI teams.

Is Bill Gates right about Agent AI? Customer Futures weighs in on his recent landmark essay about the future of digital customer engagement. What is he right about, and what is he missing?

Book notes on "Wiring the Winning Organization" by Gene Kim and Steven K. Spear

Can you imagine a world where software lives unencumbered from the artificial limits we've created? One where applications work seamlesly with one another, and silos become a thing of the past. I can, and this is what it looks like.

Of those organizations that have “gone cloud native,” 95% said that challenges are keeping them from seeing the full benefits, in a new survey by Foundry for UST.

Scale has become as important a factor as networking, storage, security and data itself.

Data access governance and security solution plugs directly into advanced machine learning libraries to govern language model interactions.

"And the winner is..."

What happened after my wife and I removed Wi-Fi from our home

In the documentation for an implementation of Pascal for a Soviet computer, I've encountered a very weird language extension. I'll try to translate it: Branching operator (branch) Syntax ...

When Bryan Cantrill & friends start talking about "open source antipatterns," it gets spicy fast – and the intensity continues for a remarkable time.

Python and Go have distinct qualities that can complement each other.

As digital transformation, apps and data proliferate, having an effective API management strategy is critical. Learn what to prepare for in 2024.

Seventy-two percent of people familiar with streaming data believe AI will drive its adoption over the next one to two years, according to a new report from Redpanda. Yet, real-time analytics is by far the most common use case.

…we have a generation that is growing up with modern computing interfaces. Instead, we are still pushing the “classic” models onto them. Why? If computing has to become modern, then we have to use …

Posted on Monday 27 Nov 2023. 976 words, 13 links. By Matt Webb.

I've heard a lot about Vim, both pros and cons. It really seems you should be (as a developer) faster with Vim than with any other editor. I'm using Vim to do some basic stuff and I'm at best 10 ti...

Looking at patterns in the syntax of Unix utilities. Approaching the Unix ecosystem from a linguistic perspective.

The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.