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New device mimics how neurons alter behavior once they're activated.

This article is a general introduction into the bottlenecks of web applications and how application servers can deal with them to improve request throughput and response times. We will start off by introducing the role of an application server. In the following sections we will illustrate each of the three

haproxy lua script for superserver (to use with s6) · GitHub

Power to the people! Now you can scale your cluster live with CloudAMQP. This new big feature will make your life easier! Requirements change, the cluster you created yesterday might not be suited to handle the reality of today...

Uncomplicated, modern HTTP server. Contribute to labstack/armor development by creating an account on GitHub.

The K8 1.4 release feels your pain

From spinning up containers to shipping software as a team.

Thriving in the cloud with horizontal scaling.

How time flies! Last week, I detailed how to build a bitcoin transaction that was unspendable until a specific point in the future. We…

Today, we are pleased to announce the Alexa Prize, a $2.5 million university competition to accelerate advancements in conversational AI through voice.

Designers and consumers have an urgent challenge to confront in the current discussion around sustainability. How can we distinguish between goods which seem eco-friendly, but actually contribute to a culture of waste, and those that are truly green? Designer Danielle Trofe had to challenge herself to look at every aspect

15 years ago, Ray Kurzweil published one of the most significant essays in the history of futurism: “The Law of Accelerating Returns.” This piece showcased the immense power of exponential technology versus linear technology and became a pivotal concept for anyone trying to anticipate what the future held. The essay predicted advances in business and …

Coworking has it’s perks! Cats!For the last month I’ve been a nomad — working a remote job, for a remote based company, in a very remote way. Living out of a suitcase, sleeping in hotels and workin…

When a new law threatens to stifle online speech, to limit our use of the Internet, or allow others to control our digital devices, we can push back in a variety of ways—participating in formal

We need to do all we can to inspire women and girls that learning to code is critical to creating a brighter future for everyone.

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda Amazon Echo is voice-based home automation. With it, you can listen to music, check the weather, or search the web…just by using your voice. And just like mobile phones and tablets, lots of exciting apps are going to be written for this new platform, using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and […]

This week's post is about the tests we need, about modularizing our large legacy code base and rewriting instead of refactoring parts of it.

This week's post is about the tests we need, about modularizing our large legacy code base and rewriting instead of refactoring parts of it.

A lot has been written about systemd. So much has been written about it that it’s hard to find out how to get started. So I’m going to do my part and piss in...

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability - GitHub - cilium/cilium: eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

Feature flags can superpower development, allowing faster features. But they can also be the worst kind of technical debt if misused or mismanaged. This article walks us through some horror stories of feature flags gone bad, and lessons learned.

We present a new open source project which provides IPv6 networking for Linux Containers by generating programs for each individual container on the fly and th…

By Jay Mahadeokar and Gerry Pesavento

An open source, physically secure personal computer.

This was asked on twitter recently: Is it possible to import data entered in MS Word into R – I have multiple tables in 235 files that need importing #rstats— Richard Telford (@richardjtelford) August 23, 2015 The answer is a very cautious “yes”. Much depends on how well-formed and un-formatted the table is. Take ...