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When running a micro-services style application in a public cloud, one of the problems to solve is how to provide access to debug information. At Laserlike, we run our application stack on GKE. Mos…

Beirut’s post-civil war reconstruction is an example of what to avoid when working with war-torn Syrian cities.

From Michelangelo to ransomware

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Design investment, the importance of mindset, and creating the right environment.

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Natalino Busa on developments in feature engineering and predictive techniques across industries.

Take deep learning mobile.

Word embedding in natural language processing.

Learn how Capital One implemented continuous delivery, streamlined and automated the release management process, and overcame common roadblocks.

James Nord of Fohr Card shows us how the reputation gained through social media gets traded or converted into cash.

Guide through the basics of setting up a ClojureScript program with thi.ng/geom and Figwheel to interactively program WebGL. - GitHub - Rovanion/webgl-clojurescript-tutorial: Guide through the basi...

6 Risks Still Around For No Reason

Git’s man-pages state that it’s a stupid content tracker. It’s probably the most used version control system in the world. Which is very strange, since it doesn’t describe itself as being a source control system. And in fact, you can use git to track any type

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.

An overview of post-mortem debugging pitfalls when using promises.

Per the second law of thermodynamics, the total entropy of a closed system is always increasing. So how does complexity arise out of that? More colloquially, if everything in the Universe is always falling apart, how d

In this post I’m going to help you understand how Kafka stores its data.

After finishing the network automation part of a recent SDN workshop I told the attendees “Vote with your wallet. If your current vendor doesn’t support the network automation functionality you need, move on.” Not surprisingly, the next question was “And what shall we ask for?” Here’s a short list of ideas, please add yours in comments.

Data-driven decision making relies on contextual understanding of how data is gathered and the type of analysis used to arrive at an outcome. The popularity of data-driven decision-making has increased the number of companies using statistics to support a preference or vendor selection. The Internet Performance Management (IPM) market hasn't been spared, but, unlike other markets where institutions have codified a standard for qualification and quantification, such as the FDA's nutrition labels, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, or the Coffee Quality Institute, the IPM market is still in the Wild West stage.

When it comes to online security, personality type does not inform behavior, but it does reveal how consumers rationalize poor password habits.

Everybody in IT is talking about getting rid of silos. You have to “free” your data and apps from the closed systems they run in to take advantage of the Big Three: cloud infrastructure, big data, and real-time analytics. Yet nobody’s doing much talking about the one silo that threatens to undo all the other…

Docker's emphasis on the customer's experience is a hallmark of its stated mission to create tools of mass innovation. That philosophy is directly relevant to Docker 1.12, which integrates clustering and orchestration into the Docker Engine itself. Nathan McCauley is director of security for Docker. Earlier this summer, McCauley spoke with Lee Calcote, one of the…

One of the guiding principles of open source software, especially in the infrastructure space, is the “batteries included but swappable” ethic that maintains that users and implementers should always have a clear choice of pluggable components. It’s part of the “agnosticism” that defines many of the companies in The New Stack space — for example,…

From time to time, everyone needs to convert a file from one format to another. Here are three terminal tools for Linux to help make conversion easy.

Animation isn't easy, but the good news is that open source supplies plenty of high-quality animation tools.

We did several podcasts describing how one could get stellar packet forwarding performance on x86 servers reimplementing the whole forwarding stack outside of kernel (Snabb Switch) or bypassing the Linux kernel and moving the packet processing into userspace (PF_Ring). Now let’s see if it’s possible to improve the Linux kernel forwarding performance. Thomas Graf, one of the authors of Cilium claims it can be done and explained the intricate details in Episode 64 of Software Gone Wild.

Which is clever, but 'hybrid virtualisation', not hybrid cloud, won't combat Microsoft