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The Radiotopia podcasting collective is home to most of my absolute favorite podcasts: 99% Invisible, The Memory Palace, and Song Exploder. Roman Mars, founder of Radiotopia and 99% Invisible, and …

Let Alexa to operate the remote control for your nightly TV programming.

We analyse the urban mobility in the cities of Medellín and Manizales (Colombia). Each city is represented by six mobility networks, each one encoding the origin-destination trips performed by a su...

Puppet wants to fold the Docker build process into its own IT automation management. The new edition Puppet Enterprise flagship platform, Puppet Enterprise 2016.4, includes the ability to build Docker containers and automatically ship them into production environments. The new edition of the software was unveiled at the company's annual user conference, PuppetConf 2016. The software also features an…

Ease of use is everything with Docker. And if the keepers of Kubernetes orchestration engine wish to capture the lion's share of Docker users, their software needs to be as easy to use as Docker containers themselves. When Docker chief technology officer Solomon Hykes introduced the built-in orchestration features of Docker 1.12 back in June,…

Learn how to make better decisions about security and IT by using state-of-the-art economic tools, security metrics and data analytics.

Erlang/OTP is unique among programming languages and frameworks in the breadth, depth, and consistency of the features it provides for scalable, fault-tolerant systems with requirements for high availability.

EveryCRSReport publishes all current, non-confidential Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports in one place, for free, for everyone.

Using RUM to analyze HTTP vs. HTTPS in different world regions and across wireline, rural wireline, and wireless ISPs.

This chapter from Learning Agile lays out the 12 principles that every agile practitioner should use when working on asoftware project team.

Greg Brown's new book, Programming Beyond Practices, is a thoughtful exploration of how software gets developed.

We’ve seen a Raspberry Pi used as a dash cam before, but over on PubNub they took the same concept, but also have a live-streaming capability provided you can set up a hot spot on your smartphone.

Five questions for Fernando Montenegro: Insights on how to apply economic theory to solve security challenges and improve an organization’s overall security posture.

The Real-time Communication API Blog: best practices across in-app chat, push notifications, location tracking and more.

Tim Frick offers simple tactics to make your own digital products and services more sustainable.

In 2017, you will finally be able to buy a copy of Beren and Lúthien, a story of old Middle-earth, written by none other than J.R.R. Tolkien himself. Or, you could go buy one of a half-dozen already published books that the story appears in later today. Your call!

Based on a variety of studies and research methods, here are 17 staggering statistics that further articulate our nation's passion and obsession for shopping.

A great roadmap can drive a company’s success, a bad one can cause disaster. Here’s what we’ve learned along the way…

NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because sp…

In a small annual ceremony the city hands over an axe, a knife, 6 horseshoes, and 61 nails.

From self-driving cars to stock market predicting software to the recommendations you get on Amazon and Netflix, machine learning is at the core of modern technology. You could find yourself buildi…

Workers often do their best when bosses don't monitor their every move

In Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking, @JuliaAngwin and @ProPublica unpack what the subhead says well already: “Google is the latest tech company to drop t…

A corporation such as Spotify was founded a few years ago by a 23-year-old man, and it now plays a key role in the music industry. YouTube is now the big-boss of music delivery. Had I predicted these things ten years ago, you would have thought me odd. Kurzweil, the inventor, popularized the notion of … Continue reading Who is keeping an eye on the tech companies?

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SDK and CLI for spawning streaming stateless HTTP microservices in multiple programming languages - GitHub - stackvana/microcule: SDK and CLI for spawning streaming stateless HTTP microservices in ...