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With fundamental technology change, we don't so much get our predictions wrong as make predictions about the wrong things.

As the old engineering adage goes, “Fast, cheap or good: you can only have two.” While individual software developers often face decisions about when and where to make compromises in their code, tech companies as a whole face similar questions on a broader level as well. Things like complexity, speed, organizational alignment, and the availability…

An overview of how Twitch uses staged rollouts to perform experiments, biases we found, and methods we use for significance testing.

I am really sad that the European Space Agency (ESA) lost their Schiaparelli lander, as we will miss out on a lot of Mars sci

The Internet of Things is powered by data. The more data the better, because the data powers the killer feature of IoT: personalization. As I write about

This is the second in the series on the essentials of multiprocessor programming. This time around we are going to look at some of the normally little

We live in an age where there is a vast, over-abundance of data available on the web. The problem is that sifting through all of it to find and make sense of whatever is deemed relevant is an incredibly time-consuming task. But it may soon become easier, as Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers recently revealed…

The company behind Google's quantum computer is releasing open source tools so coders can create software without needing an advanced physics degree.

At the beginning of 2016, Jean Lescure, Senior Software Engineer and Architect at Gorilla Logic, watched a 3GB file containing five million rows of data churn through Amazon Web Services' Lambda serverless computing service. He knew that operation, as it stood then, wouldn’t scale to larger files, and wondered if he could get it to run…

Up until September of last year, Google Translate used phrase-based translation. That has no capacity to make educated guesses at words it doesn’t recognize, and can’t learn from new input. But then Google Translate got smart. It developed the ability to learn from the people who used it. And then it invented its own language to help it translate more effectively.

Encrypting the web is a more important challenge than ever. Now, EFF has teamed up with Sandwich Video and Baratunde Thurston to explain and promote this mission via video. Sandwich is the production

Intel is taking its telemetry work to the next level. It open-sourced its Snap telemetry framework in late 2015, and throughout 2016, much of Intel’s work surrounding Snap has been centered on improving how it interacts with orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes. On the new episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke Intel Data Solutions team…

Arguably, CoreOS Linux could be called the first Linux-based operating system designed for cluster computing, containers/microservices. Even if CoreOS Linux (since renamed "Container Linux") had its roots in the traditional Linux OS, it offered a new approach towards operating systems: One of the most significant features of Container Linux is transitional upgrades that keep the system…

Cars today are much like phones in 2007 - overloaded by features and badly in need of a new interface model, even as we move slowly towards autonomous cars, which will have no interfaces at all. 

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Diary of an experience C++ programmer. Thoughts on programming and other tools and languages.

At The New Stack, we covered various strategies for running stateful workloads on the Kubernetes container orchestration engine. This article takes a practical, hands-on approach to deploying a highly available WordPress application in Kubernetes based on the strategies and best practices that were discussed earlier. We will cover everything from setting up the Kubernetes cluster to…

As software developers, we often become overly attached to the code we write. Over the past few years, as I’ve grown into a more senior position, I have real...

Huffman coding (also known as Huffman Encoding) is an algorithm for doing data compression, and it forms the basic idea behind file compression. This post talks about the fixed-length and variable-length encoding, uniquely decodable codes, prefix rules, and Huffman Tree construction.