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Design to the data. That’s the mantra of modern, research-driven web designers. But blindly accepting statistics and studies at face value is delusional at best, irresponsible at worst. Forme…

The Mostly Complete Chart of Neural Networks by the team at the Asimov Institute .  With new neural network architectures popping up every now and then, it’s hard to keep track of them all. Knowing all the abbreviations being thrown around (DCIGN, BiLSTM, DCGAN, anyone?) can be a bit ov

When people started talking about OpenConfig YANG data models, my first thought (being a grumpy old XML/XSLT developer) was “that should be really easy to implement for someone with XML-based software and built-in XSLT support” (read: Junos with SLAX). Here’s how my simplistic implementation would look like:

Understanding statelessness, the share-nothing pattern, and data caching in modern app development.

Five questions for Ken Lee and Kai Zhong: Insights on building Etsy's alerting framework and best practices for monitoring and alerting.

Thoughts on platforms, standardization, scale, and economics in information software, digitally enhanced products, and their convergence in the Internet of Things.

Twitter is finding profit in trusting in the old reporter adage, "follow the money." Having moved to a microservices-based service architecture, the company has set up a chargeback system that lets the managers of services know how much it costs the company to run those services, while also providing valuable usage information to the managers…

HTTP APIs – connect the web elegantly :: The Brush Blog is a blog about software, electronics and the web, written by the team at Brush Technology

Sharing your ideas helps you and others get better. Here’s how to get started. At least once a week I say to myself, “That’s interesting. I should write something about it.” And then I don’t. A bun…

Net neutrality advocates worry about companies like Comcast creating Internet fast lanes that advantage certain sites over others. But what if you could make your own?

Today we are in the early stages of building a new infrastructure for work; think of it as a new operating system for creating value and getting things done. A combination of next-generation networking, distributed computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) is laying the groundwork for this transfo

VictorOps is now Splunk On-Call

This year the Vitra Design Museum opened a new building, the Schaudepot, on their campus. Inside is a recreation of Charles Eames' personal office, "just as it was when he passed away in 1978." (What is Ray, chopped liver? Sadly there's no mention of her office.) Inside we can

The Netflix Journey to Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Systems

As Moore’s Law spirals downward, ultra-high bandwidth memory matched with custom accelerators for specialized workloads might be the only saving grace for

Asimov's Cosmic AC was created by linking all datacenters through hyperspace, which explains a lot. It didn't reverse entropy--it just discarded the universe when it reached end-of-life and ordered a new one.

At Highrise, we have a very small team, yet we get a lot done. Three quarters of the way through the year seemed like a good time to take a moment to reflect on all of the things we’ve accomplished…

In the year of our lord, 2013, the thought of ARM-powered phones running the full web experience with JavaScript as fast as x86-powered desktops was a laughable pipe dream. Way back in those olden …

If you’re a software engineer (or someone who’s learning the craft), chances are that you’ve heard about deep learning (which we’ll sometimes abbreviate as “DL”). It’s an interesting and rapidly developing field of research that’s... Read More »

Kelly Lum shares her experiences maintaining a break-neck pace while still producing hacker-resilient code.

Alois Reitbauer discusses the conversational interface Dynatrace has built to make performance data accessible through natural language questions.