Edge Computing and the Future of the Cloud
“Edge” and “fog” are the new buzzwords we keep hearing about. What is edge computing, and what applications does it have? Well, to talk about these, we have to understand how it came about. Let’s start with a brief history lesson. Computing infrastructure went through several alterations between centralized and decentralized architectures in the past decades.
Strategies for Interviewing and Hiring: Part 2 of 2
CULTURE FIT, OR: TECHNICAL SKILLS MATTER, SOFT SKILLS ALSO MATTER “Culture fit” is a term that is used to describe engineers that have the right personality for a given company. In the hiring process, “lack of culture fit” is used to turn away engineers who are good enough at coding but just don’t seem right
Strategies for Interviewing and Hiring: Part 1 of 2
“Humans are the most complicated thing out there – judging human skill is extremely hard, there’s all kinds of ways that people can be good.” There are some big unanswered questions in our world that might eventually be
Crash Reporting: Improving the Customer and Dev Experience
When things go badly, everyone needs a plan. When things break in a production system, a solid strategy is necessary for recovery and minimizing impact. When an alert goes off in a production system, a plan helps keep the
An Overview of Jupyter Notebooks
Data is an important part of today’s software engineering ecosystem. The data that is collected by an individual or a company is not worth much unless it can be shared, distributed, and analyzed. Without a standardized method
Podcast
Druid Analytical Database with Fangjin Yang
Modern applications produce large numbers of events. These events can be users clicking, IoT sensors accumulating data, or log messages. The cost of cloud storage and compute continues to drop, so engineers can afford to build...
Orchestrating Kubernetes with Chris Gaun
A company runs a variety of distributed systems applications such as Hadoop for batch processing jobs, Spark for data science, and Kubernetes for container management. These distributed systems tools can run on-prem, in a cloud...
Netflix Observability with Kevin Lew
Netflix users stream terabytes of data from the cloud to their devices every day. During a high bandwidth, long-lived connection, a lot can go wrong. Networks can drop packets, machines can run out of memory, and the Netflix app...
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Algorithms to Live By with Brian Christian
When you are deciding who to marry, you are using an algorithm. The same is true when you are looking for a parking space, playing a game of poker, or deciding whether or not to organize your closet. Algorithms To Live By is a book about the computer science of human...
