The top five UX ingredients a designer should always keep in their back pocket
Lessons on “doing” the process of user experience design.
Ideas
What's on our radar.
Engineering incremental change
This chapter from Building Evolutionary Architectures describes architectures that support incremental change along with some of the engineering practices used to achieve incremental change.
Four short links: 13 October 2017
Deep Learned Faces, $900 Selfie Camera, MSFT+AMZN AI, Rich Text Editor
Andrea Limbago on the effects of security’s branding problem
The O’Reilly Security Podcast: The multidiscliplinary nature of defense, making security accessible, and how the current perception of security professionals hinders innovation and hiring.
Vehicle-to-vehicle communication networks can help fuel smart cities
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz on the importance of building the ground control center of the future.
Damon Feldman on combining a data hub and data lake
The O’Reilly Podcast: Achieving greater reliability and security when integrating data.
Artificial intelligence and advances in data warehousing
The O'Reilly Podcast: Gary Orenstein on developing a data infrastructure that enables the latest applications in machine learning and AI.
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Criminal cost modeling
Chris Baker on an economic model for deterring attacks.
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Who owns open source security?
Guy Podjarny on why open source security is a community responsibility.
Google, venture capital, and biopharma
GV, Google's venture capital arm, is investing in several promising biotechnology startups.
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Application caching at Netflix: The hidden microservice
Learn how Netflix scales microservices with application data caching.
Deep matrix factorization using Apache MXNet
A tutorial on how to use machine learning to build recommender systems.
Converging big data, AI, and business intelligence
Utilizing GPU power to improve performance and agility.
Enterprises are the natural environment for AI deployments
With rich data sources already in place, investments in both technology and organizational change pay off.
How industries are using data analytics to accelerate the digital transformation
The secret sauce for survival relies on extracting the value of data analytics.
Tenets of SRE
Learn the core principles of Google site reliability engineering.
Mark Bates on Go and Buffalo
The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: Inside the development of a new Go ecosystem.
Video
How real is real-user measurement?
Robert Castley explores the relevance of real-user data if real users are blocking RUM tags, and he shares some solutions.
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Automating content delivery in a DevOps world
Craig Adams explores the traditional DevOps pipeline, addresses how to think about CDN automation, and explains how Akamai is baking automation into its CDN.
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The role of open source in a company
Jessica Frazelle and Dino Dai Zovi discuss how to be effective at open source in your company.
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Mentorship and sponsorship
Lara Hogan walks through tactics you can employ to be a sponsor for those around you.
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Above the line, below the line: A preview of the SNAFUcatchers Stella Report
David Woods and Richard Cook offer a glimpse at the SNAFUcatchers Stella Report.
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What if serverless was real?
For most of us, the best approach to scaling complex distributed systems is to not do that. So, Nick Rockwell asks, why isn’t serverless a bigger deal?
Bioprinting: From a DIY revolution to patients
Bioprinting, a technology that emerged from open source communities, has the potential to improve medical science.
Question answering with TensorFlow
Using advanced neural networks to tackle challenging natural language tasks.
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Government is a system
Matt Cutts discusses how better technology can improve not just software systems but also trust in government itself.
Highlights from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference in New York 2017
Watch highlights covering complex distributed systems, systems engineering, DevOps, and more. From the O'Reilly Velocity Conference in New York 2017.
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You scream for microservices orchestration. I scream for batch. We all scream for jobs as code
Joe Goldberg explores jobs as code, which looks at batch application automation from a systems development life cycle perspective.
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Blockchains and cryptocurrencies: New paradigms for shared data
Bitcoin showed us a new way of moving value around the internet. Neha Narula considers how this paradigm might apply to databases that cross organizational boundaries.
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The impact of design: How design influences outcomes
"Do no harm" is a core principle in medicine. Cynthia Savard Saucier challenges the tech industry to come up with its own fundamental principle.
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Fly the airplane
Kristopher Beevers explains how to augment Incident Command with simple tools and processes, such as basic checklists or regular fire drills.
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Unconventional programming paradigms for the future, now
Carin Meier explores new ways to approach systems and tame complexity.
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FTFY: Research advances in automatic bug repair
Developers spend huge amounts of time fixing bugs in their programs, but what about automatically fixing them? Claire Le Goues shares recent advances that aim to make that dream a reality.
Sentiment analysis with Apache MXNet
Using deep neural networks to make sense of unstructured text.
What exactly does a product manager do all day, anyhow?
A look at a few consistent themes that unite the work of product management across job titles, industries, business models, and company sizes.
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A tale of two cafeterias: Focus on the line of business
Tanvi Singh asks: Do long-standing, non-Internet companies have the evidence-driven culture and platforms needed to get benefits from big data tools?
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WTF? What's the future and why it's up to us
Tim O'Reilly says entrepreneurs need to set their sights on how we can use big data, sensors, and AI to create amazing human experiences and the economy of the future.
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Analytics everywhere, from things to cities
There are endless possibilities when we connect the unconnected. Raghunath Nambiar discusses the magnitude of challenges and opportunities across industry segments.
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The real project of AI ethics
Joanna Bryson says AI's main threat is not that it will do anything to us, but that we'll use it to predict and manipulate our behaviors.
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How IoT and machine learning keep America truckin'
Terry Kline and Mike Olson look at how machine learning and predictive analytics keep more than 300,000+ connected vehicles rolling
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Will AI help save the snow leopard?
Joseph Sirosh shares a story about a volunteer’s dilemma, an engineer’s ingenuity, and how AI, cloud, data, and devices came together to save snow leopards.
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Human-AI interaction: Autonomous service robots
Manuela Veloso provides an overview of the CoBot mobile service robots and their symbiotic autonomy, which lets the robots ask for help to overcome their limitations.
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Your data is being manipulated
danah boyd explores how systems are being gamed, how data is vulnerable, and what we need to do to build technical antibodies.
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Emotional arithmetic: How machine learning helps you understand customers in real time
Chad W. Jennings walks through a serverless big data architecture on Google Cloud that helps unravel the mysteries of human emotion.
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US EPA: Digital transformation through data science
Robin Thottungal discusses the EPA's digital transformation and how it's leading to a better understanding of the interdependencies between our air, water, land, and public health.
Window Snyder on the indispensable human element in securing your environment
The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Why tools aren’t always the answer to security problems and the oft overlooked impact of user frustration and fatigue.
Transforming organizations through analytics centers of excellence
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Carme Artigas on helping enterprises transform themselves with big data tools and technologies.
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I data scienced monitoring data and so can you
Rob Claire introduces the monitoring tools Pinterest uses and offers real-world examples of problem solving with data monitoring.
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Speak security and enter
Jessy Irwin on making security make sense for nontechnical users.
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Journey to consolidation
Cesar Delgado joins Mike Olson to show how Apple is using its big data stack and expertise to solve non-data problems.
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A whole new way to think about your next gen applications
Anil Gadre shares how MapR customers using a converged data platform are creating new apps for the enterprise.
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The age of machine learning
Ben Lorica discusses the state of machine learning.
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Data science for the most vulnerable at UNICEF Innovation
Manuel García-Herranz explains how to apply advances in data science, complex systems, artificial intelligence, and computational sociology to help the most vulnerable.
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Wild, wild data: Adventures with big data and the IoT in the Angolan highlands
Jer Thorp talks about swimming upstream to the point where data becomes data.
Highlights from Strata Data Conference in New York 2017
Watch highlights covering data science, data engineering, data-driven business, and more. From Strata Data Conference in New York 2017.
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Music, the window into your soul
Ever wondered how Spotify seems to know what you want? Christine Hung shares how Spotify uses data and algorithms to improve user experience and drive business.
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White collar crime risk zones
Sam Lavigne offers an overview of White Collar Crime Risk Zones, a predictive policing application that predicts financial crime at the city-block level.
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Unleashing intelligence and data analytics at scale
Ziya Ma explains how Intel is driving a holistic approach to powering advanced analytics and artificial intelligence workloads.
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Teaching databases to learn in the world of AI
Nikita Shamgunov explores the future of databases for fast-learning adaptable applications.
Is a VUI right for you and your app?
Considerations to determine whether voice is an appropriate medium for your users.
Chaos engineering
Building confidence in system behavior through experiments
Apache MXNet—the fruit of cross-institutional collaboration
MXNet’s origins show through in its power and flexibility.
Data liquidity in the age of inference
Probabilistic computation holds too much promise for it to be stifled by playing zero sum games with data.