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Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. by Matthew MacDonald Released September 2020 Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN: 9781492074168 Explore a preview version of WordPress: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition right now. O’Reilly members get unlimited access to live online training experiences, plus books, videos, and digital content from 200+ publishers ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Alex Castrounis. AI Benefits and Stakeholders AI is a field where value, in the form of outcomes and their resulting benefits, is created by machines exhibiting the ability to learn and “understand,” and to use the knowledge learned to carry out tasks or achieve goals. AI-generated benefits can be realized by defining and achieving appropriate goals. These goals depend on who the stakeholder is; in other words, the person or company receiving the benefits. There are three potential stakeholders for AI applications, with a single application often involving all three. They are business stakeholders, customers, and users ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. In a conversation with Kevlin Henney, we started talking about the kinds of user interfaces that might work for AI-assisted programming. This is a significant problem: neither of us were aware of any significant work on user interfaces that support collaboration. However, as software developers, many of us have been practicing effective collaboration for years. It’s called pair programming, and it’s not at all like the models we’ve seen for interaction between an AI system and a human. Most AI systems we’ve seen envision AI as an oracle: you give it the input, it pops ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. Compared to the last few months, there are relatively few items about COVID. And almost no items about Blockchains, though the one item I’ve listed, about China’s Blockchain Services Network, may be the most important item here. I’m seeing a steady stream of articles about various forms of no-code/low-code programming. While many programmers scoff at the idea of programming-without-programming, spreadsheets are an early example of low-code programing. Excel is hardly insignificant. On the AI front, the most significant change is discussion (see the thread below) of a “Deep Learning Recession,” as companies under pressure from ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. In a microservices architecture, the whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. But in practice, individual microservices can inadvertently impact others and alter the end user experience. Effective microservices architectures require standardization on an organizational level with the help of a platform engineering team.This practical book provides a series of progressive steps that platform engineers can apply technically and organizationally to achieve highly resilient Java applications. Author Jonathan Schneider covers many effective SRE practices from companies leading the way in microservices adoption. You’ll examine several patterns discovered ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Q Ethan McCallum and Mike Loukides. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed how people and businesses spend and operate.  Over the coming pages we’ll explore ways in which our current world is already very different from the one we knew just a few months ago, as well as predictions of our “new normal” once the proverbial boat stops rocking.  Specifically, we’ll see this through the lens of decision-making: how has Covid-19 changed the way we think? And what does this mean for our purchase patterns and business models? Welcome to Uncertainty You’re used to a certain level of ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Matthew Rocklin and Hugo Bowne-Anderson. So you need to redesign your company’s data infrastructure. Do you buy a solution from a big integration company like IBM, Cloudera, or Amazon?  Do you engage many small startups, each focused on one part of the problem?  A little of both?  We see trends shifting towards focused best-of-breed platforms. That is, products that are laser-focused on one aspect of the data science and machine learning workflows, in contrast to all-in-one platforms that attempt to solve the entire space of data workflows. Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther. ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. StackOverflow’s 2020 developer survey included a table showing the  “most loved, dreaded, and wanted languages.” Loved and wanted languages are, well, sort of boring. The programming languages we dread are a lot more interesting. As Tolstoy said, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So what are these unhappy, unloved languages, and why do programmers dread using them? Given the chance it’s, well, hard to resist jumping in with some theories, and perhaps even saying something impolitic.  Or defending some languages that are disliked for the wrong reasons ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. For self-service data preparation, Tableau Prep is relatively easy to use—as long as you know how to clean and organize your datasets. Carl Allchin, from The Information Lab in London, gets you up to speed on Tableau Prep through a series of practical lessons that include methods for preparing, cleaning, automating, organizing, and outputting your datasets.Based on Allchin’s popular blog, Preppin’ Data, this practical guide takes you step-by-step through Tableau Prep’s fundamentals. Self-service data preparation reduces the time it takes to complete data projects and improves the quality of your ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. I thought July was going to be a dull month, but I’m wrong again. COVID-specific technology seems to be drying up, though there’s a fascinating report about a DIY vaccine. (Developed by serious scientists, so don’t try this at home.) There’s a lot of news about AI, and specifically, about the GPT-2 and GPT-3 language models. And a few things that are just fun, like Festo’s Bionic Swifts. COVID-19 A DIY vaccine for COVID-19 is circulating among a group of scientists at Harvard and MIT. It comes from a group called RADVAC (Rapid Deployment Vaccine ... Read More