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Build Your Own PaaS with Crossplane: Kubernetes, OAM, and Core Workflows
InfoQ recently sat down with Bassam Tabbara, founder and CEO of Upbound, and discussed building application platforms that span multiple cloud vendors and on-premise infrastructure. Crossplane is an open source cloud control plane that enables engineers to manage any infrastructure or cloud services directly from Kubernetes.
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Combining DataOps and DevOps: Scale at Speed
DataOps is an extension of DevOps standards and processes into the data analytics world. It's about streamlining the processes involved in processing, analyzing and deriving value from big data.
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Mindfulness in Corporations during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Mindfulness classes and programs have been offered to employees in many organizations for almost a decade. They were offered via instructors that visited the organizations. However, when employees were forced to work from home, due to Covid-19 restrictions, mindfulness instructors turned to Zoom and other online conferencing solutions to lead their classes virtually
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Resilience in Deep Systems
Deep systems, with multiple layers of microservices, have special challenges, and handling them requires the right mindset and tools.
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The First Wave of GPT-3 Enabled Applications Offer a Preview of Our AI Future
The first wave of GPT-3 powered applications are emerging. After priming of only a few examples, GPT-3 could write essays, answer questions, and even generate computer code! Furthermore, GPT-3 can perform algebraic calculations and language translations despite never being taught such concepts. However, GPT-3 is a black box with unpredictable outcomes. Developers must use it responsively.
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Q&A on the Book The Improv Mindset
The book The Improv Mindset by Bruce and Gail Montgomery provides the framework, activities, case stories, and data to help you apply improv in a business context. They show how you can deal with uncertainty by changing how your brain responds to change, as well as provide methods to systematically improve individual, team, and organization performance by leveraging the core principles of improv.
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PHP 7 — Improvements to Arrays, Operators, Constants, and Exception Handling
In this final article in the series on new features in PHP 7.x, we shall discuss improvements to arrays, operators, constants, and exception handling.
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Q&A on the Book Further, Faster
Businesses that thrive over the long term can focus on just a few things that truly matter to their teams and core customers. The book Further, Faster by Bill Flynn provides ideas for business leaders to build teams, create a strategy to stay close to customers, and manage a company’s growth with cash as the primary metric.
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Realtime APIs: Mike Amundsen on Designing for Speed and Observability
In a recent apidays webinar, Mike Amundsen, trainer and author of the recent O’Reilly book “API Traffic Management 101”, presented “High Performing APIs: Architecting for Speed at Scale”. Drawing on recent research by IDC, he argued that organisations will have to drive systemic changes in order to meet the upcoming increased demand of consumption of business services via APIs.
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The Right Way of Tracing AWS Lambda Functions
With an emphasis on distributed tracing, this article discusses best practices for gaining and leveraging observability into AWS Lambda functions.
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State of the Art in Automated Machine Learning
InfoQ caught up with experts Francesca Lazzeri, machine learning scientist lead at Microsoft; Matthew Tovbin, co-founder of Faros AI; Adrian de Wynter, applied scientist in Alexa AI’s Secure AI Foundations; Leah McGuire, principal member of technical staff at Salesforce; and Marios Michailidis, data scientist at H2O.ai, about the state of the art in automated machine learning (AutoML).
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Retrospectives for Management Teams
Engaging top management in a recurring retrospective approach can result in long-term value in organizations. Retrospectives can help management teams to explore how they collaborate and cooperate. They can find out whether they should change something and decide on action points that propel the team forward and make them more effective.