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PHP 7 — Getting Started and OOP Improvements

PHP had become almost a forgotten language, with a lapse of more than 10 years without a new major version after PHP 5.0 in 2004. PHP 7.0 is a major version with several improvements and new features which have brought it to the level of other modern languages. In this series of articles, we shall discuss new features in the various PHP 7.x versions.

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Taming Large State: Lessons from Building Stream Processing

Sonali Sharma and Shriya Arora describe how Netflix solved a complex join of two high-volume event streams using Flink. They also talk about managing out of order events and processing late arriving data, exploring keyed state for maintaining large state, fault tolerance of a stateful application, strategies for failure recovery, data validation batch vs streaming, and more.

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Deep Learning at Scale: Distributed Training and Hyperparameter Search for Image Recognition Problems

Michael Shtelma discusses methods and libraries for training models on a dataset that does not fit into memory or maybe even on the disk using multiple GPUs or even nodes.

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Hallway Testing - Cool Face of Usability Testing

Ewa Marchewka discusses good practices in hallway testing, who and how should be involved, what projects can benefit from this technique, when to use it, what to avoid.

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The Halo of Resilience Engineering

J. Paul Reed looks at how some of the pillars of Resilience Engineering might help and a team can deal with the changes forced to confront.

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Sid Anand currently serves as PayPal's Chief Data Engineer, focusing on ways to realize the value of data.
Sid Anand blogs at http://practicalcloudcomputing.com/

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Sid Anand currently serves as PayPal's Chief Data Engineer, focusing on ways to realize the value of data. Prior to joining PayPal, he held several positions including Agari's Data Architect, a Technical Lead in Search @ LinkedIn, Netflix’s Cloud Data Architect, Etsy’s VP of Engineering, and several technical roles at eBay. Sid earned his BS and MS degrees in CS from Cornell University, where he focused on Distributed Systems. In his spare time, he is a maintainer/committer on Apache Airflow, a co-chair for QCon, and a frequent speaker at conferences. When not working, Sid spends time with his wife, Shalini, and their 2 kids.

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PHP 7 — Getting Started and OOP Improvements

Taming Large State: Lessons from Building Stream Processing

Deep Learning at Scale: Distributed Training and Hyperparameter Search for Image Recognition Problems

Hallway Testing - Cool Face of Usability Testing

The Halo of Resilience Engineering

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After MS-DOS, Microsoft Now Open Sources GW-Basic

PHP 7 — Getting Started and OOP Improvements

Extensible Effects in JavaScript for Fun and Profit - Q&A with William Heslam

Taming Large State: Lessons from Building Stream Processing

Lin Sun and Neeraj Poddar on Istio, Wasm, and the Future of Service Mesh

QCon San Francisco 2020 Announces Program Committee

Hallway Testing - Cool Face of Usability Testing

Predicting the Future with Forecasting and Agile Metrics

Is Your Culture Agile-friendly Or Agile-repellent?

OpenAI Announces GPT-3 AI Language Model with 175 Billion Parameters

Deep Learning at Scale: Distributed Training and Hyperparameter Search for Image Recognition Problems

Google Open-Sources AI for Using Tabular Data to Answer Natural Language Questions

The Halo of Resilience Engineering

Windows Terminal 1.0 Released with Support for Profiles, Multiple Panes, and Unicode Characters

GitLab 13.0 Released with AWS ECS for AutoDevops, Gitaly HA Cluster and Vulnerability Management

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