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Proving Algebraic Laws in Scala Using Stainless

Viktor Kunčak overviews Stainless used to state and formally verify properties of functional programs written in Scala.

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Why Distributed Systems Are Hard

Denise Yu covers a brief history of distributed computing, presents a survey of key academic contributions to distributed systems theory including the CAP theorem and the FLP correctness result, and digs into why network partitions are inevitable today. Denise Yu talks about why one needs to account for the human factor when designing a complex system.

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AI, ML and Data Engineering

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Accuracy as a Failure

Vincent Warmerdam talks about cautionary tales of mistakes that might happen when we let data scientists on a goose chase for accuracy. It may surprise us, but highly accurate models are more damaging than the inaccurate ones. He shares some work that his team is doing to make sure that chatbots don't fall into this trap.

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Culture & Methods

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How Outsourcing Practices Are Changing in 2020: An Industry Insight

The IT outsourcing industry is very volatile and each year we see new trends reshaping the sector. In 2020, we see some outsourcing practices coming up and others getting stronger. At the same time, we also see some of the prominent outsourcing practices becoming obsolete. This article looks at how the outsourcing industry is changing and getting prepared to embrace the change.

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DevOps

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Pitfalls in Measuring SLOs

Danyel Fisher and Liz Fong Jones discuss how they brought the theory of SLOs to practice, and what they learned that they hadn’t expected in the process.

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Proving Algebraic Laws in Scala Using Stainless

Why Distributed Systems Are Hard

Accuracy as a Failure

How Outsourcing Practices Are Changing in 2020: An Industry Insight

Pitfalls in Measuring SLOs

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Apple's Rosetta Move

Fathym Low-Code Platform Now Available in Public Beta

Proving Algebraic Laws in Scala Using Stainless

Why Distributed Systems Are Hard

Interface Design in Times of Information Overflow

Event-Driven Architectures for Spring Developers

How Outsourcing Practices Are Changing in 2020: An Industry Insight

Trust and Safety in High Performing Teams: QCon London Q&A

Steve Adolph on Product Management, Product Ownership and Business Agility

Accuracy as a Failure

MIT and Toyota Release Autonomous Driving Dataset DriveSeg

Applied Probability - Counting Large Set of Unstructured Events with Theta Sketches

Production Identity Framework SPIRE Graduates to CNCF Incubator

DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2020: a Diversity and Inclusion Q&A with Shaaron A Alvares

Johnny Boursiquot on Serverless Go and SREs as "Diplomats"

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