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AI, ML and Data Engineering AI, ML and Data Engineering Follow 642 Followers
User Anonymity on Twitter
This article explores how it is possible to measure how many Twitter users adopted anonymous pseudonyms, the correlation between content sensitivity and user anonymity, and whether it would be possible to build automated classifiers that would detect sensitive Twitter accounts.
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DevOps DevOps Follow 582 Followers
The Top 10 Adages in Continuous Deployment
On the basis of discussions at the Continuous Deployment Summit, researchers derived 10 adages about continuous-deployment practices. These adages represent a working set of approaches and beliefs that guide current practice and establish a tangible target for empirical validation.
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Culture & Methods Culture & Methods Follow 485 Followers
Consensual Software: How to Prioritize User Safety
This article covers how consensual software will help address online harassment and abuse vectors before they get out of hand. It also covers some features the GitHub Community & Safety team has built and how we review features from other teams.
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2016
The 10th annual QCon San Francisco was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1500 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors.
F# Deep Dives Review and Author Q&A
F# Deep Dives is a new book aimed at showing the business value that using F# brings in practice. It presents 11 industrial scenarios and their solution with F# using a functional-first approach.
Distributing Complex Services in Cross-Geolocational IDCs
Micro Sun describes some of the techniques Tencent use to scale Qzone, a social networking platform in China with over 600 million monthly active users.
Rejection of Social Media API by JCP Expert Group Members Sparks Debate On Innovation
When the JCP rejected JSR 357 (Social Media API) in an 8 to 5 vote, members criticised it for being too broad in scope. However, members favouring the proposal indicated this was a political move.
LinkedIn Signal: A Case Study for Scala, JRuby and Voldemort
This article aims to provide more insight into the motivation and technical challenges that the LinkedIn team faced, while combining Scala, JRuby and Voldemort, at such scale.
Bringing in Social Content to Custom Applications with Apache Shindig
This article covers Apache Shindig, an OpenSocial implementation which can be used to alleviate issues with implementing OpenSocial gadgets like proprietary APIs and different OpenSocial versions.
