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Panel: First Steps with Machine Learning

This panel is a very diverse group, and I’m actually going to let them introduce themselves rather than me trying to butcher any names. This is all about answering my need, literally, my first steps. What should I be focused on as a software engineer wanting to get into ML and start using ML more convinced leadership on things that I want to do?

Remote-controlled Salmon Farms to Operate Off Norway by 2020

Tucked within Norway’s fjord-riddled coast, nearly 3,500 fish pens corral upwards of 400 million salmon and trout. Not only does the country raise and ship more salmonoid overseas than any other in the world (1.1 million tons in 2018), farmed salmon is Norway’s third largest export behind crude petroleum and natural gas. In a global industry expected to quintuple by 2050, farmed salmon is a fine kettle of fish.

Deprecated APIs Removed In Kubernetes 1.16

As the Kubernetes API evolves, APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded. When APIs evolve, the old API is deprecated and eventually removed. The 1.16 release will deprecate APIs for four services: None of these resources will be removed from Kubernetes or deprecated in any way.

Making Apache Spark Effortless for All of Uber

Apache Spark is a foundational piece of Uber’s Big Data infrastructure that powers many critical aspects of our business. We currently run more than one hundred thousand Spark applications per day, across multiple different compute environments. Spark’s versatility, which allows us to build applications and run them everywhere that we need, makes this scale possible.

Secure your service mesh with Istio and keep an eye on it with Kiali

Amenity Detection and Beyond—New Frontiers of Computer Vision at Airbnb

Can We Trust GitHub Stars?

GitHub stars are an essential growth factor for many open source projects, but they can easily be from bot accounts. How can we trust GitHub stars again? For Open Source GitHub projects, stars are a primordial metric.

Signal Sciences brings real-time web attack visibility to Datadog

Signal Sciences is proud to announce our integration with the Datadog platform. This integration furthers our mission of producing the leading application security offering that empowers operations and development teams to proactively see and respond to web attacks—wherever and however they deploy their apps, APIs, and microservices. As the only next-gen WAF (web application firewall) built for today’s rapid development and deployment environments, Signal Sciences has integrated with Datadog to allow users to visualize and analyze web application activity in their Datadog dashboards, and to receive alerts about potential attacks.

Intel’s Neuromorphic System Hits 8 Million Neurons, 100 Million Coming by 2020

How to Upgrade Your PostgreSQL Passwords to SCRAM

In a lot of PostgreSQL environments, it’s common practice to protect user accounts with a password. Starting with PostgreSQL 10, the way PostgreSQL manages password-based authentication got a major upgrade with the introduction of SCRAM authentication, a well-defined standard that is a significant improvement over the current system in PostgreSQL. What’s better is that almost all PostgreSQL drivers now support this new method of password authentication, which should help drive further adoption of this method.