Engineering
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Transforming the Developer Experience for Every Engineering Role
In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, ambitious goals, complex technologies, and shifting priorities can lead to frustrated developer experience. However, the pressure to deliver faster, operate efficiently, and maintain robust security continues to intensify. What if there was a way to break through those barriers? A way to inject new energy into your projects, inspire…
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What Is Infrastructure From Code?
Maybe you’ve heard of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which is the process of managing and provisioning computer data center resources (mostly but not entirely in the cloud) through version-controlled, machine-readable definition files (or configurations), rather than via manual hardware configuration or web consoles at the source. But what is Infrastructure from Code (IfC)? Throughout this post, we’ll…
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Strengthening Federal Cybersecurity: CISA, Zero Trust, And Google Workspace: Exclusive Sessions At Next ‘24
The Federal IT landscape is undergoing a rapid shift toward stronger cybersecurity, driven by CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model v2.0. This model offers a roadmap for federal agencies to boost their cyber posture. For government agencies, selecting the right tools to navigate this transformation is paramount. Google Workspace enters the picture with its robust security capabilities,…
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10 Cloud Development Gotchas To Watch Out For
Cloud-based development has many advantages but some big downsides, too. Here are 10 reasons to think twice before developing, testing, or deploying your apps in the cloud. The benefits of developing software in the cloud include increased flexibility and reliability, greater efficiency, and reduced costs. But cloud-based development also presents a host of challenges. Knowing what to…
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Canonical Accelerates AI Application Development With NVIDIA AI Enterprise
Charmed Kubernetes support comes to NVIDIA AI Enterprise Canonical’s Charmed Kubernetes is now supported on NVIDIA AI Enterprise 5.0. Organisations using Kubernetes deployments on Ubuntu can look forward to a seamless licensing migration to the latest release of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform providing developers the latest AI models and optimised runtimes. NVIDIA AI Enterprise 5.0 NVIDIA…
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Intel and Biden Admin Announce up to $8.5 Billion in Direct Funding Under the CHIPS Act
Proposed funding, coupled with an investment tax credit and eligibility for CHIPS Act loans, would help Intel advance American semiconductor manufacturing and technology leadership in the AI era. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS SANTA CLARA, Calif., and WASHINGTON, March 20, 2024 – The Biden-Harris Administration announced today that Intel and the U.S. Department of Commerce have signed a…
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Accelerate AI Development With Ubuntu And NVIDIA AI Workbench
Canonical expands its collaboration with NVIDIA through NVIDIA AI Workbench. NVIDIA AI Workbench is supported across workstations, data centres, and cloud deployments. NVIDIA AI Workbench is an easy-to-use toolkit that allows developers to create, test, and customise AI and machine learning models on their PC or workstation and scale them to the data centre or…
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Why We Need Both Cloud Engineers And Cloud Architects
Let’s clear up the confusion around the semantics of these critical roles. They offer a combo of strategic vision and on-the-ground development skills. Are you a cloud architect, engineer, or neither? The question will get you more blank stares than good explanations due to the confusion around two roles that perform separate but equally important…
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Why We Need Both Cloud Engineers And Cloud Architects
Cloud providers are becoming commoditized, so you have to be careful to determine where the best value lies. In the rapidly evolving landscape of IaaS cloud computing, public cloud providers are increasingly reaching feature and function parity. This means they are beginning to look alike. Before you keyboard warriors remind me that some obscure feature…
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Domain-Specific AI Apps: A Three-Step Design Pattern For Specializing LLMs
The world of AI has undergone a transformation with the rise of large language models (LLMs). These advanced models, often regarded as the zenith of current natural language processing (NLP) innovations, excel at crafting human-like text for a wide array of domains. A trend gaining traction is the tailoring of LLMs for specific fields —…
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How To Fail At Platform Engineering
A team of DevOps professionals working at DevOpsX had high expectations from the platform their organization just launched. The platform had promised to revolutionize workflows related to Git, CI/CD, testing, and a few others that the team used along with simplifying the entire process. The organization launched it with much fanfare, but the platform turned…
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Three MIT Alumni Graduate From NASA Astronaut Training
Marcos Berríos ’06, Christina Birch PhD ’15, and Christopher Williams PhD ’12, now eligible for spaceflight assignments, encourage MIT students to apply for the next astronaut class. Sandi Miller | Department of PhysicsMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/three-mit-alumni-graduate-nasa-astronaut-training-0307) “It’s been a wild ride,” says Christopher Williams PhD ’12, moments after he received his astronaut pin, signifying graduation into the NASA astronaut corps.…
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Zain KSA and Huawei Sign New Strategic Collaboration on 5.5G
[Barcelona, Spain, February 29, 2024] At MWC Barcelona 2024, Zain KSA, the leading telecommunications and digital services provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Huawei, to promote 5.5G technology applications. The MoU’s ultimate goal is to create a full-fledged suite of smart solutions for individuals and businesses under…
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IBM Report: Identity Comes Under Attack, Straining Enterprises’ Recovery Time From Breaches
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today released the 2024 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index highlighting an emerging global identity crisis as cybercriminals double down on exploiting user identities to compromise enterprises worldwide. According to IBM X-Force, IBM Consulting’s offensive and defensive security services arm, in 2023, cybercriminals saw more opportunities to “log in” versus hack into corporate…
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Intelligencia AI Speeds Up Deployment Time With Cloud SQL
Editor’s note: Powered by AI, Intelligencia AI provides a suite of solutions to help businesses in the pharmaceutical space to make more informed data-driven decisions to de-risk clinical development. With skyrocketing data volumes, commitment to quality and complex processing requirements, the health tech company realized it needed a robust, scalable and reliable database. With its seamless integration, high availability,…
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Five Key Things To Consider When Building A Cloud FinOps Team
In today’s fast-paced business landscape, managing cloud costs efficiently has become crucial. To achieve this, organizations are increasingly turning to Cloud FinOps teams to optimize their cloud spend and help realize value from their investment in the cloud. Hence, building a successful cloud FinOps team involves careful planning and consideration. In this blog post, we…
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How To Get Started With Klaviyo – A Developer’s Guide
Klaviyo is a software service that provides marketing capability to clients. It is designed for email automation, promotion, marketing campaigns and more. Its default form of communication is email while SMS is available also in selected locations. It also has integration with ecommerce platforms such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix and others. This guide is intended…
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5 Ways Platform Engineers Can Help Developers Create Winning APIs
Modern applications demand developers to build APIs that handle intricate features, deliver lightning-fast performance, and materialize in record time. As platform engineers, you are the unsung heroes that empower developers with the right tools and practices to make API development a less of a burden. As a platform engineer, how can you influence API development?…
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Reasoning And Reliability In AI
PhD students interning with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab look to improve natural language usage. Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Watson AI LabMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/reasoning-and-reliability-in-ai-0118) In order for natural language to be an effective form of communication, the parties involved need to be able to understand words and their context, assume that the content is largely shared in…
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Simplify Speech Analytics With BigQuery, Powered By Vertex AI
Businesses generate massive amounts of speech data every day, from customer calls to product demos to sales pitches. This data can transform your business by improving customer satisfaction, helping you prioritize product improvements and streamline business processes. While AI models have improved in the past few months, connecting speech data to these models in a…
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AI Agents Help Explain Other AI Systems
MIT researchers introduce a method that uses artificial intelligence to automate the explanation of complex neural networks. Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAILhttps://news.mit.edu/2024/ai-agents-help-explain-other-ai-systems-0103 Explaining the behavior of trained neural networks remains a compelling puzzle, especially as these models grow in size and sophistication. Like other scientific challenges throughout history, reverse-engineering how artificial intelligence systems work requires…
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New Cloudflare Report Shows Organizations Struggle to Identify and Manage Cybersecurity Risks of APIs
Insights reveal that while APIs account for the majority of Internet traffic, they remain largely unsecured San Francisco, CA, January 9, 2024 – Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today published its inaugural API Security and Management Report. Findings from this year’s report reveal that APIs, a technology that underpins today’s most used sites and apps,…
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FinOps From The Field: Cloud Cost Forecasting
Cloud computing has become an essential part of many businesses and, as a Technical Account Manager, I have seen firsthand how cloud computing can help businesses save money and improve their agility. However, one of the challenges that businesses face when moving to the cloud is forecasting their cloud costs. If you are not careful,…
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You Should Be Worried About Cloud Squatting
Just when you thought you knew all the ways hackers could access your data on a public cloud, a new threat has emerged. Luckily, the fixes are manageable. Most security issues in the cloud can be traced back to someone doing something stupid. Sorry to be that blunt, but I don’t see ingenious hackers out there.…
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Open Source Needs To Catch Up In 2024
Cloud and AI are the most important technologies today, and both have outstripped open source licenses. It’s time for a new open source definition. Open source pioneer Bruce Perens gets one thing right and most things wrong in a recent interview on the future of open source. He’s absolutely correct that “our [open source] licenses aren’t working anymore,”…