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The Elements of Kubernetes - Foundational Concepts for Apps Running on Kubernetes [I]

The Elements of Kubernetes - Foundational Concepts for Apps Running on Kubernetes [I]

December 6, 2019

The Elements of Style is one of the most important and foundational guidelines on how to write well. It has effectively summarized, in a list of seminal guidelines, how to harness the power of the E …
tl;dr: Web performance

tl;dr: Web performance

December 6, 2019

Keeping up to date with the latest web performance trends, features, and techniques can be time consuming and hard. Gareth Hughes and Michael Gooding guide you through the top five performance techniques for today's modern browsers and provide the tools and knowledge you need to implement them today.
Big data governance for the hybrid cloud: Best practices and how-to

Big data governance for the hybrid cloud: Best practices and how-to

December 5, 2019

Big data needs governancenot just for compliance but also for data scientists. Governance empowers data scientists to find, trust, and use data on their own, yet it can be overwhelming to know where to start, especially if your big data environment spans beyond your enterprise to the cloud. Mark Donsky and Vikas Singh share a step-by-step approach to kickstart your big data governance.
Gaining additional labels for data: An introduction to using semisupervised learning for real problems

Gaining additional labels for data: An introduction to using semisupervised learning for real problems

December 3, 2019

There are sometimes occasions where the labels on data are insufficient. In such situations, semisupervised learning can be of great practical value. Yingsong Zhang explores illustrative examples of how to come up with creative solutions, derived from textbook approaches.
Hacking and Hardening Kubernetes Clusters by Example [I]

Hacking and Hardening Kubernetes Clusters by Example [I]

November 30, 2019

While Kubernetes offers new and exciting ways to deploy and scale container-based workloads in production, many organizations may not be aware of the security risks inherent in the out-of-the-box stat …
Be(come) a mentor and help others succeed

Be(come) a mentor and help others succeed

November 28, 2019

There is always something new to learn in technology. Even if we are experts in one field, we're beginners in another. Its important to have a mentor to learn successfully, but its equally important to learn how to be a good mentor. Anna Ossowski explores what makes a mentor "good" and shares the tips and tricks of mentorship and concrete ways you can get involved as a mentor.
Building a deployment pipeline with Jenkins 2.0

Building a deployment pipeline with Jenkins 2.0

November 27, 2019

Brent Laster explains how to use Jenkins 2.0 and illustrates how to easily integrate it with other open source technologies, such as Git, as he walks you through building a simple multistage deployment pipeline (managed and automated through Jenkins) that implements principles of continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Databases and Docker: A survival guide

Databases and Docker: A survival guide

November 26, 2019

Containers are great ephemeral vessels for your applications. But what about the data that drives your business? It must survive containers coming and going, maintain its availability and reliability, and grow when you need it. Alvin Richards does some live coding to show key strategies to help you survive the transition to production.
Finding your way in the dark: Security from first principles

Finding your way in the dark: Security from first principles

November 25, 2019

As a community, we talk a lot about security goals and trade-offs and about the controls we may use to get there. What we don't talk enough about is first principles. Susan Sons shares the seven information security practice principles developed with her team at IU CACR and introduces a mental model for reasoning about security instead of trying to memorize for security.
Super Fast Real-time Data Processing on Cloud-Native Architecture [I]

Super Fast Real-time Data Processing on Cloud-Native Architecture [I]

November 25, 2019

While Cloud-Native architecture allows for elastic scaling and much simpler operation, it usually adds opinionated abstractions which may hinder performance or lead to implementation challenges. This …
From Africa with love

From Africa with love

November 24, 2019

Isaac Kamga discusses his contribution to the Ballistic Research LaboratoryComputer-Aided Design (BRL-CAD) community implementing a heart-shaped primitive and explains how this catapulted him into a role as a community organizer for Silicon Mountain, Africa's next tech hub.
How can I contribute? A guide to making your first open source contribution

How can I contribute? A guide to making your first open source contribution

November 23, 2019

This talk is for youthe documentarians, developers, students, or community members wondering what you can contribute to open source and how to get started. Lucy Wyman discusses several ways open source projects need your help, what to look for in a project you're contributing to, and some first steps to making your first pull request.
UI text: Simplicity is difficult

UI text: Simplicity is difficult

November 19, 2019

Have you ever looked at a beautiful website and said, Huh?" You can incorporate the latest JS framework and the best CSS, excel in accessibility, and make your website as beautiful as a Rembrandt, but websites with walls of text will still drive users away. Mike Jang explains that to keep your users happy you need excellent UI text, also known as microcopy.
Software (r)evolution: A crystal ball to prioritize technical debt

Software (r)evolution: A crystal ball to prioritize technical debt

November 14, 2019

Adam Tornhill introduces novel techniques to uncover both problematic code and the social dimension of the teams that build your software. This combination lets you prioritize the parts of your system that benefit the most from improvements, detect organizational issues, and make practical decisions guided by data.
Three rules for domain-driven design

Three rules for domain-driven design

November 14, 2019

Domain-driven design (DDD) helps focus and guide software development efforts, but learning DDD can be a daunting task. Steven Lowe shares three simple philosophical rules that guide understanding and application of DDDcapture the domain model, embed it in the code, and protect it from corruptionand explains how these rules guide DDD at all scales.
Design for sustainability

Design for sustainability

November 13, 2019

The internet is becoming the worlds largest source of CO2 emissions. 560,000 agencies around the world make daily design decisions on behalf of their clients, directly impacting internet sustainability. Tim Frick explains how to apply sustainability principles to the process of designing digital products and services, helping you make better decisions on behalf of people and the planet.
A practitioners guide to securing your Hadoop cluster

A practitioners guide to securing your Hadoop cluster

November 10, 2019

Mark Donsky, Andr Araujo, Michael Yoder, and Manish Ahluwalia walk you through securing a Hadoop cluster. Youll start with a cluster with no security and then add security features related to authentication, authorization, encryption of data at rest, encryption of data in transit, and complete data governance.
Big data governance for the hybrid cloud: Best practices and how-to

Big data governance for the hybrid cloud: Best practices and how-to

November 9, 2019

Big data needs governance. Governance empowers data scientists to find, trust, and use data on their own, yet it can be overwhelming to know where to startespecially if your big data environment spans beyond your enterprise to the cloud. Mark Donsky and Sudhanshu Arora share a step-by-step approach to kick-start your big data governance initiatives.
Determining the economic value of your data

Determining the economic value of your data

November 7, 2019

Organizations need a model to measure how effectively they are using data and analytics. Once they know where they are and where they need to go, they then need a framework to determine the economic value of their data. William Schmarzo explores techniques for getting business users to think like a data scientist so they can assist in identifying data that makes the best performance predictors.
Developing a modern enterprise data strategy

Developing a modern enterprise data strategy

November 6, 2019

Big data and data science have great potential for accelerating business, but how do you reconcile the business opportunity with the sea of possible technologies? Data should serve the strategic imperatives of a businessthose aspirations that will define an organizations future vision. Scott Kurth and Edd Wilder-James explain how to create a modern data strategy that powers data-driven business.
Semantic natural language understanding at scale using Spark, machine-learned annotators, and deep-learned ontologies

Semantic natural language understanding at scale using Spark, machine-learned annotators, and deep-learned ontologies

November 2, 2019

David Talby and Claudiu Branzan offer a live demo of an end-to-end system that makes nontrivial clinical inferences from free-text patient records. Infrastructure components include Kafka, Spark Streaming, Spark, and Elasticsearch; data science components include spaCy, custom annotators, curated taxonomies, machine-learned dynamic ontologies, and real-time inferencing.
Visualization without guesswork

Visualization without guesswork

October 31, 2019

Seemingly harmless choices in visualization design and content selection can distort your data and lead to false conclusions. Aneesh Karve presents a quantitative framework for identifying and overcoming distortions by applying recent research in algebraic visualization.