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Web development in 2019 podcast

We discuss the key trends for web and app developers in 2019 [Podcast]

How will web and app development evolve in 2019? What are some of the key technologies that you should be investigating if you want...
Chaos engineering and observability podcast

Listen: We discuss why chaos engineering and observability will be important in 2019 [Podcast]

This week I published a post that explored some of the key trends in software infrastructure that security engineers, SREs, and SysAdmins should be...
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Why moving from a monolithic architecture to microservices is so hard, Gitlab’s Jason Plum...

Last week, at the KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2018, Jason Plum, Sr. software engineer, distribution at GitLab spoke about GitLab, Omnibus, and the concept of...
Programming languages for 2019

8 programming languages to learn in 2019

Learning new skills takes time - that's why, before learning something, you need to know that what you're learning is going to be worthwhile....
Tech trends that might die in 2019

4 things in tech that might die in 2019

If you’re in and around the tech industry, you’ve probably noticed that hype is an everyday reality. People spend a lot of time talking...
Key data science trends for 2019

Quantum computing, edge analytics, and meta learning: key trends in data science and big...

When historians study contemporary notions of data in the early 21st century, 2018 might well be a landmark year. In many ways this was...
Software development in 2019

Key trends in software development in 2019: cloud native and the shrinking stack

Bill Gates is quoted as saying that we tend to overestimate the pace of change over a period of 2 years, but underestimate change...
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NeurIPS 2018: How machine learning experts can work with policymakers to make good tech...

At the 32nd annual  NeurIPS conference held earlier this month, Edward William Felten, a professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University...
Software infrastructure in 2019

Key trends in software infrastructure in 2019: observability, chaos, and cloud complexity

Software infrastructure has, over the last decade or so, become a key concern for developers of all stripes. Long gone are narrowly defined job...
cloud computing

The Future of Cloud lies in revisiting the designs and limitations of today’s notion...

Last week, researchers at the UC Berkeley released a research paper titled ‘Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back’, which highlights some pitfalls...