JetBrains has evolved a lot during their 15 years of existence to provide the most effective set of tools for developers to cater demands of every programming language. If anything, this testifies their dedication towards refining and improving the … Read more
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Algorand and the solution to the blockchain trilemma: security, scalability, and decentralization
If you’re into blockchain technology or follow cryptocurrencies you may have heard of Algorand, the new blockchain platform founded by Turing Award winner, MIT teacher and zero-knowledge proof creator, Silvio Micali. Algorand is a Boston-based … Read more
Interview: Ferdinando Gorga – Function, API Economy and Secure Gateway of IBM Cloud
Interview with FERDINANDO GORGA About the Talk "Function, API Economy and Secure Gateway of IBM Cloud" Presented to the IBM Cloud Italia community On 22/01/2018 Hi Ferdinando, tell us about yourself! I'm a computer scientist, it's always been my … Read more
Codemotion Tech Leadership Training boot camp – An attendee’s reportage – Day 2
Before you read this article, go to part 1 of "Codemotion Tech Leadership Training boot camp - An attendee's reportage" Day 2 - Sunday, June 23th ● 9:00 am: Check-in ● 9:30 am: Opening by Facebook ● 10:00 am: Talk by Facebook – Facebook values and … Read more
Codemotion Tech Leadership Training boot camp – An attendee’s reportage – Day 1
Rome, 22 June 2019: the boiling heat of the capital city was not enough to stop a bunch of tech professionals and enthusiasts - including me - from attending to Codemotion's Tech Leadership Training boot camp. The event was the conclusive part of the … Read more
What does UX mean for patient care at Philips Healthcare?
If you’re waiting for a diagnosis or recovering from an operation, a UX designer is probably the last person you would expect to need. But, as Heleen Engelen of Philips Healthcare explained in her talk at Codemotion Amsterdam 2019, teams of … Read more
Machine learning and fairness, how to make it happen
Machine Learning is an awesome tool and really affects our lives. But how can we be sure that a machine’s choices are fair? Let's take a look and find out together. Why do we care about bias? Commonly, machines are considered almost faultless and for … Read more
Quick and easy deep learning for NLP with fastai
Nowadays, Natural Language Processing (NLP) is one of the most important fields of research. It has seen a phenomenal rise in interest in the last few years. The basics of NLP are widely known and easy to master, but things start to get complex when … Read more
Maps in a 3D world
This article is an overview of GIS applied to the 3D field. GIS involves a lot of knowledge from different disciplines. As developers we have a lot of ways to use and combine these data sources. Sometimes I feel GIS is not so commonly known among … Read more
Audrey Chaing – A Woman in Blockchain
Blockchain. BitCoins. CryptoCurrency. All words we are hearing more and more about. A new Industry getting stronger and stronger. Startups popping up from the States to Asia, more and more values traded every day, more and more traders, more and more … Read more
[Podcast] Developer evolution: what’s rockin’ roles in IT?
This article written by Bob Rhubart, Architect Community Manager at Oracle, was originally published on Oracle Developers Portal. The good news is that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts 24% growth in software developer jobs through 2026. … Read more
Se7en deadly sins of web security
Web security is a topic that just won’t go away. Every day we hear the latest revelations – look at the latest scandal with Marriott admitting over 500 million customer records have been stolen using a breach that had been active since 2014! Dave … Read more
Akka and Kubernetes – Technologies give their best when combined
The tech world is an explosive one. So many different products are available out there - and new ones see the light every day. Each tool serves a purpose in a certain area. Be that decision-making, test automation, code analysis, performance metrics, … Read more
Light up the Spark in catalyst by avoiding UDF
We often talk about cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, but just as frequently we forget all the software architecture that is behind these projects and how the data is treated, manipulated and managed. The databases are in … Read more
Java wasn’t designed to run in the cloud… so we added Buildpacks, Schedulers, and Services
It's not that Java can't run in the cloud, of course it can, it's just that it was never really designed that way from the beginning. When Java was first brought to market it was mostly intended as a new way to build ‘run-anywhere’ desktop … Read more
Kubinception: using Kubernetes to run Kubernetes
This article written by Horacio González was originally published on OVH Blog. When faced with the challenge of building a managed Kubernetes service at OVH, fully based on open-source tools, we had to take some tough design decisions. Today we … Read more
Effective Spark for Neophytes
Starting to work in the processing of big data could be unsettling even for a developer who has solid foundations and experience in areas more related to "consumer" products. The software tools and computational systems for data science, in fact, … Read more
Data Gathering and Knowledge Management for Smart Cities in Snap4City Platform
Imagine you are in the monitoring and control room of your city, where all relevant data coming from sensors, mobile devices, social media streams, IoT devices, vehicles and so on are displayed on multifunctional dashboards. Imagine you can read on … Read more
The eternal struggle between designers and developers
When a discussion between a designer and a developer reaches a dead-end, it happens that both of them start talking mumbo jumbo, using big words just to close the thread in their favour, leveraging the different skills of each other. This was the … Read more
Leaving no one behind: building apps for the next billion users
Many people might believe that the mobile and app market is saturated, actually in western society it has reached a certain degree of saturation even if the penetration rate is not completely homogeneous and there are certain groups of users who are … Read more