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How to use TensorFlow in your browser

Take advantage of TensorFlow.js to develop and train machine learning models in JavaScript and deploy them in a browser or on Node.js

9 ways to build privacy into your cloud applications

Look to these strategies to balance privacy with functionality and protect your applications and data against attacks in the cloud

What is computer vision? AI for images and video

Computer vision systems are not only good enough to be useful, but in some cases more accurate than human vision

Python style: 5 tools to clean up your Python code

Look to these free tools to ensure that your Python code complies with recommended Python coding conventions and code quality standards

Why you should look beyond the big 3 cloud providers

There are appealing enterprise options beyond AWS, Azure, and GCP, but buyer beware — not just any cloud service qualifies

SQL lessons for NoSQL developers

Because no software developer is complete without at least a passing knowledge of the world’s most popular query language

Black developers tell how the US tech industry could do better

Black developers have long been underrepresented in the US technology industry, but four share how that could change now that diversity is again top of mind.

6 tips for rapidly scaling applications

How to address dramatic usage increases during COVID-19 or to start planning for growth in the post-pandemic recovery

Why observability is the future of systems monitoring

Combining metrics, events, logs, and traces is essential to understanding our increasingly complex software environments

How to package Python apps with BeeWare Briefcase

Take advantage of BeeWare Briefcase to make Python programs that are a snap to deploy and easy to redistribute

IT career roadmap: DevOps engineer

The increased need for faster application delivery, higher productivity of businesses, and elimination of unnecessary capital expenditures in IT are expected to accelerate the market and the need for highly qualified DevOps engineers with a range of

Open Policy Agent: A general-purpose policy engine for cloud-native

Open Policy Agent simplifies authorization policy creation and enforcement for distributed applications, Kubernetes, microservices, and much more

When hybrid multicloud has technical advantages

Just deploy your new application, microservice, or machine learning model to the public cloud? Well, maybe not so fast

7 superb Python books for every skill level

Whether you’re a beginner, a moderately skilled dev, or an expert, there’s a book in this lineup to expand your Python programming powers

What is CaaS? Simpler container management

Containers-as-a-service platforms make it easier for developers to deploy Docker containers and assemble them into applications, most often enlisting Kubernetes for the job

6 ways Alibaba Cloud challenges AWS, Azure, and GCP

From storage and network innovations to eye-popping AI solutions, Alibaba offers a number of advantages over the leading cloud rivals

4 powerful features Python is still missing

What new programming language features would you like to see added to Python? Here are four possibilities — some likely, some not

How Aerospike achieves low latency and strong consistency across multiple sites

Aerospike Database 5’s multi-site clustering eliminates the trade-off between data consistency and high performance for large-scale, always-on, globally distributed transaction systems

Black developers tell how the UK tech industry could do better

InfoWorld UK speaks to two Black British software developers about their experience in the industry and how it could do better on diversity and inclusion.

How to run Anaconda side by side with other Pythons

Want to use Anaconda alongside other Python distributions? Here’s how to keep those Python installs from stepping on each other’s toes

10 important new features in Grafana 7.0

Grafana 7.0 represents a fundamental, system-wide advancement of the open source monitoring and observability platform. Here are the highlights

What is JPMS? Introducing the Java Platform Module System

The module system introduced in Java 9 makes it easier to organize your code. Here’s a brief guide to working with modules in Java

4 deployment strategies for resilient microservices

Turn to these cloud-native routing techniques to test and mitigate risk in your microservices deployments

Learn PyTorch: The best free online courses and tutorials

Look no further than these excellent free resources to master the development of deep learning models using PyTorch

The unwavering optimism of Tim O’Reilly

6 ways to secure buy-in for your devops journey

Devops leaders share their lessons learned from the front lines on how to get devops buy-in at large, legacy organisations

Client-serverless is the 4th generation application model

Application models do not change very often, but when they do, they create many opportunities

Kaggle: Where data scientists learn and compete

By hosting datasets, notebooks, and competitions, Kaggle helps data scientists discover how to build better machine learning models

How PagerDuty helps customer service and IT teams improve responses

PagerDuty uses machine learning to anticipate issues and dramatically accelerate responses, so problems are addressed before they impact customers

Rakuten frees itself of Hadoop investment in two years

The U.S. arm of the Japanese e-commerce giant has moved away from Hadoop in a bid to cut hardware costs and ease the management of its estate

The power of open source to fight COVID-19

By fueling the sharing of resources and technology across the globe, open source is helping to address the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic

RBS automates away £7 million in manual server provisioning tasks

The UK banking group has saved up to £7 million (nearly $9 million) over less than two years by eliminating a whole host of manual server provisioning processes

7 dark secrets of cloud costs

Priced at cents or less per hour, the cloud seems like the best bargain since penny candy. How can you go wrong?

Devops expert Gene Kim: How devops helps business meet challenging times

Gene Kim, devops’ foremost advocate, expounds on the impact COVID-19 could have on devops practices and why devops expertise is still a hot commodity

5 advanced Git commands to up your Git game

Master these next-level Git techniques for cleaner commits, smarter debugging, and more elegant repo organization

Data science during COVID-19: Some reassembly required

Most likely, the assumptions behind your data science model or the patterns in your data did not survive the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s how to address the challenges of model drift

How to make the most of AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda’s serverless functions shine for event-driven data processing and machine learning, connecting cloud services and external APIs, and even triggering builds in a CI/CD pipeline

The 2020 IDG Cloud Computing Survey

A survey of over 500 IT professionals reveals that cloud now represents a third of the IT spend, as a clear majority of organizations plan to use cloud services for over half of their infrastructure and applications

The state of cloud computing in 2020

As cloud adoption hits another growth spurt, companies are discovering the power of mixing and matching cloud services into solutions that address almost any business need

6 Windows desktop utilities every software developer needs

Screen capture, image management, clipboard enhancements, and other handy tools to enhance a developer’s daily workflow

9 reasons to build your web app with the Jamstack

Combining developer-centric deployment tools and best-of-breed serverless offerings has many advantages. Let’s count them

13 ways Microsoft Azure beats AWS

From Visual Studio integration to powerful machine learning APIs, you have more than a dozen reasons to choose Azure over AWS

IT career roadmap: Cloud engineer

The shift to the cloud has been so pervasive that it has left a lot of companies with a skills gap they are struggling to fill with professionals who have cloud experience. That makes it a great time to be a cloud engineer.

10 steps to automating security in Kubernetes pipelines

DevOps teams don’t need to sacrifice the speed of containerized development if they know what can be automated, why it’s important, and how to do it

Julia vs. Python: Which is best for data science?

Python has turned into a data science and machine learning mainstay, while Julia was built from the ground up to do the job.

BlueJ and Greenfoot: The best IDEs to learn Java

You want to get started programming Java, but you don’t want the tools to get in the way? Try these clean, simple, and friendly Java IDEs

Cloud cost optimization during and after COVID-19

Take advantage of these four best practices to keep your public cloud spending in check on an ongoing basis

During COVID-19, wasting 30 percent of cloud spend is not OK

Cloud users expect COVID-19 will drive their cloud use higher, exacerbating the need to optimize cloud spend

13 ways Google Cloud beats AWS

From Firebase to sustained use discounts, let’s count the reasons Google Cloud might be a better choice

How to use the Kubernetes Ingress API

You can greatly expand the capabilities of the Ingress resource by using an Ingress controller like Kong for Kubernetes that uses custom resource definitions and provides many plug-ins