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Tech vendors continue to snap up artificial intelligence (AI) startups at a rapid pace. Today, it’s Microsoft purchasing Genee, which uses natural language processing and decision-making algorithms to perform some
A new report from the Indeed Hiring Lab compares developer salaries in various U.S. cities, accounting for cost-of-living differences in various regions. Interestingly, software architects, the highest-paying developer job title,
Cloud Scale Intelligent Load Balancing for a Modern-day Microservices Application Architecture Load balancers have played a key role in providing enhanced performance experience to clients since pretty much the advent
The Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab has released the code for a project called fastText. The social network says fastText helps it classify text more quickly than with traditional
As promised, Microsoft has open sourced PowerShell, it’s command-line scripting language for the .NET framework. In addition, it released alpha versions of PowerShell ports for Linux and Mac OS X.
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft is working on a new suite of development tools called Open Mind Studio. On August 2, Microsoft Executive Vice President of Applications
Google’s cloud computing service has announced that three of its cloud databases have exited beta and are now ready for general use. Cloud SQL Second Generation, Cloud Datastore and Cloud
Microsoft is changing the way that it handles patches and updates for its .NET Framework. Beginning in October, it will release a monthly rollup on “Patch Tuesday,” the second Tuesday
A new report from TVP Strategy, formerly known as The Virtualization Practice, says that DevOps teams aren’t paying enough attention to security and code quality metrics. It suggests that they
There will be times that you encounter a situation where you have to update a row, if it exists, or create a new row if the certain data is not
Design patterns are solutions or approaches to situations that appear often when developing software. They were introduced to the software engineering community at large by the seminal Gang of Four
The Washington Post has published a long, wide-ranging interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook. The entire interview is well worth a read, but here are a few tidbits of interest
At an event in New York City, Amazon Web Services (AWS) CTO Werner Vogels said, “We will never stop” building up Amazon’s cloud computing services. He pointed to recent initiatives
Fujitsu has announced that researchers at Fujitsu Labs have discovered a way to speed deep learning dramatically. According to the company, its new software accomplishes learning tasks 46 percent faster
The CAP theorem (also known as Brewer’s theorem) of distributed systems says that you can have two out of these three: Consistency Availability Partitioning Consistency means that you have the
A new survey published by Genpact Research Institute found that 81 percent of enterprise executives believe that the industrial internet of things (IIoT) will be critical to their success. However,
Another day, another story about a large tech company acquiring an artificial intelligence (AI) startup. Today, it’s Intel buying deep learning company Nervana Systems. According to Recode’s sources, the deal
Azure Event Hubs is a great platform for planning real time and actionable telemetry operations to audit your services in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. The support for streaming diagnostic logs
On Monday, U.S. government CIO Tony Scott and chief acquisition officer Anne E Rung laid out a new federal policy that encourages government agencies to open source their code. Scott
For some time, rumors have suggested that all or part of the cloud computing company Rackspace might be for sale. Now the company has confirmed some of those reports by
It is always a good idea writing exception details to an Error Log. You can refer to this file to determine a certain exception pattern, or track it down to
GeekWire is reporting that Apple has purchased a Seattle-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm called Turi. (Turi was formerly known as Dato and GraphLab.) “Sources close to the deal” tell the
The basic unit of programming is the function. You build your program one function (or method) at a time. The smallest thing you can test in a unit test is
LinkedIn has open sourced two Android development tools used by its internal enterprise application development teams. The first is called Shaky, and it aims to simplify bug reporting for employees.
For the past several months, Intel has been working on a project called the Cloud Integrated Advanced Orchestrator, or Ciao, which is available on the company’s GitHub site. Intel Linux
Microsoft has announced that its Excel API, which was formerly a beta release, is now generally available. The tool allows enterprise application development teams to access data stored in Excel
Developer recruiting platform HackerRank has completed a study that analyzed which programming languages enterprises include in the coding tests they give to job applicants, and the results were fairly predictable.
A nifty little trick is to be able to list all the Tables or Views, or even both, present in a database. A quick way to get All the Tables
Mesosphere, the company behind the open source Apache Mesos-based DC/OS distributed operating system, has announced that it has new partnerships with big data vendors Confluent, DataStax and Lightbend. It will
A new report from Synergy Research Group finds that the “Big Four”?Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, IBM and Google?dominate the cloud computing market. Number one AWS has nearly three times
