Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee

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When people ask me for tech career advice I find it helpful to lay out the three paths I’ve encountered most in my career: founder, executive, and employee. I’m leaving out investor because the best path to being an investor that I’ve seen starts with…

28 September 2017

DNS for Service Discovery in HAProxy

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HAProxy Technologies’ R&D has released a patchset that allows DNS to be utilized for service discovery in HAProxy. The patchset has already been merged into the HAProxy 1.8 development branch and will soon be backported to HAProxy Enterprise 1.7r2. …

28 September 2017

RNNoise: Using Deep Learning for Noise Suppression

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The Mozilla Research RRNoise project shows how to apply deep learning to noise suppression. It combines classic signal processing with deep learning, but it’s small and fast. And you can help! Find out how to donate your noise to science.

28 September 2017

Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine

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Ever since we open sourced Hadoop in 2006, Yahoo – and now, Oath – has been committed to opening up its big data infrastructure to the larger developer community. Today, we are taking another major step in this direction by making Vespa, Yahoo's big data…

27 September 2017

HAProxy vs. Nginx for load balancing (2016)

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Load balancers are the point of entrance to the datacenter. They are on the critical path to access anything and everything. That give them some interesting characteristics. First, they are the most important thing to monitor in an infrastructure. Second,…

27 September 2017

GDPR is a good thing

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I get it. I really do. You’re building a company that’s processing personal data and are frustrated by Europe coming up with a new set of rules. Making changes to your privacy statement or terms of service is the easy part. If you’re working on a CRM, ad…

27 September 2017

TensorFlow Examples for Beginners with Latest APIs

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This tutorial was designed for easily diving into TensorFlow, through examples. For readability, it includes both notebooks and source codes with explanation. It is suitable for beginners who want to find clear and concise examples about TensorFlow.…

26 September 2017