Month: July 2020

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The book Unleashed – The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss explores how leaders can become more effective in empowering their people. It shows how they can combine trust, love, and belonging to create spaces where people excel.

By Ben Linders, Frances Frei, Anne Morriss

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William (Bill) Shannon, a renowned engineer who was instrumental in the evolution of SunOS, Solaris, and JavaEE while he worked as employee number 11 at Sun Microsystems, passed away last month after a long battle with cancer. Bill’s contributions to the IT industry are immeasurable and he will be deeply missed within the Unix and Java communities.

By Uday Tatiraju

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The Taiwanese startup CutiePi recently launched its Raspberry Pi tablet on Kickstarter. CutiePi software and hardware design are entirely open source, and thus can be customized at will. CutiePi self-describes as the first truly usable and thinnest Raspberry Pi tablet.

By Bruno Couriol

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Docker has announced the public beta of their enhanced integration of Docker with AWS Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate. The release of the ECS plugin allows for developers to work within the Docker experience to create the necessary infrastructure to operate within AWS.

By Matt Campbell

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Brian Korzynski discusses when and where using machine learning will fit within projects.

By Brian Korzynski

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In a recent blog post, Google announced Confidential VMs, a new type of virtual machine that makes use of the company’s work around confidential computing to ensure that data isn’t just encrypted at rest but also while it is in memory.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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The CNCF accepted Porter, a load balancer meant for bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, in the CNCF Landscape. Porter uses the Border Gateway Protocol with ECMP to load balance traffic in self-hosted Kubernetes clusters.

By Hrishikesh Barua

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Data Leadership book, authored by Anthony Algmin, covers the data leadership topic and how data leaders should manage and govern the data management programs in their organizations. Data Leadership is how the organizations choose to apply their energy and resources toward creating data capabilities to influence their business.

By Srini Penchikala, Anthony Algmin

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The book “Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation” provides an introduction to relevant thinking and practices on how to identify and address the major bottlenecks and concerns for transforming organizations.

The authors share their industry experience applying these ideas, and how the move to remote working might change our approach to digital transformation.

By Manuel Pais, Jack Maher, Carmen DeArdo

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Alexa Conversations, recently launched in beta, aim to enable the creation of custom skills with fewer code thanks to new AI-based approach. Alongside Alexa Conversations, Amazon has also announced Alexa for Apps, which allows Alexa users to interact with their mobile phones using Alexa.

By Sergio De Simone