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Web of Things over IoT and Its Applications

We all are more or less familiar with the term IoT, but what is WoT and how does IoT relate to WoT? How much is WoT required in our society? What are the possible applications of WoT? Are there any applications enabling WoT actually in the market? In this article, we will try to explore the answers to these questions.

Tridib Bolar
on Aug 18, 2020
Development

Cheesemake: a Declarative Build Tool for C Programs

This article will describe how I came to spend some of the last few months writing a build tool for C programs. Along the way, I'll also try and say something about getting a software project off the ground, how to tackle technical problems that arise, and some of the steps on the path to working software.

Martin Rixham
on Aug 17, 2020
DevOps

Build Your Own PaaS with Crossplane: Kubernetes, OAM, and Core Workflows

InfoQ recently sat down with Bassam Tabbara, founder and CEO of Upbound, and discussed building application platforms that span multiple cloud vendors and on-premise infrastructure. Crossplane is an open source cloud control plane that enables engineers to manage any infrastructure or cloud services directly from Kubernetes.

Daniel Bryant
on Aug 14, 2020
Cloud

Combining DataOps and DevOps: Scale at Speed

DataOps is an extension of DevOps standards and processes into the data analytics world. It's about streamlining the processes involved in processing, analyzing and deriving value from big data.

Sam Bocetta
on Aug 14, 2020
Culture & Methods

Mindfulness in Corporations during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Mindfulness classes and programs have been offered to employees in many organizations for almost a decade. They were offered via instructors that visited the organizations. However, when employees were forced to work from home, due to Covid-19 restrictions, mindfulness instructors turned to Zoom and other online conferencing solutions to lead their classes virtually

Dan Globus
on Aug 13, 2020
Architecture & Design

Resilience in Deep Systems

Deep systems, with multiple layers of microservices, have special challenges, and handling them requires the right mindset and tools.

Amir Souchami
on Aug 13, 2020
AI, ML & Data Engineering

The First Wave of GPT-3 Enabled Applications Offer a Preview of Our AI Future

The first wave of GPT-3 powered applications are emerging. After priming of only a few examples, GPT-3 could write essays, answer questions, and even generate computer code! Furthermore, GPT-3 can perform algebraic calculations and language translations despite never being taught such concepts. However, GPT-3 is a black box with unpredictable outcomes. Developers must use it responsively.

Vivian Hu
on Aug 12, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Improv Mindset

The book The Improv Mindset by Bruce and Gail Montgomery provides the framework, activities, case stories, and data to help you apply improv in a business context. They show how you can deal with uncertainty by changing how your brain responds to change, as well as provide methods to systematically improve individual, team, and organization performance by leveraging the core principles of improv.

Ben Linders Bruce Montgomery Gail Montgomery
on Aug 11, 2020
Development

PHP 7 — Improvements to Arrays, Operators, Constants, and Exception Handling

In this final article in the series on new features in PHP 7.x, we shall discuss improvements to arrays, operators, constants, and exception handling.

Deepak Vohra
on Aug 10, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Further, Faster

Businesses that thrive over the long term can focus on just a few things that truly matter to their teams and core customers. The book Further, Faster by Bill Flynn provides ideas for business leaders to build teams, create a strategy to stay close to customers, and manage a company’s growth with cash as the primary metric.

Ben Linders Bill Flynn
on Aug 08, 2020
Architecture & Design

Realtime APIs: Mike Amundsen on Designing for Speed and Observability

In a recent apidays webinar, Mike Amundsen, trainer and author of the recent O’Reilly book “API Traffic Management 101”, presented “High Performing APIs: Architecting for Speed at Scale”. Drawing on recent research by IDC, he argued that organisations will have to drive systemic changes in order to meet the upcoming increased demand of consumption of business services via APIs.

Daniel Bryant
on Aug 07, 2020
Cloud

The Right Way of Tracing AWS Lambda Functions

With an emphasis on distributed tracing, this article discusses best practices for gaining and leveraging observability into AWS Lambda functions.

Michele Mancioppi
on Aug 06, 2020