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AI, ML & Data Engineering

State of the Art in Automated Machine Learning

InfoQ caught up with experts Francesca Lazzeri, machine learning scientist lead at Microsoft; Matthew Tovbin, co-founder of Faros AI; Adrian de Wynter, applied scientist in Alexa AI’s Secure AI Foundations; Leah McGuire, principal member of technical staff at Salesforce; and Marios Michailidis, data scientist at H2O.ai, about the state of the art in automated machine learning (AutoML).

Anthony Alford Francesca Lazzeri Matthew Tovbin Adrian de Wynter Leah McGuire Marios Michailidis
on Aug 05, 2020
Culture & Methods

Retrospectives for Management Teams

Engaging top management in a recurring retrospective approach can result in long-term value in organizations. Retrospectives can help management teams to explore how they collaborate and cooperate. They can find out whether they should change something and decide on action points that propel the team forward and make them more effective.

Ben Linders Kamil Puk
on Aug 05, 2020
Emerging Technologies

Level Up with WebAssembly - Book Review and Q&A

WebAssembly is a difficult-to-learn technological stack, with rough edges and a fast-moving target. Porting existing software to WebAssembly and the web remains a complex endeavor. Level Up With WebAssembly strives to give a practitioner perspective to porting C/C++ software to browsers. The book is highly practical and includes recipes to successfully convert software to the web.

Bruno Couriol Robert Aboukhalil
on Aug 03, 2020
Culture & Methods

Scaling Distributed Teams by Drawing Parallels from Distributed Systems

An effective distributed team’s characteristics are accountability, good communication, clear goals and expectations, a defined decision-making process, and autonomy with explicit norms. Ranganathan Balashanmugam spoke about scaling distributed teams around the world at QCon London 2020. In his talk he showed how we can apply distributed systems patterns for scaling distributed teams.

Ben Linders Ranganathan Balashanmugam
on Jul 31, 2020
Architecture & Design

The Challenges of Building a Reliable Real-Time Event-Driven Ecosystem

Globally, there is an increasing appetite for data delivered in real time; we are witnessing the emergence of the real time API. When it comes to event-driven APIs engineers can choose between multiple different protocols. In addition to choosing a protocol, engineers also have to think about subscription models, too: server-initiated (push-based) or client-initiated (pull-based).

Matthew O'Riordan
on Jul 30, 2020
Web Development

Interview about Wallaby.js and Quokka.js JavaScript Productivity Tools

Wallaby.js and Quokka.js are JavaScript/TypeScript productivity tools that provide additional capabilities within IDEs such as VS Code, WebStorm or Atom. Quokka.js provides additional runtime value introspection information within context in an IDE, while Wallaby.js provides distraction-free testing by providing test results within the IDE. Today we’re joined by Simon McEnlly, COO at Wallaby.

Dylan Schiemann Simon McEnlly
on Jul 29, 2020
AI, ML & Data Engineering

How to Get Hired as a Machine Learning Engineer

To become a machine learning engineer, you have to interview. You have to gain relevant skills from books, courses, conferences, and projects. Include technologies, frameworks, and projects on your CV. In an interview, expect that you will be asked technical questions, insight questions, and programming questions. When given a technical task, demonstrate your skills as if you already had the job.

Roland Meertens
on Jul 28, 2020
Cloud

The Opportunity in App Modernization

The twin pressures of servicing apps running in production and modernizing them to the cloud are putting stress on development and platform teams. App Modernization needs to scale and be made efficient through documentation, products and frameworks. This article looks at the reasons, and approach, to app modernization.

Rohit Kelapure
on Jul 27, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Unleashed

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.

Ben Linders Frances Frei Anne Morriss
on Jul 27, 2020
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Data Leadership Book Review and Interview

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 organizations choose to apply their energy and resources toward creating data capabilities to influence their business.

Srini Penchikala Anthony Algmin
on Jul 25, 2020
DevOps

Book Review and Q&A on "Standing on Shoulders: A Leader's Guide to Digital Transformation"

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.

Manuel Pais Jack Maher Carmen DeArdo
on Jul 25, 2020
Development

PHP 7 – Standard Library Improvements

In this article we explore improvements to functions in PHP 7, including the new array define(), returning a value from generator functions, generator delegation, and more.

Deepak Vohra
on Jul 24, 2020