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How socially centered design differs from individualistic design | Continue reading
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Every time the cry for COBOL programmers has gone up, we’ve muddled through; this time, we should do something better. | Continue reading
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Author Mark Richards walks you through the 10 most common microservice anti-patterns and pitfalls, and provides solutions for avoiding them. | Continue reading
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A selective economy-related reading list for the year ahead. | Continue reading
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Katacoda’s interactive learning scenarios and sandboxes will help O’Reilly users master important technologies. | Continue reading
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Eric Jonas on AI hype and questions of ethics. | Continue reading
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In this moment of increasing discontent, we’re entering the dawn of the blockchain era. | Continue reading
Paige Bailey, TensorFlow product manager at Google, highlights notable features of TensorFlow 2.0 and looks ahead to near-term updates. | Continue reading