O'Reilly Media - Ideas
MAY 22, 2025
Last week, I found myself hunched over my laptop at 10 p.m. (hey, that’s late for me!), wrestling with a coding problem. After hours of frustration, I stepped away and made a cup of tea. When I returned, I did what any self-respecting technologist in 2025 would do: I backtracked, reformulated my question, and asked ChatGPT for help. Im constantly asked questions like “Should my kids learn to code?
Dzone - DevOps
MAY 1, 2025
As AI and machine learning applications continue to proliferate, the data pipelines that power them have become more mission-critical than ever. As retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications and real-time AI systems are becoming the norm, any glitch in a data pipeline can lead to stale insights, suboptimal model performance, and inflated infrastructure costs.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 19, 2025
Overcoming the Quiet Room: Why Your Training Needs Psychological Safety Imagine this: you kick off a training session with a question, and youre met with hesitant silence. Its not that your learners have nothing to say its that they dont feel safe saying it. As a human-centered L&D leader, your first job is to create psychological safety in every training room.
Crunchbase News
MAY 28, 2025
By Aashish Mehta In todays startup landscape, raising venture capital is often treated as a milestone proof that a company is gaining traction. But after building and exiting multiple ventures, Ive come to see things differently. While, depending on the industry, VC funding can unlock important resources and mentorship, its not the only path to success, and often not the most sustainable one.
Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN
The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
MAY 28, 2025
Mozilla killed Pocket, but your bookmarks don't have to die. Here's how to self-host ArchiveBox - with a little help from ChatGPT - and take ownership of your reading archive.
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Martin Fowler
MAY 28, 2025
Here's one of the best tips I know for writers, which was told to me by Bruce Eckel. One you've got a reasonable draft, read it out loud. By doing this you'll find bits that don't sound right, and need to fix. Interestingly, you don't actually have to vocalize (thus making a noise) but your lips have to move. 1 This advice is for those who, like me, strive to get a conversational tone to their writings.
Ooda Loop
MAY 1, 2025
A quantum computer can solve optimization problems faster than classical supercomputers, a process known as “quantum advantage” and demonstrated by a USC researcher in a paper recently published in Physical Review Letters. The study shows how quantum annealing, a specialized form of quantum computing, outperforms the best current classical algorithms when searching for near-optimal solutions […] The post Quantum computer outperforms supercomputers in approximate optimization ta
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
MAY 28, 2025
While I prefer AI native to describe the product development approach centered on AI that were trying to encourage at OReilly, Ive sometimes used the term AI first in my communications with OReilly staff. And so I was alarmed and dismayed to learn that in the press, that term has now come to mean using AI to replace people. Many Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs even seem to view putting people out of work as a massive opportunity.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 28, 2025
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the way we interact with technology, but their widespread adoption has been blocked by high inference latency, limited throughput, and high costs associated with text generation. These inefficiencies are particularly pronounced during high-demand events like Amazon Prime Day, where systems like Rufusthe Amazon AI-powered shopping assistantmust handle massive scale while adhering to strict latency and throughput requirements.
Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations
ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!
Actian
MAY 26, 2025
As data becomes more central to decision making, two priorities are taking precedence for data leaders: data quality and data observability. Each plays a distinct role in maintaining the reliability, accuracy, and compliance of enterprise data. When used together, data quality and data observability provide a powerful foundation for delivering trustworthy data for AI and other use cases.
CIO
MAY 1, 2025
Small language models (SLMs) are giving CIOs greater opportunities to develop specialized, business-specific AI applications that are less expensive to run than those reliant on general-purpose large language models (LLMs). By 2027, smaller, context-specific models will outpace their counterparts with usage volume at least three times more than those of LLMs, according to a recent report from Gartner, which also claims LLM response accuracy declines for tasks requiring specific business context.
Xebia
MAY 29, 2025
Many companies are using the Kimball dimensional modelling framework to model their data and will undoubtedly think of, or are already using Slowly Changing Dimensions Type 2 (SCD2) models. It is one of the most common approaches to model historical data for analytical purposes. It is so common that today’s most popular analytics engineering tool dbt (data build tool) has had the ability to create SCD2 models since 2016 (!).
Crunchbase News
MAY 19, 2025
Theres no degree requirement to be founder of a venture-backed startup. Nevertheless, attending a top-tier university definitely boosts the likelihood of success. Those were once again the findings of our annual look at which U.S. colleges and universities graduate the highest number of funded startup founders, based on Crunchbase data. As usual, four universities Stanford , Harvard , MIT and UC Berkeley hung on to the top four slots.
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When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
MAY 22, 2025
With the right battery settings, your Pixel can last longer than ever, during the day and across years of regular use.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 1, 2025
Multimodal fine-tuning represents a powerful approach for customizing foundation models (FMs) to excel at specific tasks that involve both visual and textual information. Although base multimodal models offer impressive general capabilities, they often fall short when faced with specialized visual tasks, domain-specific content, or particular output formatting requirements.
InfoQ Culture Methods
MAY 19, 2025
This article demystifies what "Staff-Plus" expectations actually look like, drawing on real promotion and performance reviews experiences. It maps out career ladders, digs into promotion patterns and the key behaviors that consistently help high-performing engineers to reinvent themselves, and introduces the concept of "staff projects" which top performers use to drive their careers forward.
CIO
MAY 16, 2025
Enterprise use of artificial intelligence comes with a wide range of risks in areas such as cybersecurity, data privacy, bias and discrimination, ethics, and regulatory compliance. As such, organizations that create a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) framework specifically for AI are best positioned to get the most value out of the technology while minimizing its risks and ensuring responsible and ethical use.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
MAY 13, 2025
I thought Id offer a few takeaways and reflections based on last weeks first AI Codecon virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It. Im also going to include a few short video excerpts from the event. If you registered for Coding with AI or if youre an existing OReilly subscriber, you can watch or rewatch the whole thing on the OReilly learning platform.
Crunchbase News
MAY 1, 2025
This is a monthly feature that runs down the months top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. Check out Marchs biggest rounds here. Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence led the way for big funding rounds last month, but that wasnt the only tech that interested investors. Startups in fintech, energy and more all landed big rounds as investors showered some cash in April. 1.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
MAY 28, 2025
Goodbye, battery anxiety. These 12 expert vetted tips will help you get the most out of your Android phone's battery life.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 22, 2025
Improving response quality for user queries is essential for AI-driven applications, especially those focusing on user satisfaction. For example, an HR chat-based assistant should strictly follow company policies and respond using a certain tone. A deviation from that can be corrected by feedback from users. This post demonstrates how Amazon Bedrock , combined with a user feedback dataset and few-shot prompting, can refine responses for higher user satisfaction.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Netflix Tech
MAY 7, 2025
Enhancing Member Experience Through Strategic Collaboration Ozzie Sutherland , Iroro Orife , Chih-Wei Wu , BhanuSrikanth At Netflix, delivering the best possible experience for our members is at the heart of everything we do, and we know we cant do it alone. Thats why we work closely with a diverse ecosystem of technology partners, combining their deep expertise with our creative and operational insights.
CIO
MAY 19, 2025
This article was co-authored by Shail Khiyara and Sandeep Mehta An agent, derived from the Latin word agere or agens, implies something capable of producing an effect when authorized by another. In software, agents commonly refer to programs acting on behalf of a user or another computer program. The concept derives from a model of concurrent computation in the 1970s.
Martin Fowler
MAY 6, 2025
While LLMs excel at generating cogent text based on their training data, they may also need to interact with external systems. Kiran Prakash describes how we get them to construct external function calls to do this. The LLM does not execute these calls directly, instead it creates a data structure that describes the call, passing that to a separate program for execution and further processing.
Crunchbase News
MAY 1, 2025
By Sagi Eliyahu Excitement about the transformational potential of AI in the enterprise has never been higher. Its manifested most recently into the explosion of interest in AI agents. Agents are specialized, AI-powered software programs that can work autonomously to achieve long-term goals. As Meta s head of business AI, Clara Shih , recently told CNBC , Meta expects every business to use AI agents the way that businesses today have websites and email addresses.
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
MAY 28, 2025
MIT research finds that philosophy is what truly determines AI success.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 15, 2025
This post is co-written with Ken Tsui, Edward Tsoi and Mickey Yip from Apoidea Group. The banking industry has long struggled with the inefficiencies associated with repetitive processes such as information extraction, document review, and auditing. These tasks, which require significant human resources, slow down critical operations such as Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures, loan applications, and credit analysis.
Netflix Tech
MAY 9, 2025
Kinesh Satiya Introduction In a digital advertising platform, a robust feedback system is essential for the lifecycle and success of an ad campaign. This system comprises of diverse sub-systems designed to monitor, measure, and optimize ad campaigns. At Netflix, we embarked on a journey to build a robust event processing platform that not only meets the current demands but also scales for future needs.
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