We've all experienced the frustration of our smartphones crashing or freezing at the worst possible moment. So how is it that NASA can land a rover on Mars, millions of miles away, with software that works flawlessly? The answer lies in a combination...
Recently I have been reading Art of Leadership, The: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp. This book is an excellent read and it covers small things that you can do to build trust and to become an authentic and true leader to your team...
Anyone who has worked with advanced search systems knows the intricacy of boolean operators. AND, OR, NOT - these seemingly simple words become powerful tools in the hands of search specialists. Add in proximity operators like WITH and NEAR, throw in some parentheses for nesting,...
When a machine learning model is trained on a dataset, not all data points contribute equally to the model's performance. Some are more valuable and influential than others. Unfortunately value of data for training purposes is often nebulous and difficult to quantify. Applying...
Microservices have become the dominant architectural paradigm for building large-scale distributed systems, but until now, their inner workings at major tech companies have remained shrouded in mystery. A recent new paper by Huye et. al - researchers at Tufts University and Meta - provides an...