The autonomous car as a driving partner
Computational approaches for creating machines at scale: An interview with Daniela Rus.
Ideas
What's on our radar.
Sean Suchter on the promise and challenges of Spark
How Spark will fit into—and change—the current ecosystem of distributed computing tools.
Four short links: 5 July 2016
Natural Language, Human Augmentation, Programming Mistakes, and Facebook Management
Smart cities need to inject a dose of humanity to be truly great cities
The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Conversations with Daniele Quercia and Frank Cuypers.
Building intelligent applications with deep learning and TensorFlow
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Rajat Monga on the current state of TensorFlow and training large-scale deep neural networks.
Technology and business as if people matter
Announcing the second annual Next:Economy Summit.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Mike Loukides and Ben Lorica examine factors that have made AI a hot topic in recent years, today's successful AI systems, and where AI may be headed.
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5 secrets for writing the perfect data scientist resume
No hype. No fluff. Just skills.
The call to ARTful leadership: Embracing adaptive capacity, resilience, and trust
Our VUCAST world calls for a new approach to leadership.
Analyzing data in the Internet of Things
This report dives into the IoT industry through a series of illuminating talks and case studies presented at 2015 Strata + Hadoop World Conferences in San Jose, New York, and Singapore.
Don't underestimate "easy" when it comes to data access
The difference between failure and success may be the difference between making analytics possible and making it straightforward.
Modeling your big data enterprise architecture after the human body
How decoupling, optimization, and specialization resemble connective systems in our bodies.
A young lady's illustrated primer to technical decision-making
Charity Majors explores how to evaluate major technology choices and explains when you should use boring technology.
The state of the W3C Web Performance Working Group
Todd Reifsteck and Philippe Le Hegaret on the W3C's new performance-related APIs and how you can help shape the future of web performance and the Web in general.
You got your design team in my security team!
Eleanor Saitta on security design and three steps to a safer future.
Measuring what matters
Stephen Ludin offers an overview of the User Timing API and demonstrates how developers can use it to measure exactly the critical sections they want.
Turning high-velocity data into leverage for people
Ozan Turgut discusses how to use visualization and analytics to turn data into leverage for decision making.
Why DevOps is more than just automation
David Hayes on the role of DevOps in building a culture that unifies a team to be empathy-driven and customer-focused.
“Microsoft is irrelevant to me. I use a Mac": Is this you?
Volker Will on Microsoft's evolution and the DevOps behind its transformation.
Building an open platform for government innovation
Diego Lapiduz shows how the cloud.gov team is building tools that allow government agencies to achieve faster deployments and continuous compliance in a secure environment.
Performance is about more than time series charts
Buddy Brewer explores alternative ways of visualizing performance data and explains how changing your perspective can sometimes lead you to surprising discoveries.
Martin Charlier on progressive approaches to IoT design
The O'Reilly Design Podcast: Designing for the IoT, design's responsibility, and the importance of team dynamics.
Keynotes from Velocity in Santa Clara 2016
Watch full keynotes covering DevOps, performance, infrastructure, and more. From Velocity in Santa Clara 2016.
DDoS emotions
Artur Bergman explores how people react in the line of fire and why a DDoS attack is different than other challenges a company may face.
Containers will not fix your broken culture, and other hard truths
Bridget Kromhout explains why no amount of industrial-strength job scheduling makes your organization immune to Conway’s law.
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Making bad ads sad. Rad!
Bruce Lawson explores how the whole advertising ecosystem can (hopefully) improve.
My cloud makes pretty pictures
Matthew Brender and Raj Dutt offer a demo of Snap, an open telemetry framework designed to gather an increasingly diverse amount of measurements from the cloud.
So we hear you like papers
Ines Sombra and Caitie McCaffrey demonstrate how academic papers can radically change your perspective and introduce you to new ideas.
Jump-starting back-office connections
Harkeerat Bedi offers an overview of a tool that improves the efficiency of data-center-to-data-center communication.
Building a system that never stops: New Relic at scale
Matthew Flaming on what it takes to (continuously) rebuild a system that can never stop.
Poised to deploy: The C-suite and adaptive capacity
Richard Cook explains the value of adaptive capacity and explores its far reaching consequences.
Tackling consumption chaos in microservice architectures
Mike Dvorkin discusses the principles and benefits of the controlled consumption model and its implications on DevOps processes and security.
Ezra Spier on desktop milling machines
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Creating an accessible tool for professionals and makers.
3 of the most interesting things to come out of WWDC
The latest on Swift, an iPad live programming environment, the new App Review Guidelines, and more.
O'Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara 2016 livestream
Watch keynotes from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
Empathy: The key to a successful software project
Developers should dig deep to understand their project's stakeholders.
Jay Jacobs on the importance of statistical literacy in security
The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Statistical literacy, machine learning, and data visualization.
An interview with Pythonista Katharine Jarmul
Using Python, and other tools, for natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and data wrangling.
Encryption in the news
Brian Sletten explains why today's encryption technology has government authorities' attention, and is a hot topic for technology companies and the general public alike.
Leading in a time of tumultuous change: Our VUCAST world
Your leadership mindset, decisions, and actions will need to be attuned to our changing reality.
Chat and the Web
Which interface will prevail?
Chris Meringolo and Brian Jepson share a hands-on journey from idea to prototype
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: A walk-through of the O’Reilly IoT Learning Lab.
Ame Elliott on making security usable and delightful
The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: UX for security, architectural inspirations, and problem finding over problem solving.
Hybrid transactional/analytic systems and the quest for database nirvana
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Rohit Jain on the challenges of hybrid data management systems.
Why 2016 is shaping up to be the Year of the Bot
A survey of the bot landscape and the opportunities it affords the Next:Economy.
10 signs of data science maturity
How well prepared is your organization to innovate, using data science? In this report, two leading data scientists at Booz Allen Hamilton describe 10 characteristics of a mature data science capability.
5 tips for building a scalable technology stack
Techniques to tackle data science challenges to future-proof your business.
Good cities, not just smart cities
Daniele Quercia discusses mapping city scents, computational social science, and using sharing economy data to help shape city regulations.
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Augmenting the electric car experience
Combining CAD, simulation, and AR to change how we repair and use cars.
Ask the CTO: Balancing development desire with product goals
We can’t build systems in a vacuum--architecture is a multi-year vision requiring an iterative delivery.
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The four tenets of UX strategy
Lightweight strategy tools and techniques to help you and your team craft innovative multi-device products for the real world.
Chris Maury on voice-first design
The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Designing conversational experiences.
Where should you manage a cloud-based Hadoop cluster?
Comparing AWS, GCP, and Azure for large-scale analytics.
Future-proof and scale-proof your code
Using Apache Beam to become data-driven, even before you have big data.
Jonathan Bachrach on the hardware-software interface
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: The tools of the “new industrial revolution.”
Reactive microservices for enterprise systems
The O’Reilly Podcast: Markus Eisele on the benefits and challenges of implementing a microservices-based architecture.
Jack Whitsitt on the need to band together to make security better for everyone
The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Language as a uniter (or divider), the illusion of control, and how security is made of people.
Making revolutionary products without genetic engineering
A lot can happen in biotechnology with plain old organisms.
Three pillars of microservice culture
How focusing on communication, teams, and innovation can help you transform your company.
Keynotes from Strata + Hadoop World in London 2016
Watch full keynotes covering AI, data science, data tools, and more. From Strata + Hadoop World in London 2016.
The curious case of the data scientist
David Selby shares some of the data challenges he's faced and explains why he's particularly enthusiastic for the latest technological developments in the field.
Prophecies and predictive models: How a 3D approach to data transforms your business
Tricia Wang explores the application of “thick data” gathered through qualitative methods.
Bringing big data and design to policymaking
Cat Drew explores how the UK’s Policy Lab and GDS data teams are bringing an approach to policymaking that combines data, digital, and design.