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A collection of recent articles from blogs that I follow.
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Fiber: Distributed Computing for AI Made Simple
Project Homepage: GitHub Over the past several years, increasing processing power of computing machines has led to an increase in machine learning advances. More and more, algorithms exploit parallelism and rely on distributed training to process an enormous amount of … The post Fiber:...
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Changing the Interview Process during Remote Working
Please also see Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge and Part 2: The Recruiting Perspective and Results…
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Podcast: Celebrating 2 years of the Local Digital Declaration
The Local Digital Declaration celebrates its second birthday on 4 July. Listen to June’s episode of the GDS Podcast to find out how it started, how it connects people and how it helps local government organisations build digital services and platforms.
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Using multi-stage Docker builds to patch vulnerable containers
The Cyber Security team at GDS discovered it was using a vulnerable container. Here’s how the team fixed the issue and made its clean container publicly available.
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How is Flooding Affecting Your Community?
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Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those of you who want something bite-size and the Riddler Classic for those of you in the slow-puzzle...
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Technical Interview Reform, Part 2: The Recruiting Perspective and Results
Please also see Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge Among the engineering groups at SoundCloud, backend…
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Technical Interview Reform, Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge
Most SoundCloud backend engineers have good feelings about the old backend engineering take-home challenge. It’s commonly been characterized…
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Top 5 Questions from “How to become a Docker Power User” session at DockerCon 2020
This is a guest post from Brian Christner. Brian is a Docker Captain since 2016, host of The Byte podcast, and Co-Founder & Site Reliability Engineer at 56K.Cloud. At 56K.Cloud, he helps companies to adapt technologies and concepts like Cloud, Containers, and DevOps. 56K.Cloud is a Technology...
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Helping service teams make decisions about authentication and identity assurance
The Digital Identity team at GDS has updated its Good Practice Guide on authentication and Service Manual content on checking users' identities. The new guidance provides users with clearer, more up-to-date information.
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Using Babel Transforms to Inject Analytics Code in React Native Apps
In late 2018, we decided to add first-class support for React Native in Heap. This meant bringing Heap’s autocapture philosophy to the React Native platform: installing Heap on a React Native app should mean that all user interactions with the app are captured. This includes taps, changes to...
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Editing Massive Geospatial Data Sets with nebula.gl
Geospatial data, or data tied to a specific, real-world location, is integral to Uber’s ability to better understand the cities we serve. From predicting the most accurate estimated times of arrival (ETAs) to determining the best driving routes, geospatial … The post Editing Massive Geospatial...
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Containerize Your Go Developer Environment – Part 3
In this series of blog posts, we show how to put in place an optimized containerized Go development environment. In part 1, we explained how to start a containerized development environment for local Go development, building an example CLI tool for different platforms. Part 2 covered how to add...
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How the GovTech Catalyst is helping to grow the GovTech sector
We are reflecting on the impact of our experimental first phase of the GovTech Catalyst. We found promising solutions to some of the hardest public sector challenges. After a successful first phase, we have started releasing £1 million of funds to each of the public sector teams starting Phase 2.