As artificially intelligent systems grow in intelli- gence and capability, some of their available options may allow them to resist intervention by their programmers. We call an AI system “corrigible” if it cooperates with what its creators regard as a corrective intervention, despite de- fault incentives for rational agents to resist at- tempts to shut them down or modify their preferences.

Sometimes the IT industry is pretty silly.

Combined, F5 and NGINX provide a new, end-to-end set of application offerings that bridge the divide between NetOps and DevOps.

The web is for everyone and collectively we hold the power to change it. It won’t be easy. But if we dream a little and work a lot, we can get the web we want.

PostgreSQL and ZFS were made for each other. This talk dives downstack into the internals and way that PostgreSQL consumes disk resources and tricks that are available if you run PostgreSQL on ZFS (ZFS on Linux, ZFS on FreeBSD, or ZFS on
Illumos).

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
   2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
   3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Create amazing Internet of Things designs without soldering or dropping down to C. The GRiSP project makes building internet-connected hardware devices easier with Erlang!

• Real bare-metal Erlang virtual machine
• Hard real-time event handling, using open source code
• Digilent Pmod™ compatible connectors for sensors and actuators

People think that data is in the cloud, but it’s not. It’s in the ocean

Blue Oak Council’s model license demonstrates all the techniques that licenses can use to make software free and simple for everyone to use and build on, in everyday language that everyone can understand.

Today Rancher Labs is announcing a new open source project, k3s, which is a lightweight, easy to install Kubernetes distribution geared towards resource-constrained environments and low touch operations.

This tool intends to provide an aggregated view of the ENISA Good Practices for IoT and Smart Infrastructure that have been published the last years.

1. Applying the correct troubleshooting steps to your problems is crucial:
   a) Understand what resources have been saturated.
   b) Understand what if anything is causing an error.
   c) From there you can divert into the areas that are related to that resource and start to narrow down the issue.
   d) Tackle the problems bit by bit.
2. Having the right tools for the job key for success. PMM is a great example of a tool that can help you quickly identify, drill in, and fix bottlenecks.
3. Have realistic load tests. In this case, they had tested the new release on a concurrency level that was not like their production
4. By identifying the culprit query we were able to:
   a.) Drop average query time from 20s to 661ms
   b.) Increase QPS by 2x
   c.) Reduce the usage of CPU to 1/4 of its level prior to our intervention

In Human + Machine, Accenture leaders Paul R. Daugherty and H. James (Jim) Wilson show that the essence of the AI paradigm shift is the transformation of all business processes within an organization.

Today we are going to talk about logs, quantitative metrics, and how to observe them in order to increase the team reaction rate and reduce the system waiting time in case of an incident.

This is a textbook in preparation for an introductory undergraduate course on theoretical computer science.

(echo red; echo green 1>&2) | echo blue can output any of blue green (with a newline between them), green blue, or blue; the usual case is blue green. Fully explaining this requires surprisingly arcane Unix knowledge.

Amazon RDS Performance Insights, an advanced database performance monitoring feature that makes it easy to diagnose and solve performance challenges on Amazon RDS databases, is now generally available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server. It offers a free tier with 7 days of data retention and a paid long-term data retention option.

Data from 6,313 mobile data plans in 230 countries were gathered and analysed by Cable.co.uk between 23 October and 28 November 2018. The average cost of one gigabyte (1GB) was then calculated and compared to form a worldwide mobile data pricing league table.

Some 40% of firms across Europe classified as being “AI startups” showed no evidence that they used AI, according to new research from venture firm MMC.

Because of an ever-increasing demand for capacity, submarine cable system design is evolving and the wet plant equipment design and technology are facing new challenges.