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Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced that it has acquired Fermyon Inc., a startup with a function-as-a-service platform ...

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One reason people hesitate with LAMBDA is the assumption that it requires learning something entirely new. It doesn't. Every ...

Separating interface from implementation has many practical benefits. Here’s a simple way to do just that, in ANSI-standard C code. How do you organize medium-sized or larger C programs? Few C ...

In late 2003, I had the problem of making business-critical decisions and performing maintenance actions in real time, analyzing data that was passing through the servers I was charged with ...

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Big Four consulting firm EY is using AI to tell its employees how new tech will reshape their jobs. I did the same and this ...

Ask a designer or artist if any aspect of their process is random. The answer will likely reveal a complex relationship between human cognition, digital media, authorship, and even conceptions of ...