New Tech Forum

By Gene Hynson, Kevin Miller, Michael Berthold, Scott McCarty, Shayak Sen, Srini Srinivasan, Tim Hinrichs

The COVID pandemic’s lasting impact on cloud usage

9 out of 10 companies have accelerated their cloud adoption in response to the coronavirus pandemic, with corresponding increases in cloud spend—and waste.

What is unified policy as code, and why do you need it?

By decoupling policy from applications, policy as code allows you to change the coding for policy without changing the coding for apps. Translation: reliability, uptime, and efficiency.

4 key tests for your AI explainability toolkit

Enterprise-grade explainability solutions provide fundamental transparency into how machine learning models make decisions, as well as broader assessments of model quality and fairness. Is yours up to the job?

What we just learned about data science — and what’s next

The past 12 months have revealed how valuable data science can be while also exposing its limitations. Expect big advances in the year to come.

Containers need standard operating environments too

A standard operating environment can reduce the time it takes to deploy, configure, maintain, support, and manage containerized applications. Let’s get SOEs and containers back together.

Out-of-this-world monitoring with InfluxDB and React

Build a React application to track the orbit of the International Space Station using Telegraf, InfluxDB, ExpressJS, and Giraffe.

How Aerospike achieves fine-grained global replication

Aerospike’s Cross-Datacenter Replication with Expressions makes it easy to route the right data at the right time across global applications to meet compliance mandates and reduce server, cloud, and bandwidth costs.

3 kinds of bias in AI models — and how we can address them

A biased AI model must have learned a biased relationship between its inputs and outputs. We can fix that.

How to make better technology investments

6 steps IT departments can take to identify IT spend and optimize reinvestments in digital transformation initiatives.

How to design AI into your applications

3 conscious experience design principles that will help you integrate ‘living’ AI into your applications and how to implement them.

7 data science predictions for 2021

After a trying 2020, signs point to data science becoming an enterprise-wide capability that impacts every line of business and functional department in the coming year.

Your Linux container and Kubernetes forecast for 2021

Developments in containers and virtualization, container tooling, containers for edge computing, and Kubernetes you should have on your radar in the coming year and beyond.

Using OPA with GitOps to speed cloud-native development

Devops teams are flocking to GitOps strategies to accelerate development time frames and eliminate cloud misconfigurations. They should adopt a similar ‘as-code’ approach to policy.

The most important new features in CockroachDB

CockroachDB 20.2 brings a Kubernetes operator, spatial data, a new storage engine, SQL enhancements, and much more, extending the range of workloads for which the database can be used.

How to find and fix performance problems in PHP applications

With Sentry Performance Monitoring for PHP, developers can quickly identify performance issues with PHP-based applications and view end-to-end traces to pinpoint issues and surface related errors.

How to bring zero-trust security to microservices

Why we must use a zero-trust security model in microservices and how to implement it using the Kuma universal service mesh.

4 technical hurdles to quantum computing

Viable, large-scale quantum computers will require better qubits, better control chip technology, more advanced error correction, and new components at every layer of the stack. We’re making progress.