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On Technique

O'Reilly

Designing the prompts to get DALL-E to do something extraordinary requires a new kind of technique that’s very different from understanding pigments and brushes. GitHub Copilot (based on a model named Codex , which is derived from GPT-3) generates code in a number of programming languages, based on comments that the user writes.

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A Day with Kotlin

Software Architecture

Null Safety One of the most common pitfalls of many programming languages including Java, is that accessing a null reference would result in a null reference exception. A Day with Kotlin was originally published in Software Architecture on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Another New Talk: Elements of Design

Sutter's Mill

Elements of Design. At C++ and Beyond next week (and in December) I’ll also be giving a brand-new half-day talk on Elements of Design. Although those areas are pretty diverse, they also have a lot of commonalities, and the insights and learnings apply directly to mainstream classes-and-libraries production software design.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. In programming, Python is preeminent.

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Microservices vs. monolithic architecture: Understanding the difference

Dynatrace

Traditional monolithic architectures are built around the concept of large applications that are self-contained, independent, and incorporate myriad capabilities. As developers move to microservice-centric designs, components are broken into independent services to be developed, deployed, and maintained separately.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. General Purpose GPU programming.

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The death of Agile?

O'Reilly

Fetishizing pair programming. If you were involved with professional programming in the 80s and 90s, you may remember how radical it was (and, in many shops, still is) to put software developers in touch with users and customers. This has to do with the concept of bounded context from Domain Driven Design.). Neckbeards?