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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. From pre-built libraries for linear or logistic regressions, decision trees, naïve Bayes, k-means, gradient-boosting, etc.,

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid." Sharding and partitioning the database affords greater performance and distribution but creates complexity that is difficult to manage. It must be beautiful, like Venus, inspiring love.

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