Developing a conversational agent for Google Home is complex. But the hard part is to test it. Especially if you work in an open space full of facetious colleagues. OCTO's BYOP (Bring Your Own Pet) policy does not help: sounds from pets are also detected by Google Home devices. To our astonishment we've found that this detection is very sophisticated: Google Home seems to have acquired abilities to understand the language of animals!
Read moreI have been working with Node.js for almost 6 years now (started back in 2012 with 0.6.10). During these years, co-workers have been asking me the same question over and over again: "What does your application look like?". It is now time to answer this question (or at least try to) !
Read moreSee the previous episode here. He has questions. Nevertheless, he has not yet arrived. And you know you have answers. You interrupt your summoning, and sit down. You can continue in another moment. Everything happens for a reason. You just hope the reason is good. N appears right next to you. Hey, what’s up? I'm setting up the auto-scaling configuration of the new project. Nothing huge. Cool. I need some help. He has progressed immensely since the last time you saw him. People are starting to…
Read moreThis article explores some key aspects of data lineage at the data set level, indicating how to hack the Spark engine to achieve this.
Read moreYou're running late, and not just a little late. You throw your bag under the table and boot up your PC. “Hi! Sorry I’m so late! You say hello to Jeremy, Audrey, and Farid. Audrey says: “Maria came by. She was looking for you.” “Did she say what for?” Hmmm - ‘I’m waiting for an action plan. I don't see anything coming. I'm worried’ “OK” Not OK. This action plan that Maria is waiting for has been spinning in your head for over a week…
Read more“Kubernetes is the Linux of the cloud”This quote by Kelsey Hightower during the Kubecon 2017 in Austin emphasize the rise of Kubernetes among modern cloud infrastructures. This rise is partly driven by the developers community, but also by the web giants such as Google, Amazon, Alibaba or Red Hat who have invested a lot on this technology, and keep contributing to its improvement and smoothening its integration to their respective ecosystems. EKS for AWS, GKE for Google and AKS for Azure are good illustrations of…
Read moreThe Eye-Brain Law: To a certain extent, mental power can compensate for observational weakness. The Brain-Eye Law: To a certain extent, observational power can compensate for mental weakness. Jerry Weinberg "I received your email. I get what you want to do. But, what's the goal?" Comfortably secured in a state-of-the-art ergonomic seat, and protected by a natural fortification of edible, combustible, destructible, fungible, flexible, securely-fixed, decay-prone, sensitive and transmissible elements, Mazare observes both you and Jeremy. Jeremy answers, "We would like to analyze the lead…
Read moreWhile the interest for the Internet of Things by companies is no longer to be proven, this area continues to give a hard time to experts, as for security and architecture. Indeed, the multiplication of data sources brings a reflection on the architecture of networks. As Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO) said on stage in 2017: "When I joined Microsoft in 1992, all Internet traffic was 100 gigabytes a day. Today is 17.5 million times that amount ... per second! "And we are only at the…
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