Data

For each #DataEngineering job opening on LinkedIn, there are only 2.5 candidates. Compare this to #WebDevelopment, where each job has 10.8 candidates. @upsolver CEO Ori Rafael @thenewstack https://t.co/yQ0k58tSm6 #DataScience

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 20, 2020

#Gretel will enable "developers to automatically check out an anonymized version of the data set,' said [Gretel founder Alex] Watson.This so-called 'synthetic data' is essentially artificial data that looks and works just like regular sensitive user data." https://t.co/33eivdQ6s7

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 20, 2020

Google Dataset Search wants to provide an easier way to search online open-access data. It relies "on institutions adding open-source metadata tags that Dataset Search then uses to index the data sets." @KayEwbank https://t.co/10AkuKdKXJ #DataScience

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 5, 2020

Dev

"In this environment, my lack of interest in learning JavaScript feels like a moral failure." @annawiener https://t.co/jbMJRlYgLh #UncannyValley

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 3, 2020

"Honestly, the biggest thing is—I don’t want to throw it under the bus—but the app was clearly done by someone following a tutorial. It’s similar to projects I do with my mentees who are learning how to code" @jc4p @vicenews https://t.co/kMMiHNuKS6

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 5, 2020

.@Shopify looked at #ReactNative in 2015, though passed after a lengthy investigation, as the technology was then still too new. Over time, however, the company began to witness the value as it saw the performance of the library improve. https://t.co/YxARLxyjrH #JavaScript

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 7, 2020

Like many male-dominated pursuits, turns out an individual's productivity in programming can be greatly exaggerated 😂 From @thenewstack's @DavidCasselTNS https://t.co/97zN0tMUiG

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 16, 2020

#WebDesign: Don’t add white space around text — use the baseline and have the text only take the room it needs to sit on the bottom of the element. Instead, create layout primitives to evenly add space for stacks etc. @markdalgleish @fullstackradio https://t.co/KLgqDl0hqL #React

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 25, 2020

"Almost all that most Java programmers know about concurrency and parallelism is founded on the theory of constructing operating systems from the 1960s." @russel_winder via @97_Things https://t.co/OdOM5zGj0h #Java

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 25, 2020

The cumulative impact is that the web reaches fewer people...and that's not a crisis for folks inside the high-performance bubble because they've got theirs.

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) February 28, 2020

Operations

Built into HTTP/2, Google’s #GRPC does fine-tuned end-to-end flow control. While traditional congestion control protects the network from over-saturation, GRPC protects the node — Google’s Lodi Zheng, #KubeCon https://t.co/nGPn1n0bbU pic.twitter.com/ijH3SaJnC6

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 12, 2020

patch: Istio's "authentication policy" not "authorization policy." 😂

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 12, 2020

Using @HAProxy (managed by @puppetize), @Bookingcom has set up a load-balancing-as-a-service (#LBaaS), with multiple user interfaces for visualization tools, log access, service configuration controls, failover options etc — Marcin Deranik #HAProxyConf https://t.co/iz8MXAigFF pic.twitter.com/FDz7L2p81g

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 18, 2020

AI

“30 companies [have] spent at least $16 billion on developing fully self-driving cars over the past few years—and so far they have little, if any, revenue to show for it ... Billions more will likely be needed before the technology is ready for primetime.” https://t.co/SVCr3wHUzD

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 6, 2020

Over time, the [@openAI] leadership has moved away from its original belief that openness is the best way to build beneficial [Artificial General Intelligence]. Now the importance of keeping quiet is impressed on those who work with or at the lab." https://t.co/egS7zeP6Gh #AI #ML

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 19, 2020

Security

“A potential security vulnerability in CSME subsystem may allow escalation of privilege, denial of service, and information disclosure. Intel is releasing firmware updates”— @Intel, on the #CSME #firmware #security #vulnerability for #Core, #Xeon chips https://t.co/vC7BtSmTIF

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 14, 2020

Cloud Native Computing

Unlike #Kubernetes itself, the Container Network Interface (#CNI) can support multiple networks, a feature highly desirable to telecoms... #KubeCon

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 3, 2020

Most existing authentication systems are oriented to authenticating end-users, rather than services, and they are ill-equipped for the dynamic, highly-scalable nature of cloud native computing. https://t.co/p9lRl1V2kd #SPIFFEE #SPIRE #CloudNativeSecurity #ZeroTrust @scytale_io

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 3, 2020

#Kubernetes needs a centralized virtual network manager. #CNI’s fine for single-tenant apps but for larger performance-sensitive workloads, #K8s should have complete control of the underlying network infrastructure — Levente Kale @Nokia #Kubecon https://t.co/sgTDlDy27P #VNF pic.twitter.com/tkE3sq3uj9

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 6, 2020

"For anyone that has enjoyed using CoreOS Container Linux, mark May 26, 2020 on your calendar, as that is the day this Linux distribution will reach its end of life and will no longer receive updates. " https://t.co/35DM48fC1o #Linux

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 7, 2020

#Kubernetes and the associated #ServiceMesh community sorely need reference architectures: patterns on setting up global-scale load balancing, or how to instrument traffic from an ingress through to an application etc— @BuoyantIO’s Oliver Gould #Kubecon https://t.co/pz7GA8BQqO

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 10, 2020

By turning its #MachineLearning ops into a #Kubernetes-based self-service for its data scientists, the Israel Ministry of Defense was able to increase the number of #AI models it produced by 70% — @RedHat’s Itay Gabbay #KubeCon #OpenShift #jupyterNotebooks #DataScience #Grafana pic.twitter.com/ROZx2asYRo

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 14, 2020

Quantum Computing/Mechanics

"A team of Princeton University researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to get two silicon 'spin' quantum bits (or 'spin qubits') to communicate with each other, even when spaced over relatively long distances on a microchip." #QuantumComputing https://t.co/kQTKyPx2RE

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 7, 2020

COVID-19

Unknowns around: incubation period, speed of transmissibility, asymptomatic transmission, severity.

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 2, 2020

long incubation period... https://t.co/fnmjZqsKmr

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 7, 2020

"I think the likely outcome is that it will ultimately not be containable.” -- Harvard epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch https://t.co/I3X5vECH3V @TheAtlantic #coronavirus

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 24, 2020

“Such epidemiological numbers are not fixed or immutable. They are not constants that exist independent of our actions. Where they land depends on the characteristics of the pathogen but also our response.” ⁦@zeynep⁩ ⁦@sciam⁩ #Corvid19 https://t.co/Edhbrl2AwV

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 28, 2020

Curios

The signal is a known repeating fast radio burst, FRB 180916.J0158+65 […] The repeating signal was traced to a massive spiral galaxy around 500 million light-years away. https://t.co/qVZKQu5HeR #astronomy #FRB

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 12, 2020

"In the universe, an important mark of a civilization's technological advancement is its ability to control and make use of micro-dimensions." -- #CixinLiu "The Three-Body Problem" https://t.co/BpQ5liZbjy @goodreads #SciFi

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 12, 2020

The key to technical writing is to, while trying not to be obvious about it, say everything twice, both formally and informally. — Donald Knuth, @lexfridman podcast https://t.co/nYGHYLDxgW pic.twitter.com/j40qoTmraG

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 22, 2020

Use left brain right brain at the same time; you get a lot more done.” — #DonaldKnuth @lexfridman #podcast

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 22, 2020

"When your requirements change over the duration of the project, you’re guaranteed that you won’t be able to satisfy the customer even if you completely satisfy the original requirements." https://t.co/vMlp0OOwuq

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 22, 2020

“Transparency and privacy represent friction for surveillance capitalists, in much the same way that improving working conditions, rejecting child labor and shortening the work day represented friction for the early industrial capitalists” @shoshanazuboff https://t.co/8kpUBjDe1L

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 27, 2020

I didn't know any of this: SAP was started by five ex-IBM engineers, who, in effect, created the first #ERP software, which predated the general purpose database. -- Abdul Nimeri https://t.co/w3RxBshilt via @newsycombinator

— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) February 5, 2020