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Everyone who comments on AI—whether machine learning or more contemporary techniques such as LLMs—notes the enormous volumes of data it requires, as well as the radically novel ways in which data is used. Thousands of new data centers are currently … Read more

Container virtualization is one of the major technologies behind modern software architectures. While the concept of container virtualization is rather old, new tools extend the pure virtualization components with numerous features that facilitate the deployment of containerized software. Docker is … Read more

This article is part of a continuing series about data collection today. The previous article talked about smart watches and other personal devices. Most sites collecting data from your browser are retailers, but I am devoting a separate section of … Read more

My first introduction to Linux came from my undergraduate coursework in computer science. To be honest, it wasn’t a stellar debut… From Confusion to Control: The Early Years Though I knew the command line from my earlier days of creating … Read more

Turning source code into running services requires a coordinated and observable chain of automated activities, in order to meet the needs of modern, fast-paced software development. Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) provide the conceptual and technical foundation for … Read more

This article is part of a continuing series about data collection today. The previous articles talked about devices in your home and your car; now we’ll get more personal. The data collected by fitness devices occupies an ambiguous place on … Read more

To celebrate the beginning of my journey as a Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Trainer, I wanted to reshape some video content of mine as an LPI article. So: Hello everybody, I’m Szymon Izydorek, the creator behind the BecomeDevops channel. In … Read more

Storing work results and sharing them with colleagues is an essential part of open source and DevOps culture. Source code management (SCM) and version control ensure that all members of a team stay on top of changes to source code … Read more

This article is part of a continuing series about data collection today. The previous article talked about devices in your home. Modern cars are probably the most intensive conglomerations of computing power we have in day-to-day life. Estimates of the … Read more

Previous installments in this series described modern software development and got us thinking about architectures for that software. Equipped with this knowledge, we will focus on the building blocks of such applications. Objective 701.2 of LPI’s DevOps Tool Engineer exam … Read more

Many industries hope to benefit from artificial intelligence, but currently they know very little about where it works and where it’s unreliable. 3D printing is a good field to look at how AI is helping to improve accuracy and cost, … Read more

This is the second article in a series about data collection today. The first article introduced the broad scope of the topic. Now we’ll start to look at particular venues for data collection. Is your home tracking you? A 2023 … Read more