How to decide what product to build
Techniques for defining a product and building and managing a team.
Ideas
What's on our radar.
What machine learning means for software development
“Human in the loop” software development will be a big part of the future.
Four short links: 12 July 2018
Debugging, Just Code, Causal Inference, and Infosec
Doing good data science
Data scientists, data engineers, AI and ML developers, and other data professionals need to live ethical values, not just talk about them.
Do you need a service mesh?
Learn why this new tool is a critical component in microservice-based architectures.
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Segueing into a product role
The clearest path to a product management role is at your current organization.
How to design a product at a startup
It's all about building an MVP.
Data regulations and privacy discussions are still in the early stages
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Aurélie Pols on GDPR, ethics, and ePrivacy.
120+ new live online training courses for July and August
Get hands-on training in machine learning, software architecture, Java, Kotlin, leadership skills, and many other topics.
TensorFlow Day is coming to OSCON
Explore TensorFlow’s applications and its community on July 17 at TensorFlow Day at OSCON.
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Career paths for product managers
Product managers are in hot demand and have myriad career options, from executive management to solutions consulting to just staying put.
Responsible IoT design
We should take the impact our designs have on others' lives as seriously as we take the need for profit and competitive advantage.
Why learning is the foundation of a solid talent strategy
Progressive organizations know that learning is as much about recruitment and retention as it is about development.
Testing machine learning interpretability techniques
The importance of testing your tools, using multiple tools, and seeking consistency across various interpretability techniques.
AI's desire
It’s easy to imagine an AI winning a game of Go, but can you imagine an AI wanting to play a game of Go?
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Use design sprints to reduce a product's risk of failure
How sprints can help separate the good ideas from the bad.
3 types of knowledge a product manager should seek
The most successful product managers quickly develop three domains of knowledge: organizational, product, and industry.
Managing risk in machine learning models
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Andrew Burt and Steven Touw on how companies can manage models they cannot fully explain.
Don’t let your ethical judgement go to sleep
We need to build organizations that are self-critical and avoid corporate self-deception.
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Artificial intelligence versus actionable intelligence
David Hayes explains why adding a manageable dose of actionable intelligence to your operations management workflow can save you time and aggravation.
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Declarative application configuration: Mixing the old with the new
Bryan Liles explains how to evaluate and integrate new declarative application management practices into continuous integration pipelines.
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EdgeControl: CDN tools to appease your inner control freak
Dave Andrews explains how to wield the power of a global 50 Tbps application delivery network to ensure maximum availability during and after a change.
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Can open source change the ratio?
Tracy Lee helps you think differently about how to increase diversity in technology with open source.
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Question and answer session with Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich shares his thoughts on the future of the web, cryptocurrency, browsers, and JavaScript.
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Secrets and surprises of high performance: What the data says
Nicole Forsgren shares results and stories behind high-performing technology-driven teams and organizations.
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Netra Q&A: Scaling resource-intensive APIs
Oracle's Kyle York and Netra's Richard Lee discuss Netra’s high-performance computing environment.
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The cost of JavaScript
Addy Osmani explains why JavaScript is the most expensive resource your site uses today—especially on mobile.
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You are (w)here? Geospatial web dev off the beaten map
Focusing on a mix of artificial, scientific, and environmental sensing data, Aurelia Moser explores fantasy and farcical mapping.
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Jepsen 9: The center cannot hold
Kyle Kingsbury explores anomalies in three distributed systems and shares strategies for correctness testing using Jepsen.
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The coming era of privacy by default: Brave and the Basic Attention Token
Brendan Eich asks what it would mean to the web if we start building products, apps, and systems that are private by default.
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Scaling yourself during hypergrowth
Julia Grace shares how she learned to rapidly scale herself and her leadership team during a period of hypergrowth at Slack.
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The internet vs. your sites: Taking action against internet volatility
Kyle York explores the scale, complexity, and volatility of the internet and the risk it poses to your applications and infrastructure.
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Why Microsoft does DevOps
Martin Woodward shares key data points from Microsoft's journey to DevOps.
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Question and answer session with Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow fields questions on the future of the web, privacy, and net neutrality.
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Observability of team health: Deciphering and reacting to organizational feedback
Renee Orser explains how to monitor the human networks within your engineering teams using models similar to your distributed technology systems.
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JavaScript, security, and the case for feature simplicity
Natalie Silvanovich discusses the link between feature complexity, developer error, and security vulnerabilities.
Highlights from the O'Reilly Fluent Conference in San Jose 2018
Watch highlights covering JavaScript, accessibility, privacy, and more. From the O'Reilly Fluent Conference in San Jose 2018.
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The secret to building and delivering amazing apps at scale
Javier Garza details the ingredients you need to build and deliver an app your users will love.
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What's cooking in the AWS kitchen? Recipes for a better web
Cherie Wong shares common developer pain points and recipes to solve them using AWS.
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The freedom to configure is the freedom to make a better world
Cory Doctorow says the right to configure technology is the signature right of the 21st century.
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The parallel future of the browser
Lin Clark explains what browser vendors need to do over the next few years to ensure their browsers, and the web itself, meet upcoming demands.
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Reliability from the ground up: Designing for five nines
Astrid Atkinson discusses techniques for building systems that are resilient by design.
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Lessons learned while evolving Box’s database infrastructure
Tamar Bercovici details how the team at Box has constructed its database stack to handle an ever-growing query load and data set.
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Fixing JavaScript Date: A journey from Minneapolis to Microsoft, TC39, and everywhere in between
Maggie Pint explains how bad date support in JavaScript took her from making HR software to working as an Azure SRE.
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Running stateful applications in Kubernetes: Is it worth the risk
Kris Nova looks at the four metrics that help you decide if running stateful applications in Kubernetes is worth the risk.
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It's spelled "accessibility," not "disability"
Scott Davis explains why accessibility should be just as important to you as a mobile design strategy was 10 years ago.
Highlights from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference in San Jose 2018
Watch highlights covering infrastructure, DevOps, security, and more. From the O'Reilly Velocity Conference in San Jose 2018.
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How to set goals and define success in design
A look at a few ways to evaluate whether or not a design achieves what it set out to do.
How to balance development goals with security and privacy
Practical advice for software engineers and security consultants.
Microservices, events, and upside-down databases
The benefits of modeling data as events as a mechanism to evolve our software systems.
The blockchain beyond bitcoin
Taking blockchain technology private for the enterprise.
Evaluate a product/market fit
How to identify when a fit has been achieved, and how to exit the explore stage and start exploiting a product with its identified market.
How to enhance the navigation experience on mobile devices
An overview of common design patterns for navigation that will ensure users can find and use features in an application.
How to think about AI and machine learning technologies, and their roles in automation
An overview and framework, including tools that can be used to enable automation.
The real value of data requires a holistic view of the end-to-end data pipeline
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Ashok Srivastava on the emergence of machine learning and AI for enterprise applications.
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Using split testing to understand users
Find new ways to gain insight into how your users interact.
Vote for the OSCON 2018 Open Source Awards
Cast your vote for the top open source projects and communities through June 29.
Strengthen your digital defenses with AI and supervised machine learning
Use cases of AI and ML to help businesses build better defenses today and in the near future.
120+ new live online training courses just launched on O'Reilly's learning platform
Get hands-on training in machine learning, Python, Java, Kubernetes, product management, and many other topics.
Learn about AI with these books, videos, and tutorials
This collection of AI resources will get you up to speed on the basics, best practices, and latest techniques.
From chaos engineering to bug bounties—why companies need to experiment with new technology
The O’Reilly Podcast: Tammy Butow and Annie Lau on the importance of creating a culture of learning.
Lessons learned turning machine learning models into real products and services
Why model development does not equal software development.
5 key drivers for getting more value from your data
Considerations based on experience with Fortune 500 clients.