In this article we will describe a modern setup for a backend build of micro-services, deployed in Docker containers on a Cloud infrastructure. The article will give an overview of the available components and technologies. It is not intended to recap or summarize existing documentation on this topic, but to give a comprehensive overview and to explain the pros and cons of different approaches and strategies which have proven successful for 3SS. We will explain and detail the setup based on our own product development activities in order to provide practical examples and experiences.

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Nowadays, more and more companies are concerned to make their web pages accessible to as many users as possible. Because of this, we started to turn our attention to a special category of users: users with different kinds of disabilities. Websites owners want the delivered information to be accessible not only to the regular people, but also to those with disabilities, whatever the disability degree is – temporary or permanent.

The great change that has been taking place in the business landscape and, in fact, in every company, no matter how far from tech, is the fact that everything is becoming a software company, and, by extension, a data company. Companies often don’t need a complex architecture and an engineering team right away, in order to start making advanced analytics for their business intelligence (BI). When you are unsure about how to proceed when running some advanced analytics, without spending additional effort on strategy, architecture, engineering team, storage costs, infrastructure - you are convinced that your organization needs a new prospect. This is where Middlewares and cloud data warehouse solutions, such as Google BigQuery, come into play.

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OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project, created with the purpose of offering a complete map, permanently updated by the community, being also free for any kind of uses: websites, mobile apps and GPS systems. Telenav intends to use OpenStreetMap for many internal projects, especially for embedded navigation systems. In order to have a quality map, it is mandatory for the data to be revised and constantly updated, reason why the company has a dedicated department for this task: improving OSM data. The Map-Analysts Team improves and updates OSM by using free data and several internal and open-source tools.

Danny is a serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor. He is the Co Founder and COO of Nexus Frontier Tech, an AI research firm to make AI easy to work with organisations by using natural language processing to transform idle information into structured data, enabling them to run better, leaner, and faster. He will be one of the speakers at The Developers conference, 19 April, Cluj-Napoca, cinema Florin Piersic.

The goal of this article is to provide an insight into the most used java performance tools. Like any tool, its usefulness depends on its usage and on the skills of the persons using it. We used the Spring Pet clinic application during the tests, since Spring MVC & Boot is the most used web framework according to ZeroTurnaround’s Java Tools and Technologies Landscape 2016.

Many of us are searching for something. We are engaged in an infinite journey for which it is very hard to set a destination, but maybe this journey doesn’t need an end, it just needs passion along the way. Travelling throught the programming languages is not easy because we encounter many adventurous waypoints along the road. Sometimes, these waypoints represent an obstacle in our way or the view they offer is dissapointing, but it is those that fascinate us throught their simplicity and beauty that keep us going.

A colleague (who is more thorough than I am) told me to how many technical interviews he attended in 2016. It was a big, but irrelevant number, which made me ponder about the power and responsibility people have when they JUDGE a person. Scared of how curt and terse « to judge » actually sounds, I applied the corporate filter and I decided to use “to evaluate” instead. It does not come off so strong. The evaluation process entails a person’s ability to be objective, while judgment seems godly and somehow final!

Fake News is a term that made its way into common vocabulary only recently, starting with the US presidential elections. This is a phenomenon that was mostly known through click bait articles that were rapidly “viralised” on social media. Fake news gained notoriety only when its global impact was acknowledged by the bosses of IT giants like Google and Facebook, who admitted, for the first time ever, that this kind of news has the power to influence democratic elections.

In recent years, Deep Neural Networks have been used to generate state-of-the-art results in numerous sub-fields of computer vision. This category of algorithms can be used to extract substantial amount of information from many types of imagery. Our work is focuses on training a neural network to accurately detect roads, by analyzing tens of thousands of satellite images. In the mapping industry, having very detailed and accurate maps is of crucial importance in order to be able to build high-quality and precise routing applications. The first step towards achieving this goal is detecting all the roads in a certain area. Every other piece of traffic-relevant map information, such as turn restrictions or speed limits, depends on knowing the underlying road network.