Originally posted on arstechnica. Google’s promotion of Rust over C and C++ should lead to fewer memory security bugs Just last month, we saw the first baby steps toward the adoption of the memory-managed Rust programming language into the Linux kernel. Google has apparently been thinking along the same lines, and in a lengthy blog post Tuesday, the company...
Originally posted on moz. Many of us are helping businesses that are facing hard times, or we’re facing hard times ourselves. If you’re working for a company (or client) that’s in trouble, the use of SMS chatbots could be a way for you to look outside your normal list of solutions and help them succeed...
Originally posted on github Trax helps you understand and explore advanced deep learning. We focus on making Trax code clear while pushing advanced models like Reformer to their limits. Trax is actively used and maintained in the Google Brain team. Give it a try, talk to us or open an issue if needed. Use Trax You can use Trax either as a library from your...
A small tutorial project for learning Flask, APIs, and Google App Engine for beginners If you want to build web apps in a very short amount of time using Python, then Flask is a fantastic option. Flask is a small and powerful web framework (also known as “microframework”). It is also very easy to learn and simple...
Every year, Google releases the source code for the I/O Android companion app several weeks after the developer conference. The 2018 version is notable for a “comprehensive rewrite” featuring Architecture Components, Kotlin, Material Theming, and other modern elements. The annual release is designed to demonstrate best practices for creating an app used by thousands of attendees to get important...
For reliable applications, the web giant relies on ‘site reliability engineering’: DevOps with an engineering foundation. Everyone wants to do DevOps these days, but what does a well-humming DevOps environment really look like? What is the vision to strive for? To date, DevOps has been popping up as a hodgepodge of activities and initiatives across...
Many customers of Kubernetes Engine, especially enterprises, need to autoscale their environments based on more than just CPU usage—for example queue length or concurrent persistent connections. In Kubernetes Engine 1.9 we started adding features to address this and today, with the latest beta release of Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) on Kubernetes Engine 1.10, you can configure...
