BrianSletten
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.
Machine Learning is clearly here to stay. While it is a far cry from actual Artificial Intelligence, it provides many invaluable and remarkable ways to learn from the data we are collecting about our customers, products and daily activities. The past afforded us machine learning libraries which became machine learning frameworks. Now, we are designing and building machine learning platforms that facilitate entire initiatives in reusable and extensible ways.
Knowledge graphs are a rapidly emerging concept for machine-processable models of complex and dynamic domains. They represent the intersection of Web architecture and information. If your organization wants to resolve its most pernicious data integration problems or facilitate machine learning initiatives, knowledge graphs are likely to be part of your future.
The LLVM Project has been around for over a decade, but is increasingly important as a compiler infrastructure to get reuse and portability, shared optimizations and a faster time to market. It achieves this by having a pluggable, layered architecture compared to other compiler infrastructure. Many newer programming languages have chosen it as the basis of their toolchain including Swift, Julia, Rust and more.
Spring has always been defined by its lightweight core. While there has been an overwhelming explosion in the external projects and protocols it integrates seamlessly with, it has also evolved internally to meet the needs of modern development requirements.
Spring has always been defined by its lightweight core. While there has been an overwhelming explosion in the external projects and protocols it integrates seamlessly with, it has also evolved internally to meet the needs of modern development requirements.
In the last 30 years, our industry has been upended by advancements that unlock previously unimaginable capabilities. It still seems like there is far too much failure and not enough success in IT systems though. To be successful in the 21st Century, you will need to understand where we are and where we are going. It is a complex amalgamation of developments in hardware, computer languages, architectures and how we manage information. Very few people understand all of the pieces and how they connect.
While still new to most people, WebAssembly provides a formidable vision of safe, fast, portable code. Through clever choices and well-considered design, the basic vision allows us to target browsers as a platform using a variety of languages other than (but compatible with) Javascript. This technology coupled with advancements in the Web platform are setting up the future of Web-delivered applications to look more like (and likely to replace) desktop applications.
While still new to most people, WebAssembly provides a formidable vision of safe, fast, portable code. Through clever choices and well-considered design, the basic vision allows us to target browsers as a platform using a variety of languages other than (but compatible with) Javascript. This technology coupled with advancements in the Web platform are setting up the future of Web-delivered applications to look more like (and likely to replace) desktop applications.
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