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Predictions: Top 25 Careers Likely In High Demand In The Future

  • aster.cloud
  • June 6, 2023
Predicting the top careers of the future can be challenging due to the rapidly evolving nature of technology and the job market. However, based on current trends, here are 25 careers that are…
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Build a Python App to Alert You When Asteroids Are Close to Earth

  • aster.cloud
  • May 22, 2023
Being alerted when asteroids are close to Earth is crucial for several reasons: When you woke up one morning thinking about Armageddon and how fragile we are as a planet if an asteroid comes…
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Illuminating Interactions: Visual State In Jetpack Compose

  • aster.cloud
  • May 20, 2023
An important responsibility of any design system is making it clear what components can and cannot be interacted with, and letting users know when an interaction has taken place. This blog…
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The Top 10 Data Interchange Or Data Exchange Format Used Today

  • aster.cloud
  • May 11, 2023
The top 10 data interchange or data exchange formats used today vary depending on the specific domain and use case. However, here are ten widely used formats across different industries:…
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From Receipts To Riches: Save Money W/ Google Cloud & Supermarket Bills – Part 1

  • aster.cloud
  • May 8, 2023
In today’s world, every penny counts, and saving money on supermarket spending is no exception. Have you ever wondered:  This is the first part of a two-part blog series that…
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3 New Ways To Authorize Users To Your Private Workloads On Cloud Run

  • aster.cloud
  • May 4, 2023
rns and what’s new in Cloud Run to help implement these patterns. 1. Internal Web Apps A common use-case many customers have is to build internal web applications that are accessible…
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Buffer HTTP Requests With Cloud Tasks

  • aster.cloud
  • May 4, 2023
Cloud Tasks is a fully-managed service that manages the execution, dispatch, and asynchronous delivery of a large number of tasks to App Engine or any arbitrary HTTP endpoint. You can…
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Learn About Google Cloud’s Updated Renderer For The Maps SDK For Android

  • aster.cloud
  • May 4, 2023
We’re always looking for ways to improve your Google Maps Platform development experience on Android, so  we’ve been working on an updated renderer for the Maps SDK for Android to give…
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From The Field: A Programming Requirement for Structural Analysis Computations. To Java or To Javascript.

  • root
  • May 2, 2023
When it comes to choosing a programming language for a project involving structural analysis computations, both Java and NodeJS have their own advantages and disadvantages. Here are some pros…
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Speak The Language Of The Future! Here Are The Top 10 Programming Languages For AI

  • Aelia Vita
  • May 2, 2023
AI algorithms and models require a specific set of programming constructs and tools that enable the creation of intelligent behavior. For example, programming languages used for AI development…
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How To Use Log Analytics In Cloud Logging To Gain Deeper Network Insights

  • aster.cloud
  • May 2, 2023
Network logs serve a critical purpose in Google Cloud by helping users troubleshoot, manage, and optimize their networks. Cloud Logging provides a logging pipeline to reliably ingest network…
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PromptOps In application Delivery: Empowering Your Workflow with ChatGPT

  • aster.cloud
  • April 30, 2023
ChatGPT is taking the tech industry by storm, thanks to its unparalleled natural language processing capabilities. As a powerful AI language model, it has the ability to understand and…
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The Shape Of Things To Come

  • aster.cloud
  • April 29, 2023
Creating and animating rounded shapes with AndroidX, Part I A new library with the flashy name :graphics:graphics-shapes: launched recently in AndroidX. I’m happy (especially after…
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Foundation Package Preview Now Available

  • aster.cloud
  • April 27, 2023
I’m pleased to announce that a preview of the future of Foundation is now available on GitHub! This preview provides a unified implementation of Foundation, written in Swift,…
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Shape Morphing In Android

  • aster.cloud
  • April 25, 2023
In the previous article, I showed how to use the new AndroidX :graphics:graphics-shapes: library that Sergio Sancho and I recently released to create and draw rounded polygonal…
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Android Studio Flamingo Is Stable

  • aster.cloud
  • April 13, 2023
Today, we are thrilled to announce the stable release of Android Studio Flamingo🦩: The official IDE for building Android apps! This release includes improvements to help you build…
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Learn Expect By Writing And Automating A Simple Game

  • Aelia Vita
  • March 14, 2023
Code a “guess the number” game in Expect. Then, learn the real power of Expect with a separate script to automate playing the game. While trying to automate my workflow, I hit upon…
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Infrastructure from Code: the New Wave of Cloud Infrastructure Management

  • aster.cloud
  • February 16, 2023
This overview of date and time values in MySQL will help you take advantage of temporal values in your database tables. Both new and experienced users of the popular MySQL database system can…
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Go 1.20 Is Released!

  • aster.cloud
  • February 13, 2023
Today the Go team is thrilled to release Go 1.20, which you can get by visiting the download page. Go 1.20 benefited from an extended development phase, made possible by earlier broad testing…
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Tiny Snippets Of Code That Changed The World

  • Aelia Vita
  • January 23, 2023
Only a few short lines can have a massive, global impact. In 1997, Ethan Zuckerman broke the Internet — by inventing the pop-up ad. He was working for Tripod.com, an online service that let…
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How To Migrate Your Code From PHP 7.4 to 8.1

  • Aelia Vita
  • December 26, 2022
With the recent end-of-life for PHP 7.4, it’s time to migrate your code. Here are a few options to do that. The end-of-life (EOL) for PHP 7.4 was Monday, November 28, 2022. If you’re…
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10 Tips For Writing Clean Code

  • root
  • December 15, 2022
Clean code is a reader-focused development style that produces software that’s easy to write, read and maintain. Knowing how to produce clean code is an essential skill for software…
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Compose For Wear OS 1.1 Is Now Stable: Check Out New Features!

  • aster.cloud
  • December 12, 2022
Today we’re releasing version 1.1 of Compose for Wear OS, our modern declarative UI toolkit to help developers build beautiful, responsive apps for Wear OS. Since the first stable…
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Introducing The Architecture Templates

  • aster.cloud
  • December 12, 2022
We released a new project on Github called Android Architecture Starter Templates. The goal of these templates is to get you started quickly when doing an experiment or starting a brand-new…
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6 Best Python Programming Books Ranked By Reviews

  • Ackley Wyndam
  • December 9, 2022
Programming is more than just typing a few words into a computer. It’s a massive process that requires the knowledge of its own languages. Python is one of these languages, and its use is…
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Complexity Pitfalls: How To Simplify And Fix Your Complex Code?

  • Ackley Wyndam
  • December 6, 2022
Every developer loves working on code that’s simple to read and understand. But obtaining this level of code simplicity isn’t always easy. Why? Code complexity is not evident to developers or…
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Jetpack Compose — When Should I Use DerivedStateOf?

  • aster.cloud
  • December 1, 2022
derivedStateOf — a really common question we see is where and when is the correct place to use this API? The answer to this question is <strong class="ki jk">derivedStateOf…
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The State Of OpenTelemetry

  • aster.cloud
  • December 1, 2022
The question we’re discussing daily with potential users of TelemetryHub is, ‘can I instrument my system with OpenTelemetry?’ And the answer is almost always ‘yes.’ Well, mostly. Any system…
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What You Need To Know About Compiling Code

  • Aelia Vita
  • November 28, 2022
Use this handy mousetrap analogy to understand compiling code. Then download our new eBook, An open source developer’s guide to building applications. Source code must be compiled in…
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Verify The Integrity Of The Helm Charts Stored In OCI-Compliant Registries As OCI Artifacts

  • aster.cloud
  • November 28, 2022
Cosign integration was one of the most important features we shipped in the Flux v0.35 release. After that, we wrote a blog post which explains how to use the feature…
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Making Jellyfish Move In Compose: Animating ImageVectors And Applying AGSL RenderEffects 🐠

  • aster.cloud
  • November 27, 2022
I love following inspiring people on the internet and seeing what they make — one such person is Cassie Codes, she makes incredible animations for the web. One of her inspiring examples is…
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Faster Jetpack Compose View Interop With App Startup And Baseline Profile

  • aster.cloud
  • November 27, 2022
Jetpack Compose is designed to be interoperable with an existing View-based app. This enables you to take an incremental approach to migrating your existing app’s UI to Compose. While your app…
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Dragonfly Integrates Nydus For Image Acceleration Practice

  • aster.cloud
  • November 22, 2022
Introduce definition​ Dragonfly has been selected and put into production use by many Internet companies since its open source in 2017, and entered CNCF in October 2018, becoming the third…
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How To Test If We’re Living In A Computer Simulation

  • Ackley Wyndam
  • November 22, 2022
Physicists have long struggled to explain why the universe started out with conditions suitable for life to evolve. Why do the physical laws and constants take the very specific values that…
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Faster Jetpack Compose View Interop With App Startup And Baseline Profile

  • aster.cloud
  • November 22, 2022
Jetpack Compose is designed to be interoperable with an existing View-based app. This enables you to take an incremental approach to migrating your existing app’s UI to Compose. While your app…
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Just Your Type: Variable Fonts In Compose

  • aster.cloud
  • November 22, 2022
Variable Fonts are ready to use from Compose UI 1.3.0, for Android O and above. A variable font is a font that can be customized in multiple ways (or axis or parameters) creating dramatically…
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Nonprogrammers Are Building More Of The World’s Software – A Computer Scientist Explains ‘No-Code’

  • Ackley Wyndam
  • November 21, 2022
Traditional computer programming has a steep learning curve that requires learning a programming language, for example C/C++, Java or Python, just to build a simple application such as a…
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Cybercrime Insurance Is Making The Ransomware Problem Worse

  • Ackley Wyndam
  • November 21, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was another outbreak in cyberspace: a digital epidemic driven by ransomware. Several organisations worldwide fell victim to cyber-extortionists who stole…
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How To Validate Kubernetes YAML Files

  • aster.cloud
  • November 15, 2022
Kubernetes has taken center stage in how we now manage our containerized applications. As a result, many conventions to define our Kubernetes apps exist, including structures such as YAML,…
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Build Limitless Workloads On BigQuery: New Features Beyond SQL

  • aster.cloud
  • November 15, 2022
Our mission at Google Cloud is to help our customers fuel data driven transformations. As a step towards this, BigQuery is removing its limit as a SQL-only interface and providing new…
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Murre – The Lightweight K8s Metrics Monitoring Tool

  • aster.cloud
  • November 13, 2022
Meet Murre. Murre is an on-demand, scaleable source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes. Murre fetches CPU & memory resource metrics directly from the kubelet on each K8s Node and…
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How To Monitor Kubernetes K3s Using Telegraf And InfluxDB Cloud

  • aster.cloud
  • November 9, 2022
Lightweight Kubernetes, known as K3s, is an installation of Kubernetes half the size in terms of memory footprint. Do you need to monitor your nodes running K3s to know the status of your…
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Is Platform Engineering Putting An End To DevOps And SRE?

  • aster.cloud
  • November 9, 2022
Platform Engineering, DevOps and SRE: is the time to make a definitive choice coming? Everyone is witnessing the IT landscape continue to evolve at a rapid and relentless pace. Every day the…
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Seven App Store Creators Share Their Tips For Forging A Career In Coding

  • aster.cloud
  • November 7, 2022
It often starts with a spark — a fledgling curiosity that develops into a more dedicated interest and then slowly grows into an all-consuming passion for solving unique problems and forging…
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How To Setup Blue Green Deployments With DNS Routing

  • aster.cloud
  • October 24, 2022
The applications that we use today have evolved greatly over the years. The way we write code has improved considerably along with the way we deploy them too. Gone are the days when software…
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What Scrum Masters Can Learn From Dancing

  • Ackley Wyndam
  • October 20, 2022
Like dancing, being a scrum master takes coordination, verbal and nonverbal communication, and cooperation.   Many scrum masters have an obsession with quickly turning their teams into…
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Compose Tooling

  • aster.cloud
  • October 11, 2022
Compose allows you to build beautiful UIs quickly. Together with the Android Studio tooling support, you’re able to accelerate the development process even further with faster iteration and…
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Building Large Scale Recommenders Using Cloud TPUs

  • aster.cloud
  • October 11, 2022
Introduction Personalized recommender systems are used widely for offering the right products or content to the right users. Some examples of such systems are video recommendations (“What to…
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Compose Toolkit

  • aster.cloud
  • October 5, 2022
In the previous MAD Skills Compose Basics article, you learned about the building blocks of UI in Compose: composable functions. Now, it’s time to learn about the powerful toolkit of UI…
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How To GitOps Your Terraform

  • aster.cloud
  • October 5, 2022
This is the first blog post in a series where we want to shine a light on projects in the Flux Ecosystem. This time it’s going to be the Terraform Controller. If you use Terraform, you might…
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Introduction To HTTP Chaos In LitmusChaos

  • aster.cloud
  • October 4, 2022
This article is a getting-started guide for HTTP Chaos in LitmusChaos. We will be talking about 1.  Introduction to LitmusChaos 2.  How does HTTP Chaos work — Architecture 3.  Types of HTTP…
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