Jay Trimble on user-centered design, Agile, and design thinking at NASA
The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Solving problems, user-centered design, and culture at NASA.
Ideas
What's on our radar.
Niko Triulzi on IoT toys
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Designing and manufacturing a screenless tech device.
Four short links: 22 December 2016
Brainless Slime, Significance Testing, Year of Breaches, and Deploying to AWS
Cory Doctorow on the real-life dangers of DRM
The O’Reilly Security Podcast: DRM in unexpected places, artistic and research hindrances, and ill-anticipated consequences.
Velocity: A new direction
The focus of the O'Reilly Velocity Conference is shifting from system administration to systems engineering.
What is design thinking?
Human-centered design and the challenges of complex problem-solving.
Genevieve Bell on bringing more people into the AI conversation
We need more philosophers, psychologists, poets, artists, politicians, anthropologists, social scientists, and critics of art in the conversation.
Want to be a good software architect? Say "yes" to a lot of things.
An interview with Scott Shaw, Head of Technology, Australia, at ThoughtWorks.
HTTP/2: Leveraging the modern web
The O’Reilly Podcast: Stephen Ludin discusses how to get started with HTTP/2.
Dennis Mortensen on email bots
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: X.ai founder on personal assistant agents that schedule your meetings.
Data is only as valuable as the decisions it enables
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Ion Stoica on building intelligent and secure applications on live data.
Brad Knox on creating a strong illusion of life
The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Imbuing robots with magic, eschewing deception in AI, and problematic assumptions of human-taught reinforcement learning.
Defining the Chat in Chatbot
Cathy Pearl on how to think about conversations when designing for voice interactions.
Designing bots
5 questions for Desiree Garcia: Moving beyond building features and solutions to products and experiences.
Scaling Scala
Evaluating the state and development of Scala from a data engineering perspective.
Better security starts and ends with humans
An interview with Scout Brody, Executive Director at Simply Secure.
The telecommunication industry’s unique position for new revenue opportunities in big data, IoT, and VR
Telcos must regain value from over-the-top services and develop new sources of revenue by leveraging their data and infrastructure.
Security and frontend performance: Bridging the gap
The O’Reilly Podcast: Sonia and Sabrina Burney discuss how to provide a secure and fast customer experience
Planning for advanced analytics
The O’Reilly Podcast: John Thuma on how businesses can get more than “what happened” from their data.
AI and the future of design: What skills do we need to compete against the machines?
Four factors to consider when assessing the impact of AI on design professions.
Ecosystem data architecture
The O’Reilly Podcast: Bob Montemurro on planning data systems to match needs.
The ethics of face recognition
We need AI researchers who are actively trying to defeat AI systems and exposing their inadequacies.
Microservices at Netflix: Teams and services are tightly aligned and loosely coupled
An interview with Dianne Marsh, Director of Engineering, Cloud Tools, at Netflix.
If prejudice lurks among us, can our analytics do any better?
Technical and policy considerations in combatting algorithmic bias.
Ryan Cousins on field programmable gate arrays
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Making hardware programmable.
Dan Mall on designing with friends
The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Pricing design, charting your learning path, and working with friends.
Reinforcement learning explained
Learning to act based on long-term payoffs.
Scaling securely at the frontend
Eliminate the middleware tier and directly communicate with back-end APIs for better security, lower cost, and greater speed.
How can a big enterprise benefit from microservices?
Making a lasting impact with microservices takes more than a change in technology.
Ame Elliot on designing for usable security and privacy
The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Designing for security and privacy, noteworthy tools, and the real-world consequences of design.
AI and the future of design: Will machines take your job?
AI has raised the stakes higher than ever before.
How I detect fake news
How I traced the falsity of one internet meme, and what that teaches us about how an algorithm might do it.
Pair design
In this report, two seasoned advocates explain how pair design—the practice of having two designers work together on each aspect of a design project—works and what you need to implement it at your company.
10 principles of business transformation
To become a high-performance organization, you must develop the capability to continually adapt, adjust, and innovate.
The Huffington Post has a fake news problem
It isn’t just Facebook that has a fake news problem, and it isn’t just Donald Trump and kids in Macedonia who are using social media to send the news spinning wildly away from the truth.
Strengthening defenses against human-centric vulnerabilities
Five questions for Andrea Limbago: Insights on how social science can improve an organization’s security strategy.
On becoming a web artisan
5 questions for Matt Stauffer: What developer happiness means for Laravel users, new features for realtime apps, commonalities with VueJS, and trying out new communities.
Reactive programming vs. Reactive systems
Landing on a set of simple reactive design principles in a sea of constant confusion and overloaded expectations.
“Wall Street made me do it”
We have to change the incentives that encourage companies to choose boosting their stock price over investing in people and the real economy.
Fang Yu on using data analytics to catch constantly evolving fraudsters
The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Big data for security, challenges in fraud detection, and the growing complexity of fraudster behavior.
Introducing model-based thinking into AI systems
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Vikash Mansinghka on recent developments in probabilistic programming.
Richard Socher on the future of deep learning
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Making neural networks more accessible.
Getting the most from your design team
5 questions for Peter Merholz: Building design orgs, eight core design skills, and how culture influences outcomes.
The BK BioReactor takes on the Gowanus Canal
The project was spurred by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plan to dredge and cap the waterway over the coming decade.
Your service just went down. Here's what you do next.
Incident management experts explain how to quickly restore service and prevent future outages.
Improve the quality of your leadership decisions
Decision science can help you get better at making tough calls.
How to run an effective design organization
To maximize investments in in-house design teams, companies must put a structure and system in place to get the most out of the team.
"The Internet is going to fall down if I don't fix this"
An interview with Susan Sons from the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University.
Leveraging analytics 1.0 for the analytics 2.0 revolution
Rather than hiring data scientists from outside, consider training your proto data scientists.
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Richard Moulds on harnessing entropy for a more secure world
The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Randomness, our dependence on entropy for security and privacy, and rating entropy sources for more effective encryption.
Steph Hay on designing for Alexa
The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Designing for trust in finance, conversational UIs, and the value of a weekly oasis.
Gilad Rosner on privacy in the age of the Internet of Things
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Safeguarding against new privacy risks.
Bots in society
Lili Cheng provides insights into the planning and release of Microsoft's bot, Tay.
ChatOps: Supercharging DevOps with group chat
The O’Reilly Podcast: Jason Hand discusses how to get your team started with ChatOps.
An overview of the bot landscape
Are bots your new best friend?
What's new in Swift 3
Learn about Swift’s most impactful and interesting new features, and explore Swift’s use on non-Apple platforms.
Upcoming bio events
Events and gatherings for the biological revolution.
Pagan Kennedy on the art and science of serendipity
It's important in this age of big data to return the original meaning of serendipity and talk about it as a skill.
Basic principles for designing voice user interfaces
Challenges and opportunities, how VUIs differ from IVRs, and tools for creating great conversational designs.
Ben Brown on bot tools
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: An optimistic look at the future of bots.
Hilary Mason on the wisdom missing in the AI conversation
The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Thinking critically about AI, modeling language, and overcoming hurdles.
Building the next-generation big data analytics stack
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Michael Franklin on the lasting legacy of AMPLab.
Achieving security and speed
The O’Reilly Podcast: Nathan Moore discusses caching, CDNs, and scaling front end security and performance.