September 2017
14 links saved this month.
fee.org
Argues that Bitcoin draws its value from the utility of its payment network rather than any commodity backing, and that this satisfies Mises' regression theorem.
research.googleblog.com
Google Research introduces the Transformer, a self-attention architecture that drops recurrence and convolution and beats both on machine translation and parsing.
argusdelassurance.com
Morceaux choisis de l'ouvrage de Marie Laure Dreyfuss sur la directive Solvabilité 2 : objectifs, principes directeurs et rupture avec le régime prudentiel français actuel.
apref.org
Site de l'association qui réunit les réassureurs opérant en France, dont la mission est d'aider les assureurs à absorber une fréquence ou une gravité anormale de sinistres.
lewagon.com
Site of Le Wagon, a tech bootcamp running immersive coding and AI courses for people changing career.
microservices.io
Pattern write-up: persist a business entity as its sequence of state-changing events, so updating the database and publishing a message become a single atomic act.
martinfowler.com
Bliki entry on CQRS, the idea of splitting the conceptual model into separate models for update and for display, and when that split is worth its cost.
github.com
Guide to launching a multi-node Kubernetes cluster on bare-metal servers running CoreOS, in a repository archived since 2021.
microservices.io
Pattern write-up: keep a read-only view database, synchronised by domain events, so a query can span data owned by several microservices.
zdnet.fr
Dossier ZDNet rassemblant les articles consacrés au RGPD : mise en conformité, bilan après un an, sanctions et montée en puissance du DPO.
docs.microsoft.com
Microsoft's catalogue of technology-agnostic cloud design patterns — Ambassador, Circuit Breaker, CQRS, Saga, Sharding — each with its problem statement and trade-offs.
callingbullshit.org
Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West's course on spotting and refuting bullshit, with syllabus, videos and case studies centred on misleading data and statistics.
aws.amazon.com
Announces general availability of AWS Glue, a managed serverless ETL service that infers source schemas, generates transformation scripts and runs the jobs.
