Willkommen in QualityLand, in einer nicht allzu fernen Zukunft: Alles läuft rund - Arbeit, Freizeit und Beziehungen sind von Algorithmen optimiert.

Trotzdem beschleicht den Maschinenverschrotter Peter Arbeitsloser immer mehr das Gefühl, dass mit seinem Leben etwas nicht stimmt. Wenn das System wirklich so perfekt ist, warum gibt es dann Drohnen, die an Flugangst leiden, oder Kampfroboter mit posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung? Warum werden die Maschinen immer menschlicher, aber die Menschen immer maschineller? Marc-Uwe Kling hat die Verheißungen und das Unbehagen der digitalen Gegenwart zu einer verblüffenden Zukunftssatire verdichtet, die lange nachwirkt. Visionär, hintergründig – und so komisch wie die Känguru-Trilogie.

Historian Rutger Bregman, whose speech at the Davos World Economic Forum went viral, explains why often-dismissed plans to correct inequality can actually work.

The big bang, the beginning of our universe. The one universe. But is this the whole story? Professor Sir Roger Penrose brings us fascinating new insights and possibilities – and that the universe we live in could be just one of an infinite succession of universes.

A recent theory, conformal cyclic cosmology, proposes that what we presently regard as the entire history of our universe is merely one phase, an ‘aeon’, of an infinite succession of similar aeons. The ultimate expansion of each aeon appears - infinitely scaled down - as the big bang of the next one. Collisions between supermassive black holes in the aeon prior to ours would leave an observable imprint on our cosmic microwave background - apparently already detected by WMAP and Planck space satellites.

BICEP2 south-pole telescope observations have recently been claimed as providing the ‘smoking gun’ of an inflationary beginning to our universe’s expansion. Conformal cyclic cosmology provides an alternative explanation, with intriguing consequences. Penrose’s illustrated talk shows us how.

Penrose is a world-renowned physicist, mathematician, cosmologist, and author of Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe; The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe; The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics; and Shadows of the Mind: An Approach to the Missing Science of Consciousness. He will be introduced by Clive Cookson, science editor at the Financial Times.

The decentralised web, or DWeb, could be a chance to take control of our data back from the big tech firms. So how does it work and when will it be here?

With a great ecosystem, comes great responsibility, and application security is not one to wave off. Let’s review some black clouds of security horror stories in the Node.js ecosystem, and learn how to mitigate them to build secure JavaScript and Node.js applications.

Liran Tal
Developer Advocate, Snyk
Liran has been advocating for Node.js and JavaScript, through core lead for the MEAN.js framework, docker container tool Dockly, and author of several npm packages.He’s a member of the Node.js Security WG, the author of Essential Node.js Security.

Wie wird sich die politische Landschaft nach der Corona-Krise verändern? Werden die Folgen der Wirtschaftskrise möglicherweise dazu führen, dass Menschen empfänglicher werden für Populismus jeder Art, etwa von rechts? Was hilft dagegen?

A Scifi Odyssey to the heart of democracy

Anhand einiger ausgewählter Erfahrungen und Abenteuer der Großrechnersammlung Cray-Cyber.org zeige ich die Herausforderungen und Besonderheiten, die einem widerfahren, wenn man historische Rechner so groß wie Wohnzimmerschrankwände sammeln und betreiben will. Der Vortrag gibt außerdem einen kurzen Überblick der Sammlung, erläutert den aktuellen Status der Museumspläne und gibt einen kurzen Ausblick in die nicht so ferne Zukunft.

In the introductory article of this series I wrote that one of disadvantages of Podman and Buildah is that the technology is still pretty new and moves fast. This final article you are reading appeared with much delay because from Podman 1.3.1 to 1.4.1, one of the key features that we will look at in this article was broken.

Luckily, Podman 1.4.1 and above not only fixes features that were broken for a few weeks, but also has these features finally covered with tests. Hopefully, there will be no such dramatic loss in functionality in future releases. My original warning still applies though: new container technology toolchain is new and sometimes unstable. Keep that in mind.

Back in 2017, we noticed that developers creating Kubernetes-native applications spent a long time building and managing container images across registries, manually updating their Kubernetes manifests, and redeploying their applications every time they made even the smallest code changes. We set out to create a tool to automate these tasks, helping them focus on writing and maintaining code rather than managing the repetitive steps required during the edit-debug-deploy ‘inner loop’. From this observation, Skaffold was born.

Today, we're announcing our first generally available release of Skaffold. Skaffold simplifies common operational tasks that you perform when doing Kubernetes development, letting you focus on your code changes and see them rapidly reflected on your cluster. It's the underlying engine that drives Cloud Code, and a powerful tool in and of itself for improving developer productivity.

Kubernetes has rapidly become a key ingredient in edge computing. With Kubernetes, companies can run containers at the edge in a way that maximizes resources, makes testing easier and allows DevOps teams to move faster and more effectively as these organizations consume and analyze more data in the field.

Exchange Web Services (EWS) provides the functionality to enable client applications to communicate with the Exchange server. EWS provides access to much of the same data that is made available through Microsoft OfficeOutlook. EWS clients can integrate Outlook data into Line-of-Business (LOB) applications. SOAP provides the messaging framework for messages sent between the client application and the Exchange server. The SOAP messages are sent by HTTP.

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run".

We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.

Learn fast from my years of being a container consultant and Docker implementer. Come join me for a jam-packed session of decisions you need to make and key technical factors you should know. No fluff, all practicals. Updated for 2019 and based on my 3 years of top-10 DockerCon talks.
You should show up if:
• You are planning or involved with building/using a Docker production system.
• You are thinking of using Swarm and/or Kubernetes (but not required).
• You like random 80's/90's video game trivia thrown at you.
DevOps in the Real World is far from perfect, yet we all dream of that amazing auto-healing fully-automated micro-service infrastructure that we'll have "someday." But until then, how can you really start using containers today, and what decisions do you need to make to get there?
This session is designed for practitioners who are looking for ways to get started now with Docker and container orchestration in production. This is not a Docker 101, but rather it's to help you be successful on your way to Containerizing [...]

"Here we are: Microservices, Container, Cloud ... and lots of data to deal with. Usually that's where the real trouble starts. Many developers still base their designs on the concept of perfectly consistent ACID transactions, everything being always consistent and in order, no anomalies around. But reality is different: Perfect consistency does not exist and many real-world use cases require much weaker consistency models in order to satisfy the scalability or robustness requirements. So, what are our options and what is the price we need to pay? Do we need to accept potentially losing data in order to get higher availability? How much can I scale without compromising consistency? In this session we will answer this and many more questions. We will also have a look at some popular data stores and examine what kind of consistency models you can achieve with them and how. Finally, we will have a peek into latest research and see new ideas that might push the borders of the current state-of-art."