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The Future of League’s Engine

Hiya folks, Brian ‘Penrif’ Bossé, your local friendly Tech Lead of League here. I’m taking some time in between matches of TFT to wax philosophic about game engines and how we on League make decisions around what direction to take our custom game engine. Join me on a moderately long look at one dimension of game engine design, where League currently exists on that dimension, and where we’re taking the game from there.

Operating Apache Kafka Clusters 24/7 Without A Global Ops Team

Building a document understanding pipeline with Google Cloud

Document understanding is the practice of using AI and machine learning to extract data and insights from text and paper sources such as emails, PDFs, scanned documents, and more. In the past, capturing this unstructured or “dark data” has been an expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone process requiring manual data entry. Today, AI and machine learning have made great advances towards automating this process, enabling businesses to derive insights from and take advantage of this data that had been previously untapped.

Introducing Maesh: A Service Mesh for Kubernetes

On September 4th, 2019, Containous, a cloud infrastructure software provider, released Maesh, an open-source service mesh written in Golang and built on top of the reverse proxy and load balancer Traefik. Maesh promises to provide a lightweight service mesh solution that is easy to get started with and to roll out across a microservice application.

Google Research Use of Concept Vectors for Image Search

Google recently released research about creating a tool for searching Similar Medical Images Like Yours (SMILY). The research uses embeddings for image-based search and allows users to influence the search through the interactive refinement of concepts.

GitHub to Integrate Semmle Code Analysis for Continuous Vulnerability Detection

Introducing Hypothesis GU Funcs, an Open Source Python Package for Unit Testing

An introduction to audio processing and machine learning using Python

Kubernetes 1.16: A big step for CRDs, kubectl and Container Storage Interface

Deutsche Bӧrse Group chooses Google Cloud for future growth

Deutsche Bӧrse Group, an international exchange organisation and innovative market infrastructure provider, has a history of being an early adopter of new technologies that drive its industry forward. Over the last three years, the company has been leading a new charge–the adoption of cloud computing–both inside the company and across the industry. Deutsche Bӧrse is now partnering with Google Cloud to digitize their own business, as well as increase the usage and acceptance of cloud technology across the financial services industry.