Metrify

Automation to help intelligence

Misconceptions about AI

Is it just me, or is the question of whether Artificial Intelligence comparable to human intelligence a more common topic, on an almost daily basis? I’m even encountering questions of whether computers have…

Leveraging technical debt

There are a few basic principles I have followed both with my own development teams and with those I’ve advised over the years. A few days ago I posted one of these, and it sparked a nice conversation on LinkedIn:

A year in review for autonomous traffic

2017 was an eventful year for robotic vehicles, so it’s a topic I figured I should follow up with a longer, dedicated set of notes.

Did the AI singularity already arrive?

To begin with; a personal note. While long form postings here have been sparse, I’ve tweeted over a thousand article links over this year. Should the topics in this post be interesting to you, I want to invite you to a conversation there.

How should we regulate AI algorithms?

Is a self-driving car responsible for a traffic accident? Should a medical AI go to jail if it subjects a patient to a deadly dose of radiation? If a stock trading algorithm causes a market crash, should it be fined? Are we heading into an apocalypse and summoning…

Four value propositions for APIs

When you’re thinking of offering an API as part of your own product, you should take some time to understand how to position its business value proposition in a way which makes long term sense. With a clear value proposition it will be much easier to justify the…

Setting actionable business goals

Setting goals we can keep is difficult, whether we think of personal or business objectives. Every so often, I resolve I will exercise more than the bare minimum, but a few weeks later, I will fall back to the old habits and excuses — today I’m too tired, maybe…

Build for the cloud with Docker

When Amazon Web Services first started popularizing cloud services, they weren’t quite the first to sell virtualized servers in place of managed hosting. However, they were among the first to sell them as an API, and moved very quickly to provide all sorts of services with…

Performance monitoring a cloud backend

While Data Science is something we’ve covered here in the past, measuring software starts from much more basic pieces. At some point during the development process of a cloud service, usually by the time you get ready for first public deployment, you’ll need to…