Tech news digest #17

Self-driving cars, blockchain on AWS, Google autocomplete, pico.js, Titus

How Tesla and Waymo are tackling a major problem for self-driving cars: data

A deep dive on self-driving cars, worth a read! (www.theverge.com)

Introducing AWS Blockchain Templates for Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric

AWS releases two Cloudformation templates to make it easy for developers to deploy Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric blockchain networks. It’s interesting to see a big cloud provider trying to get more usage from blockchain developers. (aws.amazon.com)

How Google autocomplete works in Search

A nice overview on the way Google generates their autocomplete predictions (yes, they prefer to call them “preditctions” rather than “suggestions”). (www.blog.google)

pico.js: A face detection library in 200 lines of JavaScript

A super small library to perform face detection, don’t wait and try it out for yourself. They also released a nice explanation on how they built it, basing the theory on an older research paper. (github.com)

Titus: a container management platform built by Netflix on AWS

Netflix is notoriously famous for open-sourcing their AWS components, and they are back at it: they released a container management platform that enables you to run docker containers easily on AWS. They use this platform in production to power Netflix streaming, recommendation, and content systems. (netflix.github.io)

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