The 1-Wire bus is a favourite find out how it works. This is an extract from Raspberry Pi IoT in C, Second Edition.

HAL is an entirely fictional machine and yet it seems to stir something in the soul of the computer scientist. Why?

Salary data reveals that data scientists in the United States can expect to earn over $100K. Work in this capacity for one of the FAANG companies and the median salary is $187K. If you get to to a senior position you stand to earn over $400K each year. 

Matter is the biggest news in IoT since - well it's difficult to think of anything bigger. It is proposed as the one standard to rule them all and bring order to the chaos that is currently the domestic IoT scene. Now it has reached version 1.0 - so what? 

The Google Open Source Peer Bonus program is designed to reward external open source contributors nominated by Googlers for their exceptional contributions to open source. A total of 141 winners across 110+ projects, residing in 36 countries have received this award in the second cycle of 2022. 

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Google has revised the timetable for phasing out Manifest V2  as Chrome extensions transition to Manifest V3. Now V2 extensions have a new deadline of January 2024 for holders of an Enterprise policy. 

Deno 1.26 has been released with better npm support and support for APIs for Node.js compatibility. Deno is the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime from the creator of Node.js. 

Astro, Amazon's diminutive wheeled robot, is no longer just a home robot. It security features now target small to medium-sized businesses and it has a new role as a pet minder. 

Once upon a time, the fact that a big entity launched a service was some assurance that it might have a future. Over the years Google has certainly changed that expectation and the latest closure is the game streaming service Stadia, which will shut completely on January 18th, 2023. 

Google is upgrading the Speech Services by Google speech engine in what the company describes as "a big way, providing clearer, more natural voices". 

Oracle has announced that MySQL Heatwave is now available on Amazon AWS. MySQL Heatwave is a massively parallel, high performance, in-memory query accelerator for Oracle MySQL Database Service. 

The CockroachDB team has announced a number of releases and improvements at the recent RoachFest conference including a serverless version of CockroachDB, and a new migration toolkit. 

Author: Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur and Eoin Woods
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pages: 352
ISBN: 978-0136523567
Print:‎ 0136523560
Kindle:‎  B08ZRTQGLJ
Audience: Software Architects
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This book sets out the case for why software architecture is more important than ever, and in particular why continuous architecture is important.

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