News:

• Microsoft Announces a Public Preview of Python Support for Azure Functions
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/azure-functions-python-support
• Amazon Introduces AWS Cloud Map: “Service Discovery for Cloud Resources”
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/AWS-Cloud-MAP
• Facebook Open-sources PyText for Faster Natural Language Processing Development
  https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/Facebook-PyText-OpenSource

Articles:

• Book Review: Optimizing Java
  https://www.infoq.com/articles/book-review-optimizing-java
• Software Performance Predictions for 2019
  https://dzone.com/articles/software-performance-predictions-for-2019
• Principles of Data Analysis for Beginners
  https://dzone.com/articles/write-to-data-analysis-beginners-a-general-data-an
• Containers: Big opportunity or big distraction?
  https://jaxenter.com/containers-big-opportunity-big-distraction-153224.html
• How to Deal With Developers Who Appear to Be Relaxing
  https://dzone.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-developers-that-tend-to-be-relaxe
• The Beginner’s Guide to AI
  https://dzone.com/articles/the-beginners-guide-to-artificial-intelligence
• Women in Data Science at Uber: Moving the World With Data
  https://eng.uber.com/women-in-data-science/
• MIT Deep Learning
  https://deeplearning.mit.edu/

Videos:

• Improving the Design of Existing Software
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/design-app-improve
• Securing Microservices in Hybrid Cloud
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/taap
• The Right Amount of Trust for AI
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/artificial-intelligence-trust
• Machine Learning Interpretability in the GDPR Era
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/machine-learning-gdpr
• MIT AI: Poker and Game Theory (Tuomas Sandholm)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7bStIQovcY