Fedora / Red Hat / IBM
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Fedora Community Blog: CPE hiring a software engineer [Ed: IBM outsourcing Fedora to India, just like it did IBM itself (to lower operating/operational costs). Under IBM, Fedora does not even care about the needs of Indian users.]
The Community Platform Engineering group, or CPE for short, is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering for Fedora and CentOS. We currently have a position open for a software engineer in India.
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IT talent: 3 interview questions to prep for (and how to respond)
With skills gaps across many sectors and flexible work models becoming standard, there’s never been a better time to be an IT professional. Systems analyst, functional consultant, and cloud engineer are among the top roles tech leaders are looking to fill.
If you have the technical knowledge (and even if you don’t!) along with skills like analytical thinking, clear communication, and the ability to understand and respond to feedback, you are likely a strong candidate. But first, you need to go through the interview process.
Based on my experience, here are three questions CIOs might ask during an interview – and tips on how to respond.
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Edge computing: 5 use cases for manufacturing
Here’s how a layperson – me – explains what manufacturing is: It means taking raw materials and turning them into finished products.
If you want a more formal definition, here’s one from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: “The manufacturing sector comprises establishments engaged in the mechanical, physical, or chemical transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products.”
It sounds old-school and highly physical – and perhaps not exactly fertile terrain for computing innovation. Yet manufacturing, just like the overall industrial sector, is a natural fit for edge computing and related trends like IoT, AI, and machine learning.
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Put your CPU to work with GNU Parallel | Enable Sysadmin
There was a time in ancient computer history when a computer only had one CPU. Today, your computer may still only have a single physical CPU, but that one CPU has multiple cores for data processing. When you run a command, you owe it to the brave sysadmins of the past to put all those cores to good use. One way to honor those who suffered on single-core machines is to use GNU Parallel, the seemingly magical command parser that can execute a task on several files simultaneously.
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Red Hat Storage strategy update
Today, IBM announced that the Red Hat and IBM Storage businesses are coming together as a single group within IBM. By combining our mission, teams and technologies, we will be able to more fully harness our strengths to grow this business further and faster, accelerate innovation in cloud-native software-defined storage, drive new capabilities for IBM and Red Hat customers, and position IBM to compete as a leader in the Enterprise Storage System & Hybrid Cloud Storage Software market.