When building large, cloud-based applications that operate at a high scale, it's important to maintain a high availability and resilience to failures. In order to do that, you must be tolerant of failures, even in light of failures in other areas of your application. "Fly two mistakes high" is an old adage in the radio control airplane hobby. It means, fly high enough so that if you make a mistake, you can continue flying with room to still make mistakes. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Lee Atchison, Principal Cloud Architect and Advocate at New Relic, discussed how this same philosophy can be applied to highly scaled applications, and can dramatically increase your resilience to failure.

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Data evaluation is crucial for gaining information from sensor networks. Main challenges include processing speed and adaptivity to system change, both prerequisites for SHM-based weight reduction via relaxed safety factors. Our study looks at soft real time solutions providing feedback within defined but flexible, application-controlled intervals. These can rely on minimizing computation/communication latencies e.g. by parallel computation. Strategies towards this aim can be model-based, including inverse FEM, or model-free, including machine learning, which in practice bases training on a defined system state, too, hence also facing challenges at state changes.

You may not see it, but it's there. It's beating us at our most complicated games, helping curate the news we read every day, ever improving our search results, driving our cars, and on and on and on. We've entered into what some experts are calling an AI spring, a thawing of the barriers that have previously prevented AI practitioners from achieving the breakthroughs we're seeing today (namely, access to data, low-cost compute power, and better AI algorithms). With massive investment and momentum in the space, it's a simple fact we're going to see AI's fingers in a lot of pies over the coming decade. Plenty of industries will see quantum or step-function improvement…but some more than others. Here are three that are uniquely positioned to take advantage of the accelerating advances in AI.

IBM understands the unique nature of its artificial intelligence (AI) software assistant Watson, and so they are not taking the direct consumer approach of Siri, Cortana, Alexa, or Google's Assistant. In partnership with H&R Block, Watson is being trained "on the language of taxes," according to IBM's press release announcing Watson's new role as the world's first AI tax preparation assistant.

Pity the 34 staff of Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance in Japan, diligently calculating insurance payouts and brutally replaced by an AI system. If you believe the reports from January, the AI revolution is here. In my opinion, the goings-on in Japan cannot possibly qualify as AI, but, in order to explain why, I have to explain what I think AI means. In one way, this attempt will be doomed to failure because there is no unified definition of AI. But I can, hopefully, provide a framework of understanding about the topic that may help.

The patter of automated machinery fills the air inside wire-basket manufacturer Marlin Steel's bustling factory in a rugged industrial section of this city. Maxi Cifarelli, 25, of Baltimore, peers through safety goggles at a flat screen, her left knee bent and heel resting on her chair. Two years after earning a fine arts degree from Towson University with a specialty in interdisciplinary object design, she now spends her work days working with a personality-free machine with a name to match: a computer numerical control, or CNC, router. With automation poised to sweep through the economy, some fear that it will kill more jobs than it creates. But Cifarelli's experience is the opposite. She befriended automation, instead of fighting it, and she has a job because of it.

We saw Amazon's brief and disgusting teaser for its delivery drones, China becomes the biggest producer of solar energy in the world, Windows Cloud (unrelated) and how Elon Musk scratches his Minecraft itch. The country doubled its solar capacity last year. China might not have the image of a clean energy champion, with air pollution issues and a continued dependence on coal power, but it's also moving forward with renewable energy. The country's National Energy Administration has revealed that its solar energy production more than doubled in 2016, hitting 77.42 gigawatts by the end of the year. That said, it only covers just one percent of the country's total energy output.

Once January has passed, February is the month in which even the noblest New Year's resolutions live and die. If you're aiming to increase your bottom line (or reduce your waistline), these nine tips from the executives at Forbes Technology Council will show you how to harness emerging tech platforms to set achievable goals and stick to your business and personal resolutions. The idea that tech devices can hold us accountable can help us accomplish our resolutions. When we see progress or are reminded of what we could do better, we tend to stick with it. Now, add the ability to share that information with other people so they see what we should be doing, and that accountability goes up even more.