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On Outlines of Pyrrhonism , Book 1, from around 200 CE.

Are our beliefs warranted? Skeptics following in the footsteps of Pyrrho (who lived just after Aristotle, around 300 BCE, but didn’t leave us any writings, so Sextus, centuries later, has to fill us in) think that for any argument someone puts forward (at least about the nature of reality), you can come up with a plausible counter-argument, and that after you’ve done this enough, you achieve a relaxed state where you you’re satisfied in not being able to decide.

Is this really true? And is there a sharp distinction between beliefs you need to accept in order to live (this is food; that is poison) and theoretical ones? Can a philosopher really get beyond philosophizing in this way? Can one be a scientist and still be a skeptic of this sort? Jessica Berry joins Mark, Wes, and Dylan to defend this position.

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Pyrrhonian Skepticism According to Sextus Empiricus

In this episode of the O’Reilly Podcast, I sat down with Markus Eisele, developer advocate at Lightbend. Eisele and I discussed the inherent difficulties in developing distributed systems, how reactive principles enhance microservices, the new reactive microservices framework, Lagom, and open source’s influence on enterprise development.

Reactive microservices for enterprise systems

In this episode of the O’Reilly Data Show, I spoke with data management industry veteran Rohit Jain, currently the CTO of Esgyn. We talked about his years at HP Labs, and his recent project to bring hybrid transactional/analytic technologies into the Hadoop ecosystem.

Hybrid Transactional/Analytic Systems and the Quest for Database Nirvana

Two years ago, the Othermill desktop CNC mill made machining radically more accessible. Priced at $2,200, it found its way beyond general small-scale milling and into electronics prototyping; it can mill copper away from an FR-1 PCB blank to make a circuit board. Other Machine’s latest work is the Othermill Pro, whose spindle speed and rapid movement are 60% and 70% faster than the original’s, respectively, and whose accuracy makes it possible to fabricate traces as small as six thousandths of an inch.

In this episode of the Hardware Podcast, we talk with Ezra Spier, the vice president of product & software at Other Machine Co., maker of the Othermill. Spier walks us through the development process for the improved machine and gives us an overview of the desktop prototyping market.

Ezra Spier on Desktop Milling Machines

In this episode of the Security Podcast, I talk with Jay Jacobs, senior data scientist at BitSight. We discuss the disparity between intuition and analytics in data science, the limitations of unsupervised machine learning, and the challenges of creating effective data visualizations.

Jay Jacobs on the Importance of Statistical Literacy in Security

Sean P. Kane discusses how to get your team using Docker in the real world.

Thinking with containers: 3 tips for moving to Docker

In this episode of the O’Reilly Data Show I sat down with O’Reilly author Dean Wampler, big data architect at Lightbend. We talked about new architectures for stream processing, Scala, and cloud computing.

Data Architectures for Streaming Applications

In this episode of the Radar Podcast, I chat with John Bassett III, chairman of the board of the Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company. We talk about globalization and the effect it's had on the furniture industry, the international trade battle he waged (which was written about by Beth Macy in her book Factory Man), Bassett's book Making it in America, and what entrepreneurs need to know to succeed in business today.

John Bassett III on the Global Economy, the Power of People, and How to Make It in America

In a recent episode of the O’Reilly Media Podcast, we spoke with George Miranda about the importance of service mesh technology in creating reliable distributed systems. As discussed in the new report The Service Mesh: Resilient Service-to-Service Communication for Cloud Applications, service mesh technology has emerged as a popular tool for companies looking to build cloud-native applications that are reliable and secure.

During the podcast, we discussed the problems a service mesh infrastructure solves and the service mesh features you’ll find most valuable. We also talked about how to choose the right service mesh for your organization, the challenges involved in getting it deployed to production, and the best ways for getting started with a service mesh.

How to Choose and Deploy a Service Mesh

Karen Armstrong speaks about her progression from a disillusioned and damaged young nun into, in her words, a "freelance monotheist." She's a formidable thinker and scholar, but as a theologian she calls herself an amateur — noting that the Latin root of the word "amateur" means a love of one's subject. Seven years in a strict religious order nearly snuffed out her ability to think about faith at all. Here, we hear the story behind Armstrong's developing ideas about God.

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Karen Armstrong — Freelance Monotheism (Nov 5, 2009)

In this episode of the O’Reilly Media Podcast, Rachel Roumeliotis, VP of content strategy at O’Reilly, sat down with Daniel Krook, IBM developer advocate. They discussed how developers across industries can participate in the Call for Code initiative, the benefits of the program, support from its charitable partners—United Nations Human Rights and the American Red Cross—and the positive impacts IBM hopes to achieve by investing in Call for Code.

Developers Worldwide Will Collaborate on Solutions to Save Lives in Call For Code

This episode of the O’Reilly Podcast, features a conversation on serverless and Kubernetes, with Kelsey Hightower, developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform at Google (and co-author of "Kubernetes: Up and Running"), and Chris Gaun, Kubernetes product marketing manager at Mesosphere.

Kelsey Hightower and Chris Gaun on Serverless and Kubernetes

At Google’s 2019 Cloud Next conference, I sat down with Stephen Thorne, site reliability engineer on Google’s customer reliability engineering team and co-author of "The Site Reliability Workbook," to talk about how organizations, both large and small, can use SRE to reduce operational costs, improve reliability, and create productive cross-functional teams.

How to Get Started With Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

In this interview, Tim Craig and fellow Googler Gustavo Franco, a site reliability engineer (SRE), discuss the wide range of events that qualify as “incidents;” the need for a conscious, robust, and well-defined process for understanding them; the role of training; and how to get buy-in from management so you can spread incident response training throughout an organization.

Taming Chaos: Preparing for Your Next Incident

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Reactive microservices for enterprise systems

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