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Algorithm for ChatGPT, Avoid Burnout, Infrastructure as Code, AWS to Charge for Public IPv4, OpenTelemetry Protocol, Java News Roundup, C# 12 Preview Features, Web Development AI Help, Leveling up Your Architecture, Engineering as Art

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Avoiding Burnout and Overload Using Cognitive Systems Engineering

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dr Laura Maguire about how resilience engineering can help improve individual and team performance during periods of uncertainty and high stress. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Feature Engineering at AirBnb Using Chronon

  2. Meta Open Sourced AudioCraft, its Text-to-Music Generative AI

  3. Researchers Publish Attack Algorithm for ChatGPT and Other LLMs

  4. Amazon Bedrock Unveils New Agents Feature

  5. Tabnine Chat: AI Code Assistant Using Natural Language Launches in Beta

A New Era for Database Design with TigerBeetle

Joran Dirk Greef discusses pivotal moments in database design and how they influenced the design decisions for TigerBeetle, a distributed financial accounting database. (Presentation)

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Infrastructure as Code: Past, Present, Future

Joe Duffy discusses the challenges (and solutions) met while running IaC and how that shapes the future of IaC. (Presentation)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Faster Container Startup in AWS Fargate with Seekable OCI

  2. AWS Launches General Availability of Amazon EC2 P5 Instances for AI/ML and HPC Workloads

  3. AWS Introduces a Generative AI-Powered Clinical Documentation Tool with HealthScribe in Preview

AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses

AWS recently announced that starting from February 2024, they will be charging for public IPv4 addresses. According to the cloud provider, this change aligns AWS with other cloud providers, encourages frugal usage of a scarce resource, and accelerates the adoption of IPv6. (News)

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OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) 1.0.0 Released

Recently, the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) 1.0.0 was released. OLTP specification describes telemetry data's encoding, transport, and delivery mechanism between telemetry sources, intermediate nodes such as collectors, and telemetry backends. It is a general-purpose telemetry data delivery protocol designed in the scope of the OpenTelemetry project. (News)

Java News Roundup: Grails 6.0, PrimeFaces 13.0, JUnit 5.10, GraalVM, TornadoVM, New JEP Drafts

This week's Java roundup for July 24th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM Community Components 23.0.1, Spring Cloud 2022.0.4, Spring Security and Spring Shell point releases, Grails 6.0, TornadoVM 0.15.2, Liberica NIK 23.0.1, PrimeFaces 13.0, Quarkus 3.2.2, Hibernate Reactive 2.0.4, Micronaut 4.0.2, JBang 0.110, JHipster Lite 0.39, JUnit 5.10 and Gradle 8.3-RC2. (News)

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TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Avalonia Reaches v11 GA Release

  2. F# Extends its String Interpolation Syntax to Reduce Escaping

  3. Microsoft Releases .NET 8 Preview 6

  4. Introduction of Auth0 Templates for .NET

New C# 12 Preview Features Available

Earlier this month, together with Visual Studio 17.7 Preview 3, Microsoft released new preview features for C# 12. The new language version will be the default for .NET 8, expected to be released later this year. The latest available features for C# 12 are inline arrays and interceptors (preview only). (News)

MDN Introduces Web Development AI Help in Beta

Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) has released AI Help, a beta tool aiming to streamline web developers' interactions with the platform and provide problem-solving assistance. Only users with an MDN Plus account can access AI Help for now. So far, the community reaction has not been overly positive, and a number of GitHub issues have been reported. (News)

Leveling up Your Architecture Game

Thomas Betts discusses thriving in today's fast-paced tech landscape using good communication and collaboration with teams. (Presentation)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Building a Lifelong Technical Career in Software Development

Engineering as Art: Embracing Creativity beyond Science

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Generous, High Fidelity Communication Is the Key to a Safe, Effective Team

Denise Yu discusses why one might be feeling unheard at the end of some conversations today, and presents some tools to engage with colleagues and facilitate better conversations. (Presentation)

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