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AlphaCode, Continuous Documentation, GCP Cloud Functions, GitLens 12, JDK 18 and JDK 19, Kotlin 1.6.20, Shepherd JS, IoT Sensors, Cloudflare API Report, Radical Team Autonomy

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Renegotiating the Boundary Between Database Latency and Consistency

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Jessica Kerr on Observability and Honeycomb's Use of AWS Lambda for Retriever

Charles Humble talks to Jessica Kerr about Honeycomb's architecture and use of Serverless, specifically AWS Lambda, as part of their custom column database system called Retriever. They also explore key differences between Retriever and Facebook’s Scuba, and how Honeycomb differs from traditional APM tools.

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Enabling Great Teams to Solve Tough Problems in a Culture of Passion and Innovation

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Sypniewski of Deepgram about nurturing a culture of passion and innovation to solve tough problems.

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AlphaCode: Competitive Code Synthesis with Deep Learning

  2. Tel-Aviv University Releases Long-Text NLP Benchmark SCROLLS

Building End-to-End Field Level Lineage for Modern Data Systems

In this article, the authors discuss the data lineage as a critical component of data pipeline root cause and impact analysis workflow, and how automating lineage creation and abstracting metadata to field-level help with the root cause analysis efforts. (Article)

QCon Panel: Future of Language Support for ML

Jendrik Jördening, Irene Dea, and Alanna Tempest take a look at the state of the art of ML/AI development and how advances in language technology (specifically differentiable programming langs) can help. (Presentation with transcript included)
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How to architect your journey to cloud-native with AWS

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From Couch to Continuous Documentation: Incorporating Documentation into the Development Workflow

As software teams and projects grow, they suffer from knowledge management pains related to their code - lengthy onboarding, limiting knowledge silos, complex code, and risk of attrition. Creating Walkthrough Documentation while practicing Continuous Documentation can address most of the problems that relate to code-related knowledge sharing and management. (Article)

Building an Effective Digital Platform: Adam Hansrod on the Benefits, Challenges, and Approach

A successful digital platform can improve time to market, increase revenue, reduce operational costs, and improve innovation. An effective platform is differentiating, designed as a product, and is opinionated. InfoQ sat down with Adam Hansrod to discuss how organizations can structure themselves to create effective digital platforms. (Article)

Pivoting and Exploitation in a Docker Environment

Filipi Pires discusses different ways that exist in working with a single form of pivot and how to overcome different obstacles in different networks within this “new” environment called Docker. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS WAF Introduces Fraud Control - Account Takeover Prevention

  2. Google Announces Second Generation Cloud Functions

Designing IoT Solutions with Microsoft Azure

In this article, we will learn how IoT solutions can work with Microsoft Azure and what services are available to perform different operations across multiple domains. Furthermore, it covers a few case studies to gain hands-on experience on Azure IoT that are common and provide a good starting point for utilizing cloud-based IoT services. (Article)

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GitLens 12 Brings Support for Visual Studio Code for the Web

GitKraken launched GitLens 12, an open-source Visual Studio Code extension that enables using Git from Visual Studio Code for the Web and github.dev. Besides new free features, improvements, and fixes, GitLens 12 also introduces premium features, including Worktrees and Visual File History. (News)

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Comparing Passwordless SSH Authentication Methods

Learn the pros and cons of the four passwordless SSH authentication methods. Learn more.

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Kotlin 1.6.20 Preview Features Context Receivers and Performance Improvements

  2. Java News Roundup: Spring Projects Updates, Value Objects (Preview) JEP, Quarkus 2.7.2

JDK 18 and JDK 19: What We Know So Far

JDK 18, the first non-LTS release since JDK 17, has reached its initial release candidate phase with a final set of nine new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into three categories: Core Java Library, Java Tools, and Java Specification. We examine JDK 18 and predict what features may be targeted for JDK 19. (News)

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SQL to NoSQL: Architecture Differences and Considerations for Migration

Read this paper to understand SQL to NoSQL architectural differences, the tradeoffs between flexibility, scale, and cost, and considerations for successful SQL to NoSQL migrations. Download now.

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Shepherd JavaScript Library: Guided User Tours of Your Application

Experimenting with WASM for Future Audience Experiences in BBC iPlayer

Tim Pearce discusses how they used WebAssembly to deploy their iPlayer across various web browsers, what advantages this approach had and how they intend to use WebAssembly outside the browser. (Presentation with transcript included)

A Quick Look at Advanced IoT Sensors for the Enterprise Going Digital

Thanks to IoT developing at a rapid pace, devices, including sensors, are becoming more affordable, and the entire ecosystem has gotten smarter. These results allow businesses to satisfy more specific needs according to their manufacturing process, as well as to take measurements in complex conditions. In this article, we will provide an overview of where IoT sensors currently stand. (Article)

Cloudflare Report Shows Rapid Growth in API Traffic

Cloudflare has recently released its annual Landscape of API Traffic report. The report analyzes the traffic data harnessed by Cloudflare’s global network to provide insights into the current industry trends of web traffic. (News)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Security by Design Helped to Manage Risks in a Cloud Migration

Superior Employee Engagement through Radical Team Autonomy

Radically collaborative organizations have recently doubled in number. Their economic success is due to four cultural imperatives: team autonomy, managerial devolution, deficiency-need gratification, and candid vulnerability. Teams within radically collaborative organizations exhibit six dimensions of autonomy: who, what, when, where, how, and role. (Article)

Using Emergence and Scaffolding to Address Complexity in Product Development

The use of scaffolding and emergence has utility in delivery, supporting the bootstrapping of knowledge and close collaboration with the customer which in turn supports a more organic approach to delivery. Their use is poorly understood but they can be used as part of existing agile practices by tweaking them, avoiding the need for wholesale change (Article)

Building with Extensibility

Christi Schneider covers concepts of extensibility, discussing why it's important for all roles to gain an understanding of extensibility and consider it at each step of the product life cycle. (Presentation with transcript included)

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