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Amazon Q, Meta's Chameleon AI, MLOps, Uber’s Big Data, GreenOps, Platform as a Runtime, HTTP Scaling, Developer Productivity, AI Hype, Java Unsafe, ASP.NET Core 9, Polyfill.io Attack, Swift 6, Interface Design

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Governance for Reducing Complexity

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Tony Ponton about the challenges of governance and how to avoid creating complexity while enabling agility. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Amazon Brings AI Assistant to Software Development as Part of Amazon Q Suite

  2. Meta's Chameleon AI Model Outperforms GPT-4 on Mixed Image-Text Tasks

Defensible Moats: Unlocking Enterprise Value with Large Language Models

Nischal HP discusses risk mitigation, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework implementation to achieve sustainability goals, strategic procurement, spend analytics, data compliance. (Presentation with transcript included)

When AIOps Meets MLOps: What Does It Take To Deploy ML Models at Scale

Ghida Ibrahim introduces the concept of AIOps referring to using AI and data-driven tooling to provision, manage and scale distributed IT infra. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Adds Passkey Support for Enhanced Security, Enforces MFA for Root Users

  2. Uber’s Journey to Modernizing Big Data Infrastructure with Google Cloud Platform

  3. How GitHub Improved Code Push Processing Reliability

  4. Atlassian Announces Compass, a Developer Experience Platform

Using GreenOps to Improve Your Operational Efficiency and Save the Planet

Our infrastructures have environmental and economic costs; the IT sector is responsible for 1.4% of carbon emissions worldwide. GreenOps can be used to help mitigate this impact. (Article)

Platform as a Runtime - The Next Step in Platform Engineering

As systems become larger and more complex we need to take the concepts of platform engineering to a higher level – to the code level – by creating platforms and abstractions that will reduce cognitive load, help simplify and accelerate software development, and allow for easy maintenance and upgrades to the platform. Let’s move from “platform” to “Platform as a Runtime”. (Article)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Non-Production Endpoints as an Attack Surface in AWS

  2. Introducing Redis Cloud Packages

  3. Google Cloud Introduces Hierarchical Namespace for Cloud Storage in Preview

High HTTP Scaling with Azure Functions Flex Consumption: Q&A with Thiago Almeida and Paul Batum

Microsoft has introduced a significant enhancement to its Azure Functions platform with the Flex Consumption plan, designed to handle high HTTP scale efficiently. This new plan supports customizable per-instance concurrency, allowing users to achieve high throughput while managing costs effectively. In practical tests, Azure Functions Flex demonstrated the ability to scale from zero to 32,000 RPS. (News)

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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Enabling Developer Productivity: Intentional Evolution of the Platform at InfoQ Dev Summit Boston

InfoQ Dev Summit Boston: Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype

At InfoQ Dev Summit in Boston, Justin Sheehy of Akamai delivered an insightful opening keynote on being a responsible developer in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) hype. The talk was aimed at software practitioners who might be feeling overwhelmed by the rapid developments and inflated expectations surrounding AI. (News)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. InfoQ Dev Summit Boston: Optimizing Java Applications on Kubernetes - Beyond the Basics

  2. JEP 456: Preparing for the Removal of Unsafe Memory-Access Methods

  3. Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, Jakarta EE 11 Specs, Open Liberty, Micronaut, Quarkus

Spring Ecosystem Releases Focus on Spring Boot, Spring Security and Spring Modulith

There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of June 17th, 2024, highlighting point releases of: Spring Boot 3.3.1 and 3.2.7; Spring Security 6.3.1, 6.2.5 and 5.8.13; Spring Session 3.3.1 and 3.2.4; and Spring Modulith 1.2.1, 1.1.6 and 1.0.9. (News)

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ASP.NET Core 9 Preview 5: Static Web Optimization, Blazor Additions, New Project Template and More

Microsoft released .NET 9 Preview 5, introducing significant enhancements to ASP.NET Core. This update focuses on optimizing static web asset delivery and improving the Blazor Server reconnection experience, alongside new features for runtime detection of component render modes and various other improvements to the platform. (News)

Over 100K+ Sites Hit by Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack

E-Commerce security firm Sansec unveiled a new supply chain attack affecting the Polyfill JS service when accessed through a number of CDNs hosting it. According to Sansec, over 100K sites were hit. The original author of the service, Andrew Betts, suggested removing Polyfill from any sites using it. (News)

Swift 6 Brings New Opt-In Data-Race Safe Mode

In his WWDC 2024 talk, Apple's Languages and Runtimes team lead and Swift core team member Ted Kremenek introduced Swift 6 new data-race safe mode, which promises to help developers create concurrent programs free of data races thanks to a new compile-time static detector. (News)

Ownership and Human Involvement in Interface Design

Good interface design is a complex engineering challenge with many dimensions. This article explores the key dimensions of Ownership and whether a Human is involved. (Article)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How Data Mesh Platforms Connect Data Producers and Consumers

The Incident Lifecycle: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals

Vanessa Huerta Granda describes how to apply resilience throughout the incident lifecycle in order to turn incidents into opportunities, looking at real-life examples. (Presentation with transcript included)

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