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 In this episode, Solomon Hykes, founder of Dagger and the original Docker project, sat down with Daniel Bryant to discuss the state of DevOps and how the new open source Dagger project aims to improve continuous delivery practices. Topics covered included the challenges of building applications, modernizing CI/CD tooling and practices, and building an effective community. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Jean Yang, the head of product and observability at Postman, about the misalignment between academia, thought leaders, and the actual work being done in software development. (Podcast) |
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| On December 6, Alphabet released the first phase of its next-generation AI model, Gemini. Gemini was overseen and driven by its CEO, Sundar Pichai and Google DeepMind. Gemini is the first model to outperform human experts on MMLU (Massive Multitask Language Understanding), one of the most popular methods to test the performance of language models. (News) |
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 Chris Swan provides a walkthrough of the steps involved in securing a first repository, and then what it takes to repeat that process across an organization with multiple repos. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 Holly Cummins explains how utilization and elasticity relate to sustainability. She also introduces a range of practical techniques, including absurdly-simple-automation, LightSwitchOps, and FinOps. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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| JetBrains refreshes all of its IDEs in the last release of the year and promotes its integrated AI Assistant out of preview into general availability for paying customers. Besides its strong integration with the IDEs, JetBrains AI Assistant tries to stand out thanks to its support for multiple LLMs. (News) |
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| The Spring Boot team released Spring Boot 3.2 in November 2023. This latest release is packed with features, the most noteworthy of which is the support for Virtual Threads and Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC). Other features include SSL Bundle reloading, Rest Client and JDBC Client interface support, observability improvements, and many others. (News) |
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| ML.NET version 3.0 has been officially released, introducing new features and enhancements. Notably, deep learning capabilities have been significantly expanded with advancements in Object Detection, Named Entity Recognition, and Question Answering and more. (News) |
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| The latest release of Android Studio, dubbed Hedgehog, is now stable. It includes IntelliJ 2023.1, new features for improving app performance, boosting developer productivity, and creating UI using Jetpack Compose. (News) |
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 Knowing about potential software architecture pitfalls can help teams by keeping them away from tempting paths that will not take them where they want to go. This article covers some of those pitfalls, and provides guidance on how they can be avoided. (Article) |
 Niosha Behnam and Sergey Fedorov discuss how Netflix has shifted from geo-based DNS load-balancing to a latency-based approach, relying on real-user measurements and building a model of Netflix traffic. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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 InfoQ spoke to several technical leaders to understand how they adapt their communication strategies for the current challenges in the distributed and technology-driven workplaces. (Article) |
 Gemma Honour discusses how simple shapes can shape thinking, and break down difficult problems into something that is manageable and approachable. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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