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Apple WWDC, LinkedIn’s AI Platform, Apache Skywalking, Kubernetes Logging, Accelerating Platforms, Vercel Functions, Slack LLM Unit Tests, OpenAI .NET Library, Streaming HTML, Pinterest Ads Ranking, Developer Experiences

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Meryem Arik on LLM Deployment, State-of-the-Art RAG Apps, and Inference Architecture Stack

In this podcast, Meryem Arik, co-founder/CEO at TitanML, discusses the innovations in Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies including current state of large language models, LLM Deployment, state-of-the-art Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) apps, and inference architecture stack for LLM applications. (Podcast)

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Coding Black Females – Making a Difference in the World

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Charlene Hunter, founder and CEO of Coding Black Females, a community that connects Black women in tech and provides opportunities for learning, mentoring, and career advancement. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Apple WWDC: iOS18 and Apple Intelligence Announcements

  2. Mistral Introduces AI Code Generation Model Codestral

  3. Meta Open-Sources MEGALODON LLM for Efficient Long Sequence Modeling

Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s AI Data Platform

Felix GV provides an overview of LinkedIn’s AI ecosystem, then discusses the data platform underneath it: an open source database called Venice. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Docker Desktop 4.31 Brings Air-Gapped Containers, Faster Builds, and More

  2. Elastic Automates SIEM Investigations with Tines

  3. Apache Skywalking v10: Application Performance Monitoring Tool for Distributed Systems

  4. Microsoft Enhances Azure Monitor with Query Editor and Support for PromQL

Elevating Kubernetes Logging for Enhanced Observability

In this article, we will explore the challenges, strategies, and best practices that will help you achieve seamless log management in your Kubernetes environment. (Article)

Building a Successful Platform: Acceleration, Autonomy & Accountability

Smruti Patel discusses successful platform adoption. She explores topics including failed platform-building efforts, the three pillars of a successful platform, and how to bake in acceleration autonomy, and accountability to a platform. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Amazon EC2 U7i Instances: 896 vCPUs and up to 32 TiB of Memory for High Memory Workloads

  2. Increased Popularity of Artist Platform Cara Led to Substantial Vercel Functions Expenses

  3. Azure Cosmos DB Integration with Vercel Now Generally Available

The Impact of Cloudflare's Sudden Service Change at an Online Casino

Recently, an online casino website experienced a severe disruption when Cloudflare abruptly disabled its services. Robin Dev, a systems operations engineer at the casino, provided a detailed account of the sequence of events in a blog post, shedding light on the extent of the disruption and its aftermath. (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. JetBrains Aqua IDE for Test Automation Now Generally Available

Slack Combines ASTs with Large Language Models to Automatically Convert 80% of 15,000 Unit Tests

Slack's engineering team recently published how it used a large language model (LLM) to automatically convert 15,000 unit and integration tests from Enzyme to React Testing Library (RTL). By combining Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) transformations and AI-powered automation, Slack's innovative approach resulted in an 80% conversion success rate, significantly reducing the manual effort required. (News)

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Java News Roundup: JDK 23 in Rampdown, JDK 24 Expert Group, Apache NetBeans 22

This week's Java roundup for June 3rd, 2024, features news highlighting: JDK 23 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 24 Expert Group; the release of Apache NetBeans 22; and five Jakarta EE specifications, namely: Jakarta Concurrency 3.1, Jakarta Data 1.0, Jakarta Faces 4.1, Jakarta Pages 4.0 and Jakarta Servlet 6.1, having passed their respective reviews. (News)

OpenAI Releases Official .NET Library

Last week, OpenAI unveiled the first beta version of its official .NET library, which is available as a NuGet package for .NET developers to try. This release follows Microsoft's announcement at the Build 2024 conference, highlighting their collaboration with OpenAI to enhance the .NET ecosystem with advanced AI capabilities. (News)

Streaming HTML – Asynchronous DOM Updates without JavaScript

Web applications provide the best user experience when pages load quickly and display additional data as it becomes available. Developers typically use JavaScript to load data asynchronously, but this adds complexity when compared to server-side rendering. We review a technique that uses the Shadow DOM with HTTP streaming to load pages quickly and display data asynchronously without JavaScript. (Article)

Unpacking How Ads Ranking Works @Pinterest

Aayush Mudgal discusses social media advertising, unpacking how Pinterest harnesses the power of Deep Learning Models and big data to tailor relevant advertisements to the pinners. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Improving Mobile Test Automation with Continuous Integration, Central Logging, and Metrics Analysis

Delivering Great Developer Experiences with Platform Engineering

Companies increasingly turn to platform engineering to help scale their development teams and increase developer experience for engineer efficiency. In this virtual panel, we’ll discuss how teams build platforms, set others up for success, work with developers who use their platform, measure their progress, and adapt to new challenges. (Article)

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