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EleutherAI, AWS Amplify CI/CD, Multi-Cloud Microservices, JavaFX, Microservicilities, TensorFlow Lite, Microservice Dependencies, Hybrid-Remote, Product Management

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Martin Mao on Observability, Focusing on Alerting, Triage, & RCA

Today on the InfoQ podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Chronosphere’s CEO Martin Mao about how he thinks about observability. Specifically, the two discuss Chronosphere’s strategy for implementing a successful observability program. (Podcast)

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Johanna Rothman on Modern Management Made Easy

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Johanna Rothman about her seven principles of modern management, reward and incentive systems, multiple career ladders and ways to experiment with decisions for rapid feedback. (Podcast)

EleutherAI Open-Sources Six Billion Parameter GPT-3 Clone GPT-J

A team of researchers from EleutherAI have open-sourced GPT-J, a six-billion parameter natural language processing (NLP) AI model based on GPT-3. The model was trained on an 800GB open-source text dataset and has performance comparable to a GPT-3 model of similar size. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Amplify Introduces New Full-Stack CI/CD Features to Simplify Application Development

  2. Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Bastion Standard SKU

InfoQ Roundtable: Multi-Cloud Microservices: Separating Fact from Fiction

The panelists discuss if it is possible to implement an architecture across multi-cloud promises removing vendor lock-in and the ability to shift load during cloud provider specific outages. (Presentation with transcript included)
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The SRE as a Diplomat

Johnny Boursiquot discusses the unintended consequences of certain service ownership and operational models when SRE is seen as an "outside", unwanted influence, and how to build trust with those teams. (Presentation with transcript included)

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Enhance Your Testing Strategy with Mind Map-Driven Testing

This article shares ideas and knowledge about mind maps and shows how they can be used as lean documents to plan, organize, record, present, and report on testing. (Article)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java News Roundup: JDK 17, JDK 18, Open Liberty, Payara, Quarkus and Spring

  2. JavaFX: One Codebase for Web, PC, and Mobile

Implementing Pipeline Microservicilities with Tekton

Microservicilities is a list of cross-cutting concerns that a service must implement apart from the business logic. These concerns include invocation, elasticity and resiliency, among others. This article describes how a service mesh such as Istio may be used to implement these concerns. (Article)

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TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Integrates TensorFlow Lite with Android, Adds Automatic Acceleration

Airbnb's Server-Driven UI Platform

Airbnb's server-driven UI (SDUI) departs from the usual approach to implement client UIs for different platforms, including Web, Android, and iOS. Instead of letting each client platform drive its UI, SDUI passes both the data and its UI representation to the client. (News)

Pitfalls and Patterns in Microservice Dependency Management

Silvia Esparrachiari shares stories on how a small change can impact a system, discussing the importance of having a broad view of a system to better understand how a change can impact a system. (Presentation with transcript included)

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The Future of iPaaS

This article explores the shortcomings of current iPaaS solutions and introduces Choreo, an intuitive code/low-code hybrid development environment that lets you create integrations combining APIs, build microservices, manage APIs, and more. Learn more.

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Assessing Remote Employee Experiences for Hybrid-Remote Work-Settings

DEI Is Rooted in Justice: Stop Making it about Profit

Diversity, equity, and inclusion practices exist for the betterment of every single person within a company from the ground floor to the glass ceilings. Don't build a case for diversity, equity, and inclusion. You are an establishment that depends on other humans to operate your business and bring success. Their sense of belonging, inclusion, and psychological safety is your direct responsibility. (Article)

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Seven Key Insights of Product Management

What a product manager does and how they do it seems like a perennial question, an ongoing discussion, often ending in debate. This changes depending on factors such as the size and culture of the company, the industry or sector, the business model, where the product is in its lifecycle, and the type of product. What doesn’t change is they’re always thinking about customer and business needs. (Article)

Facilitating Feedback That's Psychologically Safe

This article focuses on feedback with regards to a plan or proposal - ways to make it easier to give and receive feedback, so the psychological safety of the team can increase. The aim is to give you insights, models, structures and practical things to try, in order to facilitate feedback that boosts psychological safety in your team(s). (Article)

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