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AWS Foundation Models, Docker Scout, API Maturity Model, Well-Architected Framework, Azure Logic Apps, Quarkus Native Performance, .NET MAUI 8, Node.js 20, Android Auto, Orchestration vs Choreography, Social Impact

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TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Meta Open-sourced AI Tool to Animate Child and Amateur Drawings of Human Figure

  2. AI, ML & Data News Roundup: HuggingGPT, AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Visual ChatGPT, and StableLM

  3. AWS Enters the Generative AI Race with Bedrock and Titan Foundation Models

Microsoft Open-Sources Multimodal Chatbot Visual ChatGPT

Microsoft Research recently open-sourced Visual ChatGPT, a chatbot system that can generate and manipulate images in response to human textual prompts. The system combines OpenAI's ChatGPT with 22 different visual foundation models (VFM) to support multi-modal interactions. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. CDK for Terraform Improves HCL Conversion and Terraform Cloud Interactions

  2. Docker 4.18 Extends Scout, Adds Container File Explorer, Docker Init, and More

Istio as a Platform for Running Microservices

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. New Visual Studio Code Data Mapper for Azure Logic Apps

  2. AWS Lambda Finally Supports Python 3.10

  3. Microsoft Offers More App Service Plans Choices

AWS Updates the Well-Architected Framework

AWS recently released an update to the Well-Architected Framework. The new version strengthens prescriptive guidance with over 100 best practices updated across all six pillars of the framework. (News)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Boosting Quarkus Native Performance: Should You Stick with Space/Time or Switch to Adaptive GC?

Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 21, MicroStream to Eclipse, Helidon, Piranha, Gradle 8.1

This week's Java roundup for April 10th, 2023 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, Spring Framework and Spring Data updates, GraalVM Build Tools 0.9.21, MicroStream becomes an Eclipse Project, Micronaut 3.8.9, Helidon 4.0.0.Alpha6, Hibernate ORM 6.2.1, Micrometer Metrics 1.11.0-RC1, 1.10.6 and 1.9.10, Micrometer Tracing 1.1.0-RC1 and 1.0.4, Piranha 23.4.0, Project Reactor 2022.0.6 and Gradle 8.1. (News)

.NET MAUI 8 Preview 3: UI improvements, Memory Management, and NuGet Versioning

Microsoft has recently released the third preview of the .NET MAUI framework in .NET 8. This latest release includes UI improvements, focusing on memory management also. In addition, Preview 3 also brings support for NuGet package versions of the app. This means that developers will now have the ability to preview future builds and lock their applications to a specific version of .NET MAUI. (News)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Node.js 20 Released, Features Experimental Permission Model for Improved Security

Svelte Furthers Enterprise Readiness with SvelteKit General Availability and Svelte 4 Roadmap

Svelte, consistently voted the Web framework with the highest retention among the top 4 frameworks (next to React, Angular, and Vue), furthers enterprise readiness with SvelteKit's general availability, a new interactive documentation site, and the Svelte 4 roadmap. (News)

Android Auto Now Supports IoT Apps Running in Cars

Android IoT apps enable running internet of things (IoT) apps in cars powered by Android Auto and Android Automotive. This will open up the possibility of controlling IoT devices like home security, lights, doors, and more, directly from within a car. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

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Adopting an API Maturity Model to Accelerate Innovation

As your APIs gain more popularity, API sprawl can become an issue. A top-down governance approach is best suited to managing APIs at scale. (Article)

Orchestration vs Choreography, A Guide To Composing Your Monolith

Ian Thomas looks at coupling, how it affects distributed systems and organization design and the techniques and technology that can help make a microservices architecture effective. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. What Engineers and Companies Can Do to Increase Social Impact

Dark Side of DevOps - the Price of Shifting Left and Ways to Make it Affordable

Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular. Moving things to earlier stages of software development, empowering engineers. Yet, what is the cost? What does it mean for the developers who are involved? What are the solutions that can help you keep DevOps and Shifting Left? What can we do to break a grip of the dark side? Let’s find out! (Article)

The Journey from Underrepresented IC to CTO: How Open Source Helped

This article tells the story of a minority woman's journey from DBA to co-founder & CTO, using open source to overcome gender disparity. It provides insights on career shifting, open-source monetization, and the distinction between IC and CTO. The author shares advice and insights that may be helpful for others. (Article)

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