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Tensorflow Roadmap, Debugging Helm, Policies as Code, Code on the Edge, WebAssembly, AWS Amplify, Netflix GraphQL, API Evolution, Hybrid Leadership, CTOs Coding, Disney Culture

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Principles of Green Software Engineering with Marco Valtas

In this episode, Marco Valtas, technical lead for cleantech and sustainability at ThoughtWorks North America, discusses the Principles of Green Software Engineering. The principles help guide software decisions by considering the environmental impact. The principles are intended for everyone involved in software, and emphasize that sustainability, on its own, is a reason to justify the work. (Podcast)

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Making remote and asynchronous work, work

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Rob Rawson about cultures that support remote work, finding the balance of synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. KubeCon NA 2022: Seán McCord on Kubernetes Storage Technologies

  2. Google’s Tensorflow Roadmap Includes Better XLA Compilation and Distributed Computing

  3. Meta Announces Video Generation AI Model Make-a-Video

Meta Has Developed an AITemplate Which Transforms Deep Neural Networks into C++ Code

Meta AI has developed AITemplate (AIT), a unified open-source system with separate acceleration back ends for both AMD and NVIDIA GPU hardware technology. AITemplate (AIT) is a two-part Python framework for AI models that transforms them into much faster C++ code. It has a front-end that optimizes models through graph transformations and optimizations. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Waypoint Now Available in Beta on Hashicorp’s Cloud Platform

  2. Komodor's Dashboard Brings Improved Debugging to Helm

  3. Can MTTR Be an Effective Business Metric?

  4. Google Production Excellence Program "ProdEx": Christof Leng at DOES 2022

  5. Adopting Continuous Deployment: Tom Wanielista at QCon San Francisco 2022

Evolving DevOps to Enable Quality at Speed Software

DevOps must evolve to include Quality at Speed to address issues with delivering timely business value and innovation, siloed teams lacking alignment, a fragmented toolchain, and quality sacrifices. Infrastructure, Developer and Experimentation platforms are the three fundamental platforms enabling Quality at Speed software delivery (Article)

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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale

  2. Microsoft Introduces Azure Savings Plans for Compute

  3. Interactive Query Service Amazon Athena Introduces New Engine

  4. Programming Your Policies: Justin Cormack at QCon San Francisco 2022

AWS Introduces AWS Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension to Improve Performances and Security

AWS recently announced the Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension, a new way for developers to retrieve parameters from Systems Manager Parameter Store and secrets from Secrets Manager. The Lambda extension caches parameters and secrets, reducing latency and costs. (News)

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Docker Introduces Hardened Desktop for Business Users

The latest release of Docker Desktop introduces a new security model to help sys admins secure their organizations' supply chains. Dubbed Hardened Desktop and available only to business customers, the new model includes Settings Management and Enhanced Container Isolation. (News)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Father of Java Shares Wisdom Related to IoT at Devoxx: Code on the Edge and Its Hurdles

  2. Java News Roundup: JEP Updates, GraalVM Code to OpenJDK, Return of JavaOne

Apache Kafka 3.3 Replaces ZooKeeper with the New KRaft Consensus Protocol

The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache Kafka 3.3.1 with many new features and improvements. In particular, this is the first release that marks KRaft (Kafka Raft) consensus protocol as production ready. In development for several years, it was released in early access in Kafka 2.8, then in preview in Kafka 3.0. (News)

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TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Container Queries, Next Step towards Truly Modular CSS - Maarten Van Hoof at Devoxx Belgium

  2. Lessons Learned: Emotion Library Maintainer Explains Why Company No Longer Uses Runtime CSS-in-JS

Better Serverless Computing with WebAssembly

William Overton discusses why WebAssembly is the next big step on the journey to computing at the edge, the Compute@Edge platform, and developments in the WASM ecosystem (WASI & Component Model). (Presentation with transcript included)

Implementing Passwordless Logins with WebAuthn Protocol

Adib Saikali overviews the Web Authentication protocol which enables secure user-friendly authentication processes. He is using a sample Spring Security-based application. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. AWS Amplify for Swift Reaches 2.0, Brings Async/Await and macOS Support

Safe Mode is Lyft's Approach to Handling Feature Flags Incidents

Feature flags are a useful tool to conduct A/B experiments and to roll out changes in a controlled way. To make sure that their use does not end up disappointing users when a change causes a crash or degrades the user experience, Lyft created Safe Mode, specifically aimed to prevent crash loops on launch. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix: Tejas Shikhare at QCon San Francisco 2022

  2. Leveraging Determinism: Frank Yu at QCon San Francisco 2022

  3. Honeycomb: How We Used Serverless to Speed up Our Servers: Jessica Kerr at QCon San Francisco 2022

API Evolution without Versioning: Brandon Byars at QCon San Francisco 2022

Brandon Byars, North America head of technology at Thoughtworks, spoke at QCon San Francisco 2022. Through his journey of building and maintaining a public-facing API, Mountebank, Brandon shares his learnings and time-tested patterns on evolving APIs without breaking changes. (News)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Using the Technical Debt Metaphor to Communicate Code Quality

  2. Building High-Trust and High-Performing Teams at Shopify in a Remote World

  3. Hybrid Leadership is an Issue of Equity and Inclusion

  4. Disney SRE "Proximity Powered Engineering" Culture: Jason Cox at DOES 2022

Using Remote Agile Governance to Create the Culture Organisations Need

Governance and culture are inextricably intertwined, and creating an environment where people thrive is the most important governance responsibility. Sadly, in many organisations governance is perceived as slowing things down and impeding progress, yet effective governance is an enabler that removes blockages and enables flow. (Article)

Green IoT for Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability

The growth of IoT has resulted in improving connectivity amongst devices worldwide. Green IoT represents the energy efficient procedures adopted by IoT devices to achieve a sustainable and safer world. In order to green the IoT, it will be necessary to use less energy, look for new resources, reduce the negative effects of the IoT on human health, and cause less environmental disruption. (Article)

A CTO That Still Codes: My Tortuous Path to the Staff-Plus Engineer Role

Fabiane Nardon discusses the skills needed to be a successful contributor, how what she learned as a manager helped her be a better technical leader, and the need for companies to support Staff-Plus. (Presentation with transcript included)

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