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| In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke with Randy Shoup about how to build resilient systems. We discuss why it is a serious mistake to fail to acknowledge that software’s interaction with itself. We also discuss where to use workflows, orchestration or choreography, the role of architecture in building good teams, and the wisdom of letting each team use their own set of tools. (Podcast) |
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| In this talk, the authors share some of our company’s key learnings in developing customer-facing LLM-powered applications deployed across Europe. They used multi-agent architecture and systems design to create an open-source set of tools, a framework, and a full-fledged platform to accelerate the development of AI agents. This is a summary of a presentation from InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2024. (Article) |
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| Dropbox, a file sharing cloud platform, recently discussed their Messaging System Model (MSM) that supports diverse use cases and handles over 30 million tasks per minute. (News) |
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| Google Cloud's Spanner Graph is now generally available, featuring enhancements like Graph Notebook, GraphRAG integration, and advanced schema management. This unified database combines graph, relational, and AI capabilities, ensuring high availability and scalability. Ideal for real-time analysis, it transforms use cases like fraud detection and recommendation engines. (News) |
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| Meta has unveiled the Automated Compliance Hardening (ACH) tool, a mutation-guided, LLM-based test generation system. Designed to enhance software reliability and security, ACH generates faults in source code and subsequently creates tests to detect and address these issues. (News) |
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| This week's Java roundup for February 10th, 2025, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 24; JDK Mission Control 9.1.0; milestone releases of Spring Framework 7.0, Spring Data 2025.0.0 and Hibernate 7.0; release candidates of Vert.x 5.0.0 and Gradle 8.13.0; and JHipster 8.9.0. (News) |
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| Last week, the C# Dev Kit was updated with new features focused on developer workflow and productivity. Key updates include the introduction of solution-less workspace mode, .NET Aspire orchestration, and enhancements to Razor/Blazor support. Additionally, improvements have been made to debugging and testing functionalities. (News) |
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| Anahit Pogosova explores some of the most common challenges and pitfalls inherent to distributed systems and architectures and looks at strategies to mitigate them using AWS Lambda and Amazon Kinesis. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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| Eb Ikonne discusses expanding informal authority within groups and organizations, how small actions at the individual level can liberate team members, and fostering high-performing work environments. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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