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Brain-Machine Interface, GitHub Allstar, Netflix Routing, GitHub Security, JobRunr 4.0, Qwik, Swift 5.5, Service Mesh Complexity, Self-Managed Projects, Gamification

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Sam Newman on Information Hiding, Ubiquitous Language, UI Decomposition and Building Microservices

Charles Humble talks to Sam Newman about the 2nd edition of Newman’s book Building Microservices. They discuss information hiding; ideas from Domain Driven Design including aggregates, bounded contexts and ubiquitous language; UI decomposition; and team structure. (Podcast)

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Moving from Individual Contributor to People Leader

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Sam McAfee about helping technologists move from being individual contributors to leaders of teams. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Stanford Research Center Studies Impacts of Popular Pretrained Models

Georgia Tech Researchers Create Wireless Brain-Machine Interface

Researchers from Georgia Tech University's Center for Human-Centric Interfaces and Engineering have created soft scalp electronics (SSE), a wearable wireless electro-encephalography (EEG) device for reading human brain signals. By processing the EEG data using a neural network, the system allows users wearing the device to control a video game simply by imagining activity. (News)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Microsoft Announces Azure Functions 4.0 with .NET 6 Support in Preview

  2. Microsoft Announces Preview of On-Demand Capacity Reservations for Azure Virtual Machines

  3. Announcing Allstar, a GitHub App to Improve Open Source Security

  4. Armo Releases Kubescape K8s Security Testing Tool: Q&A with VP Jonathan Kaftzan

  5. Amazon Announces QuickSight Q General Availability

Virtual Panel: DevSecOps and Shifting Security Left

Recent attacks, that targeted SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline, and others, have shown that development environments come ever more frequently on the radar of malicious actors. A virtual panel on the value of shifting left security, how to take responsibility for it, and the time-to-market pitfalls. (Article)

Netflix Networking: Beating the Speed of Light with Intelligent Request Routing

Sergey Fedorov discusses how to build the Internet latency map, using network protocols and edge infrastructure, and how to use a data-driven approach to evolve your client-server interactions. (Presentation with transcript included)
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GitHub to Phase out Support for Git Protocol, DSA Keys and Legacy SSH Algorithms

With a strong focus on having customer data as secure as possible, GitHub has decided to remove support for the unencrypted Git protocol, DSA keys, and some legacy SSH algorithms. Also, it is adding requirements for newly added RSA keys and providing support for ECDSA and Ed25519 host keys SSH. These changes might affect only SSH and git:// users, while the https:// users will be unaffected. (News)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. JobRunr 4.0 Delivers Improved Integration with Spring Starter, Quarkus and Micronaut

Java News Roundup: Spring Boot Updates, Eclipse Temurin JDK 17, Apache Camel Ends Support for JDK 8

It was relatively quiet during the week of September 20th, 2021, with most news coming from point and milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, and Spring Cloud. Other news includes the release of Eclipse Temurin JDK 17 binaries, Build 16 of the JDK 18 early-access builds, Hibernate ORM 5.6.0.Beta2, WildFly 25 Beta 1, Apache Camel dropping support for JDK 8 and JDKMon 17.0.0. (News)

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TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Qwik, a Resumable Javascript Framework

Optimizing Your Web Performance: Separating the Signals from the Noise

Carl Anderson shares the journey Trainline has been on leading up to Google introducing Core Web Vitals as a ranking signal, discussing web performance. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Mobile and IoT NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Swift 5.5 Extends Concurrency Support, Enums, Property Wrappers, and more

Facebook Mariana Trench Helps Developers to Find Vulnerabilities in Android and Java Apps

Recently open-sourced by Facebook, Mariana Trench (MT) aims to help developers identify and prevent security and privacy bugs in Android and Java applications. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How GitHub Partitioned Its Relational Database to Improve Reliability at Scale

How Unnecessary Complexity Gave the Service Mesh a Bad Name

There is immense value in adopting a service mesh, but it must be done in a lightweight manner to avoid unnecessary complexity. Take a pragmatic approach when implementing a service mesh by aligning with the core features of the technology, such as standardized monitoring and smart routing, and watching out for distractions. (Article)

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TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. The Future of Agile in Africa: Challenges and Progress

How to Decide in Self-Managed Projects - a Lean Approach to Governance

Whether self-managed or self-governed as a project, the power still needs to be distributed internally. If the project is open to decide how things are done, how do we decide? A solid but flexible set of tools and practices like sociocracy is a great starting point for projects to have clear but lean processes that can grow as we grow. (Article)

Best Practices for Letting Go of a Remote Team Member

At Doist, letting go of a team member is a last resort. Over 14 years, the remote-first pioneer has parted ways with approximately 25 team members, which has evolved the way they handle remote terminations. Today, Doist employs 100 people in 35+ countries with a 90+% employee retention rate. Here COO Allan Christensen offers his lessons learned on letting go of a remote team member. (Article)

Gamification: a Strategy for Enterprises to Enable Digital Product Practices

To embrace the changing needs of consumers, organizations are exploring new ways to ideate, collaborate, and create products, some of them being embracing co-creation models, investment in long-term value, and fostering collective wisdom through gamification. This article shows how gamification helps to create perspective around product practices and bring us closer to next-generation products. (Article)

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